Comments on: Oyashiro Grand Unification Theory http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/200608/oyashiro_grand_unification_theory/ Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:10:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Burrowowl http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/200608/oyashiro_grand_unification_theory/comment-page-1/#comment-7939 Burrowowl Thu, 31 Aug 2006 05:23:45 +0000 http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/200608/oyashiro_grand_unification_theory/#comment-7939 Oh, I've read the TIPS, and acknowledge that a grand unification theory may well be impossible. I also figured I'd air out some of my ideas of how at least a couple of the major inconsistencies could be explained away, in the context of what is shown in the television series. Details like the weather and precisely what was said by whom and when are not what I would consider to be substantive. It could have rained on the night of the festival in all three major arcs; we didn't see the whole night in any of them, just portions. Your mention that the differences between these arcs could be entirely based upon decisions made by the principle characters is another worthy avenue of inquiry. Was Demoned Away what would have happened if Keiichi had given than doll to Mion? Is Watanagashi what would have happened if Keiichi hadn't gone rummaging in the landfill with Rena? What did Keiichi do to cause the evens of the Curse Killing chapter? Maybe he skipped out on the landfill and gave the doll to Mion? That would require a little more attention to detail than my broad-brushed grand unification theory. Oh, I’ve read the TIPS, and acknowledge that a grand unification theory may well be impossible. I also figured I’d air out some of my ideas of how at least a couple of the major inconsistencies could be explained away, in the context of what is shown in the television series.

Details like the weather and precisely what was said by whom and when are not what I would consider to be substantive. It could have rained on the night of the festival in all three major arcs; we didn’t see the whole night in any of them, just portions.

Your mention that the differences between these arcs could be entirely based upon decisions made by the principle characters is another worthy avenue of inquiry. Was Demoned Away what would have happened if Keiichi had given than doll to Mion? Is Watanagashi what would have happened if Keiichi hadn’t gone rummaging in the landfill with Rena? What did Keiichi do to cause the evens of the Curse Killing chapter? Maybe he skipped out on the landfill and gave the doll to Mion? That would require a little more attention to detail than my broad-brushed grand unification theory.

]]> By: Matrim http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/200608/oyashiro_grand_unification_theory/comment-page-1/#comment-7929 Matrim Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:27:30 +0000 http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/200608/oyashiro_grand_unification_theory/#comment-7929 You might want to read the tips to the original Higurashi game http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=31732. The people who have played the game claim it's impossible to solve the mystery without these tips and there are no real spoilers if you read only those for the episodes you have watched. They show that Keiichi actually dies in the the hospital in the end of Meakashi-hen from heart failure. I think it's very much pointless to try to find a way to to compress all the events from Higurashi in one "reality". The way I see it, things start anew with the same starting conditions in the start of every chapter. If this was anything but a criminal mystery, an explanation woudl be required about this reset but if the idea is to present different clues to the viewers in every new "reality"/story arc, I don't think explanation is needed. I think it's mainly a more original way of revealing the mystery bit by bit. I really don't see all the events from the three major question arcs happeining in just a few days, even if we assume that a lot of these events are just in Keiichi's head. In Tatarigoroshi-hen it starts raining on the night of Watanagashi while we don't see rain at that point in time in the other arcs. Of course, it's just as mysterious while would it rain when the main difference are the characters' choices in the different realities but assuming that at one point Keiichi was imagining rain and himself killing Satoko's uncle, then switched to breaking into the warehouse with no rain falling, then back to getting home in Takano's car is a bit too much. You might want to read the tips to the original Higurashi game http://forums.animesuki.com/showthread.php?t=31732. The people who have played the game claim it’s impossible to solve the mystery without these tips and there are no real spoilers if you read only those for the episodes you have watched. They show that Keiichi actually dies in the the hospital in the end of Meakashi-hen from heart failure.
I think it’s very much pointless to try to find a way to to compress all the events from Higurashi in one “reality”. The way I see it, things start anew with the same starting conditions in the start of every chapter. If this was anything but a criminal mystery, an explanation woudl be required about this reset but if the idea is to present different clues to the viewers in every new “reality”/story arc, I don’t think explanation is needed. I think it’s mainly a more original way of revealing the mystery bit by bit. I really don’t see all the events from the three major question arcs happeining in just a few days, even if we assume that a lot of these events are just in Keiichi’s head. In Tatarigoroshi-hen it starts raining on the night of Watanagashi while we don’t see rain at that point in time in the other arcs. Of course, it’s just as mysterious while would it rain when the main difference are the characters’ choices in the different realities but assuming that at one point Keiichi was imagining rain and himself killing Satoko’s uncle, then switched to breaking into the warehouse with no rain falling, then back to getting home in Takano’s car is a bit too much.

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