Anime Rewatch Episodes 69 & 70

[mellowcandle]

This is the post for discussing the last two episodes of our community anime rewatch. If you wanted to be fashionably late, this is your time to jump in! All previous posts can be found by using the "anime discussion" tag

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[mellowcandle]

"Yeah, I saw Kaho yesterday and she told me all about Clow and stuff." And so, Touya and Kaho's epic friendship continues to exist only offscreen.

I should have more comments than this, but that's the one thing that stood out. They brought Kaho back for a couple of lines and for a scene that could have been interesting but, oh well, no time for that, we'll just tell about it in a quick, casual, shrug of a line from Touya. Meiling had a greater impact OVER THE PHONE than Kaho did in person.

[peacewish]

I never noticed what the title of this one was, before, but for some reason I do now and I must say it makes precious little sense. How can they characterize this interaction as Sakura ‘meeting’ Clow Reed when she’s met Clow on at least two separate occasions now? And this isn’t even Clow, really

[mellowcandle]

I would have really, really liked it if we could have seen the scene in which Touya and Yuki were hanging out and Yukito so suddenly transformed into Yue.

Yeah, but what would you have sacrificed to get such a nonessential scene? Spinel's candy freakout? The scene in which everyone remarked on whether they would be ordering cream soda, which, did you know, was featured in a magazine? I mean, come on now.

After so much tension and build-up, and breathless waiting for the confession, for Li to simply blurt out: “I like you!” has a rather anti-climactic touch to it.

The very first time I saw this, I complained about this very thing on another message board (that probably doesn't exist anymore), and someone said to me, "Well, it's not an inaccurate translation."* Yeah, but it's soooo unsatisfying.

*I didn't stay at that message board long. Those people were kinda douchey and cliquey.

[peacewish]

I admit I put this one off a little, just because it’s sad to be at the end

[peacewish]

I've had so many new ideas and thoughts during this rewatch about how season 3 was structured, and what was prioritized and what SHOULD have been prioritized, that I swear I'm almost tempted to do an entire S3 rewrite. I'll abstain because I've always thought episode rewrites are way down on the scale of fanfic for what's worth our time writing, and anyway the audience for CCS has long since moved on. But I am glad we did this rewatch, even if it was a party of two for the most part, because it gave me so much to think about and re-evaluate in new and interesting ways. See you all again in ten years

[mellowcandle]

Yeah, I don't know where everyone else went, but it was sure fun for me. (And for D, who's only seen the whole thing through once before and remembered very little. He still doesn't get my Yuki-hate though.)

After the last movie thread goes up, I thought about maybe doing one more post as sort of a catch-all series/canon overview thread in which more general, overarching things like plot and characters could be discussed rather than in an episode-by-episode breakdown. I don't know if anyone would be interested in that or if it would just be the two of us repeating ourselves, but if anyone is lurking and would like to do that, we could.

[mellowcandle]

I’d like to point out how this walk into the mansion so perfectly sums up Tomoyo’s character.

There's also a moment in the beginning in the classroom where she sees the awkwardness between Sakura and Syaoran since the confession, and I don't know if the animator did this on purpose, but she gets this sad look on her face, like she knows she's officially lost. It was always easy to be happy that Sakura was happy when Sakura loved Yukito, because everyone (except Sakura, and Clow apparently) knew that nothing would ever happen there. This is real, though, and Tomoyo is having to accept that. (Or maybe I'm reading into it, but I hope that's what was intended.) For all of Tomoyo's Sueish virtues, she is an awesome friend.

Thank God for L-chan’s WIDK for letting us see what happened between Touya and Kaho, because the writers sure as hell didn’t want us know.

Although now I want to write a different version with less soul-baring and more making out, because that's really why CLAMP couldn't show it to us.

Granted, at least the writers