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    Sumiki

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    This is nothing new to Hollywood; think all of Universal's old horror movie series, which were all in the same general universe and featured many recurring characters and actors (something they're actually looking to revive, given the renewed interest in shared universes, which I'm actually kind of looking forward to?).

     

    People love to see their favorite characters reappear because it's fun. The latest Avengers, for all its apparent lack of real consequences, was still an incredibly fun outing because seeing all these characters together is a blast. I'm sure you can come up with plenty of critical arguments, but people like watching movies, and they like this in their movies. It might go out of style in a few years, but enjoy it while it lasts, neh?

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    Pahrak Model ZX

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    (Though I guess this doesn’t really account for those characters who were spawned from Sora? I mean he still encourages them to be their own person, but I don’t know?)

    This part always bothers me because Xion and Roxas deserve to be their own person only because of their connectedness to Sora; by the general logic, Axel should be a full entity too, but because we have Lea, nobody really cares.

     

    Anyway, the positions of Sora and Xehanort actually reminded me a lot of Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort; the reason Voldemort doesn't win is because he fragmented himself (literally) to get where he is, while Harry draws from the strength of others (often dead people who only exist as parts of his being i.e. the resurrection stone), so there's actually a fair few parallels to draw.

     

    Also both of the villains are bald.

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    Trijhak

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    1. Assume I'm in inFamous, pick the evil route, and go destroy the town in order to get the bad ending.

    2. Uuuuuh let it happen because Hero Factory was the best?

    3. Look underneath what I just found.

    4. I read that as invasive "planet" and now I'm picturing us becoming Unicron or Galactus or something and WHO WOULDN'T WANT TO BE UNICRON OR GALACTUS OR SOMETHING

    5. Can we cook together first? I'm hungry! Also seriously have you been playing the inFamous series because this is what it sounds like.

    6. Well, I don't have sunglasses, but...

    7. No, I give it some dark beer, duh.

    Trijhak

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    1. I know I say this a lot but FIGHT ME

    2. Take it back, because it isn't Slizers. OG 4 lyfe!

    3. Why... would I want to? Didn't I mean to do it? I don't regret much.

    4. Climb up stairs. They're TV's, not robots. Yeesh.

    5. Since the discovery will be a long lost archive of BS01, and since I AM BS01, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

    6. Take out the French president, rename the former USA as New Welshland, and reign as supreme dictator. I mean, they're French, what are they going to do?

    7. Build a giant robot that sprouts an island from its face but can also retract the island because that somehow makes sense?

    8. Stop my heart for a few seconds. People do it, look it up!

    9. Trick question, they cancel each other out so everybody who participated in the war is automatically dead for entering. Nice try.

    10. Onua pulls double duty because WHY WAS THAT SOMETHING THEY DIDN'T CORRECT IN GEN 2

    11. Yes, I do have the elemental power of [_____]

    12. Kanohi Apawhatever, the ability to become completely impervious to anything I don't care about, which is everything.

    13. Flyswatter, because I can't think of anything more annoying.

    14. Swift kick in the pants usually does the trick. One of the few things that can get past the Kanohi Apawhatever.

    15. Feed the telephone to the wolves. I'll take TV over phone any day.

    16. I crunged.

    believe victims

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    "themes" (whatever the heck those are)

    If you didn't have the benefit of literally any high school english class to teach you what a theme is in relation to a story i guarantee you a five second google search could easily solve your confusion.

     

    I was being facetious, but I appreciate the advice?

     

    I also can't agree that you can have a good story without saying something. Stories that exist purely for things to happen feel bland and soulless and I've never seen a good one.

    We're probably defining "say something" differently. I'm leaning more towards "message"; not every story has to be making some kind of point in order to be interesting. The best ones usually have some kind of point AND are entertaining, but they aren't required to be inclusive of one another. Stories exist to be told. If you're reading a story BECAUSE it has an cogent point or message or whatever you want to call it, then great. If you want to read a story that's different, fun, entertaining (also subjective, but you get the point), whatever, then that's also great. Whatever keeps you reading a story is what makes it good to you.
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