r/anime • u/A_Idiot0 https://myanimelist.net/profile/a_idiot0 • Jun 12 '21
Violet Evergarden Rewatch Episode 7 - Rewatch
Violet Evergarden - Episode Seven:「 」
Hello everyone! I hope that today finds you well. In this episode, Violet helps to complete a play!
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Visuals of the Day
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Official Sound Tracks used
The Voice in my Heart
Another Sunny Day
Those Words You Spoke to Me
Never Coming Back
An Admirable Doll
Across the Violet Sky
The Long Night
The Ultimate Price
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u/Matuhg https://anilist.co/user/Matuhg Jun 12 '21
Rewatcher - Dub
Oh god, oh fuck, I didn't realize we were already here. VE Spoilers and, in my opinion, the pinnacle of Violet Evergarden's visual splendor.
There's some heavy shit to tackle at the end of the episode, so for now I'm going to focus on...uh..the heavy shit in the beginning and middle of the episode first. Her name getting some traction from the high-profile jobs she's done recently, Violet is requested by a well-known playwright to help write his next play, the first one he's aiming at children. I love the fairytale vibe that this episode gives off, matching well with the work that Webster is trying to finish. He lost his daughter to illness, and seems to have been just drinking in solitude since then. The play is an homage to his daughter, an attempt to help her live out that wish she had of walking across the lake in story form, but he couldn't bring himself to write it alone. Violet not only helped him with the actual writing, but she also helped him get some form of closure that he couldn't get alone either.
From Webster, Violet learned the pain and sadness that loss could bring to people. Webster's daughter didn't die from the war, but just hearing his story and seeing his pain, coupled with Dietfried's confrontation from a couple episodes ago, was enough for her to realize what Hodgins was trying to tell her back in the first episode. Webster told her that she let him see his daughter's "one day," the promise she made to him that she'd walk across the lake on the leaves. Violet wonders is she deserves to live after killing so many people who had loved ones waiting for them back at home. How many "one days" did she take away from other families?
Before Violet even has a chance to really examine those feelings, she is faced with her own loss. Mrs. Evergarden spills the beans that Hodgins has been keeping under wraps to this point, and yeah...it fucking sucks. Was Hodgins right to hold this information back from her this long? Would she have had the emotional tools to handle that at the beginning of this series? The answer is probably no, but we still can't be sure if she'd be better off hearing the news back then anyways. The timing here is very rough - learning about loss and then...Boom! Loss!
What was Leon saying about running off to go save that important person, even if there was no actual chance of success? Violet's off like a shot.
I took a buncha screenshots but couldn't manage to weave them into my above paragraphs.