So I stopped watching To Aru Kagaku no Railgun with episode 14, but I'm still following the writeups on certain other sites. And I have an idea of how it's going to end -- which necessarily is a spoiler, and is below the fold.

It looks like the final plot arc of Railgun is Mikoto fulfilling that promise.

Mikoto is the hero of the series, and the series will end with her doing something spectacular. But this time it won't be a fight, the way it was at the end of ep 12. It'll be something entirely different.

In Index they said that the Sisters are all networked. They don't quite have a group mind, but it isn't far off of that. And Last Order seems to be the controlling intelligence, or the coordinator, of the collective.

This is part of the general conceit of the series: one-and-only-one power per person, but that power can be amazingly versatile as long as you can rationalize it as being related to the base power. Mikoto can zap people directly, but she can also hit them with projectiles,  and walk on walls, and create weapons out of the soil, and a bunch of other things "which are electrical or magnetic".

If the Sisters can network, then it suggests that Mikoto could conceivably be able to come up with some sort of networking ability as well. That's what I think is coming. Eventually it's going to take someone getting in touch with the kids, and it'll be Mikoto who does it. And in so doing, the kids will wake back up again without leveling the city.

If that's really what happens, it might end up being a pretty good series ender after all.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Engineer's Disease at 08:08 PM | Comments (9) | Add Comment
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