luccide said:To be frank, personally I think the King resolution was better in theory. But what makes it not feasible is obtaining and using that absolute power. There's no way to maintain that overwhelming power even if he managed to get it eventually.
Sometimes, you have to fight evil with (greater) evil, poison with poison. An example of this in real life would be how you deal with terrorists. Quite sure the movie, Unthinkable is happening in real life to a certain extend.
It's bound to end in tragedy for sure, base humans are just too weak, though it's not exactly unthinkable for one side to beat others completely, it's just that... I dunno, the way the series criticises him so far is not on point, imo. Yeah, this isn't a high-brow show, but it still grates. Kaisar says that all three races stood together, but they faced extinction, they were not exactly cooperating until it was vital, gods didn't act when they should've, demons are actually to blame for the whole thing - that event doesn't prove much. And demons truly aren't friends to humanity, Azazel isn't Nina's friend.
And the king is a post-war leader, it's sort of understandable that he wants those who were involved in hurting humans and hurting him (most likely) to suffer.
I, er, know that I shouldn't overthink it, but I don't like the tone sometimes.
It'd be better if Charioce was bigger and more tragic. I'd prefer to see a crash of a big idea or a conflict of two views, not the current one-sided moral. Doesn't work in their context for me.
CG said:As it was mentioned in this episode, for one, Kaisar is one of the heroes hailed far and wide for fighting off Bahamut. It wouldn't do a favor to Charioce's reputation to openly imprison him, exile him or execute him. In secret though? Yes, like what he apparently did with Jeanne. But this is where reason #2 comes in play. Charioce seems to be fascinated by Kaisar precisely because their views are so clashing - he sees that Kaisar really is a very upstanding, honorable and fearless person, so it gives Kaisar's viewpoint weight that none of the others have in Charioce's eyes, as well as his lowkey respect. I get a feeling that Charioce actually would like Kaisar on his side pretty bad, with a pure and noble person like Kaisar it'd be like the highest acknowledgement to him that his chosen path is right. At the same time, he has a bit of mad dog tendencies with his intention of basically fighting the rest of the world that isn't human, so if he can't have Kaisar's support, he wouldn't mind having his hostility, wishing for a clash not only with words but with swords as well, like "Bring it" and "Try me if you can". That's how I interpret his warning to Kaisar in this episode.
But then Kaisar isn't really popular as we've learnt, even among his knights, and it seems out of character for him to fight the king politically when offered retirement because of the difference in views. The king also is shown as an effective and clear-minded person, he has created a well-oiled war-machine, why leave a rogue cog in it? City people see Charioce as the reason for their prosperity, would they care about Kaisar? And Kaisar is pure and noble, but so rigid.
The best explanation I can see is Charioce being too self-confident for his own good or maybe he doesn't see Kaisar as a threat but wants to keep an eye on him. But he can do the latter by sending some spies and doesn't need Kaisar leading kingts for it, to be honest.
In the end, I guess, we know too little about Charioce's personality yet.
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There's another thing that started to bug me too - what's with Mugaro dissolving demons by kissing them on the arena in front of everyone and nobody being interested in how he (used for simplicity) can do it? The gods noticed him because he used his power, were those dissolvements not a demonstration of his power then? Looked very similar.
I really should focus on fangirling, I guess. -_- |