On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:50:32 -0500 "Dr. Core" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * - OK, here is one: at Loum, we are treated to a full-monty > ship-to-ship battle, I was practically pissing myself with excitement. > But nagging questions were just beneath the surface: why was > Jormungand deliberately held back? Was there any comprehensible > purpose (no matter how cynical it might be) that's served by NOT even > firing it once? No, the only reason is for Hemme and the 603 crew to > recite their tragiheroic lines. Was there any tactical or strategic > reason to hold back the Zaku squads for what seems like half of the > battle? Loum was the Pearl Harbor of OYW, but this time around, > the Zeon Navy put out their battleships for the Feds to sink a few > BEFORE pulling out the ace from their sleeves, does it make any sense?
> No, the only reason is to create a dramatic crisis for the audience. Hey Doc, ever hear of Jutland during WW1? Biggest battleship battle of the war. It was supposed to be the battle to end all battles. That is what Zeon was trying to achieve with Loum. The Feds outnumbered them something like 5 to 1 when it came to numbers of ships. In order for Zeon to have a chance of winning the war, they needed to sucker as many Federation warships into a massive trap and wipe them off the field. To draw the most ships out into the fight, the Zeons had to dangle the biggest piece of bait they had, their entire fleet. If anything clued the Federation fleet commanders into it being a trap, they wouldn't have shown up. That includes a big honking gun that can accurately kill a warship from several hundred miles away. > I think a lot of "serious" UC fans love the series because, for > perhaps the first time, the main character isn't a whiny angst-ridden > teenage pilot. The main character isn't even a pilot, but the test > team, in particular the head tech and the intel officer. The action > scene doesn't feature one Newtype pilot in a super-MS casually > whooping every ass that comes even near him. The protagonist is a > veteran pilot in a gimmicky super-weapon but every mission carried > life-and-death tension which has been lacking in most Gundam series. > Especially no one ever score 90-100% hit rate in this series. The > flight mechanics and ground movement especially has a physics-cee > feel to it. There are a few problems but the combat scenes look more > realistic than any Gundam I've seen before. Yup. Nailed it on the tee. This the Gundam series, hell, Anime series period that I've been looking for since I subjected myself to the torture that is Eureka 7. This series convinced me that some anime producers can get away from the same old tired plotlines. -- Linwood Foster, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Moderator 3 of 6, Rec.Games.Mecha Moderation Team 10th Lyran Guards, The Revenants. http://www.geocities.com/the_devillin -------------------------------------------------- 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
