Originally Posted by MechDeus
I didn't think that in and of itself was lame, but they way they did it was. First off, these guys appear out of nowhere, have connections to the Geostigma, and can magically summon demon mist creatures is as large quantities as they want out of the ground. Now let's think about how much of that was explained (that goes for the whole crying thing as well). They could have them created from the fusion of energy that occured at Meteor's impact, they could've been mutated leftovers that managed to survive the Sephiroth clone massacre (Or was that Jenova clones? Either way it still works), there could've been some explanation that actually followed the series of events already laid in place instead of, "We're ghosts formed out of Lifestream and eventually we'll mutate into someone else. Fear us." Just have them be their own people, even if it's just manipulated pawns like Cloud used to be. Maybe even make it about their own struggle for identity and how they challenge Cloud who went through the same issues with similar origins before them.
The Geostigma - if they absolutely had to have it in there - should've been something that manifested very late, possibly at the end so as to signal what would eventually wipe out humans. As is it was introduced, forgotten about, cured by Aeris' magical out-of-nowhere rain, and then later mentioned that, yeah, it kinda meant something. Whoopdie-shit.
Do something with the characters. Cloud talks with Vincent and then not much later the entire crew shows up from whereever they've all been hiding and Cid goes, "Hey, new airship!" Where the hell did that come from? Having them show up individually over time, even doing a "Let's get the band back together!" sort of thing would've been better. They all popped up and then were promptly forgotten about until the end of the movie when someone needed to mention Sephiroth larva. Weak usage, such weak usage.
I'd put together some psuedo-plot right now to help answer Shidoshi's question, but that requires at least a small amount of creative thought and I'd rather go play Burnout right now. Maybe later.I don't remember the Turks dying (although I'll take your word for it) but it's hard to forget Rufus getting his ass blasted to hell. The whole reason I didn't mention earlier how I hoped to see him (since he and the Turks were the only characters I really liked from FFVII) was because he was blown off the face of the planet. Something about how he got out of that would've been nice.
To be fair, he did a lot of that in FFVII. The fact that they decided to not explain why he reverted back to that was lame.I took that as a caretaker thing since they were watching over orphans.
