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!!cJ4MGVqvOKw 08/30/11(Tue)21:52 No.29222194>>29221744
I have to disagree with this. The threat of an all-consuming "wound" in what was essentially the life-force of the universe was an interesting concept, but Nihilus was trite and boring himself - violent, near-mindless, driven by that primal force, with no real purpose besides looking big and angry. He was relentless, sure, and he had an interesting design, but even then, besides the fact that he killed planets with his mere presence there was very little to him that was scary. He was a distant, far-removed force and, because he possessed no real center of reasoning, made no moral or personal distinctions or judgments, he came across as a mindless monster. That wasn't scary. For a base, monstrous, all-devouring entity, it's cool, but not particularly moving. Others just like it - e.g. Sulphur from Phantom Brave - amongst many of that archetype, aren't particularly inspiring or scary, you know?
Now, if you'd gone with something like Darth Sion - invincible, relentless, constantly pursuing you, capable of advanced thought and full of hate - I'd have understood. At the same time you have Zagi from Tales of Vesperia, who was legitimately terrifying at times, and tons of other nemesis characters. They're not the scariest, but they work, and I can imagine Discord being like that - it's more Joker-esque. Hell, even a Kreia Discord would be better than Nihilus.
I think on some level that the best possible Discord would be one convinced that it was doing the absolute right thing by sowing chaos, and fighting order. Like Myria from the BoF series, a sort of paternal figure that desires complete, absolute dominion, or Kagutsuchi - both of whom were distant parental figures made out to be omnipotent and constantly affecting the viewer. That's legitimately terrifying and appropriate to the show - an alternate "parental" figure with a different viewpoint, similar to Celestia but opposite.
At least, that's my view. |
