1 [bullwinkle]This time for sure![/bullwinkle]

2 Arg.  OT, but I just finished Noir ( and read your reviews and commentary ), and don't know where else to put this.


What is up with the very last scene in Noir, with the broken watch and the two gunshots?  There's almost no information in the scene, and I can come up with four possible meanings:

1.  Kirika and Mireille commit double suicide- makes no sense at all in light of the entire finale.

2.  The Soldats kill them- more comprehensible, except the head Soldat seemed pretty much satisfied with the answers Mireille gave, and also, they could have killed them right there.

3.  Flashback to the murder of the Bouquets- many flashbacks to the event throughout the finale. . . but why another one?

4.  Symbolic, representing the pair having finally put the Soldats behind them- but why in this manner?

The ambiguity in what was otherwise a spectacular finale is really getting to me.


Sorry about the OT.

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I'll tolerate the derail, this time. But this would have better been handled by sending me an email.

It turns out that this is a signature of this director. He did the same thing at the end of .Hack/Sign, tossing in a quick image at the end which entirely changed things for the worse. That one didn't make sense, and this one doesn't, either.

About the only way I can interpret it as is a thought by someone, probably one of the girls, of "What would have happened at that point if the watch had broken and not started playing the music?" And the answer is that they would have shot each other, and both died.

But that isn't what happened. The music did play, and it snapped Kirika out of it.

And with that I will now close this thread.