Yeah, it's fun to analyze stuff like this... you should have seen the crazy debates on my regular MBs after FF7 came out. ;) FF8 never got that much analysis at my usual haunts for some reason...
The thing that struck me about the White SeeD ship that made me really think Elle and Laguna hadn't kept in contact is... if I'm remembering this right, the White SeeDs reported that they sent the Esthar ship away, but then Ellone had suddenly gotten all excited when she saw someone aboard the Esthar ship and actually jumped off the White SeeD ship to get to it as it was leaving. Ellone never seemed that excitable to me, so I'm thinking that must have been something really big, to make her do that... she wasn't being held captive there against her will, after all - they were just protecting her.
And then there's the conversation she has with Squall on the space station, where she says that she knew now, after sending Squall and his friends back into Laguna and Ward and Kiros, how much she was loved. I figure she'd have known she was loved if she'd been around Laguna for any significant portion of her life... that was pretty soon after the White SeeD thing, and I suspect all the times she sent Squall back were before that happened.
The thing about Laguna not keeping in contact with Raine is a little odd, yeah... but you know how absent-minded he can be when he's got his mind on something, and it might have been that he just was too busy trying to figure out how to find Elle. So really, the only part that doesn't really add up to me is... Ellone obviously knew who Squall was all along, so why didn't she say something her relation to Squall before all this happened?
I guess with the GFs, it's possible that she did and Squall just forgot, and she never knew that he forgot who she was and therefore never explained it again... As for after she and Laguna were reunited, if it happened in the above manner, I imagine Laguna wanted to tell Squall himself. Or if not wanted to (I'm sure the idea of having that talk didn't exactly thrill him), at least felt it was his duty...
Hmm, this thread seems to be resolving most of the things I considered possible holes in my theory. Woohoo! :D
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Date: 2002-06-19 06:37 pm (UTC)The thing that struck me about the White SeeD ship that made me really think Elle and Laguna hadn't kept in contact is... if I'm remembering this right, the White SeeDs reported that they sent the Esthar ship away, but then Ellone had suddenly gotten all excited when she saw someone aboard the Esthar ship and actually jumped off the White SeeD ship to get to it as it was leaving. Ellone never seemed that excitable to me, so I'm thinking that must have been something really big, to make her do that... she wasn't being held captive there against her will, after all - they were just protecting her.
And then there's the conversation she has with Squall on the space station, where she says that she knew now, after sending Squall and his friends back into Laguna and Ward and Kiros, how much she was loved. I figure she'd have known she was loved if she'd been around Laguna for any significant portion of her life... that was pretty soon after the White SeeD thing, and I suspect all the times she sent Squall back were before that happened.
The thing about Laguna not keeping in contact with Raine is a little odd, yeah... but you know how absent-minded he can be when he's got his mind on something, and it might have been that he just was too busy trying to figure out how to find Elle. So really, the only part that doesn't really add up to me is... Ellone obviously knew who Squall was all along, so why didn't she say something her relation to Squall before all this happened?
I guess with the GFs, it's possible that she did and Squall just forgot, and she never knew that he forgot who she was and therefore never explained it again... As for after she and Laguna were reunited, if it happened in the above manner, I imagine Laguna wanted to tell Squall himself. Or if not wanted to (I'm sure the idea of having that talk didn't exactly thrill him), at least felt it was his duty...
Hmm, this thread seems to be resolving most of the things I considered possible holes in my theory. Woohoo! :D