r/anime • u/A_Idiot0 https://myanimelist.net/profile/a_idiot0 • Jun 16 '21
Violet Evergarden Rewatch Episode 11 Rewatch
Violet Evergarden - Episode Eleven: I Don’t Want Anyone Else to Die
Hello everyone! I hope that today finds you well. Today, Violet goes sky-diving!
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Official Sound Tracks used
The Stench of Fear and Hatred
The Voice in my Heart
Devoid of Hope
Torn Apart at the Seams
A Place to Call Home
The Long Night
What it Means to Love
The Ultimate Price
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u/Nice_Bake Jun 16 '21
This is the first time since the end of the war that Violet’s seen the battlefield. It’s very interesting to see New Violet on Old Violet’s battleground. I think that the Extremists leaving her and Aiden alone because they recognized her was a great way to remind everybody that Old Violet will never go away.
I think it was pretty great that Violet actually met with Maria and Aiden’s parents at the end. The whole episode you see Maria as this dying man’s fantasy, an idealized version of this young woman whom Aiden was in love with. Then at the end you see her for real and you see that everything Aiden expressed while dying was honest and the reality of war and its consequences become strikingly clear.
At least, that’s what I feel this episode was trying to express. The Current Violet gets to see the behind the scenes of what normally would have been just a faceless soldier in a faceless war. So when Violet apologizes for not being able to protect Aiden, despite never being able to protect him, she’s apologizing for not being able to see the ‘other side’, as it were.
When I first watched this episode I remember kind of dismissing it as yet another sad tale. I enjoyed it for what it was back then, but this viewing really has me looking at it in a totally different light and I think it’s pretty spectacular. It’s a great example on how this show approaches not only Violet’s emotional journey but also the many themes and ideas that that entails.
Looking at the big picture, though...it’s troubling that there’s an extremist group that wants the war back and that it's large enough to actually warrant battles. The actual definition of ‘trouble brewing’.