It has to continue. You can't just end the series like that!
Yes they can. Gen Urobuchi has done plenty of fuck yous to the viewers and the ultimate middle finger would be ending it as it is. Or just kill off everyone in the second movie.
It has to continue. You can't just end the series like that!
Yeah that is the thing... if Gen is still doing the writing (and honestly how can he not) and continuing the plotlines from Rebellion, then it's quite simple that this movie may just settle the new status quo in the franchise. Which wouldn't be the best, but it would be an ending. Hell, most of the arguing around the ending of Rebellion can be laid at the feet of Akiyuki Shinbo with the one suggestion "How about a story with Homura confronting Madoka as an enemy?" and before this... Gen had a happy ending going, and a large case of writers block to finish it.
It's his baby and Shinbo, with the rest of Studio Shaft, seems to trust him enough to do anything with it. One way or another, they are building another ride... I can't wait for it to be completed.
Yes they can. Gen Urobuchi has done plenty of fuck yous to the viewers and the ultimate middle finger would be ending it as it is. Or just kill off everyone in the second movie.
It happens.
I trust Urobuchi completely. I don't think he's ever just given the viewers a "fuck you" and walked off, not even close. I haven't seen every single thing he's ever written, but I've seen most of it and I can't remember one time that I ever felt like something happened that didn't serve a justifiable purpose within the story.
Even ending the Madoka franchise with Rebellion, if it came to that, wouldn't bother me that much. The ending is left open-ended enough that it's not a total downer at all. It's a dark point in the series, sure, but it's not like all hope is lost.
I trust Urobuchi completely. I don't think he's ever just given the viewers a "fuck you" and walked off, not even close. I haven't seen every single thing he's ever written, but I've seen most of it and I can't remember one time that I ever felt like something happened that didn't serve a justifiable purpose within the story.
Even ending the Madoka franchise with Rebellion, if it came to that, wouldn't bother me that much. The ending is left open-ended enough that it's not a total downer at all. It's a dark point in the series, sure, but it's not like all hope is lost.
I get kind of annoyed when people bill Urobuchi as some sort of strawman nihilist who lives for edge. His works are dark, but Ive never seen one be concluded on a outright terrible note.
At this point, the absolute worst thing that can happen in a Madoka sequel is that Homura is irredeemably evil and they will have to kill one another. Id like to think they've spent the past 2 years and probably the next year or two putting together something better than that.
I get kind of annoyed when people bill Urobuchi as some sort of strawman nihilist who lives for edge. His works are dark, but Ive never seen one be concluded on a outright terrible note.
At this point, the absolute worst thing that can happen in a Madoka sequel is that Homura is irredeemably evil and they will have to kill one another. Id like to think they've spent the past 2 years and probably the next year or two putting together something better than that.
(Anyone still reading at this point either knows everything or doesn't care about spoilers)
After mulling that possibility over, I wonder if that would also mean, since Madoka's existence is never-ending, she never existed if they kill each other, and then Homura never existed either, which would put the series pretty much back to where it started in the first place only now there's no Madoka or Homura to change everything and thereby nullifying everything that ever happens and making the story meaningless-
I don't even want to go further, lest I jinx it somehow...even the nicer alternative that Madoka remains eternally extant yet now eternally unwhole without her missing pieces (the part Homura broke off, and I like to think Homura herself) is too awful for me to accept.
(Anyone still reading at this point either knows everything or doesn't care about spoilers)
After mulling that possibility over, I wonder if that would also mean, since Madoka's existence is never-ending, she never existed if they kill each other, and then Homura never existed either, which would put the series pretty much back to where it started in the first place only now there's no Madoka or Homura to change everything and thereby nullifying everything that ever happens and making the story meaningless-
I don't even want to go further, lest I jinx it somehow...even the nicer alternative that Madoka remains eternally extant yet now eternally unwhole without her missing pieces (the part Homura broke off, and I like to think Homura herself) is too awful for me to accept.
That would just be an brutal ending, wouldn't it? It's not like both of them havent been through enough at this point haha.
I really wouldn't doubt something happens that ends up making Homura the part that makes the Law of Cycles whole again or they rewrite the universe together. They'll cease existing, but they'll always have each other. Win in my book.