After Colony 196: Endless Waltz
Oct. 16th, 2012 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
schneefinkThat was disappointing.
Nothing made any sense, but I guess it's nice that they tried? I like the principal idea that peace doesn't happen overnight, but almost everything else was just nonsensical. An incomplete list, out of order:
- Why did they decide to send the Gundams into the sun so soon? They should have known that there were still possible threats around: resources and officers and key personnel still missing, for example, even Sally's and Noin's ship was armed. It can't have been Une's decision, because who else rebuilt the Tallgeese? So it must have been Quatre and nobody dissuaded him, which I find a bit hard to believe. And then as soon as there's the tiniest bit of trouble he wants to get them back immediately, so he obviously hasn't thought very hard about what they'd do if there was still a guerilla fraction, apparently nobody thought of that?
And later on they just use the self-detonate button, why not from the start?
- Not only did they rebuild the Tallgeese, between the end of the war and now they also redesigned all of the Gundams. For what? And I don't like the new designs at all, they are flashy and impractical and/or look plain stupid, especially Bird!Wing and Bat!Deathscythe. And apparently Heavyarms can move like Trowa now, whut? And still they can't defeat those suits?
- The plot didn't make any sense. For example: Trowa infiltrated Mariemaia's army, that I could buy. But then he still manages to stay undercover even though he's publicly cornered by Dekim and Wufei? The only explanation I can see that fits with his weird attack on Duo is that he pretended a brainwashing process worked on him, but why would Dekim or Wufei even attempt that.
- They resurrected Zechs without any explanation, without any real relevance to the plot. He and Noin reunite without even talking about what happened. Ugh.
- Wufei :( It would have been a tiny bit better if he hadn't seemed like he believed most of his bullshit reasons for joining Mariemaia. I can see him being uncertain about his future after fighting, that he doesn't believe that the people can just become peaceful from one moment to the next, and that he respects Treize enough and was unsettled enough by the end of the war to at least consider joining his daughter. But not in this stupid way. I like him becoming Sally's partner, though! Possibly my favorite part.
- Mariemaia. I choose to believe that she wasn't really Treize's daughter, Dekim only made her believe that and faked the DNA tests, and he only "revealed" it to her recently. Anything else doesn't make any sense, and not only because Treize would never have abandoned her. If everyone truly believed her dead, why would Dekim tell her that she was Treize's daughter before Treize became the de facto leader of the world? On the other hand she's at an impressionably age and he has enough reasons to give to her why he hadn't told her before. He could have taken any orphan in to mold her into his Queen and told the world that she was anyone's daughter (would he have chosen Noventa if OZ hadn't taken over?)
- The pilots' backgrounds. Some of them are slightly more believable, like Heero's and Quatre's, others less so. Why does Wufei return to his clan and still holds them in such high regard later after he rebels against their crazy plans here? How come Trowa is such a great pilot if he was a mechanic without much training, that's practically impossible. Who was Duo, and why did he think of Deathscythe as his friend? And Heero's didn't really reveal anything except make his stance towards emotions even weirder.
- After Relena was the damsel in distress without anything to do for most of it she gets to make a quarter of a speech about peace having to be earned. Nice, but in practice those civilians would only be a hindrance to the fighting Gundams because they would have to be protected. At least here I get the idea behind it.
- I watched the English dubbed version. The voices are all so wrong! They all sound so much older, and Zechs has a throat infection.
- And lots of small things that I just didn't like. Like Trowa beating up those guys at the circus (maybe there was something else we didn't see...) and disappearing on Catherine again, Quatre doing lots of stupid things, Heero and Duo with stupid plans and Duo hiding explosives in his hair (?!), Wufei see above, how passive Relena was, Zechs' first words to Noin, and so on.
Things I liked:
- Wufei becoming Sally's partner.
- Heero asking Duo to hit him so that Duo doesn't feel too bad later about Heero knocking him out (which Heero doesn't tell him, of course.)
- Une heading the Preventers taskforce (and declaring the president to be surprisingly intelligent for a democratically elected leader, heh)
- Dorothy being Dorothy
- Une being protective of Mariemaia
- ... that was pretty much it, I think.
I'll ignore as much of this as I want to in my head.
Nothing made any sense, but I guess it's nice that they tried? I like the principal idea that peace doesn't happen overnight, but almost everything else was just nonsensical. An incomplete list, out of order:
- Why did they decide to send the Gundams into the sun so soon? They should have known that there were still possible threats around: resources and officers and key personnel still missing, for example, even Sally's and Noin's ship was armed. It can't have been Une's decision, because who else rebuilt the Tallgeese? So it must have been Quatre and nobody dissuaded him, which I find a bit hard to believe. And then as soon as there's the tiniest bit of trouble he wants to get them back immediately, so he obviously hasn't thought very hard about what they'd do if there was still a guerilla fraction, apparently nobody thought of that?
And later on they just use the self-detonate button, why not from the start?
- Not only did they rebuild the Tallgeese, between the end of the war and now they also redesigned all of the Gundams. For what? And I don't like the new designs at all, they are flashy and impractical and/or look plain stupid, especially Bird!Wing and Bat!Deathscythe. And apparently Heavyarms can move like Trowa now, whut? And still they can't defeat those suits?
- The plot didn't make any sense. For example: Trowa infiltrated Mariemaia's army, that I could buy. But then he still manages to stay undercover even though he's publicly cornered by Dekim and Wufei? The only explanation I can see that fits with his weird attack on Duo is that he pretended a brainwashing process worked on him, but why would Dekim or Wufei even attempt that.
- They resurrected Zechs without any explanation, without any real relevance to the plot. He and Noin reunite without even talking about what happened. Ugh.
- Wufei :( It would have been a tiny bit better if he hadn't seemed like he believed most of his bullshit reasons for joining Mariemaia. I can see him being uncertain about his future after fighting, that he doesn't believe that the people can just become peaceful from one moment to the next, and that he respects Treize enough and was unsettled enough by the end of the war to at least consider joining his daughter. But not in this stupid way. I like him becoming Sally's partner, though! Possibly my favorite part.
- Mariemaia. I choose to believe that she wasn't really Treize's daughter, Dekim only made her believe that and faked the DNA tests, and he only "revealed" it to her recently. Anything else doesn't make any sense, and not only because Treize would never have abandoned her. If everyone truly believed her dead, why would Dekim tell her that she was Treize's daughter before Treize became the de facto leader of the world? On the other hand she's at an impressionably age and he has enough reasons to give to her why he hadn't told her before. He could have taken any orphan in to mold her into his Queen and told the world that she was anyone's daughter (would he have chosen Noventa if OZ hadn't taken over?)
- The pilots' backgrounds. Some of them are slightly more believable, like Heero's and Quatre's, others less so. Why does Wufei return to his clan and still holds them in such high regard later after he rebels against their crazy plans here? How come Trowa is such a great pilot if he was a mechanic without much training, that's practically impossible. Who was Duo, and why did he think of Deathscythe as his friend? And Heero's didn't really reveal anything except make his stance towards emotions even weirder.
- After Relena was the damsel in distress without anything to do for most of it she gets to make a quarter of a speech about peace having to be earned. Nice, but in practice those civilians would only be a hindrance to the fighting Gundams because they would have to be protected. At least here I get the idea behind it.
- I watched the English dubbed version. The voices are all so wrong! They all sound so much older, and Zechs has a throat infection.
- And lots of small things that I just didn't like. Like Trowa beating up those guys at the circus (maybe there was something else we didn't see...) and disappearing on Catherine again, Quatre doing lots of stupid things, Heero and Duo with stupid plans and Duo hiding explosives in his hair (?!), Wufei see above, how passive Relena was, Zechs' first words to Noin, and so on.
Things I liked:
- Wufei becoming Sally's partner.
- Heero asking Duo to hit him so that Duo doesn't feel too bad later about Heero knocking him out (which Heero doesn't tell him, of course.)
- Une heading the Preventers taskforce (and declaring the president to be surprisingly intelligent for a democratically elected leader, heh)
- Dorothy being Dorothy
- Une being protective of Mariemaia
- ... that was pretty much it, I think.
I'll ignore as much of this as I want to in my head.
