> ----- Original Message ----- > From: "-Z-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Zeta My Way was Re: [gundam] SPOILER: Story changes was ... > Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:43:51 -0800 > > > > 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!" >
Z works with a Western analogy, imo. Instead of a major war, look instead to the decline of European colonialism. Earth fills in for the distant mother country. The spacenoid population fills in for various colonies that are edging toward wanting independence. And the Titans are the troops shipped off to the colony in an attempt to keep the locals pacified - often without close supervision due to the distance involved between the colony and the mother country (or because the leadership of the mother country has decided to look the other way). The AEUG is then the locals who for one reason or another have decided that the foreign authorities need to go (either because they genuinely want independence or because they don't like the pacification group). Haman and Minerva represent the heir of a deposed monarch. Scirocco doesn't really fit the analogy, though. junior -- _______________________________________________ Search for businesses by name, location, or phone number. -Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 -------------------------------------------------- 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
