you can call me your hero baby
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Late comment for episode ten: By the way, Trowa, I hope you know that is basically the worst way EVER to carry an injured person. I am just saying. (Seriously, the only way I can make sense of the 'put him in a hard sharp cold Gundam's hand and ride around with him like that' carry is if they assumed he was dead from the get-go.
Episode eleven:
Thanks to Zechs, I now have the image of people sitting in their castle-sized garages, tinkering with old beat-up mobile suits. "It's just a fixer-upper, it's not that bad."
I think I am starting to see why everyone likes Duo so much. He's pretty okay!
This show is still all about the ladies, though. I honestly don't understand how the early fandom could have missed all that awesome. You're going to focus on boys in giant robots when we have ladies running around having Secret Family Drama and shooting roses off people's chests?
Holy shit was that ever an Utena moment, btw. I heard somewhere that Ikuhara considered using guns rather than swords at an early planning stage, and, fairy-tale implications of swords aside, I can see why. Also this totally proves my theory of Relena as an Utena-style prince.
It's pretty problematic that none of the front-line footsoldiers are women, though. That was one thing I really liked about A:TLA, where you would just see random Fire Nation soldiers in the background and some of them would be female. I think I'm going to assume that, in GW, female footsoldiers just aren't recruited, but women can buy officer's commissions just like all the rich dudes.
NOIN IS AMAZING, THE END. Actually no not the end, because Noin + Relena is just one of the most amazing team-ups I can think of right now. LADIES. ♥
Episode Twelve:
Sally is a giant badass. As well as possibly the only person Wufei has actually talked to in months.
Wufei seems to have some interesting power/emotion/gender issues going on. Weak people shouldn't fight, cowards have no right to fight, women as a whole are weak (so because he's not a woman, he can't be that weak?). I think Sally might be able to help him, though. Because she's a grown-up.
I actually really liked Sally's "Helping you is more important than my own life" speech. Because it didn't read as "this dude is more important than me" but rather "this kid needs some help, I can do something". (And, combined with what she was saying earlier, makes me think she was trying to goad him into helping her, which is infinitely more acceptable to me than simple self-sacrifice.)
Also I feel like I am watching the moulding of Wufei's future personality here. This is definitely one of those cases where someone's etching a conversation into their heart.
Episode thirteen:
I realize this is not something you're supposed to say about mecha shows, but I wish there was less fighting and explosions and a lot more politics and family drama.
Zechs, I recommend you stick with Noin from now on. She will never kill people who have already surrendered, and she probably won't try to kill you. It is a winning proposition all around!
I actually kind of like that one of the major roles the female characters play in this show is to tell the dudes to get their shit together and grow up. I especially like it because it's one of their roles, and not all of them.
I've heard something about people writing Heero as an 'emotionless robot' in the early days of GW? People, have you heard how many times he says "emotions" or "feelings" in just this one episode? Heero is all about the feelings, let me tell you.
As a side note, I really want that buttoned dress Relena wears in the first part of the ending. It looks really comfy!
Episode fourteen:
Ngh. Ladies in elaborate uniform! And they are saying profound things about the nature and techniques of war. Sometimes I think mecha shows are not my thing, and then I will come across something that makes me feel like the writers did this part just for me.
So I guess there is an explanation for the European aristocracy trappings! B/c the Romfeller (or whatever it's called) Foundation was founded by the European aristocracy, and they figured the best way to stay in power/have a strong legacy was to keep the foundations of their society exactly the same. And by 'foundations of their society' I mean classism, titles, and fancy clothes.
I feel like Noin and Zechs are kind of occupying a Team Mustang position within OZ. They don't like the system, and they're trying to change it, but they need to be inside it to get anywhere. Except I am pretty sure neither of them will ever call each other up to say "I got drunk and bought a huge quantity of flowers."
RELENA RELENA RELENA. You go, girl! I may or may not be vicariously living my ambitions through you here, what with the stealing the microphone and speechifying about how all those people are wrong, wrong, WRONG. But I do think that Noin is right, you can't get through to this particular audience by telling them "You are wrong and the Gundams are going to kick your ass." They're the upper strata of the upper crust, marinating in their privilege. (Eugh, what a terrible food image.)
"She's the younger sister of a friend I invited." Nice misuse of the truth there, Treize! I'm not even kidding, that is a seriously perfect turn of phrase.
Okay, I take it back about last episode. This one has the perfect amount of politics/family drama/half-truth-telling/fancy clothes/ladies. I am entirely happy with it.
Episode eleven:
Thanks to Zechs, I now have the image of people sitting in their castle-sized garages, tinkering with old beat-up mobile suits. "It's just a fixer-upper, it's not that bad."
I think I am starting to see why everyone likes Duo so much. He's pretty okay!
This show is still all about the ladies, though. I honestly don't understand how the early fandom could have missed all that awesome. You're going to focus on boys in giant robots when we have ladies running around having Secret Family Drama and shooting roses off people's chests?
Holy shit was that ever an Utena moment, btw. I heard somewhere that Ikuhara considered using guns rather than swords at an early planning stage, and, fairy-tale implications of swords aside, I can see why. Also this totally proves my theory of Relena as an Utena-style prince.
It's pretty problematic that none of the front-line footsoldiers are women, though. That was one thing I really liked about A:TLA, where you would just see random Fire Nation soldiers in the background and some of them would be female. I think I'm going to assume that, in GW, female footsoldiers just aren't recruited, but women can buy officer's commissions just like all the rich dudes.
NOIN IS AMAZING, THE END. Actually no not the end, because Noin + Relena is just one of the most amazing team-ups I can think of right now. LADIES. ♥
Episode Twelve:
Sally is a giant badass. As well as possibly the only person Wufei has actually talked to in months.
Wufei seems to have some interesting power/emotion/gender issues going on. Weak people shouldn't fight, cowards have no right to fight, women as a whole are weak (so because he's not a woman, he can't be that weak?). I think Sally might be able to help him, though. Because she's a grown-up.
I actually really liked Sally's "Helping you is more important than my own life" speech. Because it didn't read as "this dude is more important than me" but rather "this kid needs some help, I can do something". (And, combined with what she was saying earlier, makes me think she was trying to goad him into helping her, which is infinitely more acceptable to me than simple self-sacrifice.)
Also I feel like I am watching the moulding of Wufei's future personality here. This is definitely one of those cases where someone's etching a conversation into their heart.
Episode thirteen:
I realize this is not something you're supposed to say about mecha shows, but I wish there was less fighting and explosions and a lot more politics and family drama.
Zechs, I recommend you stick with Noin from now on. She will never kill people who have already surrendered, and she probably won't try to kill you. It is a winning proposition all around!
I actually kind of like that one of the major roles the female characters play in this show is to tell the dudes to get their shit together and grow up. I especially like it because it's one of their roles, and not all of them.
I've heard something about people writing Heero as an 'emotionless robot' in the early days of GW? People, have you heard how many times he says "emotions" or "feelings" in just this one episode? Heero is all about the feelings, let me tell you.
As a side note, I really want that buttoned dress Relena wears in the first part of the ending. It looks really comfy!
Episode fourteen:
Ngh. Ladies in elaborate uniform! And they are saying profound things about the nature and techniques of war. Sometimes I think mecha shows are not my thing, and then I will come across something that makes me feel like the writers did this part just for me.
So I guess there is an explanation for the European aristocracy trappings! B/c the Romfeller (or whatever it's called) Foundation was founded by the European aristocracy, and they figured the best way to stay in power/have a strong legacy was to keep the foundations of their society exactly the same. And by 'foundations of their society' I mean classism, titles, and fancy clothes.
I feel like Noin and Zechs are kind of occupying a Team Mustang position within OZ. They don't like the system, and they're trying to change it, but they need to be inside it to get anywhere. Except I am pretty sure neither of them will ever call each other up to say "I got drunk and bought a huge quantity of flowers."
RELENA RELENA RELENA. You go, girl! I may or may not be vicariously living my ambitions through you here, what with the stealing the microphone and speechifying about how all those people are wrong, wrong, WRONG. But I do think that Noin is right, you can't get through to this particular audience by telling them "You are wrong and the Gundams are going to kick your ass." They're the upper strata of the upper crust, marinating in their privilege. (Eugh, what a terrible food image.)
"She's the younger sister of a friend I invited." Nice misuse of the truth there, Treize! I'm not even kidding, that is a seriously perfect turn of phrase.
Okay, I take it back about last episode. This one has the perfect amount of politics/family drama/half-truth-telling/fancy clothes/ladies. I am entirely happy with it.
