[rogueblade]

Originally Posted by Sushi-Y

Spoiler:

「さぁいくらでも試してみろ!!　私は泣かない、涙も見せない!!!　北条沙都子がどれほどの 強さを持つか 、試してみろおおぉおおぉお!!!」

"Here, try all you want!! I won't cry, nor will I show any tears!!! You want to see just how strong Houjou Satoko is? Go ahead and tryyyy!!!"

The line was pretty much the final straw that broke Satoko free from the image of being a "crybaby". When she finally died, the gamers were given the impression that Satoko has went off to reunite with Satoshi because she has proven herself worthy.

Shion, on the other hand, was left behind, and will never be able to meet Satoshi again because she completely failed in keeping the one favor Satoshi asked of her before he disappeared: to take care of Satoko for him.

Uh....what?

Spoiler for In the episode:

But Satoko DOES say something along those lines - she says she's not going to cry because she wants Satoshi to see how independant she is. At least, in the fansubbed version she does...
And it also shows the scene where Shion remembers Satoshi's last wish.

Although this is comin from a non-gamer, i thought this episode was EXCELLENT. I wasn't really annoyed that they re-used some footage of the previous arcs, as without it the story wouldn't have flowed as easily as it did. The Satoko scenes, and the final twists at the end were VERY well done, imo.
Yes, we were treated to the usual "10,000 faces of Mion/Shion" - in fact

Spoiler for For Mion's "gomena sai" (that's how you spell it right?):

I was actually waiting for Shion to go "Mion, if you pull 1,000 face-putty faces, i'll let keiichi go." Man, that would have made this series, i swear.

To be honest, i don't see why so many people are complaining about this episode. If it bugs you that so much was left out (although, i'll concur that the doll scene and Mion/Shion thing were pretty important), why don't you just watch the anime as the anime and not compare it to the game?
Oh well - Big thank you to the WinD FS group for the episode, as usual.