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   From: seawaspobvious@obvioussgeinc.com   
      
   David McMillan wrote:   
   > Sea Wasp wrote:   
      
   >>     I have similar conversations with other Escaflowne fans, who think   
   >> the ending of THAT sucks, too.   
   >   
   >   
   >     ...okay, I'll bite.  What did YOU see at the end of Esca?  B/c I   
   > thought it worked pretty well, except that the whole implied "go home   
   > and never see each other again" bit.   
      
   	To me it was the implied "Go home, make sure that the life you have   
   here isn't what you really want, but I will always be checking in on   
   you, and on the day you decide you want to come back to Gaia, we will   
   be together".   
      
   	That is, Hitomi and Van are NOT parting forever. The very idea is   
   ludicrous. Their interest in each other survived the violations of   
   fate and became something that broke the Fate Engine.   
      
   	But Hitomi was not, by the standards of OUR world, an adult. She was   
   ripped from her world and has had no chance to reach closure -- with   
   her friends, with her family -- and she SHOULD before going to this   
   other world to live out the rest of her life with Van Fanel. Van   
   understands this, and Hitomi, having become pretty wise over the time   
   of the series, does too. So they part for some unknown time, but not   
   with too many tears... because they *KNOW* that they will one day be   
   together.   
      
      
   --   
   				Sea Wasp   
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