Kobold84 wrote:
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Hydreigon wrote:
why steins gate
I guess this is the most quoted one? well ok. This was also a question on
DragonSlayer's suptag thread bearing a shit ton of points.
Why do I like steins;gate so much? The 3 reasons.
- I am fascinated by the concept of time travel, even though it's pretty much impossible.
- Okabe is a lot like me, a fan of science who would definitely try to assemble a group of friends and make all sorts of gadgets and gizmos. When I was in 10th grade I had friends from robotics club come over and we planned to work on stuff. My garage could have been a Future Gadget Lab, but summer ended and so did the time to the crazy shit we did. I didn't manage to get people together for the second time - some people were graduating that year
- The anime made me cry. I didn't expect that, and made me discover another aspect that emotionally moves me. See stuff in spoiler box for details
So Your opponent is *the* machine whose state evolves based on fated predetermined clockwork, it's the machine you are piece of. It's the thing we all know as reality. It sets you up for a cruel fate: an inescapable future, deadlocked to one path forward. But wait you might be able to change that path. You undergo the struggle of coping and attempts of preventing the fate, watching the same tragedy happen again and again and again.. until you realize the futility in doing so. You start to believe it's unpreventable. This cuts onions hard. If that isn't enough, suppose that were to happen to someone you really care about. I can't but bawl.
The anime ends on a happy note, but there is a different hypothetical continuation that strikes an emotional nerve with me. A sorrowful and irrational fear if you will. Maybe you haven't tried everything. There are many ways to go back and change things around. You don't realize it yet, but that's not the case this time. There is no greater tragedy than knowing of the horrible inescapable future standing in front and finding out it's unchangable even with a magical time machine. Even if you were to simulate all possible scenarios to figure out what could have been done in the past. You find out that: There. Is. No. Solution. It's absolute. Even with a time machine.
I believe many things are avoidable if one had a chance to go back in time and change them. Yet also, in theory, there can be things that are so ill fated they happen in all relevant timelines. Out of the many things that are, a large portion of them are changable, and a very very very small portion would be not. It just that one of those ill fated things happen to be the one you want to avoid. A cruel joke sent to you by reality. Cope if you can I guess. Because there is no escape.
Madoka Magika is the other anime I gave a hard 10/10 for this reason, tho it's less relatable.
