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>>67793
As in the best chapter in the entire series? wat
You don't think it was? It's certainly the one I find myself rereading the most, and I can't think of any others that were better.
>>67830
As regards your first paragraph, fair enough. I would probably have been disappointed too if I had been in the same position. In the end I think Umineko is a much better "story" than it is a "mystery", so it is probably better when you don't think too much about the mystery side of it (not that I don't find some of the solutions quite clever, but they aren't enough to carry the series...).
Regarding Yasu's infatuation with Battler, you really find it that unbelievable? I'm surprised; it seemed very human to me. She didn't really want to love so much as to BE loved, and that's why she fell so quickly for the only person of her own age who really acted like a friend to her. So when he gave her that 'white horse' line that could, to a lovestruck girl, easily be interpreted as a confession that he returned her feelings, it is hardly a surprise that she latched on to it so strongly...
Yes, you're right that she was not "truly" in love with Battler - the real Battler, not the fantasy in her head - but I never got the impression that we were supposed to think she was. Yasu has always lived her own fantasy, after all. It's what defines everything about her character.
Willard was pointless because we didn't need his viewpoint. I think the story should've stayed about the Ushiromiya family and Battler.
But the story did stay about the people on the island...in fact, Episode 7 focuses more on them than either of the previous two, which were more concerned with the meta-world events, did. Will simply acted as a personification of the readers, allowing a character in a similar position to the people reading the tale (very knowledgable about the Ushiromiya family and of a mind to solve Beatrice's mystery, but also completely disconnected from and unknown to the family themselves) to interact with the pieces. I found it very effective, myself.
Regarding Lion, here is where I think you are putting emphasis on the wrong things. No, s/he wasn't relevant to "the mystery", but s/he was very much relevant to Yasu/Beatrice, and she is in the end what the series is about. I also thought s/he also shed an interesting light on Kinzo's character; I thought it was quite moving to see that if Natsuhi had not thrown that baby off the cliff, Kinzo would have been able to find meaning in his life thanks to Lion and even would have had the energy to survive past 1984.
Regarding the underuse of past characters...why would you have wanted to see more of the same? Characters like Virgilia and the stakes DID reappear when they had actual roles to play, but to make them appear more just for the sake of it would have been pointless and nothing more than fanservice. Umineko is quite unconventional in that most of the characters besides the 18; exist to demonstrate a point rather than as actual human beings, and as such there isn't really any need for them to appear when they are not relevant to the current situation.
As for Beatrice's character...again, I don't think there was any need for any further exploration of the "Beatrice" we saw in the first four episodes. That side of Beatrice, the side that was Battler's opponent, didn't need to be explored any further; that bold and arrogant personality was never anything more than a fantasy for Yasu, something that she wished she was. Once Battler came to understand the person she really was, there was no need for her to continue that facade. Her profile being merged with Battler's in EP8 is simply because she is not an important character in that episode; that arc is about Ange, not Beatrice, and I hardly think that's a bad thing. Beatrice's story was over with Episode 7; there was no need for her to play a big role in Ange's story, when her story is about moving on from the murders of 1986, not exploring them further.
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