The Complete Xenogears Reference Guide (Part Seven)
117WE ON A ROLL. Here's the next episode of The Complete Xenogears Reference Guide, and it's probably the most complex episode of the entire series.
Most of the video's runtime consists of three lengthy sections: a summary of the Gnostic classic The Apocryphon of John, a revisitation of the opening cutscene given everything we've learned in disc 2, and a (probably inaccurate) analysis of Jacques Lacan's theory of desire, and how that theory is made manifest in the character of Lacan. I know, it's dense, even moreso than normal. But it's Xenogears, there's no avoiding it.
TIMECODES -
0:00 - Introduction
0:51 - Necessary Plot Dump (Part 1)
2:24 - Kadamony
2:34 - Necessary Plot Dump (Part 2)
3:06 - Hawwa
3:15 - Summary of The Apocryphon of John
7:23 - The Opening Cutscene Revisited
11:44 - Seraph Angels
12:36 - Carbonite Freezing (Revisited)
13:10 - Aphel Aura (Revisited)
13:39 - Rene Fatima
14:00 - A (very brief and probably inaccurate) summary of Lacanian Desire
15:28 - Lacan as a manifestation of Lacanian Desire
17:49 - The Nisan Angels in The Merkava
18:19 - Bethlehem
18:41 - Metempsychotic Memory
19:14 - The Zohar (revisited)
19:47 - Credits/Patreon Shoutouts
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