That all makes sense to me. The last chapter does make a certain amount of sense once you get over the sheer WTF-factor of the 180 it pulled. I can... understand the logic of it, even if it's not what I was expecting or hoping for, you know?
Though I'm still kicking Nightow in the face if I ever meet him.
I think Wolfwood's been assuming Vash was dead, since they covered the black/blond hair in the first thread in camp. But whatever, that's not really important because I don't think he's ever said to anyone else that he thinks Vash is dead. It's easily glossed over. It won't make a huge amount of difference to him.
I still might give Wolfwood a canon upgrade for chapter 101, too. I'll just have to wait until I'm done with all this work and then figure out... what kind of knowledge something like that would give him.
Re: Not surprised. But still disappointed.angels_wear_redApril 13 2007, 02:47:59 UTC
It's actually really not like that. If it was it would have bothered me too, because it DOES annoy me when authors do that. But it wasn't what I would call Dues Ex Machina. And frankly, I think an ending which came down to who shot who in the forehead first? Would have been incredibly trite. Trigun was never about whether or not Vash or Knives was stronger, it was about if Vash would hold true to his ideals or not. And the answer was yes.
Knives lost before Vash chose to save his life. Even Knives knew it. He lost the moment the PLANTs chose not to destroy humanity. And after that, had Knives lived? Vash still wouldn't have had to kill him. The fact that Knives in the end was willing to die for his brother says clearly that he wouldn't have killed him. He could have killed him if he still wanted to
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Though I'm still kicking Nightow in the face if I ever meet him.
I think Wolfwood's been assuming Vash was dead, since they covered the black/blond hair in the first thread in camp. But whatever, that's not really important because I don't think he's ever said to anyone else that he thinks Vash is dead. It's easily glossed over. It won't make a huge amount of difference to him.
I still might give Wolfwood a canon upgrade for chapter 101, too. I'll just have to wait until I'm done with all this work and then figure out... what kind of knowledge something like that would give him.
I can't believe it's over. What is this madness.
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