Toaru Hikuushi e no Koiuta Episode 3 Discussion

L-Ryoshi said:



I think you're reading into things a bit too much.

Rebellion and war from past history can always be traced down to one thing: self-greed. Yes, you can rally a country full of people who feel oppressed and all that, but the main deal will always be that in the end the person who instigated the entire movement will always be the one to profit the most from it; i.e. for selfish reasons. That "former Duke" or whatever probably got stripped of his power before the rebellion and was out for revenge. The way you whip a country full of people into a frenzy? If it's not through dissatisfaction with the way things are run, it will always be through religious means (think about it, how many wars in known history don't have religious connotations?). First way to go through it, set up a new religious movement (hence Nina Viento, the back-water nobody with super powers who becomes some high priestess), acquire enough followers through religious mind-control or paying off higher officials into promoting the new religion. Once the throne denounces the new movement, the dissatisfied and paid off parties rally and dispose of the non-believers, everyone including the ones in the background think they gain something (in truth, its the ones in the background that gain it all).

In this, Nina Viento is the figurehead and the main reason for the rebellion, regardless of the people in the background who end up ruling the country. Think France, does anyone actually remember without wiki-ing the leaders of the first republican party after they guillotined their king?

Karl as a 9 year old kid will only remember that his parents and he were forced to lick Nina Viento's boots, that his parents ended up headless and that they tried to make him ill enough to die on his own because of the person in front of him. Yes, he may have did some research on the rebellion as he grew up and all that, but as someone in his position, would his adoptive father have risked giving him so much information, much less risk letting him find out that information by himself? They were hiding the fact that he was the supposed "dead prince". Anything to do with the rebellion would probably have been kept at a minimum at the dinner table (or they'd risk him running out and getting himself slaughtered before he even grew up).

What Karl himself would remember would be that he saw with his own eyes Nina summoning a storm to bring his ship down, he and his parents were forced to bow to her feet, and his parents both died on the blocks because of her actions. It's not like the "former duke" came out and started dancing on the king grave in front of Karl's face and sang "I killed your parents" (In any event, they all thought he'd already died).

Regardless of how many evil perpetrators were behind the scenes, he will only remember the figurehead (kinda like Stalin and Hitler, no?). Hence all the anger built up will be aimed at that one person, the little girl who instigated rebellion.


I ended up watching this episode 3 days late to decrease the wait time for episode 4. I still feel like the wait is too long........ dammit!