Finally! Someone I can talk to about the ending of Long Love Letter. I was shocked, and not sure whether I thought the ending brilliant or really freaking awful.
"Asami receieves scraps of letter, changes his mind about calling Misaki, the whole world is saved?". Because I am not buying it.
I THINK that the letter created a alternate world? Maybe? I don't think Asami and Misaki hooking up in the past changes worldwide destruction--the very last shot of the vegetation comes about because of the work Asami and the kids do in the future. I don't know! The ending was supposed to be hopeful, I think, but. . . I can't get over all the ways that it really, really isn't.
And Misaki's death was like receiving a punch. Really, Long Love Letter? You HAD to got for the dead OTP? I flapped my hands and shrieked at the screen when they killed Misaki :(
And having nobody at all remember what they went through together feels emotionally unsatisfying, even though I understand that we saw them in a time before any of it (would have) happened. Still bums me out.
Yes. I prefer to think of the future we saw being left intact, and another one being formed because of the letter back in time. Otherwise. . . what was the USE of their growth as people, and my emotional attachment to them?
So, yeah, I loved the series, but can't quite wrap my head around it.
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Date: 2009-07-16 06:23 pm (UTC)"Asami receieves scraps of letter, changes his mind about calling Misaki, the whole world is saved?". Because I am not buying it.
I THINK that the letter created a alternate world? Maybe? I don't think Asami and Misaki hooking up in the past changes worldwide destruction--the very last shot of the vegetation comes about because of the work Asami and the kids do in the future. I don't know! The ending was supposed to be hopeful, I think, but. . . I can't get over all the ways that it really, really isn't.
And Misaki's death was like receiving a punch. Really, Long Love Letter? You HAD to got for the dead OTP? I flapped my hands and shrieked at the screen when they killed Misaki :(
And having nobody at all remember what they went through together feels emotionally unsatisfying, even though I understand that we saw them in a time before any of it (would have) happened. Still bums me out.
Yes. I prefer to think of the future we saw being left intact, and another one being formed because of the letter back in time. Otherwise. . . what was the USE of their growth as people, and my emotional attachment to them?
So, yeah, I loved the series, but can't quite wrap my head around it.