Yamato-san
I own the 5th gen
I think TVTropes says it best...
TVTropes' entry on Deconstruction said:
basically, it's still deeply rooted within fantasy. I doubt anyone's gonna say that a world where magic exists is in any way "realistic". Of course, as we can't really tell how anybody would react in these type of situations, it's hard to determine what is or isn't realistic in the first place. What a deconstruction does aim to do, however, is show that some of these tropes we take for granted in most media may actually be far more consequential than we think, almost like a sort of dark parody. Also, it must be said that trauma can come in a wide spectrum, even in reality. What makes you think Sayaka's reaction is that far off from what a real person would do? Besides which...
[SPOIL]...Sayaka was already aware that Mami was involved in some serious business, and for all intents and purposes, it was involvement in an underground world completely unknown to society and "normals" like herself. After Mami's death, her options were either to form a contract herself and risk her life in much the same way she did, or return to living her everyday life as if the whole thing were just a bad dream. If it wasn't for Kyousuke despairing over his injury to the point of cursing all music entirely, she actually would have gone with the latter option (though, even in the brief period where she has second thoughts, Mami's death still stung her in more of a way than you seem to give it credit for).[/SPOIL]
[SPOIL]Regardless of Mami being there too, Homura did share a class with Madoka, thus they had far more opportunities to grow closer (and honestly, some decently-written fictional characters managed to grow inseparable after knowing each other for about an hour, why complain about them knowing each other for a month?). Besides which, after the third timeline, Homura made it her mission to prevent Madoka from making a wish in the first place. Considering Mami is a veteran who made her wish at an unknown time (and said wish was extending her already doomed life anyway), it's no surprise that Homura would determine her to be a lost cause. Also, desperation formed from the traumatic experience of losing a friend aside, Homura may've just seen the Walpurgis Nacht as a threat that could be dealt with using just a bit more firepower (after all, Madoka in the first timeline managed to defeat it alone at the cost of her own life). Homura made her wish not knowing of the true dangers that came with being a magical girl, something which she discovered at the end of the second timeline.[/SPOIL]
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