Watching Crystal for the first time

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Bunny Rivière

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I have been wondering [but not actively doing research on] how the body responds to traumatic stuff. I'm not sure if it could be considered trauma at all but there was something that heavily bothered me
the brain response of trauma, is it can be act like the things never happened, that’s why some people can decompensate 4 years after a drama, the brain classifies the data by desire for security, with our own will of course, conscientiously or unconsciously we don't want to think about it, so we classify the event as if it had never happened.
And then we decompensate when the brain can no longer classify information, because it requires a lot of energy from the brain when we want to ignore our memories and emotions. This is also the reason why some people develop Stockholm syndrome, kidnapping is so violent for them, to avoid psychic collapse, they will create an emotional bond of attachment with their executioner to better accept and face the situation. Then when they are finally released they collapse some go to suicide unfortunately.

Usagi's situation is a response to an intense trauma, which has illustrated as amnesia. Except that in reality the subject remembers everything that happened very well. Except that he deliberately chooses to forget so as not to face it, but this works him day after day until emotional collapse.

True memory loss, with data deletion, is an organic reaction following a head impact. An emotional shock leads to a sorte of amnesia desired by the victim, except that the memories are not erased or blocked, the persons always remembers it, except that they acts as if nothing had happened, but they are leading a great inner struggle to get to this state. Hence the fact that Mesmer invented hypnosis to free the psyche.

In usagi’s case, « the amnesia » was presented like she was able to lock her brain, like she had a head impact and forget everything. In real life, this is impossible.
 
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Rika-Chicchi

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True memory loss, with data deletion, is an organic reaction following a head impact.
Even in such situations, the memories could still be there too - it may be only that the links to them are physically broken, hence theoretically they could be accessed again if alternative paths of links could be established/activated. :)
 

Bunny Rivière

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Even in such situations, the memories could still be there too - it may be only that the links to them are physically broken, hence theoretically they could be accessed again if alternative paths of links could be established/activated. :)
yes you have 100% right, the lost memory can be recovered as well, with Physiotherapy, different exercises with neuropsychologist, speech therapy specialized in memory recovery.

But sometimes, the memory is lost forever but it’s very rare, they can even forget their spouse, because love is created on the brain.

If i gave information about lost memory : I will add something : the fact that Usagi and Mamoru didn’t remember of their love before recovering their memories and was not in love with each other, even the friendship between the girls is forgotten because of that amnesia. Love is not created on the heart as people think, love is created by our hormones and neuro transmitters, the heart don’t command the body and our emotion, the heart is only a pump that circulates blood. So yes is normal for Mamoru who was not in love with Usagi in season one and was in love again with her immediately after recovering his memory. But there was still something, but it was forgotten.
 
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So, I wanted to get to a final overview. I watched through the first 3 seasons again. This time [mostly] in English. I don't have Netflix and don't have a way to see Eternal, but this is what I got. I guess it'll have to be split into two parts
  • I think I actually have a worse outlook on the animation than I did the previous times... Not sure how that happened
  • The parts I did like for the first two seasons were that brief morning scene with Usagi in Mamoru's bedroom after he kidnapped abducted snatched ran off with her. Also, this song whenever it came on
  • Maybe if it look a bit more like this most of the time it wouldn't have been seen as negatively. Or something like this

  • How did Tuxedo Mask find out where Usagi lived though? :creeper:
  • I got more interested the 2nd half of the season than the first
  • I don't think I had much of anything new to say about any other aspects of the other seasons... Or at least I can't think of anything now. I think my biggest problem would be that there weren't as many jokes or times where it felt like the staff felt worked in harmony. I don't really blame them because don't know how much control everyone had or if they had time really or how any of this went down honestly...
  • Its also interesting I liked Chibiusa's voice actress and transformation choreography most of the new cast.
  • I'll see if I have anything else to say for Eternal and Cosmos
 

Tkcito

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^ Chibiusa still looks better in Cosmos than in Crystal in her transformations, tho. :)
I find it wonderful that Crystal is so faithful to the manga that they didn't even bother to give Chibiusa her third season heart brooch and just left the basic round pink brooch in there. Why would they fix those continuity errors?
 

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I find it wonderful that Crystal is so faithful to the manga that they didn't even bother to give Chibiusa her third season heart brooch and just left the basic round pink brooch in there. Why would they fix those continuity errors?
Would also be fun if she'd keep the round pink brooch in her Eternal form. :mischief:
 
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