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Eureka Seven

 
  

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Essential Dazzler
22:14 / 04.04.08
Not as much as I do...
 
 
Seth
02:22 / 05.04.08
I'll have it! Me! Me!
 
 
Mysterious Transfer Student
04:32 / 08.04.08
There's going to be a movie!

Early rumours suggest it's to be a "re-imagining" [ick] of the story rather than a sequel - which, considering that E7 is one of the few anime ever with a thoroughly conclusive, logical, emotionally satisfying ending, seems to be the right choice. On the other hand I love this series so much that 100 minutes of the characters playing football, reading magazines and scratching their arses would see me happy.

I guess an E7 completist's dream project would be a proper exploration of Dewey's history and motivations, but since that's apt to be surreal, bloody, psychologically perverse and loaded with references to obscure anthropological concepts, it seems like a hard sell for a movie. We'll see.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
13:43 / 13.09.08
Just finished watching this - spent the day so far watching the final ten episodes. Been watching the series, on and off, for the last six weeks or so, so it'd absolutely got its claws into me and become a part of my recent routine. I'd imagine that I'm going to find it difficult to adjust to *not* watching it on my weekends.

I'm struggling to find any sympathy with the poster who attacked the image of the moon from the end of the series, because that's what the entire show is about. Moreover, that's what the entire show is like - those big, romantic ideas. I doubt I'll ever, *ever* see another final (well, nearly final) image as fitting and perfect as that.

There'll be more things I'll want to say about this series, but right now, in the immediate aftermath, I'm sure that overthinking it will spoil it for me, so I'm going to avoid doing that. Just on the question of Eureka being pregnant, though, this is the image on the front of the box for the final official UK DVD:



When I opened the packet it arrived in and reallised what it meant, what it was showing me, my heart stopped and I sobbed like a baby. Much as I did for the following two and a half hours of watching the thing, in fact.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
13:54 / 13.09.08
Oh, and Seth, Renton's 16 at the end of the series - the events of the fifty episodes take place over the course of a whole year, before the 'one year later' caption - so I'm not sure that the show's makers decided to obscure any mention of intercourse because they were worried about how it'd be interpreted. At one point, for example, Mischa tells Eureka that she's anatomically capable of becoming pregnant and giving birth, and there's that one whole episode (in the 40s somewhere, and it might even be the same episode) where the rest of Gekkostate think that Eureka and Renton have had a falling out because Renton's getting horny. Ultimately, if there's no obvious nods towards a potential pregnancy, it's most likely because it's just not necessary. It doesn't really matter either way.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
16:46 / 13.09.08
Did anybody figure out the meaning of the wedding ring encased in amber, or the hill of amber that the kids discover not too long afterwards? The ring had R & E engraved in it, presumably for Renton and Eureka, and was the twin of the Ray/Charles ring that Renton kept.
 
  

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