MKR SPOILER WARNING!!! READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!



Travis Butler wrote:

On 7/12/97 8:36 PM,  KOUMA   RYODACHI at SQUN29A@prodigy.com wrote:

  Umi didn't answer, except to scowl. Fuu did not look particularly
pleased either.

Nor I, I have to admit. I don't know much about MKR, besides the bits in
the Animerica article a few months back.

	If you want to read MKR, you can always get Mixxzine... If only they
could publish it here in Mexico as well... <sigh>

(There are starting to be enough
MKR references cropping up that I suppose I really need to learn some
more about it. <g>) Was the original end in the story this abrupt?

	No. It was even *more* abrupt.

The
'it was all essentially for nothing' ending is really hard for me to
swallow without quite a bit of preparation, so I felt somewhat cheated at
this point in the story.

	Well... [SPOILER WARNING AGAIN!!!] what really happened at the end of
MKR1 is that, after defeating Zagato (and thus killing him) the Knights
thought they had freed Emeraude. However, in reality she became very
depressed and very angry. She fought the three girls viciously, using
all her power as the Pillar (a nearly goddess-like status that can
destroy planets) to punish those that had killed her beloved Zagato. At
first, the Knights couldn't believe it, but then the innocent,
child-like side of Emeraude explained how she was really in love with
Zagato. However, since she was the Pillar, she couldn't give herself to
one single person, as she would be unable to pray for the rest of the
planet's happiness. But she couldn't stop loving Zagato either, and she
realized that, in that case, she was no good as the Pillar. OTOH, she
couldn't just "quit" her position, since Pillars are chosen until the
current one dies. Thus, she summoned the Magic Knights: people that are
not from Cephiro, who can awake the Mashin and destroy the Pillar.

	The Knights are special because: nobody on Cephiro, not even the Mashin
themselves, can harm the Pillar. However, to end the life of such a
great power they need to "wear" the legendary Mashin. But when the girls
found out that Emeraude had summoned them to kill her, they couldn't
believe it. But Emeraude said that if they didn't, then her angry
personality would start praying for the total destruction of Cephiro. In
the end, with teary eyes, they had to destroy Emeraude's Mashin --with
her in it. Although that meant that Emeraude and Zagato were finally
together, it also spelled doom for Cephiro. In fact, all of MKR2 is
spent in a wasteland that *used* to be Cephiro, and it only recovered
until the very end of the series.

Hope that cleared things up.


The Zephyr
al709382@campus.ccm.itesm.mx