Talk:Episode 35 - The Chosen Stars/@comment-26426093-20161218130257

Coming into this episode, one could be forgiven for thinking that Laura, having suffered from her own form of PTSD ever since the events of Episode 21, would be pissed off beyond anyone's imagination possible. Try and look at the situation from Laura's perspective: despite all the effort you gone through, despite all your talent and skill, your direct rival, who has merely a fraction of what skills and abilities you possess, suddenly and vastly surpass you in all aspects including singing, even managing to nulify your own aura. And then said rival/friend tells you that she managed to win over you only because of a strange and mysterious power, not her own level of skill. If I were Laura, I would have been extremely pissed off-literally because Yume's explanation would have been really irrational and hard to comprehend.

It's almost like your friend, who always has been slower than you in sprinting, suddenly manages to outrun you no matter how much you train. Then you find out the exact reason why: said friend used steroids in order to boost his/her performance! So in other words, your friend cheated in order to win. In Yume's case however, I can't say the same because (i) she internationally didn't choose to use that power and (ii) because there are some people who would accuse me of saying that Yume cheated. Not internationally, just like I said just now, but do you think Laura would have seen it that way? Surprisingly, she didn't, thanks to some timely advice about individuality from Lily-senpai, but in my opinion, Laura's reaction was kind of underwhelming-far from my prediction of her going dark and getting corrupted.