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Post by bunkergate7 on Aug 12, 2007 21:50:12 GMT -5
No biggie, bunkergate7! ;D It's a big deal to me, because you guys took the time to read what I wrote... So again, thanks!!!!!
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Post by Starry_MelC on Aug 12, 2007 22:33:22 GMT -5
It's a even a bigger deal to us that you spent so much time and energy to come up with a fanfiic (and a great one at that) ;D I always come up with fanfics and gave up halfway cause I dunno how to end it... >.<
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Post by bunkergate7 on Aug 12, 2007 22:38:18 GMT -5
I always come up with fanfics and gave up halfway cause I dunno how to end it... >.< I really can't say anything because all I wrote was an ending in and of itself. ;D
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Post by nimue on Aug 13, 2007 0:31:28 GMT -5
Believe me... the ending you wrote was something most of us wished to have been used for the movie. And it's not just that. You wrote it beautifully. Hmm... are you gonna write more? Hehe. *CoughCapsieCough*
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Post by Starry_MelC on Aug 13, 2007 5:13:19 GMT -5
LOL... and maybe another one for Kanezon
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Post by bunkergate7 on Aug 13, 2007 8:24:06 GMT -5
Hmm... are you gonna write more? Hehe. *CoughCapsieCough* If I do, it'll definitely be "Capsie" material.
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Post by nimue on Aug 14, 2007 5:29:47 GMT -5
Oh yey! Can't wait! Can't wait!
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Post by neiru2012 on Aug 16, 2007 15:34:40 GMT -5
Wow, that is such a beautiful story. I'm one who actually adores the movie's ending because Capa is alone with the star. It made a huge impact on me because all the interpersonal human elements were taken away and it was a pure melding of human consciousness with the cosmos. I would rather Capa not focus on another human during the final moments, or even on sharing the experience with another human, but solely on his awe for the universe, the sun, oneness. But after reading your story, I would love to see it as an alternate ending, and that's saying a lot. Cassie's line that she's not afraid anymore is so beautiful and fitting it makes me want to cry. And the last sentence is perfect!
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Post by bunkergate7 on Aug 16, 2007 19:45:50 GMT -5
neiru2012: I completely appreciate your open-minded take on what I wrote. Thank you so much for reading and for providing your analysis. LY for you!
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Post by neiru2012 on Aug 16, 2007 19:56:07 GMT -5
neiru2012: I completely appreciate your open-minded take on what I wrote. Thank you so much for reading and for providing your analysis. LY for you! Hehe, LY for you for making me reconsider the ending!
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Post by bunkergate7 on Aug 16, 2007 20:31:33 GMT -5
Hehe, LY for you for making me reconsider the ending! Thanks for the LY...and for the EXCELLENT discourse you have provided to this board in some of the other threads. I, too, loved the movie's ending and the fulfillment of Capa's life-work in such a unique way -- yet throughout the movie I couldn't shake the feeling that Cassie loved and doted on him. Whether or not Capa reciprocated her feelings was difficult to infer. Deep down, I do think he felt for her as well. With my alternate ending idea, I wanted two things to occur: 1) for Cassie to discover that Capa loved her and that she wouldn't die alone in fear (alluding to her comment to him earlier in the payload scene), and 2) that the most beautiful thing in the known universe (unconditional love) was staring Capa down the entire time, and he finally comes to realize that what he felt for Cassie was stronger than the dying star he was so adamant on re-igniting. After all, he and his creation were "saving humanity" -- why shouldn't he get to have a few moments of the best thing being human has to offer!? Thanks again for reading, and for sharing your thoughts!
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Post by neiru2012 on Aug 16, 2007 21:54:22 GMT -5
Yeah, you could definitely tell Cassie liked Capa. I think Capa was completely oblivious to that, though (or liked Mace, heh), focussed as he was on his bomb and the sun. You could say that Capa is cold logic, detachment, and intellectualism - everything that is not "human" about humanity. The science/technology that Capa represents is a neutral force that has caused humans as much harm as good, and people involved in those fields sometimes forget that they are meant to protect the more vulnerable, intimate, and irrational aspects of being human that make life worthwhile. Cassie, on the other hand, is the only crew member who has not compromised her ethical integrity and essential "humanity" throughout the movie. Yes, her stubbornness to protect one life when billions hang in the balance seems foolish, but it is that unfailing love and compassion that makes humanity worth saving, not an ability to build a bomb. It is their tendency for self-sacrifice, not murder. (Are humans worth saving if they have to give up their humanity to survive?)
The intense situations in the last third of the movie is surely enough to shake Capa out of his intellectual shell and realize his feelings for Cassie, putting his reasons for saving the species into perspective beyond the culmination of his life's work in physics. (Kind of like Neo in The Matrix could only succeed because, unlike the other Ones, his love for humanity was a personal and not a generic experience?) Capa and Cassie unify mind and heart, the fullness of human potential, so it is only fitting that they'd be the last ones left and save the solar system together.
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Post by nimue on Aug 16, 2007 22:29:55 GMT -5
Neiru, you've just been added to the Capsie thread.
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Post by neiru2012 on Aug 16, 2007 22:57:38 GMT -5
Neiru, you've just been added to the Capsie thread. WHEE!! ;D (where? ^^;; )
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Post by nimue on Aug 16, 2007 23:14:34 GMT -5
The CAPSIE thread is located under FAN FICTION and the list of members is on the first page of that thread.
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