My cat wants to be part of the liveblog. Someone tell him that he doesn’t fit on my lap while I still type, because he won’t listen to me. Ahahhaha!! He just wants to bring some joy to this dark liveblog!! 

AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA

AAAAAHHH HAH AHAHAHAHAAHAH AHAHA 

OMG YOU FUCKER I WANT TO KILL YOU SOOOO BAD!!

Meaningless? MEANING-FUCKING-LESS????

This shit is all your and your so-call people’s doing!!! And you’re the ones fucking benefiting from it!!!! If it weren’t for her 

                                                               MEANINGLESS

actions, you wouldn’t have a potential Magical Girl that could, in one fell swoop, take are of the entirety of your energy shortage for apparently the rest of foreseeable time. 

I get that he’s annoyed that Homura is trying to stop you from getting that Kyu-fucker-bey, but it nonetheless is the only reason you have Madoka as she is now and as she continues to lengthen the cycle she only makes that better for you. 

OMG HAAAAA!!! 

Is he starting to fear that Madoka might become soo powerful that not only would her becoming a witch mean the destruction of this world, but could it really... truly be starting to dawn on him that as it continues, she might become powerful enough to threaten the whole universe??

The fucking outcome your claiming to prevent by this whole debacle??

Okay, so she was just going for the straight truth, here no partial truths to try a different angle. Why not? Because she’s emotionally breaking here!! 

Not only has she suffered this trauma repeatedly over and over again, but each time she’s done it, she’s distanced herself further from Madoka because she’s learned it doesn’t work from up close. 

Which means they’re drifting a part, and as her feelings for Madoka as she gets more and more time with the girl inevitably, Madoka is removed from any chance to feel much for Homura at all. 

And if that’s not all heartbreaking enough, HERE have some close ups on the screens behind them!

ALL THAT TRAUMA SHE’S BEEN THROUGH! 

The pedant in me is stuck on the comment that as soon as she gives up hope, she will become a witch. This does make it sound like the transformation hinges on despair. But Madoka, after defeating Walpurgisnacht, notes that she doesn’t have a grief seed for herself to replenish her soul gem, goes on to express hope to Homura that she’ll change the timeline, and turns into a witch. This highly suggested that the real factor lay in the replenishing of Soul Gems and not how you’re feeling.

Is he suggesting that Homura, realizing there’s no hope, will just stop collecting grief seeds? Because those two things do not have to walk hand in hand?

I suppose though, he’s just trying to talk Madoka into making a wish, so nothing he says might be useful. Not that it’s not the truth as he understands it, just that the distinction I’m making here is something he couldn’t care less about.

But Hnnnnnn

“Whether she has any hope of winning or not, Homura must continue to fight.”

*dying*

It’s nothing we don’t already know, but it just slays to hear it put this way and realize just how true it at least seems.

I’m still in the camp where, if the ending must be tragic, it’s Madoka fucking up all of Kyubey’s plans, making it all for naught in the end anyway.

Yeeup. The most tragic thing is that the way this is being laid out, it’s clear this never occurred to Homura before. I sense she’s not going to like learning this... 

Kyubey: Excellent work Homura. You’ve made Madoka into the most powerful witch we’ve ever seen. 

Once again, Kyubey wins the award for the fucking worst and most evil character!!! 

I don’t really have much more to say on the matter either. It doesn’t really change anything, Homura learning this. 

This is an entirely new level to Homura’s power. I know we’ve never seen them fight Walpurgisnacht before, but it seems strange that this sort of power would be reserved so completely until now. 

Though I suppose it is rather believable. Given how much she’s fought all these battles before, she probably knows exactly how much magic she needs to expend and refrains from expending any extra until this battle, which she has failed to win so it seems. 

And then I had the thought that we still don’t see anything on this level from the other girls. I suppose we could reason they haven’t had as much time to explore their powers, but that doesn’t quite sit right with me. 

And then I remembered Kyoko. I feel like she did something pretty big like this in her fight against Sayaka, but I’m too invested in what I’m doing now to go back and look. 

But if I’m correct, I wonder how much these displays of power connect to their emotion. For such a dark show, I’d say that’s unlikely. In fact, many things that I thought were linked to emotional type stuff turns out to be other things. (i.e. losing hope isn’t what makes you a witch but rather failure to replenish the Soul Gem. There may be some link between a Soul Gem draining more quickly the more despairing you are, but the technical aspect is the failure to replenish until there’s nothing left. Like a star imploding on itself when it’s used up all it’s fuel.) 

So I don’t know how comfortable I am with the idea from a canon perspective, but the whole purpose for the witches and magical girls are for their emotional energy. I don’t know, it also kind of feels like a cop out if their emotions don’t play an important factor in their struggles as Magical Girls. So... I’ll go with that for now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯