The heck I just saw?

by willy105

VII means 7. So I finally finished Final Fantasy VII ! Hurray! Took me a lot of frustration, grinding, confusion, and fun. But I still have no idea what happened. What did I just see? The ending made no sense to me, and what's worse, I was incapable of creating my own substitute logic because there didn't seem to be one! SPOILER WARNING: Click here to reveal hidden content. I think I was suppos...

VII means 7. So I finally finished Final Fantasy VII!

Hurray!

Took me a lot of frustration, grinding, confusion, and fun. But I still have no idea what happened. What did I just see? The ending made no sense to me, and what's worse, I was incapable of creating my own substitute logic because there didn't seem to be one!

SPOILER WARNING: Click here to reveal hidden content.

I think I was supposed to stop the meteor, but I was hunting Sephiroph. I killed Sephiroph, who looked nothing like him, but how did I stop the meteor. It was all a confusing array of lights and early 90's CGI. Then it showed Midgar getting destroyed, and they said all the inhabitants were evacuated, but then they said they all died, then they fast forwarded to 500 years into the future without no explanation or motive to show what I believe is Larry (what I named Red XIII) and two cubs running to see Midgar in ruins.

So what happened to the characters? How did they stop meteor? Was it Aeris? But she was dead. And why is she controlling the Earth? Or is that the Earth controlling itself? But then why is Aeris shown? It was a replica of the opening, but it didn't explain it, it just did the Deja Vu thing. This is the first Final Fantasy I got to the end. Are all the others like this?

I was hoping someone here could attempt to explain it better than the game.