Boaz MyTurnASpace wrote: > Looking back at all the defections in Zeta, you'll see that they are NOT by > moral choices.
Yep, you are exactly right, and here is the deep divergence between your and my interpretations. > Except for Emma, all defections start with a internal/selfish motivation... > his treatment by the Titans/Jarid; ... > the lack of attention from Char ... > her love to Camille... > ... puppy love? Well fine, personal relationship issues and vendetta do come into play in a war. A love-crazed person or one who feel mistreated/betrayed may take a course of action that seem irrational or wrong, but they don't switch allegiance (sacrifice their own lives in some cases) to the enemy movement. A heartbroken man in 1940s Japan may steal a gun and shoot his dream girl and/or her boyfriend/parents/classmates and/or himself, but he wouldn't be flying an escort mission for Enola Gay to nuke his home country, right? In Zeta, there was a nuke attack, a colony drop, a colony laser firing, a asteroid ramming. These are not like an angry kid stealing a Gundam and killing a few people (Columbine High School). People who participate in these actions must have made a moral decision to justify killing thousand or millions of lives. It's more like Monica Lewinsky got pissed off about Bill Clinton and help bomb the World Trade Center, or Michael Brown got pissed off about W Bush and join a Neo Orleans Black Panther movement. Sounds ridiculous? Yes! That's exactly why I buy Zeta merchandise but couldn't get into the story/characters. Here I must mention FMA. [SPOILER ALERT] FMA also invoke wars and mass murders, but the writer(s) did a good job on moral questions and sometimes even manipulated the audience to approve of the mass murders or sympathize or understand individuals who participated in war and mass murder. > [okay, there's still this one pilot in the Dakar arc that defected... but > does he have a name?] Ahem, yes his name was Addis, read the post you replied to. -- Dr. Core -------------------------------------------------- The Gundam Mailing List MK-II [email protected] Archives: http://www.gundam.com/gml Help: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this in the BODY: help list
