![]() It's a story about people with great gifts - including the power to understand each other - who still choose to hurt others and are incapable of understanding them regardless. ![]() It's like hating the Force in Star Wars: it's the pretty much the core of the whole dang thing. That isn't anti-climatic that's them addressing their issues and moving on, expending their lives in the process.ĥ) I don't get the hate for Newtype powers in the UC. They accept it, get caught up in the psychoframe, and use it to stop the asteroid. Clearly Amuro's life and relationships changed between Zeta and CC, just like how his life changed between Gundam and Zeta (where he similarly regressed).Ĥ) They came to an understanding about the heart of their issues: Lalah. These characters weren't frozen in time while ZZ played itself out. Why is it so impossible for him to re-evaluate his role in the universe after seeing the cruelty of the Earth Federation and come to a different conclusion about how to change things? He regressed as a human being because he's always been delusional to some degree that isn't a regression as a character, it's in keeping with it.ģ) This is where the underlying argument becomes more apparent: the dislike of CC's handling of Amuro and Char comes from an assumption that every important character evolution has to have occurred on-screen to be valid. ![]() I realize this isn't the most convincing argument, but I understand their purpose in the narrative.Ģ) This "Char's character was destroyed because he went backwards" narrative gets bandied about a lot in Gundam GAF, but considering what happens at the end of Zeta, I don't think it's really fair to expect him to be the same person afterwards. They are supposed to be tragic, because there's no force out there to help them - the adults are all too busy ignoring or using them. Not to mention, at least one of them idolizes flawed people. They are the audience surrogate and also an encapsulation of UC Gundam's themes, being both naive and idealistic youngsters caught in the crossfire between Char and Amuro, They're not necessarily likeable because they're screwed up kids who have powers they don't understand and can't control. They literally justĪlright, I'm going to address these points.ġ) I agree that Hathaway and Quess suck and get a lot of screentime, but I think that's kind of the point. Instead he has a new pilot girlfriend who's relationship with him is completely unbelievable because we have zero clue who the hell she even is.įourth, the final conflict between Char and Amuro is completely anti-climatic. The relationship he built with Beltorchika is completely thrown out and never mentioned. He goes from wanting to better the Earth Federation to once again being just another cog in their military machine. Third, the movie gives a similar (though not as harsh) treatment for Amuro. This doesn't jive at all with how he's was portrayed, especially in Zeta, and feels like a profound betrayal of one of the more rounded characters in the Gundam universe. ![]() By Char's Counterattck, he's a raving Zeon Space Nazi who wants to drop an asteroid on the earth because.reasons. Yes, he's Amuro's rival, but he also is a reasonably good guy. The Char in (and by the end) of Zeta is an almost heroic figure. Throughout 0079 and Zeta, he grows to be more than a Space Nazi zeonic fanatic. Second, the movie destroys Char as a character. The main focus is centered around a one sided relationship between two terrible characters you could not care less about. I'll keep it as spoiler free as possible, but expect some minor spoilers.įirst of all, it's the movie that closes the Amuro and Char story, yet neither of them are the main focus. ![]() I'll try to cut it down to as few points as possible. ![]()
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