Late-night thoughts while watching Utena's last revolution

This is a collective repost (from another forum) of notes made while watching Revolutionary Girl Utena. I'm disappointed I didn't keep up the sex count -- the last 13 episodes would have sent it through the roof. Light but very general spoilers throughout; please keep comments to that level. For deeply spoilered discussion, see here. For reference, here's a thumbnail episode guide and the translated scripts.

( Paging Dr. Freud to the Rose Bride Suite )

BTW, as usual, the winners of this year's Lyttle Lytton contest are better at being bad than the Bulwer-Lytton winners.

After the SPOILERIFIC apocalypse

More general discussion here.

( Big Damn All-Spoilers-Allowed Discussion of what the heck happened in Revolutionary Girl Utena )

---L.