At 01:51 AM 11/8/2007, Matthew Robinson wrote:
They might not have even thought of separating the blocks in time
even if they had more people. I didn't think of it until Allelujah
told everyone to move to the center. Wouldn't be the first time the
best plan got overlooked in the heat of the moment, even by professionals.
I had the same thought. I realized what he was doing when he issued
the order, but was clueless before that.
And given the apparently outrageous powerplant the Gundams have
(any idea how much thrust compared to standard MS?), more
conventional MS might not have made a difference in holding up the
block. It still could have taken the Gundam to do any good.
Yep.
I'm going with "felt guilty about putting a young girl in a mobile
suit, orders be damned, and thus felt responsible for the
consequences" plus "didn't want to put his troops in danger with so
little chance of success."
Same here.
Hey, if you REALLY want to screw up your TV watching (anime and
otherwise), start wandering around tvtropes.org. In a sense it's
ALL contrived; sometimes it's just more obvious than others. IMHO a
lot of Real Life would make a lousy plot...
All of TV starts looking really bad in short order. I have to
actively unclench whenever I'm seeing anything other than a soap
these days, because they always get something wrong (Law and Order's
usually not too bad, but action flicks and anything SF is always bad.
It's just a question of how bad it is and whether or not the badness
is enough to make it unenjoyable).
I am actually finding 00 interesting for the following reasons:
1. Politics. It isn't good, it isn't bad, it just is. This is rare in
a TV show.
2. It's all on Earth. No colonies, no moon. Just Earth and the
beanstalks. That's pretty damn novel for a Gundam show.
3. Apart from the Gundams the tech is all pretty plausible. No
magical fusion, no Minovsky particles, not even any coordinators
(yet; it's early yet, so who knows).
4. No Gundamjacks. This is astonishingly novel for a Gundam series.
It also looks as though the Gundams aren't that special, apart from
their power plants (and those silly beam sabers, but what are you gonna do).
5. Decent characters. Okay, lots of Gundam stories have decent
characters, but I'm really liking Sergei and some of the Gundam
meisters (not the freak with glasses; he needs to be shot, and soon).
Every single faction seems to have genuinely likable characters, and
most of them aren't the naive retards we're used to. That's kinda nice.
I have not adopted rose-colored glasses by any means, though. This
whole thing could still easily go pear-shaped, and I don't know what
the hell the CB folks are smoking, but the story's looking pretty
good so far. The people, props, and setting are all pretty solid, so
I'm at least a little optimistic.
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