A lot of these won’t mean anything to most people who might see this, but this song from Star Blazers / Space Battleship Yamato called “The Infinite Universe”, got burned into me when I was little and never left. It would play whenever they would remember Earth as it used to be, before it was destroyed, or when they considered the incredibly long journey they had ahead of them (which took a very long time…. watching the show as a kid it seemed they’d NEVER get to Iscandar.
One particular scene, the ship got one last view of Earth but not in its destroyed state, but as it was *before* the destruction, as the ship had gone faster than the time it took light to get there, and so they were looking at the last life of an already dead planet from far away.
As a kid, the idea of overtaking light itself and seeing backwards in time was mindblowing and the deep emotions they pull out of you were almost unbearable. You could feel the longing for the impossible and the wisp of hope for the unlikely event of success that you were almost certain would not be.
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