That's hardly proof of any such thing. The article you're speaking of (this is the link for it, rather than the link you provided: http://www.ff7citadel.com/secrets/sa_seen4.shtml ) has several errors, or things that were not considered:Quote:
Originally Posted by fireemblem776
1) The light that is seen behind the Sephiroth form is shining on Cloud's face before the Sephiroth form ever appears.
2) This same light was completely surrounding Aerith.
3) The camera smoothly transitions upward from Aerith's positon on the altar in the City of the Ancients to the area above from which the Sephiroth form descends.
4) Aerith can, indeed, be seen while the Sephiroth form is still without gloves.
5) The scene is full of errors:
Depending on the version one is playing, when approaching the altar, she either has her back to the stairs or is facing them. In any event, when Cloud gets up there and holds his sword above her, she's facing the stairs. As the FMV of her death begins, she is still facing the stairs. When the Sephiroth form descends, it isn't wearing gloves, nor is there glass dome around the altar any longer. When Aerith is skewered, not only is the Sephiroth form now wearing gloves, but the stairs are behind both Aerith and the Sephiroth form. When the FMV ends, the Sephiroth form is now facing the stairs and there is a glass dome around the altar once again.
As far as everything around the altar being dark, that was obviously to put the Sephiroth form and Aerith as the focus of the scene.
The only "evidence" for such a theory is Aerith's "I'm sick of this" line at the Great Glacier, which hardly makes sense as a piece of evidence in the first place since Yuffie and Cid can have lines earlier in the game than one is supposed to have acquired them.