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What do you see out of it? spoilers

posted 18 years ago by Renard-4
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I love the feel of the animation, the overexposed look (luminosity), the watercolour look has been a favourite of mine in Ghibli's work (we can see their influence here, planes (Miyasaki), old Europe look). But in general, the whole serie Last Exile as been a pleasant surprise for me. The story was great; I love the grand stream plots separating both side of earth and the ending didn't disappoint me (I've seen other prime series do so quite often maybe do to translation). What I like about the music is that it didn't took as much place as in other series and it work well here also. The principals characters as well as the supportive ones are well done. Just to prove it, I hated the maestro, and was glad when she wasn't on the screen .

What do you see out of it? What's the meaning behind this story?
Battle of the classes, between working classes and aristocrats they unite at the end to win, but the Guild... is it God?
Is it that we can only rely on the humans to ever do/achieve something... a rejection of any deities.
Or is it that the Guild is really the upper class of our society ever so isolated. Out of touch, of the daily lives that they supervise. Only interacting with their own world.

Is it a coming of age story, the society learning from their mistake and growing...

What do you think?

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[–] StarAxis 18 years ago

The Guild could be a metaphor for a lot of things, but I don't think it's a religious one.

Here's one theory. Whichever GONZO writer came up with the idea for the Guild, got the idea while attending a massive tournament for some multiplayer RPG, like Dungeons & Dragons or something like that.
See, at one of these big events, the games have very rigid rules (like the infamous "chivalry" of the Anatoray/Disith war), and the tournament organizers have the power to stop the game if they see someone cheating. Kind of like how the Guild can stop the battles by recalling a ship's Claudia unit).

And this GONZO writer probably saw the tournament heads make a ruling he thought was unfair (rulings that don't really happen in friendly games), so he got a kernel of an idea: "Hmm, I wonder if there could be an anime series about these game players rebelling against the tournament moderators?" and that evolved into the idea of a war going on, overseen by an organization that makes the rules, and so forth.

I think of it this way because of how game-like it seems, and how one side or the other can "request an intervention" from the Guild if someone goes against "chivalry."

[–] squee-10 18 years ago

I think possibly the idea for the guild came from "Dune", where the Guild control space travel. The people from house Atredies had to use guild ships to get to the planet Dune, in the same way the battleships could only fly with a Guild unit, complete with crew. I think its more a metaphore for the controls our governments have on us. And how much that sucks.

[–] freefall79 18 years ago

since i'm only up to episoide 16 all i can think of is "claus is an idiot, not seeing how lavia cares for him"

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[–] Maghtuira 17 years ago

I totally thought of Dune as well. There are a lot of similarities. Exile is kind of like the Spice Melange in the form of a ship, in a way, whoever controls Exile controls the world, like Melange. The Vanships can be compared to the Sandworms....and Claus the Kwisatz Hadarach, or is it Alvis.....ok maybe not.

What do you see out of it? ***spoilers***

What do you see out of it? spoilers