Wanna share on this?
** spoilers ***
generally we could consider this as a self-activated defense
mechanism; maybe for Tomino a nod to the very last scene of RX-78-2's
auto attack with the very first scene of Turn A's. But insights are
always welcome!
I start re-watch Turn A this weekend when my kid is taking naps. Core
probably comes out and call me far-fetched but this time I start
wondering how Tomino conceive the show.
What we see in the first several episodes are actually very similar
to War of the Worlds (the book or the old movie; I don't know about
the Cruise/Spielberg one).
Consider this: substitute the word "Moon" with "Mars" in Turn A
story. We have mars-race invading an early industrial age earth;
there're canals on Mars; The invasion start with giant walking
machine with no arms (okay, 2 legs instead of 3... if it's 3-legs
probably we'd start thinking about the Ideon mecha); and then we have
the Earth side detecting/monitoring the activity early via telescope
yet didn't expect the magnitude of the invasion.
Of course, the later story definitely goes a different direction, but
I'm surprised that I didn't catch these the first 2 times I watched
the series.
On Jul 24, 2006, at 8:39 PM, BlazeEagle wrote:
I like technobabble as long as it isn't the total overall sum of a
mecha series. It'd be nice to know why the Turn A woke itself up. I
could think of a few reasons, but at least one is bizarre and maybe
borderline goofy.
BlazeEagle
Boaz MyTurnASpace wrote:
On 6/27/06, *Dr. Core* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Boaz MyTurnASpace wrote:
> I think there's a point to it, at least if you tolerate
Tomino --
just
> ignore the spec. Watch the story, enjoy the narrative, have
some fun.
I only wish Tomino himself would stick to storytelling and avoid
getting sucked down the technobabble blackhole, but ever since
Zeta,
he's himself responsible for adding a whole new set of
techobabble in
each new sequel. Turn-A is the time, he invited the audience to
speculate on the mecha specs and stuffs and in the end we have to
ignore the specs in order to enjoy the show.
> That's for non-Hollywood cinema in general; you don't
always have
to tie all
> loose ends. In fact, all slasher movies or superhero comics do
the same.
Well it would be sad if TAG should be compared to slasher movies.
It's fair to say Hollywood makes everything too explicit and
simplistic, but that doesn't give non-Hollywood a free license
to get
sloopy.
Here we have Jason watching TAG for the first time (I assume)
so it's
nice to start some TA threads from someone with an open mind.
But we
are getting distracted by techno "secrets" and unrevealed Black
History (mountain cycle). We are still struggling to figure
out the
meaning of Turn-A waking itself up and fired that scary laser
when in
fact we should be exploring the decisions and directions of
people
like Loran, Diana, Sochie and Guin. (yes including love in
war time)
Thinking back, one of the biggest non-pay-off in TAG was Will
Gem and
the time-shifted (???) Queen Diana. So even the human stories
had
some big screw-up.
All together too many distractions from the main messages like
Diana's
way vs. Gym's way, or if Guin came close to becoming evil, or
if Corin
should ever had been allowed to live.
I think if the open ends are so distracting like you said we
wouldn't have enjoyed the show. Going back to my example of
Hollywood cinema... in fact great directors almost NEVER ties all
their open ends. As long as the story delivered, open ends like
spec or minor plots doesn't matter.
--
Boaz
http://myturnaspace.blogspot.com
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