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- - Hannah and Fiver at Watership Down The Promised Land is the first episode of the first series of the TV series. It aired in 1999.
- The Promised Land est le chant d'introduction de Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Il est joué quand Marlène Wallace récapitule les évènements de Final Fantasy VII. Son titre fait référence au lieu recherché par la Shin-Ra. Composé par Nobuo Uematsu, et écrit par Tetsuta Nomura, les paroles illustrent l'incompréhension des gens.
- The Promised Land is the 13th overall episode of Tegami Bachi
- Name: The Promised Land Run Time: 4:03 Written By: Chas Cronk Year: 1975
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- The world in which the characters live in is less than pleasant, to say in the least. The sky is choked with pollution, the crops won't grow, and the evil dictator of the land brings nothing but despair to the people. Or, on a more positive end, the world the characters live in is fine, but the characters are restless. Perhaps they are bored with their current life and want to find something better, or perhaps they are misfits in an otherwise nice world, and desire a place where they will have no worries. File:BadLand 7435.jpg Examples of The Promised Land include:
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- - Hannah and Fiver at Watership Down The Promised Land is the first episode of the first series of the TV series. It aired in 1999.
- The world in which the characters live in is less than pleasant, to say in the least. The sky is choked with pollution, the crops won't grow, and the evil dictator of the land brings nothing but despair to the people. Or, on a more positive end, the world the characters live in is fine, but the characters are restless. Perhaps they are bored with their current life and want to find something better, or perhaps they are misfits in an otherwise nice world, and desire a place where they will have no worries. Regardless of the case, there are stories of some mystical land, of which rumor and legend tell, where all people can be happy. The ground is fertile, the food is good and the best part is: you can get to it... if you know how. This trope comes in two main flavors, the idealistic portrayal, and the cynical portrayal. The cynical portrayal can be broken down into separate flavors as well. The Promised Land is everything that it has been chalked up to be. Rivers flow with clean water and plenty of tasty fish. Fruit just falls right out of the trees, perfect for eating, the land all around you is perfect for farming, the weather is always perfect, and anyone can make it big with just some hard work. Sadness, despair, and hard times are all but just stories and bad memories in this place. The promise of the Promised Land will be a driving force for the characters of the story, and while they face many hardships while trying to get to this place, arriving there is almost always an immediate Happily Ever After ending. File:BadLand 7435.jpg The Promised Land never really existed, or if it did exist, it is nothing but a shell (or even less) of its former glory. Here, the Promised Land was just a myth, perhaps created to give people hope of a possible better life, or from a misunderstood or distorted legend of the past. In an even more cynical viewpoint, the idea of the Promised Land was deliberately created to control people with a false promise of better times with the price of submitting under a cruel rule. This flavor of the trope shows the Promised Land in disarray, either from everyone else who arrived there before the main characters using it up, or some other event. The once beautiful land is now dry and barren, with only vermin as its remaining native life, and ruins as its last structures. Worse, the Promised Land may even appear to be exactly as advertised, but turn out to be just as bad as, if not worse than, the world that they know. For both flavor A and flavor B, usually, the revelation of the truth of the Promised Land is usually the story's big reveal, and can usually be a breaking moment for the characters, and at its worst, a Downer Ending. The Promised Land exists, and is probably a great place to live - if you could actually get there that is. Either the Promised Land can only be reached by those with money and/or power, or a barrier of some sort, either physical, political, or whatever prevents the characters from arriving to this place. In this case, getting there may be a driving force of the story, like in the other flavors, but the goal may be later discarded when reality sets in. Another take on this flavor is that the Promised Land is never really visited or even seen, but merely mentioned by the characters as they wistfully dream of making it there, but know deep down that they could never make it and continue on with their dreary lives. A variant of this is that the land is reachable, but at a great cost. Perhaps the character would have to sell his or her soul, or enslave him or herself to a cruel worker, or eat a thousand babies alive before they could even think about setting foot there. Regardless, the land is not reachable for common folk. Can go hand in hand with Last Fertile Region, and Gaia's Lament, and almost always, Crapsack World. Examples of The Promised Land include:
- The Promised Land est le chant d'introduction de Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. Il est joué quand Marlène Wallace récapitule les évènements de Final Fantasy VII. Son titre fait référence au lieu recherché par la Shin-Ra. Composé par Nobuo Uematsu, et écrit par Tetsuta Nomura, les paroles illustrent l'incompréhension des gens.
- The Promised Land is the 13th overall episode of Tegami Bachi
- Name: The Promised Land Run Time: 4:03 Written By: Chas Cronk Year: 1975
* Halcyon Days
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