I don't know who the man standing next to my wife is, or why they both act like neither of them can see me.
But poetry was of no use to the last child on Earth, crying alone and abandoned in their crib.
(Edit: I think I'm trying too hard to find deeper meaning where there may not be any. Good discussions, though. Lots to think about.)
Im basically older than grandpa Bugenhagen at this point. I played the original way back and took "villains being villainous" at face value. Now that I'm older and (in theory) wiser, the remake just seems to take it all to comedic exaggerated heights.
Cruelty for the sake of cruelty. False flag operations costing them billions. The execs are basically charicatures of bad guys, moustache-twirling villains with minimal personalities outside of apathy and hate. And they already have a monopoly on mako, so what would the Promised Land even get them in the long run, aside from power they already have access to?
At least old Sephy in the original had a clear-cut goal of "I don't wanna play anymore, gonna take my ball (planet) and go home". Shinra just seems in it "for teh evulz" at this point.
Usually a comedic trope. A sub-trope of heel-face-turn, maybe?
Do I even need a second sentence to make this horrifying?
"Saved" by a mother, so pure and so good; soon she'll learn why you were left in the wood.
The four of them sat in a circle, preparing to make their first wish...