I was reading an interview with the director of AC. It was in electronic gaming monthly, I believe from october.
At the way end of the interview, the guy asking the question asks "Why did you choose to add an epilogue, and why is it 500 years later?", and the director responds, "I believe that the ending is a happy ending for final fantasy 7. That is, if you consider every human dying to be a happy ending..." I dont have the magazine on hand right now, but it was something like that.
When I read this, I was pissed that he had just given away the ending without any kind of spoiler warning, but I just saw the movie, and there wasnt an epilogue. The kids lost geostigma, and the humans didnt go extinct. Why did the director say that if it wasnt true? He had me all freaked out. Does anyone have this interview?
I got the international version of advent children. Is there an epilogue that I havent heard of? Its not on my dvd.