Oh my god, what an awesome ending.
The whole concept of applying entropy towards wish making is pretty damn cool (Change in entropy is always greater than or equal to 0; change in despair vs. hope is always greater than or equal to 0).
One little complaint: the universe isn’t running out of energy. Energy simply tends to change to less and less usable forms. Of course, this is based on a classical understanding of energy, so that’s probably going to change in the future.
A little tinkering with that and the whole running out of energy thing is plausible in Godoka’s universe.
I think episode 11 was severely overshadowed by episode 12, Homura fucking ran tankers in the Walmart and had some unlimited RPG works going on.
God damn, episode 11 was beautiful…so was Godoka’s Galaxy Rose Bow…the entire series was beautiful ;-;
No, you see, conservation of energy kind of says we can’t run out of energy. And since mass is just energy concentrated in a single point, running out of energy is tantamount to running out of mass and turning into nothingness. That wasn’t what the show was talking about either, it just didn’t know it. The future is a desert apocalypse (based on the after-credits scene). It’s not nothingness, it’s just barren and unusable.
Edit: Granted, the whole idea of turning the emotions of prepubescent (except Mami…) girls into energy isn’t exactly realistic, so such a critical eye probably isn’t warranted.
Is that really the future though? Could it just be Homura wandering the present while being a badass?
Now I know Coobies thermodynamics is all borked, but he did say that the amount of energy was disappearing with a rising amount of entropy.
This could lead to the Magical Girls originally being Entropy filters. Their reality breaking magic is powered by this entropy, notice this breaks almost every scientific law placed then again this is magic. This then creates energy, essentially the Puella Magicas are making energy out of entropy and their magic is the manifestation of this.
Now I’m going to stop myself before I start sounding completely batshit to myself, was getting close.
I assumed future just because of context: that massive amount of grief/despair surrounding Homura, the lack of civilization, the tons of demons, and the marked increase in Homura’s power. There’s no way to know. I don’t think the point is it being a specific time or place. Madoka mentioned being able to see all the pasts and possible futures, which implies a many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics (look it up on Wiki). The important thing is that Homura was alone and facing great difficulty, and she remained hopeful with Madoka’s help.
Kyubey is just trying to put the relatively complicated themes that motivate this show into simple terms. What he said was that because of entropy the universe is running out of energy. What he meant was that because of entropy, the universe was running out of useable energy. Magical girls’ emotions are basically a source of usable energy. The show basically doesn’t limit entropy to applying to energy, but abstract things as well. Basically, yes, magical girls’ emotions can be harvested, but at the expense of creating grief/despair equal to or greater than that energy. Madoka makes it where you can harvest any sort of despair/grief, that’s all. There are going to be bad things happening everywhere that will create despair, why not use that naturally occurring despair instead of manipulating young girls into experiencing a life-destroying amount.