ext_82219 ([identity profile] shahni.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2008-01-16 01:25 am

[ SECRET POST #375 ]


⌈ Secret Post #375 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

I lost the game. ):
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Re: 8, TREMENDOUS SPOILERS IN COMMENT

[identity profile] hopelikefever.livejournal.com 2008-01-16 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
Phoenix and Maya remind me of my brother and sister, and that quite frankly freaks me out even more than the fact that they were already familial -- but it's true, Phoenix had so much more passion for other characters in the game.

I totally agree here--I mean, there was that whole bit with the earthquake when Miles and Phoenix were trying to get Maya out of the temple, and Phoenix focused more on Miles than Maya once he found out the earthquake hadn't destroyed where she was, IIRC.

I disliked Phoenix/Iris too, not only because he regressed and found it okay to forgive "Dollie" for what she'd done to him (I mean, whether or not she "wanted to", she still *lied*), but because there were all these amazing relationships that had been cultivated with other characters that were kind of thrown out the window. I mean, look at how things changed between him and Miles--now Iris can waltz in, say she was really his 'girlfriend', and that makes things somewhat all right? No, no, no.

Granted, Phoenix can kind of hold on to things like a butthurt girlfriend--just look at how he reacted to Miles' disappearance in JFA--but I think him forgiving her was... meh.

Re: 8, TREMENDOUS SPOILERS IN COMMENT

[identity profile] dots.livejournal.com 2008-01-16 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
It wasn't even the forgiveness that got to me so much. It was lame, yeah, but it was the sort of thing Phoenix would do. I can understand forgiving her and saying he'd never lost his faith in her, because really, that's how Phoenix is. He never lost his faith in Edgeworth, either -- at least, that's how I saw it, even if he spent 3/4 of the second game mad enough at Edgeworth to tell him, when he came back, that he should have died. Wow, Phoenix. (This is another reason why I don't like Phoenix/Iris; he shows so much more intense emotion with characters like Edgeworth. Even his panic when Maya was kidnapped in JFA or missing in T&T was done more dramatically and passionately.)

It's more in the fact that it was presented as though he had fallen back into love with her. It's been six years, she did lie, and Phoenix is a tremendously different person in T&T "present" than he was in T&T "past." I honestly read most of the case as him just wanting closure on that; just wanting to know what had really happened, if he had actually been wrong to trust her, etc. But then they played so many of the cards romantically -- and in a very bad way -- that it left a bitter taste in my mouth, and it undermined everything they'd built up with him and the other characters so slowly.

Re: 8, TREMENDOUS SPOILERS IN COMMENT

[identity profile] hopelikefever.livejournal.com 2008-01-16 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
It's more in the fact that it was presented as though he had fallen back into love with her.

Yesssss. I had meant to write that in my comment before, but I guess I was just being stupid, haha. And it really did cheapen the development and intensity with the other characters, like you said, because it was like they could just place the blame on their sudden... not 'cop-out', but I can't think of a better word at the moment... on the fact that they'd been dating for months six years ago.

But thankfully she's in prison, so it can't really escalate, and I don't think she's referred to in GS4. Of course, neither is Edgeworth. >/