Joseph Riggs wrote: > No big complications for CB like I'd semi-expected to see. The focus moved > somewhat
A much more promising episode, finally! A lot of what I dislike in Ep. 1-3 have been dispelled. Primarily, I was waiting for people, either commoners and lords to say and act against CB. Ep. 4 finally show some of the inevitable reactions to CB. The best line is from the journalist-mom: "the world is not that simple" There's hope in G00. > Finally, there was an emphasis on anti-US sentiment. The obvious focus on > this was the I wouldn't dwell on the focus on anti-US, I suspect when other nation-states come into the spotlight there will be ample amount of cynicism in store for them. But the writers are not shy at all naming names or come close to naming names: the US, Real IRA, and an almost direct reference to Iraq. > We saw something similar in the sequences with the character who probably > occupied > the most screentime in the episode - Setsuna's female counterpart in the OP. > There are > serious issues in her country. It's not entirely clear what the cause of the > problems is, The version I saw mentioned "terrorism" in reference to the fires, and "spent all the fossil resource on _reconstruction_". Reconstruction from what? With oil money? And multiple simultaneous terrorist bombing? And Setsuna being a Kurd? It looks like Iraq, sounds like Iraq and smells like Iraq. I think they should rewrite the backstory, it's really 2037 not 2307A.D. Now I can bring out some positives in G00: - While it's not so clear if CB is the squeaky clean good guys, there are no BAD guys in the sense of a Hitler or Darth Vader. All three powers are only guilty of excessive greed and callous disregard of average people's life and happiness, the same accusations people level at George Bush. So far we haven't seen, in fact we are not likely to see, anyone who's _Pure_Evil_, the way that You-Know-Who is EVIL. I like this point a lot. I think the concept of Evil is not helpful. Both in real life and in Gundam. - We haven't seen any cheap horrid scenes of people suffering and getting oppressed (other than Setsuna's eh... vision). Or CB saving helpless old men and crying babies. Come to think of it, Mizushima has always shown restrains with the emotional scenes. -- 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
