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Kanos posted:Kudelia returning to her "I'm so useless! It lasts for one scene in this episode, it's a consistent part of her character, and the show has already made it clear that her getting over that is going to be her major character arc, so it seems fine to me.
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Lemon Curdistan posted:It lasts for one scene in this episode, it's a consistent part of her character, and the show has already made it clear that her getting over that is going to be her major character arc, so it seems fine to me. It's mostly that she already had a big epiphany about it before and resolved to start doing what she could rather than deciding to mope about what she couldn't(which is what led to her teaching the kids to read), and I was hoping that resolution would stick and we'd see her being more assertive. I would bet we're going to be getting some Kudelia/Merribit interactions since the show seems to be set on playing up Merribit as the omni-competent and mature professional woman.
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Tae posted:Their ship isn't faster. Remember the whole reason why Tekkadan are fighting the pirates in the first place? It's because they had to take the super long way around because Ghallaron controls most of the easy routes to Earth. By they, I meant the setting in general, not the Tekkadan kids specifically - hence why I mentioned the speed at which Fareed and Gaelio had travelled between Earth and Mars. The Tekkadan kids have had to take a longer route that went out towards Jupiter and then back towards Earth from there, but the Gjallarhorn folks took a much straighter route and were noted to have made the round trip in roughly 3 months by Gaelio's sister. Which works out to about .1% C (I think). Which is pretty drat fast. For reference, the fastest man made object ever (the Helios 2 probe) goes about 0.00023% C. It works out faster than anything else in the franchise as far as I'm aware - bar perhaps the ships in G-Reco. Which I thought was kind of funny given how relatively long and involved the show is making the journey seem compared to many other shows in the franchise, which skip over such distances in an episode or two to move things along. Edit: After thinking about it more, A Wakening of the Trailblazer had the cast travel out to Mars pretty sharpish too if I recall so that could be an exception too. tsob fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Dec 14, 2015 |
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Green Intern posted:Kudal is reminding me of Busuzima from Bloody Roar so hard. I miss Bloody Roar so hard.
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Kanos posted:It's mostly that she already had a big epiphany about it before and resolved to start doing what she could rather than deciding to mope about what she couldn't(which is what led to her teaching the kids to read), and I was hoping that resolution would stick and we'd see her being more assertive. Well, the main difference between this instance and her past instances of moping over being useless is that in the past she just kind of stood around and did nothing. Here, she was actually attempting to be useful for once and was shoved aside as someone with more expertise took over. It's a bit of a blow to the old self esteem when you resolve to make yourself useful in some capacity and are immediately upstaged by someone better at it.
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Not to mention she was all gung-ho about helping, then saw a dude who was leaking profusely from his chest and realized "oh gently caress I don't even know where to start." Watching a guy nearly die and realizing you couldn't do much about it is a bit of a downer.
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So the Barbatos's fifth form has been revealed, and... uhh... I think we know what happens to the Gusion now. 
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ImpAtom posted:That's... really ugly. Which I'm okay with from a plot perspective but man. In some ways, though, I feel that's to its advantage. It really does look like Mika has flayed the Gusion alive and decorated the Barbatos with its shredded hide. 
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Darth Walrus posted:So the Barbatos's fifth form has been revealed, and... uhh... I think we know what happens to the Gusion now.  Frog Gundam, you were too good for this world.Kanos posted:
I'm okay with this and sort of disappointed they're not doing more with the concept since it was brought up as part of the show premise.
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dogsicle posted:i wish they'd at least paint it Looks like a temporary fix. Remember how it took them a couple of episodes to paint those Graze shoulderpads they stuck on the Barbatos?
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Kingtheninja posted:I don't even know what distinctions they're making for Barbatos to have had 4 forms already. All I can remember are no shoulder pads, small square shoulder pads, and now round shoulder pads. They're calling every single new upgrade a "new form" since one of the gimmicks was that it salvages components from fallen enemy MSes.
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Kingtheninja posted:I don't even know what distinctions they're making for Barbatos to have had 4 forms already. All I can remember are no shoulder pads, small square shoulder pads, and now round shoulder pads. Barbatos Form 1: What it launched with Barbatos Form 2: Graze parts added Barbatos Form 3: Purple arm-spike from Schwalbe Graze added. Barbatos Form 4: Pure Nippon Katana Yazuka Upgrade.
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Darth Walrus posted:So the Barbatos's fifth form has been revealed, and... uhh... I think we know what happens to the Gusion now. But, as was said earlier: Lemon Curdistan posted:
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AradoBalanga posted:Was not expecting Gonna laugh if Mika picks the hammer up, goes "oh, this is much better" and throws the loving katana in the trash where it belongs. It'd be perfectly in-character after the sword bit in last episode!
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Mordja posted:Link doesn't work. Anyone have a picture? Apparently it was fake.
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ImpAtom posted:Apparently it was fake. Thats lame as gently caress, I kinda liked the stupid green bits
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Lemon Curdistan posted:She's going to meet with one economic block's leader in particular, the old dude who looks like a Buddhist monk, who is Arbrau's leader. This is because the region of Mars that she and CGS are from belongs to Arbrau specifically...
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Iron Blooded Orphans is hands down my favorite Gundam ever so far, which is saying a lot. I'm really blown away considering how little I was interested before, but since the incredible ending of the first episode I've been completely hooked. I don't really like the new woman on board, but maybe she'll develop into someone more interesting.
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WickedHate posted:I don't really like the new woman on board, but maybe she'll develop into someone more interesting. The only thing about her I don't like is that her character design reminds me of Nina Purpleton and it keeps triggering me. Other than that, I don't have any problems with her so far.
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She's just so boring, and I'm really not looking forward to a potential romance between her and Orga. She feels like the phrase "no homo" personified. I don't even see Orga as gay but it seems like her only purpose from a narrative standpoint is one of the writers saying "where is this virile manly man's obligatory chick?". But IBO is so good I have faith it can throw me for a loop and have her pay off in an unexpected way.
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What? I don't see that at all. She's here to help continue to slap Orga up the head with reality (no ship's doctor? really?) and be another adult voice of reason. If she winds up in a romance with anyone I will be incredibly disappointed with the show, as that would come out of nowhere.
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W.T. Fits posted:The only thing about her I don't like is that her character design reminds me of Nina Purpleton and it keeps triggering me. At least it wasn't just me
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WickedHate posted:Iron Blooded Orphans is hands down my favorite Gundam ever so far, which is saying a lot. I'm really blown away considering how little I was interested before, but since the incredible ending of the first episode I've been completely hooked. Her job is pushing Orga's boundaries in several different ways, particularly in challenging his vision for Tekkadan. For him, it's a small band of ex-CGS blood-brothers, with an emphasis in the 'brother' - it's been a recurring thing for Orga that he isn't all that comfortable around or confident in women. He'll hire them for minor roles, like Atra and Fumitan, but there isn't much evidence that he sees them as part of the family (see his 'we're all men' comment to Merribit), and he doesn't appear to have much faith in Kudelia's mission - to him, she's an employer who can put Tekkadan on the road to profitability, not a potential saviour who can eliminate the need for children to work as mercenaries altogether. Now he has a highly skilled, competent woman who he has to deal with on a regular basis and treat as something approaching an equal, and he's not taking it well. I'll do a bigger effortpost when I'm more sure of where the show is going, but so far, it seems rather like one of the things it's is trying for is to dismantle the idea of the brotherhood of beautiful child-martyrs that Nazi propaganda in particular was so fond of. For instance, there's the fact that the sleazy, shady, and generally unpleasant puppetmaster Nobliss is actively trying to push Tekkadan into exactly that role, there's the way that the female lead is being built up as the only one who can offer a long-term solution, lead the boys to it, and keep them alive on the journey (misogyny was so key to fascist art that the proto-fascist Futurist Manifesto listed 'contempt for women' as one of its highest aesthetic values), and there's also the way that death in this show hasn't ever been romanticised (a key element of fascist propaganda- you'd be surprised by how many Nazi films made a heroic death their happy ending). It looks like Merribit is going to be another key part of that criticism, which is pretty fun.
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My initial reading of Merribit was that she was going to be Teiwaz' way of binding Tekkadan fully to their larger organization. Naze's got all of his wives, some of which wait securely at home for his return along with his children, and he gets along spectacularly with his boss. Why not let Orga, now that he's One of the Boys, have someone that can rein him in if necessary? Even if McMurdo isn't intending to backstab Tekkadan or anything, it's one of those things that just seemed to make sense, given their particular idea of family. Merribit as a challenger to Orga's ideas of his role as leader is something I like much better, though - so he wants to be a father to his men? He better start acting like it then, because being the ice-cool big bro doesn't cut it when he's playing at the level he is at. It's funny how that puts him in contrast to Mika, who for all of his own issues becomes interestingly self-conscious (literally aware of himself, as someone else put it earlier) when around women.
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Merribit is an adult woman who treats Orga like a child, and thereby reminds him of his own childishness which he's been trying to avoid. Naze is a manly big-brother type who he can respect, but Merribit makes it very difficult for him by not being manly at all.
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Clarste posted:Merribit is an adult woman who treats Orga like a child, and thereby reminds him of his own childishness which he's been trying to avoid. Naze is a manly big-brother type who he can respect, but Merribit makes it very difficult for him by not being manly at all.
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