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Frieren will not die of old age. But all the people around her do, and she lived a long time. With time, everyone dies and is forgotten – except by her. She cares for other people 's "symbolic immortality" – though it is some kind of a spoiler. She is immortal : she lives long enough to know that everything and everyone dies, and she is left behind. Most viewers seem to build an image of her as young and inexperienced, as someone who experiences things for the first time – it may be a spoiler, but those are not correct hypothesises.
I think of Frieren as a character kinda like the Spock or Data of a Star Trek show. They're similar to us, but different enough that they serve as a mirror to evaluate ourselves.
Frieren is a character for whom time is no object. As you touched on last episode, she lives so long that she rarely has to worry about missing out on an opportunity since they'll often arise again. Perhaps it's because of this that Frieren's emotions are expressed in a more subdued way.
But in her short adventure she got closer to Himmel, Heiter, and Eisen than she had with anyone in centuries. Thus, she was caught off-guard; for once, the brevity of human life mattered and an opportunity that she could never reclaim had passed.
Because of that, she is now making these journeys to remember them. It's her own journey of self-reflection that she missed when most of her friends were still alive.
One thing I think is really neat in episode 2 versus episode 1 is that Frieren gets visibly upset seeing Heiter try to push Fern away before he dies.
She thinks nothing of spending four years staying to translate a book because time is nothing to her. However, the idea of robbing someone of time with a loved one upset her.
I relate a lot to Frieren. I don't know what's wrong with my brain, but I have an extremely tenuous relationship to the passage of time.
I have clear memories going back as far as roughly being 2 years old, and time to me passes ridiculously quickly(now 35). The last 20 years or so feel like they've passed in the blink of an eye and a couple of months feel entirely trivial. For this reason, I struggle maintaining personal relationships because I'll just leave people hanging for weeks or months(not on purpose mind you) and I don't really at all feel any type of pressure or need to resolve or accomplish things in short time-spans.
Looking at Frieren, is one of the few characters I've ever seen in a story and where I've felt as if our perception of the flow of time and people around us are even remotely similar, which is alarming but still…
Good Review anf talk
Omly think is that you put to much value in her collecting of magic spells. She doenst have some hidden feelings to Himmel. Her collecting spells was something she already did before joining the party . It was just something she did but it became more meaningfull after Himmel praise
your analysis of himmels motivation for making statues of himself aligns with a future plot point. It definitely looks superficially like he's full of himself, but in the end it is about passing down something, specifically about passing down a reminder to frieren that they existed
They mentioned two spells she acquired: one to turn sweet grapes sour and one that cleans statues. Both have significance that shows that she doesn't collect spells for the sake of it. They have practical use to her. She uses one in this very episode to clean a monument of Himmel. Guess why she wanted the Grape-transmutation spell.
I feel like frieren has problems with secure attachment because of the fact that no one in her life has been around long enough for that.