At 05:27 AM 6/20/2007, Bob Allen wrote:
If there's one thing Gundam and many other Anime, Manga, novels,
movies, and TV series have made clear it's that no matter how many
reasons we can think of for NOT going to war, there'll always be
more of them. Or at least some new twists on all the old ones that
have been long since proven to be "illogiocal". And there's always
the old standby of "We're going to war to protect/preserve/maintain the peace".
That one's lame, though. It's one of the weakest elements of Wing and
SEED, in fact (particularly Wing).
First Gundam is more clever about it, since it justifies its war by
creating a new society of dispossessed. The Zeon war is essentially a
war for independence, and that's perfectly plausible (the setup
isn't, naturally, as moving people into space just won't work until
we come up with a beanstalk or something, but the behavior once the
setup is in place is fine).
Going back to our speculation on Gundam 00, I keep going back to the
tag line on the teaser trailer - "Rebirth begins through
destruction". The "Celestial Being" organization, apparently through
the Gundams, is trying to do this by "eradicating all wars" (I'm
quoting the translations from Guntoa here). While it's douibtful
that they can, by themselves, change humanity and stop wars I am
interested to see how they handle this idea of trying to somehow
stop them. Hopefully, the director can bring some of his
appreciation of Fullmetal Alchemist with him and help create a new
Gundam series that can have a story that trumps any disbelief we
might express over the Gundam themselves and they can go back to
being war machines and story devices while the plot and the
characters lead on, like First Gundam.
I'm not sure the director can do that much. This is a story issue, is
it not? Doesn't that mean it's largely out of his hands?
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