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[unnecessary nitpicking about sci-fi][eureka seven]
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it's a good show
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but it does something that bugs me
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here's a slice of the plott, spoilers actually
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okay so
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there's a concept in this setting, called the Question Limitation
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I don't know all about it or its reason for existing, if there is one, but the basic idea is
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if there are too many sapient lifeforms in existence, the universe goes crazy go nuts
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and possibly explodes
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and there is a conflict between the Humans and the Coralians related to this
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the Coralians all went into hibernation so that they don't count towards the limit
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but the humans just want to wipe them out
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and in doing so, are waking them up
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bringing the total active population closer to the breaking point
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and my gripe is this.
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Eureka Seven takes place on one planet.
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There are two trillion galaxies in the observable universe.
BattroidBattery
...I thought I watched all of E7 but I don't remember this plot point at all
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Are we saying that 1,999,999,999,999 of those galaxies have no sapient life in them, and the only two species to ever count happen to be cosmically right next door
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and the rest of the cosmos is just a wasteland
oh i'm scary
it might be localized
ShootingXC
I think it's so much sapient life in too little space as well
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because the alternative is, how the fuck does any of this matter even a tiny bit
oh i'm scary
and the wording did not translate well
Quinneapolis
that would make a litttle more sense
ShootingXC
and is also apparently influenced by
Blood Music (novel) - Wikipedia
BattroidBattery
TTGL improved on this concept by saying that only people who are super rad count towards the limit
katzenjammer
I was gonna say, sounds like the plot beat from ttgl