-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Joseph Riggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > The thing that drives me nuts (at least about the primary overarching plot - > there are plenty of other things to get driven nuts about in the series, as > well) is that, so far as I can tell, there isn't any real reason why at least > the viewer shouldn't know what CB's primary goal is. Or at least know a > little > more about CB's primary goal. There are, so far as I can recall, only two > items > so far that hint at an ulterior goal. The second, of course, is the > Professor's > comment in episode 17 (idle curiosity - I wonder how Sumeragi will react when > she hears about it?). The first is the conversation between Sumeragi and... > the Chinese girl(? - I think it was her) in which it's discussed that the > casualty figures for the plan that they're all involved in are going to be > very, > very ugly if things go according to the way that Veda predicts.
It's the same reason why we don't know what the chairman's plan was in Seed Destiny - it was supposed to serve as the "Surprise." It certainly make you wonder who is fighting on what side. The Chinese girl doesn't really care about anything other than the overall goal of CB, while Sumeragi, and almost all of the original GM, seems to care about collateral damages (hence why the "crazy" Trinity brother say they are weak). > And the latter doesn't necessarily mean that CB isn't out to eradicate > warfare > as claimed. Well, it depends- maybe they want to "get rid of warfare" because CB want to rule over everybody? > And what does the fact that the Solar Furnaces were built out near Jupiter > have > to do with the fact that CB's goal isn't to eradicate warfare? A little > transparency would be nice. There have been too many pieces of plot fabric > being thrown out to the viewers, but very little in the way of plot thread to > tie them all together. And that's a bad thing when you're nearly 40% of the > way > through your series. I don't know why you think that is bad - if we do know everything, then I think the plot of the second half wouldn't be there - the "inner" working of CB is supposed to be the main "topic" of the series, and they might end up being the "ultimate villian", so I think it makes for the viewer NOT to know about everything in CB. Most of your typical Super robot/sci-fi type show always show this stuff near the end. > Random speculation - is the length of the series partly to blame? Perhaps > giving the writer only 26 episodes would have worked better plot-wise by > forcing > him to actually reveal pertinent information at a decent rate, instead of > about > once every nine episodes? I am thinking it is more like Code Geass in the sense that they want the first half of the show to be semi-self contained, so they really cannot just show everything at once - otherwise, they will have very little to talk about in the second half. From the looks of it, I am speculating that all of these stuff will come to a boil, and your typical "final episode fight" happens, then second half goes over what happen after... > For some reason I'm trying to remember when the "Return to Tokyo" arc takes > place in Rah'Xephon, and the viewer finally gets confirmed something that's > been > hinted at quite frequently - i.e. that you-know-who is still stuck on > you-know-who-else. Think it's a little after half way, as after the "Return to Tokyo" arc is when all those people start to show their true color, and eventually build up the final conflict. -------------------------------------------------- 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
