Maha (Now with Spoiler Warning action!)

Invisible Egg! · Post by **Invisible Egg!** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 7:35 pm

If .hack//SIGN is too sad for people to handle, maybe they shouldn't watch anime at all. After all, SIGN is tame compared to plenty of other animes.

Sora · Post by **Sora** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 10:30 pm

Well, anyone who can't handle a few sad scenes should reconsider watching TV in general (and playing a few RPGs I know of *coughcoughsuikodencough*)

However, I have nothing against a few heartwrenching scenes in anime. I admit, the first 4 times I watched the DDing scene, I did cry a little. Then again, I cried at movies like Dragonheart and at books at time.

What can I say, I'm a sensitive soul >P (Har har har)

As for .hack, no, there really aren't very many scenes that inspire me to feel much other than interest. Towards the end, there are a few that get to me, but for the most part, this isn't a series I found myself emotionally attached to.

YashaOokami · Post by **YashaOokami** » Tue Aug 19, 2003 10:41 pm

Sora wrote:Then again, I cried at movies like Dragonheart and at books at time.

I cried watching that movie too,not only am I a dragon fan,but Draco was cool T_T

True though,nothing wrong with getting emotional over it,but having to over exaggerate it,kinda gets annoying after the first time.

Hiro · Post by **Hiro** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 1:28 am

Is that on-topic?

FireDraconian · Post by **FireDraconian** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 1:32 am

Must be, an Admin brought it up. ::eyeshift::

But yeah, SIGN isn't exactly a heart-wrenching anime. Depressing, yes, but not reallly... sad.

Invisible Egg! · Post by **Invisible Egg!** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 2:04 am

Heart-Wrenching Anime: Ninja Scroll, Berserk, Neon Genesis Evangelion (to me anyway).

.hack//SIGN hasn't made me as depressed as those I listed.

Sora · Post by **Sora** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 3:38 am

Must be, an Admin brought it up. ::eyeshift::

Here's the secret o.- Don't quote me, or I'll have to beat someone within an inch of their life, but 'offtopic', to -me-, at any rate, is a post that has nothing at all to do with the original topic or the slightly-branched-off discussion that has spawned from such. You can justify an offtopic post by adding -something- constructive to the discussion at the bottom. The more effort I see in that, the more likely I am to pass it off as on topic.

This also depends on how annoyed I am that day. I can't say the same for the other mods, they may be more or less slack with this than I am, but anyway.

<cue justification for posting> The other aspect of the Maha scene is that it adds a bit of humanity and growth to what was, otherwise, 'just an AI'. This is probably to add more dimensions to someone like Aura, or even Morganna, giving us the idea that just because they're an AI with set programming, it doesn't mean that they can't make their own decisions and, in that way, be human. This deeper aspect of the series is what would make someone feel saddened by something like this.

CRtwenty · Post by **CRtwenty** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 4:25 am

Yea, they're not just programs, sure they are limited by what they have been programmed to do, but they still have emotions and free will... it's part of the whole "evolution" theme that is the main focus of the .hack series. They have gone beyond what they were supposed to do.

FireDraconian · Post by **FireDraconian** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 5:44 am

Not to mention that it brings justification for parts of the game that I'll leave unmentioned. I had heard that the games are the central part of the Dot Hack universe.

Cobweb · Post by **Cobweb** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 7:59 am

Speaking of making the AIs feel more human ... did anyone else get the feeling that Morgana was kind of one-dimensional as a character? She's just kind of stereotypically evil to me. Same thing goes for Aura. They're both machine-gods who fight each other because they're destined to, something like that. I never really "clicked" with either of them.
For shame to all the cold, cold-hearted people out there! SIGN was *full* of emotion to me! Especially with Tsukasa. I understood a lot of his problems better than some might. Apparently lots of people are more annoyed by him than anything else, which seems kind of unsympathetic.

CRtwenty · Post by **CRtwenty** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 2:34 pm

I kind of feel sorry for Morganna, I mean she knows what's going to happen to her, and she's powerless to resist it, everything she does always ends up sending her closer and closer to the fulfillment of the Epitath.

nozgrl · Post by **nozgrl** » Wed Aug 20, 2003 5:15 pm

awwwwwwww now I feel bad for the AI's

Flame Sage · Post by **Flame Sage** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 8:07 pm

I wounder if Maha actually feeled pain or was just PROGRAMED to scream
can NPCs feel things?

Xebexz · Post by **Xebexz** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 8:27 pm

felt? you mean?

And could ya pick one name, I keep forgetting you're the same person, and it's whats the word...annoying? ^^ Thanks.

I doubt she felt pain, it could scream because it was being 'deleted' in a sense. x.x

YashaOokami · Post by **YashaOokami** » Thu Aug 21, 2003 9:38 pm

Seeing as how Tsukasa was getting data drained back in the Episode of "Castle",screaming in pain because of it.I think the same would apply to Maha.