All excellent comments, and thank you for the many tidbits! Alas, poor Zako. Yes, I was very puzzled about the two guards during the gate-to-Nibelheim scene. Maybe it'll be more clear when we revisit the flashback later.
Aerith-as-martyr: "Martyr" was probably a bad word choice on my part. She's not being a sacrificial lamb. She knows Shinra wants her alive. So she'd prefer the inconvenience of getting captured again to the pain of having her friends killed.
...and I was actually wondering if Cloud saw Jenova boxed up. I can't remember the exact sequence of events between the end of this flashback and Cloud winding up in a tank. Again, the next time we revisit this flashback should help untangle it.
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Date: 2013-09-29 03:28 am (UTC)Aerith-as-martyr: "Martyr" was probably a bad word choice on my part. She's not being a sacrificial lamb. She knows Shinra wants her alive. So she'd prefer the inconvenience of getting captured again to the pain of having her friends killed.
...and I was actually wondering if Cloud saw Jenova boxed up. I can't remember the exact sequence of events between the end of this flashback and Cloud winding up in a tank. Again, the next time we revisit this flashback should help untangle it.