Rewatcher
I really like Change the Future. This is the only song where I really strongly think the studio version is better though, either that or theres just not enough of the song in the show to get into it, and the key lines that are there are reeaally distorted. AxZ
AxZ + Live
for the 2nd time ever this rewatch I got emotional/almost teared up for whatever reason (the first was in S1 when hibiki and miku made up). Knowing CtF was later in the episode made me realize how much talk there is about the past and present from the early shower scene on. Maria being her partner for the duet is also really fitting given their mutual past villainy.
Tiki says a couple lines that sparked a big dumb theory that goes way to deep, but made me way more willing to accept the ties with GX. She repeats Carol's line from GX episode 12 "7 planets 7 scales" (Tiki)-"the starry sky/heavens are like sheet music" / (Carol)-"the harmony of space/the universe is the harmony of music" (kind of also is similar to using the lunar ruins at the end of G when 'the stars became music', but thats not the point). Pretty much I think the original version of Carol's plan (or at least the purpose of the chateau) was not how it was used in GX. I have several ideas of varying sanity/reasonableness.. pretty much in order:
I think there was supposed to be some reconstruction of the world after the whole deconstruction thing
It kinda makes it sensible why the illuminati helped with the construction of the chateau despite it wrecking the world
the destruction of yantra sarvaswa/ replacement by Dr. Ver's nephilim might support this. Illuminati didn't expect Ver/Nephilim to be able to replace it/change it. Either reading(?) the yanta sarvaswa would make Carol realize something or use of it would automatically do what its supposed to.
said reconstruction of the world may have been to recreate humanity in a way that isn't affected by the curse of balal?
super duper dumb one because i forgot specifics of Izak's death that I'm only not deleting because if XV proves it right I'll have proof and it'll be amazeballs: spoilering just because its so stupid