Reynolds, Jason M. wrote: > [quote from MAHQ] Thanks for the reminder. My memory of all the facts is very unreliable and fractured, but your and Boaz's posts pretty confirmed every impressions I had about Turn-A and nuclear weapon in the story. I am starting to feel an itch to re-watch it. Especially if it comes out in US.
> My point was that in the series he never fires the nuclear missiles. He > opens the front chest hatch, slides them out to his hand, and throws them. Also very importantly, all the other fractions (notably Phil) were trying to obtain and control the bombs but no one (except Corin and Gym) seem to consider Turn-A itself to be a war-winning strategic weapon. In particular, the nukes doesn't need a Turn-A's launch-tube to realize its full power. (the dialogs in episode 28 were true but in fact misleading: dark history was triggered (or concluded?) by Moonlight Butterfly not nuclear bombs) Likewise, a cow can be transported in many different vehicles. Turn-A happens to have a "multi-purpose silo" (the term used by Chris in the synopsis/review) but I wouldn't call it a cow-launch tube just yet. > The opening panels on the back of the MG kit made me wonder if they were > designed to open up to allow the missiles to launch like Bazooka rounds? > Otherwise what is the point of them? In fact what was really the point of > the chest holes to begin with before Loran stowed the nuclear missiles in > them? I will try to argue, not from technical or factual positions (Boaz's "one size doesn't fits all" seems pretty much ironclad), but from a artistic design or story-telling POV. TAG was responsible for "destruction of Earth" with its Moonlight Butterfly. Adding nuclear missile launch tubes to such an ultimate weapon seems a bit redundant. One would think, if MB was the "Ultimate Attack" that itself would make up a conspicuous part of the whole MS (compared to: GP02A's nuclear bazooka and blast shield are prominent features of the design). TAG has melee capability since, I guess, it needs to take care of itself without escort. As any escort would be destroyed by activating the MB. The over-powered beam rifle still makes no sense to me. Also the fact that no one seems too concerned about seizing control of TAG and repairing or replacing the rifle. So my guess is: the so-called multi-purpose silos are in fact the Moonlight Butterfly device. And since the MB is based on nanomachines, other uses can be improvised, including launching nuclear missiles. But from a functional point of view, it's just as well a mobile cow stall or giant laundry machine. -- Dr. Core -------------------------------------------------- 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
