At 04:44 PM 2/4/2007, Richard Ramos wrote:
Chris Campbell wrote:
As I've said, I really liked SEED. It was a nice reimagining of the
original Gundam storyline, and Kreuze was a wonderful villain (made
all the more compelling by the fact that he was in a unique
position to judge the ultimate worth of humanity). I just think it
should have stopped there, as Destiny didn't really do anything to
advance the storyline.
Kreuze was one incredible character - I couldn't really define him
properly as a villain through and through, since he was a disturbing
mirror for all of humanity to look at. I found him more interesting,
in fact, than Kira.
Er, yeah. That ain't hard. :) Really, I watched the series first for
Kreuze (and Murrue and Mwu, though in their case is was more because
I liked 'em than because they were interesting per se) and then for
Izak and Dearkka, and finally for the relationship between Kira and
Asuran. Kira himself was kinda dull.
My take on Destiny is that it was an interesting attempt to show how
things do not stop at "happily ever after", and actually reminds me
of Treize's concept of the Endless Waltz. However, some of the
characters developed in ways that had so much potential, but were
underutilized. Kira, for example, I found to be interesting at some
points because of the possibility that he was crossing certain lines
at some points, even with his supposed "no kill" policy; I found
much in his personality to be similar to Durandal, to be honest. But
then, he developed into an ultimate solution, and that sucked out a
lot of the potential for development in the character.
Yup. The fact that Asuran more or less stalled out and Shin never
really developed at all didn't help matters.
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