#which is weird because you’d think they’d normally be gunning for beloved characters to thwart death in order to make more money

[magicandmundane]

See, this is the shit that gets me.

Every scene CX-2 was in just felt entirely too deliberate, especially some of those shots in the finale. None of the other CX troopers got the focus or the shots he did.

Tech or not, he was supposed to be someone important, and they pulled the plug at the very last minute, you can tell.

Why did they pull the plug?? Idfk, but I want to find out.

Like, okay, here's the thing.

We spend an entire sequence with Phee on a random moon where CX-2 sneaks onto her ship, steals data, stares at her, then sneaks off. None of that scene was necessary, at all. It could have been handled in his conversation with Hemlock the same way the interaction with Cid was.

It wasn't. We see Phee's ship for the first time, we listen to her argue with Mel, we see her have a security measure that CX-2 actually trips (to his obvious annoyance), watch her realize CX-2 is there (though she doesn't catch him). And then rather than leave, he stays to watch her go.

This whole scene is over 3 minutes. That's a big piece when the entire episode is 20m long. Why is this here?

It's not because CX-2 is no one. If he was, this scene wouldn't be here.