Subete ga F ni Naru – 10

Have you ever had a time when you were watching someone play a video game and the obvious thing to do is right in front of them? Yet despite all your hints they fail to see it and continue to wander around wasting time, so much so that you just want to rip the controller out of their hands and just show them? Well that’s this episode in a nutshell, with Moe being our clueless dolt. This episode was basically a reveal of all the details of the mystery and as more of it is revealed the more disappointed I become. For you see in a mystery series it’s never really fun to be right. Sure, there’s the smug self satisfaction of guessing the mystery before it happens but being surprised when it turns your expectations on its head is all the more enthralling. So to have the the characters reveal revelations long figured out as if they were incredible feats of cognitive reasoning, just leaves me feeling annoyed. There’s quite a lot of logical leaps here with characters making assumptions like it’s hard fact when alternative assumptions could be made. But let’s examine just why this is so unimpressive.

So the series has focused heavily on the phase “Everything becomes F” which is revealed to be a timer for when Red Magic temporarily shuts down the system. Truthfully the use of Hexadecimals was quite clever but here’s the problem. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that a malfunction that happened right before a murder takes place was fully intended. So all the complex reasoning was to figure out something that a little logical thinking could easily accomplish. As Rider from Fate/zero said “Using a simple method to accomplish something impressive, far outshines using a complex method to achieve the same thing.” Then we have Moe constantly making the assumption that they are talking to Magata’s daughter despite things pointing to otherwise. But the reasoning behind why the daughter died behind this is just utterly ridiculous. Basically because of one question from Moe, this caused Magata’s daughter to question her existence and decide to kill herself. So in fifteen years Magata’s daughter never once questioned her role? Are you telling me that Magata brainwashed that kid so well that she never once thought for herself and that brainwashing was undone by one single question? That is just utterly absurd. Then cones the reveal of Magata’s sister being Magata herself which even Souhei didn’t figure out until it was too late. But this does bring up what maybe be a plot hole if I am remembering correctly. I believe we saw Magata’s sister step off the helicopter and arrive on the island with the director’s wife. So then at what point after the murder did the director pick up Magata, fly away and then return to the facility? All while keeping his wife from getting suspicious? Or was his wife in on it as well? But I can’t think of any logical reason as to why she would help Magata. I honestly wonder how Magata’s thought she was going to get away with this. I mean she didn’t wear gloves when killing the director and she left the knife and while she cut of the limbs off her daughter so she wouldn’t be identified by fingerprints but that doesn’t stop people from identifying her through dental. On that regard wouldn’t the police have a file on her detailing that she does not have siblings? This whole murder is just very poorly conceived. Highly dependent on factors which were random such as if Magata’s daughter did not resemble her then her plan would be completely moot. If anyone spotted her while slipping out during that one minute blackout then that would have been 15 years of planning down the drain.

With all the philosophical hogwash that was trying to be portrayed as enlightening, this episode has brought me to a conclusion. As Magata made her getaway and left Souhei and Moe with her final message I believe I have come to understand her true character. For you see Magata is not a prodigy or a genius. It’s simple really, she’s a complete idiot. After all what person decides to build a robot whose purpose is to unlock a door when any average Joe would have just removed the door lock? What kind of person decides the best method to get rid of her parents would be to outright stab them? What kind of moron conceives a plan to spend 15 years in a facility, conceive a child, brainwash it for what seems to be the sole reason of making some philosophical metaphor? The answer quite simply is an idiot who believes they are a genius. When Magata puts forward her thoughts to Souhei what we see is nothing more that Juvenile philosophical fluff any egotistical teenager with a functional brain can come up with. Makes sense when you think about it, Magata was incarcerated and isolated from the world so while others of similar mindset would eventually realize that their thoughts were no more special than anyone else’s, Magata kept herself in a box and became convinced that her idiotic drivel was some kind of masterpiece logic. Without anyone to give her a good slap in the face and tell her to grow up, she remained an idiot.