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::::::(When I say that the Daodan is "guaranteed to deceive any expectations", that's a typical logical trap, à la "this sentence is false". ''Some'' hopes will necessarily turn out to be true.) | ::::::(When I say that the Daodan is "guaranteed to deceive any expectations", that's a typical logical trap, à la "this sentence is false". ''Some'' hopes will necessarily turn out to be true.) | ||
::::::Oh, so it's the post-Oni monsters that you were objecting to (banalization of Daodan symbiosis, and most of the symbiotes ending up as freaks). That is something that I would like to avoid, too. The "hope" here (ours, not Mai's) is that the secret of Daodan "inception" and implantation died with Mukade/Hasegawa and Kerr, and/or that what's left of the WCG/TCTF will lock the technology away. | ::::::Oh, so it's the post-Oni monsters that you were objecting to (banalization of Daodan symbiosis, and most of the symbiotes ending up as freaks). That is something that I would like to avoid, too. The "hope" here (ours, not Mai's) is that the secret of Daodan "inception" and implantation died with Mukade/Hasegawa and Kerr, and/or that what's left of the WCG/TCTF will lock the technology away. | ||
::::::As for Mai, I already said that she does not look/sound very "hopeful" in the outro. The exact final words are "Mankind as we knew it is doomed: the Chrysalis will change us all. Let's hope it's for the better." - which is a very moderate form of optimism (also, grey colors, minor soundtrack, gloomy/sour appearance of Konoko in that scene...). Her faith in the Chrysalis is a somewhat uneasy one - after all, she was the first to ask Kerr "Muro and his men... they're monsters. What am I?". She is recognizing that change is inevitable - for better or worse, and hopes for the better simply because it's the only alternative to despair | ::::::As for Mai, I already said that she does not look/sound very "hopeful" in the outro. The exact final words are "Mankind as we knew it is doomed: the Chrysalis will change us all. Let's hope it's for the better." - which is a very moderate form of optimism (also, grey colors, minor soundtrack, gloomy/sour appearance of Konoko in that scene...). Her faith in the Chrysalis is a somewhat uneasy one - after all, she was the first to ask Kerr "Muro and his men... they're monsters. What am I?". She is recognizing that change is inevitable - for better or worse -, and hopes for the better simply because it's the only alternative to ''despair'' (and she's not ready for that yet). She also says "My father's work may prove to be the salvation of the afflicted after all." - but, if she means mass-production and implantation of Chrysalises, then (fortunately or unfortunately) the decision is not up to her. It's not just about ethics and regulations - each person needs to understand the consequences and make a well-informed choice (unless she wants to do the same to all the victims as Griffin did to her - forced/secret implantation?). The feasibility of mass implantation is also dubious: both Mai and Muro were looked after by a whole team of sci-goons, and there is no way that this would work on a "general availability" scale, even if we imagine that the world population dropped to just a few million. | ||
::::::Another thing about Mai's final tirade is that it can be seen as metaphorical: she may not have meant it in the direct sense of "yay, let's implant Chrysalises to everyone!" but rather as "what my father started - and the big mess that is caused - has finally taken us out of our comfort zone; wherever this leads us, it can only be an improvement". --[[User:Geyser|geyser]] ([[User talk:Geyser|talk]]) 12:30, 23 May 2020 (CEST) | ::::::Another thing about Mai's final tirade is that it can be seen as metaphorical: she may not have meant it in the direct sense of "yay, let's implant Chrysalises to everyone!" but rather as "what my father started - and the big mess that is caused - has finally taken us out of our comfort zone; wherever this leads us, it can only be an improvement". --[[User:Geyser|geyser]] ([[User talk:Geyser|talk]]) 12:30, 23 May 2020 (CEST) | ||