Can someone explain this scene to me? How are they having the same flashback? Shared delusion? Why are they seeing this? How am I?
This scene still confuses the trout out of me.
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Can someone explain this scene to me? How are they having the same flashback? Shared delusion? Why are they seeing this? How am I?
This scene still confuses the trout out of me.
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There is nothing to explain per sé. Much of what Cloud remembers actually did happen the way he remembers. It is not like they really are looking into the past also, they just remember and the story expresses it that way, they don't have "the same dream as in one dream shared (memory in that case)" or anything like this but both remember the same thing at the same time.
No, you're not really getting what I'm asking.
How are they having the same flashback? How have they disappeared and now there's a new backscreen, etc etc. It's trippy as smurf.
Yes, I did get that. Its just that they didn't actually disappear or anything. They are not having the same flashback. The game shows you one moment they have experienced together in the past but in your view and not one of their own views.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jinx
Whatever she puts in her drinks, I imagine. YOU WERE DRUGGED!
I was going to say what Sephiroth said, but then I remembered that Tifa actually points out the well after it appears on screen so I dunno. It's Japan. They don't respect the fourth wall.
Artistic expression..?
Of course she said that, you can even see them and all. That is exactly what Mercen said, artistic expression. They didn't actually see it physically.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToriJ
I knew there was a term for it, I just couldn't remember.
"smurfed up" is the actual term you're looking for, torij
I've seen worse.
We're seeing an amalgam of their memories (or the objective truth, either or) but neither of them are inside each other's memories. It just makes for a far better scene than watching the two of them staring at the ceiling of 7th Heaven. The direct references like the quoted text are really smurfing weird though.
Show, don't tell. "Hey Cloud remember that well it was starry and we were kids and you were wearing..." isn't the best way to tell a story.
This scene actually never takes place and is all merely a concoction of Sephiroth.
Fair enough. But instead of saying "Look, the well" it would've made much more sense to say "Remember the well?" and then roll into the scene from there. That would've made plenty of sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychotic
Well yeah, but then Off Course!! a lot of FFVII's phrasing is in No, Way!! well written.