Final Fantasy 7, Environmentalism, and Beyond

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  @Skyehoppers · 3 years ago · pinned

  Hi! What did you think of analysis? Any differing interpretations? Anything I missed? I&apos;m sure there a million little things that I could have talked about but didn&apos;t, even after all the amount of time I did spend. If you have the means, please consider donating to my Patreon (link in description)! Current perks are early access, credits, Discord server, and regular updates. Future perks will include voting on topics and exclusive content (but yeah haven&apos;t gotten that far yet). Here are some discussion questions to get further conversation started?<br><br>1. There are a lot of subtle, abstract images in the ending. Do you have a confident idea of what they mean? Stuff like Cloud&apos;s confusing line about the &quot;answer from the Planet&quot; or the yellow orb he sees while in the vision travelling toward Sephiroth?<br><br>2. I did not 100% complete this game while replaying it for the video. I played a lot of the sidequests, but certainly not everything. Is there any additional side content or worldbuilding details? that could add to the full meaning of the game?<br><br>3. I was a bit mean to Cid in this video, which I still think is justified lol, but if you have a more interesting reading on the character I&apos;d still love to hear it!<br><br>I&apos;ll probably think of some more questions in a bit, but for now thank you so much for watching!! This took an incredible amount of effort and I am so proud of myself for finishing it. More! Videos! Soon!!*

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  @RedGoner · 3 years ago

  sephiroth took his shirt off so he could have one of the best smash ultimate skins 23 years later

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  @CrescentWolf879 · 2 years ago

  One of my favorite moments in the game is one I don&apos;t think I see people bring up.<br><br>You have crossed the ocean, leaving behind both Midgar and Junon. You go to Costa del Sol for some much needed relaxation, things have never looked better.<br><br>You begin climbing Mt Corel with the feel good music playing, surrounded by nature on all sides, the sun gleaming at the top of the screen-<br><br>Hard cut next room to the Mako Reactor theme, the mountain hollowed out with a nightmarish power plant assembled inside.<br><br>You cannot escape Shinra&apos;s reach no matter where you go, and this moment cemented it for me.

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  @GusPagan · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWeloSXKWKo&amp;t=4920">1:22:00</a> WHO thinks the Nanaki&apos;s father scene is corny? that scene is beautifull, Seto&apos;s story is amazing and this scene is masterfully made to convey Red&apos;s emotions.

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  @TrapMagius · 2 years ago

  Simply glossing over Cid made me quite surprised. It&apos;s about a man that had to abandon his dream of going into space to save someone else.He could&apos;ve either gone through with the launch but live with the guilt for the rest of his life of having killed someone over it, or cancel the launch to save someone at the expense of something he always wanted. That&apos;s why he has such a deep conflict right there in the cockpit. Right as the rocket was about to take off, he makes the right moral decision to shut the engines off. It&apos;s unknown if he smoked prior to to this point, but smoking is often a coping mechanism. His internal turmoil after the event caused him to shift blame onto Shera for being &quot;too cautious&quot;, even if he deep down knew that wasn&apos;t the case. That&apos;s why he&apos;s so abusive and angry. After the events of the first visit to Rocket Town he simply joins up because he has nothing left. It&apos;s not until the Huge Materia mission that he finds some sort of purpose and starts to change into a better person. He&apos;s had nothing up until this point in the story to stick around for. After he finally reaches his goal of going into space and the oxygen tank exploding that he realies that Shera was right all along, even urging the others to escape while they still have time. He finally apologizes to Shera because she was right all along, and he made the right decision that day to abort the launch. In the escape pod he marvels at his dream being fulfilled, and finds a greater understanding of what the others are trying to accomplish by saving the Planet by seeing it from a perspective none other have up until this point. That the Planet is really just a tiny marble in a vastness of space, or as he puts it &quot;like a small child that&apos;s sick and needs nurturing and protection to get better&quot;. It&apos;s a humbling experience to him. And that ends his character arc, growing into a better man.

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  @riikka9842 · 3 years ago

  Never get tired of watching crazy long analysis or theorizing videos of the VII universe.

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  @RoseBleueDuRosierSec · 2 years ago

  I think the &quot;we&apos;ll meet her again in the Promised Land&quot; thing is about non-dualism. Humans are not separate from the Lifestream or the Planet, and they&apos;re not separate from her either, even if she passed away. Of course they&apos;ll meet again, and of course they&apos;ve seen the promised land: it&apos;s the Planet itself, and our lives in it. Idk if it makes sense explained like this.

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  @Animus_Altia · 3 years ago

  &quot;Back then you could just get by with skinned knees.&quot;<br><br>This moment when being spoken to by the voice within himself, is that voice recalling when he and Tifa fell on Mount Nibel. The only person who could be saying this to him, who could know about it, is himself. His true self, his younger self, speaking to him from deep within. The little boy that helped Tifa put himself back together, and the little boy you control while Sephiroth puppets Cloud into giving the Black Materia to him at the temple.

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  @millgiass · 2 years ago

  Watching Cloud Beat Aerith is going to be rough with the new enhanced graphical style. Someone named Obsidian Melon was doing a VERY good kinda sarcastically jokey comic version of FF7 and they basically fizzled out at that scene. Years later that was the last scene he drew.

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  @onthefence928 · 2 years ago

  At the end I think cloud means that he understands that the promised land is actually the harmony of souls in the lifestream. They can meet aerith again over they rejoin a healed lifestream after death

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  @samalmond2321 · 3 years ago

  I always thought FF7 mapped quite nicely onto the transition into adulthood with cloud being almost a blank slate at the start trying to appear tough but in reality being very insecure, then over time he learns to be himself and be a strong man without requiring the influence or validation from his original role model, Sephiroth. There is also all the role of meteor, which in this reading comes more as the general anxiety of the huge change that comes with growing up. There is also the big sword thing 😉

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  @spacejunk8978 · 2 years ago

  Red&apos;s howl next to his father makes me WEEP every time.

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