Time for me to dump what are essentially some irrelevant shower thoughts about TM stuff I've been thinking about recently:
I think its funny that while I bemoan and complain about all Extella influences that's present in other works in the form of Velber, playing the game again made me realize... that's probably the only interesting part about the entire game. The sheer discomfort I felt in having to court these 3 unlikeable woman who had just about nothing to say about anything except how much they wanted to have sex with me was by far the worst part of the game, and that's like... 90% of it! Tamamo and Nero have at this point just become these ulcerous tumors upon the Fate story-telling corpus. The thing TM took away from Extra (and CCC?) was apparently that the reason why these characters are popular is because they're sexy (wow, what insight you have, Master Petrikow, tell me more) so now all they do with them is flaunt that one quality. The last scene of Extella might be the most horrific thing I've yet to experience. Please put them out of their misery already. How every other TM Heroine escaped this fate I will never understand. I guess they were just built different to begin with.
SPEAKING OF WHICH, the apex of TM waifus, Seibah is blessed with what appears to be a conclusive ending to her story in Last Episode. The oddness of this thing is simply the fact... well, how was this thing written by Nasu? This is a man who has spent the majority of his time writing occupied with the beauty of fleeting life and the significance of final endings. Yet here we have Shirou essentially ending up in an eternal paradise together with his equally eternal love interest. You'd think it was almost written by someone else entirely. I guess we'll never know who was the nefarious influence behind this out-of-character ending. He must've liked Saber a lot, at least!
Another thing that got a chuckle out of me recently was when I was playing the event with the cons in FGO. There was this reference to Rin and Sakura's rivalry made as Melt and Eresh were talking to each other. It was then that I realized that yes, these two are supposedly based on characters which were originally related. It's just that such relations have grown so distant as to be irrelevant. I'm not sure what to think about it. I suppose some people would cynically go "you see, that's why there's no reason for them to be x-waifu-face to begin with!" while all I can think is like, thank god Sakura and Rin wasn't dragged through the mud the same way Nero and Tamamo have been by repeating the same lubbywubby bullshit until the end of time.
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