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We all agree to disagree about Homura.

But let's expand on what Homura did. Let's say a bunch of Americans were kidnapped, and brainwashed into forgetting everything about their lives and memories, but only leaving their earliest memories until highschool. That is what Homura did. If this happened in real life everyone would be aghast and demanding those responsible go to jail. If this was done to your significant other or spouse, and they forgot about you, would you consider this as a suitable conclusion to their story.

Right now our Magical Girls are the Stepford Wives of Pleasantville. Is this really the ending for the main plotline that you want? Let's not forget also, that Sayaka did not go into dreamville willingly.

As the ending shown, Homura's world is unstable, and Homura is mad/unstable, whatever euphemism you want to use. The only good thing about the third and final act of the movie Rebellion is that the Incubators are getting their just desserts.

We all agree to disagree about Homura.

But let's expand on what Homura did. Let's say a bunch of Americans were kidnapped, and brainwashed into forgetting everything about their lives and memories, but only leaving their earliest memories until highschool. That is what Homura did. If this happened in real life everyone would be aghast and demanding those responsible go to jail. If this was done to your significant other or spouse, and they forgot about you, would you consider this as a suitable conclusion to their story.

TarsTarkas wrote:

We all agree to disagree about Homura. But let's expand on what Homura did. Let's say a bunch of Americans were kidnapped, and brainwashed into forgetting everything about their lives and memories, but only leaving their earliest memories until highschool. That is what Homura did. If this happened in real life everyone would be aghast and demanding those responsible go to jail. If this was done to your significant other or spouse, and they forgot about you, would you consider this as a suitable conclusion to their story.

I love Homura as much as the next Madoka fan but even in the original series, she comes across as very obsessive and controlling of Madoka. She's not trying to stop Madoka from making a contract for the good of the planet but because she wants Madoka all to herself and can't bear to be apart from her. But the show was told from Madoka's perspective who idolized her from the start and Madoka's idolization is imprinted onto the audience which clashes with the audience's view of Homura as this idealized cool and perfect character. It's the same thing with Mami where in some of the alternate timelines Mami is often portrayed as spoiler[very unstable and and not that trustworthy of a character] but Madoka idolized Mami in the original series and thus Mami is seen by the audience as this cool and reliable senpai type of character. The whole point of it is that Homura is not the perfect person Madoka made her out to be and that spoiler[Homura gave into the darkness instead of fighting against her darker impulses. Homura's arc in Rebellion is basically every dark magical girl arc in anime turned up to 11.] I agree with Villain-chan that this doesn't make Homura's actions right but it doesn't betray her character either, but Madoka fans need a more nuanced way to look at Homura than either this all or nothing approach where either it's "Homura did nothing wrong uwu" or now Homura has to be the worst because she's not as perfect because she's not as perfect as Madoka thought she was.

Thespacemaster wrote:

I think a lot of issues with it that a lot of people have is that without 'spoiling'. The dramatic left field shenanigan that happened close to the end of the movie as well as the fact it was hinted a bit that their is more to develop for the story but we never got a follow up until now. So a lot of people feel they should continue it until it feels 100% Resolved regardless to what happens. (Although you could argue that it still feels conclusive, it just depends how you interpret it). If i recall they already announced additional projects that were upcoming even after the first part of the spin off ended. we just never got a clarification what they are, So im curios as to what exactly will be. A lot of people seem to expect or want a continuation in some form after the events of rebellion, which while i would welcome, i would try to keep my expectations a bit low for now as nothing is certain yet.

If you're referring to what I think you're referring to, I feel the opposite of most fans that the movie's dramatic left field turn makes the movie more interesting than if they just went a more safe and predictable route. And I've always taken it that like how the Madoka TV series "deconstructs" the magical girl genre, Rebellion is a "deconstruction" of the characters in Madoka, particularly with Homura. But this seems to happen with a lot of iconic franchises like Star Wars The Last Jedi and Evangelion 3.0 where when a follow up movie doesn't match the fan theories or the expectations fans have for the characters even if the movie otherwise is actually well produced and ambitious with what it's setting out to do with the characters. I wouldn't say no to more Madoka but I wouldn't want something like we had with TROS in Star Wars where a continuation is made only to fix the perceived "problems" fans had with Rebellion to reset the story to make it more "safe" and straightforward to please the fanbase. Though I am actually enjoying the current spin off show which you could argue is Madoka playing it safe, any continuation of the main story that brings back Gen Urobuchi should be because he has something interesting and new to say and not just to satisfy the fanbase by "fixing" the problems with Rebellion.