>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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! >>>>>>>>>>>> That makes a lot of sense. In a lot of ways the Turn A appears to be either semi sentient or auto-controlled. Evidence of this is how it reacted whenever Turn X was around. Also of note is the Moonlight Butterfly. I often wondered how much of that was controlled by the pilot and how much by the Turn A. If Merrybell hadn't unleashed the Moonlight Butterfly on a town I would've thought it was totally controlled by the Turn A. Since she was able to release it there is evidence that the pilot has control of it. But I don't think that Loran meant, or knew how, to unleash the Cocoon at the end. >>>>>>>>>>>>>> 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. >>>>>>>>>>>>> But the WaDoms do have arms. They just usually have them retracted. I totally see your point though. >>>>>>>>> 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. >>>>>>> I might've addressed this earlier, but just in case I didn't... I thought this paid off exactly as it should. It wasn't like she could really fall in love with him because he wasn't his ancestor. He did stir up some emotion about his ancestor, but there was nothing to draw him to Dianna. Especially with Tetes flopping around... The main point of this arc was to show that she was older than she appeared and had been to Earth before. If we hadn't seen those scenes we might've assumed that she was the latest in a long line of queens, that had all aged naturally, and was only around for the 17 years or so she appeared to be. -------------------------------------------------- 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
