So you think all humanity died, huh?
Well, I believe your wrong....
Look at the final movie again. Pay close attention to the village scene, it's right before Barret's adobted kid (still can't remember her name...) says something about the Flower Girl and goes to the window. The village is the one that is next door to Midgar, the layout is exactly the same, and the girl is looking out of that tower. (Of course, the problem is that she didn't walk up any stairs to get to the window or the fact that that room of the tower didn't have the room for a table and chair, in it, inside the game the tower had a very small room. Barely enough room for one person...the final movie is even slightly, flawed)
So, it isn't the slums of Midgar that she's in....which is a counterdictory to the story, by the way. That Shinra dude, "Caith Seth" said he sent everyone, including Barret's kid and Aeris' mother, into the slums of Midgar.
Anyway, That neiboring village Barret's kid and the other kids are really at. (I can't remember the name of the village....either) The planet's life-stream limits the destruction of the two forces on the upper levels of Midgar.... Midgar is still in one piece after 500 years of decay, if holy and meteor distroyed mankine....Midgar should have been vaporized. (that is a slightly simplified version of my conclusion, of the ending movie. The unexplainable part is the conclusion of the main characters...and what Cloud meant by his Promise Land statement.)
So....you still think Mankind dies, huh? there is also the symbolism of Birth at the end of that movie and the sound of children playing at the very, very end.
As far as the Dreams....Cloud and Aeris connected when Aeris left the party. Tifa joined Cloud's mind when she was knocked out on the Highwind. and again when they fall in the lifestream. The question I have is the reason of why they connected....that magic was never acknowledged in the story. They just threw it in and never gave an explanation to it. (I don't like plots with holes in them)
Like I said before, I like FF7....but it isn't complete, and thus, to me, It doesn't have a perfect storyline (It's flawed). It's a very good rough draft, though. If the holes were all patched, then I would agree that FF7 is the best story, Ever!, for an RPG. But as it stands now...It's even if not a hair under FF9. Let's see how FF10 is . (I really need to finish the other FF games, I've started all of them, but I haven't finished any of them: FF4, 5 and 6)
Oh, and Aeris all of a sudden said she was tired and ran up the stairs.....I haven't played the game in a while. But I know I remember this for a reason. I think the other characters were puzzled by her reaction. It was a clue of something to come. Square never told us why she ran up the stairs. If I remember correctly (I may be wrong, or conviced myself. I hope I'm not just substituting Tifa's bubbles texts for Aeris'....minds can remember things wrongly, sometimes...) she was going to say something and then she said she was sleepy and ran up the stairs. (an incomplete bubble, text statement, I think?...I know Yuffie said something about it after Aeris ran up the stairs.) I believe Aeris was going to tell Cloud something and got scared or maybe embarassed. At first I thought she ran up those stairs, because of the upcoming "so called" date with Cloud, but later I realized that you can date Tifa, Yuffie or hang out with Barrett, under the right circumstances. So it had to be something, else. Something that she was too scared to tell Cloud about....now that I'm recalling, she also covered up Cloud's strange reaction at the Ancient's Temple, with no real explanation, of why she bothered. (the story could have been a lot more richer, if they gave us better or, at least, some explanations for stuff.)
I've been trying to piece together the story of FF7 for quite some time....and I always come across an illogical roadblocks of some kind when I do.
Who's in control, Jenova or Sephiroth.
If the person Cloud is chasing is really Jenova, in the form of Sephiroth, why is it noted, in the story, that Jenova/Sephiroth has the tattoo #1. Does the real Sephiroth have that tattoo? They never told us...it would have been another solid clue. Why is it that they can fly? Even Cloud flys when he realizes he's part of Jenova. Also, apparently they can shapeshift. Why does Cloud look like Tifa's Cloud and also like Zack? Just too many missing puzzles in FF7, that they hint at, but never directly tell you. (Maybe that's why it's remembered as the best story of the FF games? The Mystery, and the torment....Guess I don't like unsolved mysteries. I like the torment, though.)
There's a lot more and I have a lot of amusing theories (that I'm sure would be good reading), but all of my theories have some sort of flaw in them.....maybe I'll replay the game again.....and come up with a better theory. But as far as I can tell, FF7's story is flawed.
[This message has been edited by Threesixty (edited June 08, 2001).]
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