Thread: THEORY: Darkness was always meant to be the final villain of GX.

Okay, so a lot of people complain that the Light of Ruin was always meant to be GX's big bad because of what was said durring Yubel's flashback by that king guy, and that Darkness was only the last villain because 5D's cut the series short.

I was messing around in the GX section, when I came across this;

Originally Posted by The Mad Poet

Darkness was actually a good choice for a final villain, and I'm pretty sure he was their intent from the beginning. 'That Goat Thing' and the references surrounding him form a straightline pointed at Sabattiel, the hermetic angel of the phase of Nigredo. For one, that makes it the second hermetic angel we've had (unless you want to count Martin's lulzy Martiel references, which I don't, but I giggle at anyway). The first was Amnael, and what card did he give Judai back in season one via his Emerald Tablet? That's right, kids! Philosopher's Stone - Sabattiel. Since the 'Philosopher's Stone' is the final goal of the final phase, that's some pretty blatant foreshadowing.

If you add this to the fact that Saiou and the Light of Destructions were just add-ons to the series after Kazuki Takahashi decided that the movie idea he and NAS concocted was a bad idea. The Light of Destruction was never a planned thing, and I personally believe that it hurt GX in the long run more than it helped. Who knows how season two would have went if GX hadn't included the Light of Ruin arc. It could possibly be about Edo and his stolen D and Kaiser's fall from grace, like the Spirit Caller game suggests, or maybe Edo's story would have been tied in with the Yubel arc, or no Edo backstory at all.

Judai's vision in his duel against Saiou makes me think that season 3 was the planned season two.

I dunno. I really don't have much evidence or a large thesis thought up for this, yet buwahahaha but I can't help but feel that the Light of Ruin was nothing more than an add-on that everyone believed was the final villain. Anyway, discuss!

Originally Posted by Groun_Mole

People who like GX are smart people.

Confirmed.

It's not so much a question of smart, more of a question of spending consistently every minute of your spare time studying alchemy, which is notably interesting, but also notably useless in the modern world aside from a nerdy hobby.

I know lots about foreign affairs, that doesn't mean that someone who doesn't isn't as smart as me, its just that that's how I waste my time sometimes.

(and half the time, especially with things like alchemy and mythology and even history, there are so many different versions of the same thing, so when you finally figure out what someone vaguely referenced, you're like "....what?")

And as Elly said, the theory is based on -claiming- to. To further that, let me point out that the whole thing about the alchemy theory is based solely around the name Sabatiel and Martin's supposed resemblence to some other "-el" figure. Is there a chance for misinterpretation here? I think so.

Let's face it: GX's ending was just utter fail. Even if supposedly there was some final scheme for Darkness to be the final enemy, that would make it even worse, judging from the lack of importance Darkness had in the main plot. It would be just stupid, random, and frankly unprofessional, not admirable and clever as Poet professes.

I admire Poet in a lot of things, but frankly, like many of his other over-extrapolations, this theory goes down a road of "cause I said the last reason" which ends up based solely on guesses and rather funny interpretations, and its believability is not even substantial. At some point, when someone is your aunt's uncle's cousin's best friend's penpal's former lover's dog, you mean very little, especially if half of those links are interpretations and guesses.

I barely overexaggerate. Supposedly, the link is Darkness->somehow resembles some hermetic angel from Nigredo (interpretation here, and a guess that it was actually intended)->Sabbatiel's stone->Martin somehow resembling Martiel (interpretation)-> The show is actually about alchemy (guess, because this ignores all hte other random things they pulled, you can argue that the show was even based on Caucasian folklore if you want, because it just randomly draws references here and there without any coordination) ->Darkness is more important (interpretation and guess)->Darkness is the final enemy completely ignoring Light as a filler. How'd you get that? Is Light some how ignored now? Is this supposed to make the show somehow better? I'm sorry, I don't see the logic.

And if it was, it has the opposite implacation than what Poet says (Poet saying that it makes the show a good show)- it proves even more that the creators didn't have a clue what they were doing in the fourth season, and by extension, the whole show.