I’m adding this to my list of movies that needed to be seen again to be fully understood/appreciated. Right now, I’m still trying to figure out the internal logic of the movie. I know I have all the pieces I need to figure it out, except a couple skittered under the couch, and I have no idea what the final picture’s supposed to look like.
As of now, I think I have the logistics of the alien Gaia figured out. Large chunk of alien home planet (I keep thinking Krypton for some reason :)) with many creatures, and a chunk of the original planet’s Gaia (I don’t see how/why it would be the whole spirit of Gaia). The creatures died, leaving their spirits to roam free and angry. However, they can still “die” and upon this return to A Gaia and are/can be respawned by it. This is why the initial bombardment the Senate discusses left the Phantom density at the same level.
In the meantime, Earth Gaia was putting out the 8 spirits at its own pace. I’m thinking the slow pace was due to the fact that, well, Earth Gaia’s spirits had to be embedded w/in living creatures that were newly born (w/ the spirits in them). Of course I forget a) how long the Phantoms were on Earth and b) how old the girl that was the fifth(?) spirit was reported to be. At the end, I’m guessing E Gaia just cheated and implanted it in Aki?
See, that last option assumes the Gaias were sentient. Which I’m not exactly sure of, as it seems that it would have been a whole lot simpler just to put all 7 pieces of the waveform into one spirit (I’m guessing there was some rule against this that I missed), but maybe that’s too much “all eggs in one basket” for Gaia.
Also, why 8 spirits? I’m thinking the souls of the protagonists from Final Fantasies 1-8, but this is obviously just conjecture. As good as any other reason I could come up with for there being 8 special spirits, though…
Well, that’s as much as I came up with. Somebody else can pick this up and run with it now.