To start off with, this is NOT ABOUT STELLA!
Stella is not going to be brought up after this point. I miss Stella, I wish to see more of her, but Luna has to stand on her own as a character. I think Hajime Tabata's big mistake was trying to make a "better" Stella and not making Luna her own character. And that is why she has failed to grab my interest. Because, in my opinion, Lunafreya Nox Fleuret just doesn't work as a strong female lead in the way that Hajime Tabata and Takeshi Nozue have been trying to suggest that she is.
This is also based solely on Kingsglaive and is more of a first impression than a finalized opinion. And my initial opinion is that not only did I not find Luna interesting, at many points I outright despised her based on this movie. I will be watching the movie again and with some family who do not know anything about the development of this game to see how they like her.
So, let's start with her first scene, where she tries to leave Tenebrae for Insomnia before she can and she is stopped by Ravus. Her words and tone imply that she is strong as she tells him off for clinging to a misguided idea, but her body language is more meek and she doesn't even look in his direction. Then, when she does arrive in Insomnia, one of the first thing she does is tell Regis about how she is going to help Noctis fulfill his destiny. And then says that that is her only duty. While she is shown to care about Regis, it's only Noctis she thinks about.
Then, she gets kidnapped. Now the scene with her and Glauca actually is pretty good, with her being defiant at him and he doesn't force her to come with him even though he clearly isn't afraid to manhandle her. He tells her that she's to meet him the next day for what everyone can tell is a trap. And yet she goes anyway, apparently. No we don't see her meeting him or how it goes down, it just happens. And it sets up the rest of the movie.
People having to save Luna. Yes, they do indeed have to protect her and while she does pull her own weight in some moments, she is mostly useless. She even has to be saved by Ultros. Ultros! One of the least intimidating monsters in the franchise that no one has any problems with.
And when she jumps out of that airship when she can not use magic (as Nyx points out) that isn't bravery, or hidden strength, or being unafraid of death, it's just fucking stupid. Yes, it worked out, but what would she have done if he hadn't reacted or if at that moment Regis had died? I felt greater sympathy for Nyx because he had to put up with her. In fact, if you really want to blame anyone for the events of the movie, it's because Luna decided that it was a good idea to go with Glauca even though she must have known it was a trap. He apparently didn't stronghold her into it, she just went because. Even lending credence to the idea that Ravus wouldn't want to hurt his own sister, she had no reason to think that the others wouldn't.
However, let's not dwell on that and instead talk about what motivates Luna. The answer is simple: Noctis and saving the world. That is literally all there is to her personality in this movie. She might show concern for characters like Regis and Nyx, but at the end that is pretty much the end all of her character arc. She starts off wanting to help Noctis and ends the movie wanting to help Noctis. And outside of the opening, because he is not in the movie for the most part, they do not share a single scene.
It's amazing, I wanted to like Luna even after all of this, but this movie made me hate her. But of course, I'd be happy to hear what you guys have to say about it.
Stella is not going to be brought up after this point. I miss Stella, I wish to see more of her, but Luna has to stand on her own as a character. I think Hajime Tabata's big mistake was trying to make a "better" Stella and not making Luna her own character. And that is why she has failed to grab my interest. Because, in my opinion, Lunafreya Nox Fleuret just doesn't work as a strong female lead in the way that Hajime Tabata and Takeshi Nozue have been trying to suggest that she is.
This is also based solely on Kingsglaive and is more of a first impression than a finalized opinion. And my initial opinion is that not only did I not find Luna interesting, at many points I outright despised her based on this movie. I will be watching the movie again and with some family who do not know anything about the development of this game to see how they like her.
So, let's start with her first scene, where she tries to leave Tenebrae for Insomnia before she can and she is stopped by Ravus. Her words and tone imply that she is strong as she tells him off for clinging to a misguided idea, but her body language is more meek and she doesn't even look in his direction. Then, when she does arrive in Insomnia, one of the first thing she does is tell Regis about how she is going to help Noctis fulfill his destiny. And then says that that is her only duty. While she is shown to care about Regis, it's only Noctis she thinks about.
Then, she gets kidnapped. Now the scene with her and Glauca actually is pretty good, with her being defiant at him and he doesn't force her to come with him even though he clearly isn't afraid to manhandle her. He tells her that she's to meet him the next day for what everyone can tell is a trap. And yet she goes anyway, apparently. No we don't see her meeting him or how it goes down, it just happens. And it sets up the rest of the movie.
People having to save Luna. Yes, they do indeed have to protect her and while she does pull her own weight in some moments, she is mostly useless. She even has to be saved by Ultros. Ultros! One of the least intimidating monsters in the franchise that no one has any problems with.
And when she jumps out of that airship when she can not use magic (as Nyx points out) that isn't bravery, or hidden strength, or being unafraid of death, it's just fucking stupid. Yes, it worked out, but what would she have done if he hadn't reacted or if at that moment Regis had died? I felt greater sympathy for Nyx because he had to put up with her. In fact, if you really want to blame anyone for the events of the movie, it's because Luna decided that it was a good idea to go with Glauca even though she must have known it was a trap. He apparently didn't stronghold her into it, she just went because. Even lending credence to the idea that Ravus wouldn't want to hurt his own sister, she had no reason to think that the others wouldn't.
However, let's not dwell on that and instead talk about what motivates Luna. The answer is simple: Noctis and saving the world. That is literally all there is to her personality in this movie. She might show concern for characters like Regis and Nyx, but at the end that is pretty much the end all of her character arc. She starts off wanting to help Noctis and ends the movie wanting to help Noctis. And outside of the opening, because he is not in the movie for the most part, they do not share a single scene.
It's amazing, I wanted to like Luna even after all of this, but this movie made me hate her. But of course, I'd be happy to hear what you guys have to say about it.
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