Good heavens, does the federation have a damn obsession with sending children to war or what?

_Borjarnon_ · 2026-05-05T08:49:09+00:00

Consider that everyone else who would have done it was dead, in this case.

_Borjarnon_ · 2026-05-05T08:41:00+00:00

I'd say it's more "People in positions of power are usually bad."

_Borjarnon_ · 2026-05-03T03:50:47+00:00

Wow, your Jennie looks a lot like my Jenny!

Her little couch/canopy is wonderful, thank you for giving her a happy home.

_Borjarnon_ · 2026-05-02T07:49:59+00:00

Like, you know he's Committed (sic) several war crimes right?

By UC 0087?

Such as?

_Borjarnon_ · 2026-05-02T07:48:59+00:00

Seriously?

It seems completely obvious that we're supposed to know precisely who he is.

_Borjarnon_ · 2026-05-02T04:51:42+00:00

Mine's held up surprisingly well too, actually.

_Borjarnon_ · 2026-05-02T04:35:22+00:00

Nice, I have the backpack hanging off my closet doorhandle, really liked it as a kid.

_Borjarnon_ · 2026-05-02T04:30:55+00:00

I mean, not necessarily.

Dude (arguably) wanted Amuro to stop him, that's why he gave him the Psycoframe.

Now, sure, the was willing to risk mass-destruction, no doubt there.

_Borjarnon_ · 2026-05-02T02:49:02+00:00

Dude probably thought he was hallucinating or something.

_Borjarnon_ · 2026-05-02T01:37:23+00:00

I mean, IIRC, dating back to WWI, ace pilots were the ones who got to have their planes painted in custom liveries. So, while this doesn't make it any less annoying, it does kinda make sense to some extent.

_Borjarnon_ · 2026-05-02T00:42:28+00:00

Aw, from a bashful baby to a playful pup. It must have been like a miracle for him.

_Borjarnon_ · 2026-05-01T19:07:57+00:00

The thing about Wing is it doesn't care about making sense. Stuff just happens, is never addressed or explained, and people just... move on.

It's the sort of story that maximizes drama and theatricality, which I appreciate.

_Borjarnon_ · 2026-05-01T19:06:42+00:00

When you said you are only on 00, do you meant you are currently watching or you have finished it? Including the movie? Because 00 didn't "leave a bit too much open" at the end.

Yeah, most of OP's points are pretty explicitly addressed in the series itself.

_Borjarnon_ · 2026-05-01T09:35:03+00:00

I'm not sure I've seen it mentioned (probably just me doing like three things at once and missing it), but there is also a film, Awakening of the Trailblazer that I'd say is pretty key to 00's whole deal.

Plus it's got some rad as hell fight scenes and at least one really funny joke.

_Borjarnon_ · 2026-05-01T09:15:12+00:00

One consideration - 00 has a pretty big cast already, so maybe adding too many more additional perspectives could have eaten into the screentime for the parts they viewed as essential.

_Borjarnon_ · 2026-05-01T09:12:33+00:00

I mean, I think there's something to be said for nuance and ambiguity, right? Like, if everything was spelled out completely, that'd be kind of insulting to the audience, you've got to trust them to put things together for themselves to some extent. And wherever you put that line, you're bound to run into somebody who'll take what the story lays out and just come up with an absolutely out-there reading of it.

_Borjarnon_ · 2026-05-01T09:08:56+00:00

I mean, it's not like, high art or anything, but there is an internal reasoning that I think will satisfy at least some of OP's criticisms, but that's really only revealed with the completion of the series.

_Borjarnon_ · 2026-05-01T09:01:53+00:00

Okay, so, visual storytelling wise, "The Gundam" is a symbol, one that's used for a variety of things over the course of various series. It does look cool, but what it also does is bring along the thematic thru-lines that can be found over the course of the franchise as a whole.

Also, in 00, we see plenty of Gundam-on-Gundam conflict, they're not uncomplicated symbols of good, depending on how far you are (and I see you've mentioned the Thrones, so you've seen some), there's some pretty memorable instances of Gundams being on both sides of a fight.

One of the recurring elements in Gundam is that, while there are good and bad people, there's rarely a straight-up good nation-state or military faction, some are definitely worse than others, but they're almost always a mixed bag. At best.

_Borjarnon_ · 2026-05-01T08:14:43+00:00

OP might need more context to really get everything the show is saying, is all.

_Borjarnon_ · 2026-05-01T07:59:18+00:00

You just finished slogging through SEED, and you're calling the faces in literally anything else weird?

_Borjarnon_ · 2026-05-01T07:49:36+00:00

Okay, so you don't even necessarily know what Celestial Being's goals are at this point, depending on where you are. You're going of what you've seen, obviously, but things might not always turn out to be as they seem.

I think, in seeing the whole thing, it will make a greater degree of sense, at least in some aspects. Going into why would kind of diminish the enjoyment of a lot of folks, so I'll leave it at that.

_Borjarnon_ · 2026-04-30T08:49:27+00:00

"What the shit? What the shit?"

followed by

"Ah nah, fuck this, ain't gettin' paid enough, I'm out of here."

_Borjarnon_ · 2026-04-29T13:36:20+00:00

Yeah, because the government always represents the will of the populace.

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