On 3/9/06, -Z- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can I see it with a Southern "heritage" POV of the GOP Southern Strategy of the past decades... GOP=AEUG & Zeonist = Southern conservatives?
But it means I'll have to see GOP as the good guy if I see this as I watched Zeta.
Goosebumps!
(sorry for those who lives in the South. I live in Southern US too but I never get the idea of Confederate flag as heritage nor Gone with the Wind)
-- On Wednesday, March 08, 2006 23:52, Joseph Riggs wrote:
> That's the thing, though.
>
> What is Reccoa's country? Or anyone else's country in Zeta
> (at least who was born in space)?
>
> You could argue that the entire Earth Sphere is one giant
> country at this point in time (since it's all officially
> ruled by the Federation). Or since the Federation's
> authority sometimes isn't all it's cracked up to be, you
> could argue that a Side is a nation. Or maybe it's the
> specific colony that you were born in. In which case, unless
> the specific colony or Side that you originally hail from is
> threatened, your example of a colony drop on my own country
> doesn't really apply.
Although went to great pains to analogize Gundam to WW2, with the scenes on
Earth being a parallel to the European Theater and the scenes in space to the
Pacific Theater (with asteroids and colonies standing in for islands), the
back-story of the One Year War is closer to the American Civil War (or, as
Southerners prefer to call it, The War Between the States, because the
Confederate States of America considered itself a separate, sovereign nation,
despite the lack of formal recognition by anyone beyond Ernst II, Duke of
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha).
By this reckoning, the Earth Sphere represents the Union and Zeon represents the
Confederacy. I'm not sure how to categorize the Jupiter Energy Fleet, beyond a
somewhat analogy to Jamaica or the Lesser Antilles, the hubs of the Atlantic
slave trade, which held a similar economic influence and significance to both
the North and South. There's even an echo of "The South Shall Rise Again!" in
the Zeon revenants in Gundam 0083, 08th MS Team and other post-OYW storyline
other than Z Gundam.
Z Gundam is harder to fit with any Western historical analogy because of the
deliberate inversion of the original premise on which Tomino based the sequel.
Here, the theme is "Everything You Know Is Wrong!" Or, perhaps, "We Have Met
the Enemy and He is Us!"
If you buy the original characterization of Gundam as an analogy of WW2, then ZG
is an alternate world in which postwar America became fascist (a view that was
admittedly popular among the 60s American counterculture, who spelled the name
of the country "Amerika" and "Nixon" with a swastika in place of the X to
underscore their sophomoric point). In any case, perhaps reflecting the
disillusionment many felt over American involvement in the Vietnam conflict, the
crew of the White Base now found themselves asking the always-relevant question,
"Is THIS what I was fighting for all those years ago?" and taking a stand for or
against the movement to "set things right" again.
If you try to follow the view of Earth Sphere/Zeon = Union/Confederacy, then
there's no real analogy, because no similar inversion is possible in that
particular context.
Can I see it with a Southern "heritage" POV of the GOP Southern Strategy of the past decades... GOP=AEUG & Zeonist = Southern conservatives?
But it means I'll have to see GOP as the good guy if I see this as I watched Zeta.
Goosebumps!
(sorry for those who lives in the South. I live in Southern US too but I never get the idea of Confederate flag as heritage nor Gone with the Wind)
Boaz
http://myturnaspace.blogspot.com
