On 5/19/06, Stephanie Rendino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On one hand I want to explain it with the monarchial nature of the Principality of Zeon and how they are modeled after some form of per-WWII empire; yet I wouldn't say it unless I can look at those frames in 0079 showing Deikun's death and see the Zeon uniform back then is not as flamboyant.
Aside of that, we can imagine how our technology would reach a plateau by UC that people can have more spare time to consider the aesthetics of machinary; consider all the decorative pistols, or all the "pimp-ed" cars nowadays; they're all "for-show" items that the owner take pride of the technology such that they want people to see not just how well they work but how cool they look as well.
I figure Zeon was THAT confident when they roll out their MSs; even better yet, they also get color inspiration from the "roll-out-color-turn-battle-ready" Gundam, making the 0079 era (and on) battle machine to be "flashy is good, colorful is good".
[partially related and hope no one take offense to this: I was working on my HGUC Dom over the weekend; my wife saw the flashy purple plastic and asked, "why the robot has such gay color?" in referring to certain figure's infamous comments. I on the other hand wondered why Katoki enjoys using purple, red, orange, and all the pastel color while re-designing MSs]
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On May 19, 2006, at 2:57 PM, Dr. Core wrote:
> Stephanie Rendino wrote:
>> Feddie men: General Revil, Tianem, nameless officer
>>
>> Zeon men: Ranba Ral, Zeon soldier in Amuro's home town, Sharia Bull,
>> Col. Asakura, Capt. Twining, Conscom, Barom
>
> So long hair for women and beard for men, sounds like Zeon expects men
> and women to gloom according to gender roles.
Not exactly. Look at Anavel Gato, Char Aznable, and as I mentioned
before that Zeon men are allowed to have long hair. I almost put
Mashuma Cero in that list, but he's 8 years later.
Overall, the Zeon aesthetic seems to be for a lot of non-utilitarian
details. If you look at their mecha, they like curves and decorative
touches like the spikes on some MS's shoulders and in an extreme
example, the engraving on Dozel Zabi's Zaku (a model of which I have on
my desk as I speak, I love it so much). I wonder if perhaps the
mentality is, "We're off in space and supposed to have everything
sterile, with clean lines and lots of practical designs. Screw that;
we're going to go for gratuitous detail. Embroidered uniforms with
fringed epaulets! Long hair on men and REALLY long hair on women!
Bright colours! Artistic mobile suits! Big blue topcoats in Southeast
Asian heat!"
The key word here is *flamboyant*. Compare to the Federation with its
plain grey uniforms and angular MS that really do look like war
machines, despite the fact that the Federation probably have a lot more
resources to burn.
On one hand I want to explain it with the monarchial nature of the Principality of Zeon and how they are modeled after some form of per-WWII empire; yet I wouldn't say it unless I can look at those frames in 0079 showing Deikun's death and see the Zeon uniform back then is not as flamboyant.
Aside of that, we can imagine how our technology would reach a plateau by UC that people can have more spare time to consider the aesthetics of machinary; consider all the decorative pistols, or all the "pimp-ed" cars nowadays; they're all "for-show" items that the owner take pride of the technology such that they want people to see not just how well they work but how cool they look as well.
I figure Zeon was THAT confident when they roll out their MSs; even better yet, they also get color inspiration from the "roll-out-color-turn-battle-ready" Gundam, making the 0079 era (and on) battle machine to be "flashy is good, colorful is good".
[partially related and hope no one take offense to this: I was working on my HGUC Dom over the weekend; my wife saw the flashy purple plastic and asked, "why the robot has such gay color?" in referring to certain figure's infamous comments. I on the other hand wondered why Katoki enjoys using purple, red, orange, and all the pastel color while re-designing MSs]
Boaz
http://myturnaspace.blogspot.com
