Steins Gate is an anime from japan about a self titled mad scientist, (even wears a lab coat around all the time) who plays god and does all kinds of crazy things by sending texts messages back in time, and then screwing everything up. He meets friends and foes along the way.
Theres like 3 things I could talk about so here they go
1- Why you shouldn't mess with time
Okabe is the mad scientists, who lives in a shoddy little "lab". He lives with his friend who looks like hes straight outta 4chan, his childhood cute girl best friend(Mayuri), and eventually another scientist lady (Christina) who he falls in love with. One day, he accidentally makes a microwave that can send text messages back in time (and eventually sends him back too), gets involved in a CERN conspiracy, and messes with events. Which is bad, because one day his poor friend is killed. So he goes back in time to save her. But wait, he cant. She's destined to die because he went off the timeline or something, and he needs to undo every thing he changed. So he has to watch her die in front of him like 50 times so the lesson can truly be learned. To make sure he doesnt forget, he needs to undo the first time travel text that he didnt even realize he sent, and if he undoes it, it will cause the girl he fell in love with to die.
Dont mess with time.
2-What is love
Baby dont hurt me, no more. In BloodChild, part of the reason it was so 'ugh' to read was the relationship between the alien (I forgot her name) and Gan. You dont know if it was real love. He doesnt know anything, hes grown up in a cage. I dont think he let himself get impregnated for her, he did it for his sister. Because thats the only connection he really knows about.
Then in Steins, whenever he undid something, the people involved still had very faint traces of memories from the alternate timelines. He falls in love with Christina, but since none of her memories are 'real', does she reciprocate the feelings? Every time he goes back in time, he meets a new version of her thats not really her. Weird.
3- John Titor
Back in the 2000s, some guy in internet forums said that he was from 2036 and had all kinds of crazy preditions, Turns out it was a prank, but in here they actually meet the guy. Turns out its a girl. Anyways, the girl is from a future where CERN took over the world and theres the classic sci fi rebellion, which leads to the question, how much power should we give ourselves? Okabe and his friends gave themselves the power to mess with timelines and they ended up having to undo everything because it was too powerful. CERN gave itself to do the power of something or other, and then they basically ruined the future for everyone. This whole series has an underlying message of "dont mess with what you shouldn't". Remember in Bloodchld when we went to a different planet and ended up slaves to a species that lays eggs in us
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Hah! Is Stein's Gate a tv show or a book? It sounds...intense. Complicated.
ReplyDeleteI too think Gan said yes to save his sister--that's the clearest love I see. I guess you could argue that we have to go forward loving people without being certain of anything, even our own feelings but...that seems less clear to me, given the story.