ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:

Senseito URΩBΩROS Wrote:they felt equally abrupt in that sense......

Well gradual decline vs everyone suddenly getting healed.  Eh, up to you.

I didn't particularly find the end to be particularly abrupt. Well, I guess a bit, but if you compare to stuff like Claymore, it's nothing.

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:Kanon has plenty of stuff unexplained, like why he happened to forget everything after seven years, as well as various character traits (not talking about the cutesy factors).

And there are a few other things too. I never really said it's all perfect, simply more so than AIR. I made a thread in the anime forum asking some of that stuff, ofcourse, noone replied.

Character traits? Things like Nayuki not being to wake up in the morning? Think of these things as being part of the story, to make the characters more unique I guess? Either way, they're not important to the actual plot.

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:

Assassinator Wrote:Some examples include the guy healing the girl by doing something with that weird feather

So if that was the ending to the Air show, would you consider that something which makes you think?  There are, after all, various mysterious references, such as parallel events in the past to prompt such a question.

No, it would just be the most unfinished ending ever, I mean, you got all these craploads of other leads, and everything just ends. And ending that is open to interpretation is not the same as an ending which is completely inconclusive.

Assume you don't have all these other leads, don't have all the unneeded characters and plot, I think it'll still be pretty wtf anyway.

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:

Assassinator Wrote:and the guy either turning into a bird or had his mind infused into the bird

And wouldn't you consider something like that prompting thought?
It might not have even been the guy - he may have been totally removed from the story (perhaps the crow was used as a device to give an alternative perspective on the story).
Since you probably can't give a definitive answer, you may "lolwut" it, but I say the same thing about open endings.

You're are partially correct. But not simply "can't give a definitive answer". More like "not even close to giving a definitive answer".

Because "open to interpretation" is in itself, pretty blurry by definition. This is sort of like my "definition" of different descriptors for endings and what they mean.

Unfinished = the show just stops out of nowhere. So abrupt and inconclusive that you could expect a second season.
Finished = the show is finished.
- Inconclusive = the show (at least the main plot) is finished, but there are leads still left unattended.
- Conclusive = everything is concluded. The end.
     - Open to Interpretation = a conclusive ending, but doesn't tell you everything. Leaves it up to you to theory-craft the rest.


So yes, "open to interpretation" is just a "wtf" ending with a lower degree of wtfness I guess, if you look at it that way. You can say there's a level of up to what's acceptable and what's not, to the mind, and stuff gets filtered into different categories based on it. Similar to how the boundaries between unfinished and inconclusive are drawn in the mind.

Senseito URΩBΩROS Wrote:The tragic occurrences as as "inserted" as the the car in KgNE - you can't do spoon about it - that's the way its written.

In KgNE, the tragic event is simply an event from which the story is launched. In Kanon, the tragic events are the "high points" of the story. So not the same.

(This post was last modified: 13/09/2009 06:01 AM by Assassinator.)