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* Some people concluded that in ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'', there's a [[Bad Future]] where Ultimecia has wiped out SeeD and rules the world, and [[Esoteric Happy Ending|this is guaranteed]] by a [[Stable Time Loop]]. However, look closer; the dead SeeDs are within line of sight of Ultimecia's castle. Ultimecia's castle is devoid of soldiers or real security measures. Hell, some parts of the castle appear to have been hit by artillery fire. And Ultimecia is ''desperately'' trying to engage Time Compression. Heck, the first thing she does when she takes over Galbadia in the past is to ''attempt to destroy Garden'' and thus wipe out the SeeDs before they even really exist. Looking at this evidence, there is an alternate conclusion as to the "bad" future: ''SeeD was winning the war'' and Ultimecia's use of the Junction Machine Ellone was a Skynet-esque desperation tactic to stave off defeat - in which case, ''the happy ending is reinforced'', not ruined.
** This is further confounded by the fact that she actually points towards this in the opening monologue of the final battle: that SeeD were "swarming like locusts across generations." On its own, this little statement implies that SeeD hasn't quit pestering her for quite some time ("across generations") and she never truly got over that particular obstacle. She does seem to view SeeD as a persistent nuisance in her little speech, but the abovementioned attempts prove that SeeD is a serious threat to her at the very least.
* A lot of people complained that Ultimecia's appearance was something of an [[Ass Pull]] and that she never got any real development. However she was in control of Edea for over the course of the first two disk, the speech she gave when President Deling introduced her, that was Ultimecia speaking, the clothes that Edea wore when under Ultimecia's control are a ''stark'' contrast to the simple black dress she is seen wearing in the flashbacks and at the end of the game. Even the speech patterns that Edea used (if not the accent) were similar to Ultimecia's during her [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] before the final battle. - [[User:GX Next]]
* Tiny, tiny bit of probably unintentional brilliance from the ballroom scene: imagine that you're at the graduation ball of a military academy and you see an otherwise good-looking young man leaning against a wall by himself, looking some flavor of unhappy, with a fresh scar across his face. What conclusion do you draw? Rinoa's first line to Squall, "You're the best-looking guy here," is a gesture to ''reassure him that he's not disfigured'', and her pestering him to dance with her is an effort to cheer him up from what looks like it must have been a pretty rough day.
** [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|I will now take that to be]] [[Canon]] [[Character Development]] on Rinoa's part. [[Manly Tears|Makin' me cry]], [[Tsundere|damnit]].
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