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A-Ko: Oh! A UFO!
B-Ko: Where, where, where, where... where?
B-Ko: Oh, for crying out loud... it's just a shooting star.
A-Ko: No, no, NO! It's a UFO!
A-Ko: It flew across the sky all jittery, uh, I mean, zigzaggy.
B-Ko: In that case, it's a shooting star flying zigzaggy.
B-Ko: There's no way UFOs could exist!
A-Ko: It was when I was in kindergarten...
B-Ko: What was?
A-Ko: ...that they said Santa Claus didn't exist.
B-Ko: Oh gawd...
A-Ko: It's OK though. I understand.
B-Ko: Understand what?
A-Ko: Wizards,
A-Ko: fairies,
A-Ko: princes on white horses,
A-Ko: and kind-hearted friends...
A-Ko: ...are only found in fantasy.
Both: It's okay, though. I understand.
A-Ko: And so, at least I still have UFOs...
B-Ko: That's kinda tricky, ain't it?
A-Ko: Oops, they're broken.
Poor Saionji. So disillusioned. Like most of the characters in Utena, really. One
event in his childhood where a little girl told him that nothing was eternal changed everything
for him. Because he began to believe that Touga had shown the girl something eternal,
he lost his trust in Touga and felt that his friend was hiding something from him. The
phrase of nothing being eternal comes to haunt him as his friendship with Touga, the one
stable thing in his life, begins to fall apart.
Of course the idea is somewhat absurd, as the shadow girls point out. Just because Santa
Claus doesn't exist, it doesn't mean that nothing else exists. It's total extremism.
Though Saionji's friendship with Touga has disolved, there is one thing he still believes in,
and that's the power of the Rose Bride. Of course, when he loses that, he hasn't got anything
anymore. That's what drove him to attack Utena - he had nothing left to lose.
Despite the fact that he doesn't believe in friendship, Saionji spends and inordinate amount
of time with Touga. (Reminds me of Juri and her miracles.) But who knows? Maybe it was
just for the sex.
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