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Nine of Eight posted:"I watched TE to the very dumb and ridiculous end, this should be a breeze in comparison" "I'm gunna defect to East Germany for absolutely no real thought out reason" Not to say this isn't a dumb show, but the conversation outdoors made it clear she was bullshitting in order to survive unfamiliar and hostile territory. The protagonist ranting at her about how horrible the country really was let her know she could trust him with the real reason she was in the GDR. The clumsy, idealistic ingenue was a mask, and we see her take it off in that long pause when she had her back turned to him. Darth Walrus fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Jan 12, 2016 |
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Command Ant posted:A bunch of freakshow monster bugs invading the world might make it easier for them to accept religion, if only to allow people to scream "JESUS CHRIST!" more often. Also, they've been mauled to the point where most men of fighting age have been killed off and they're throwing everyone up to and including screechy PTSD head-cases onto the front lines just so they have extra guns. Dictatorships' laws are porous at the best of times, designed more to regulate and exploit than ban certain behaviours, and the dire situation the GDR is in here makes it pretty likely that someone would go 'yeah, she's useful, and we can always bring the hammer down on her for displaying that Christian crap if she does something we don't like'. That's way more thought than the creators of an anime that includes this screenshot have likely put into their setting, but it's still within the realm of plausibility.
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Jan 14, 2016 03:43
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Paracelsus posted:Military outcomes are the army's problem. If it further reinforces that the Stasi are above everyone else and can get away with anything, that's all that matters. Also, to adopt a insane Stasi perspective, they're thinking long-term. If an elite unit has been compromised by a West German infiltrator, they need to obliterate it fast before the sedition spreads and cripples their war effort against the BETA. They're taking a significant loss now to avert a gigantic loss down the line.
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Jan 18, 2016 23:54
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Nine of Eight posted:Maybe the whole thing is a long con and the MC is the real traitor. That would be a deeply silly and unnecessarily grimdark twist. In the context of this show, I'm all for it.
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Feb 2, 2016 14:28
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It'd be dumb to extrapolate from a particular niche art-form to the entirety of a country's culture. On the other hand, it seems reasonable to note that a fair amount of adult-geared anime is pitched towards a weird, insular otaku community that compensates for its lack of size with astonishingly deep pockets, and that catering to this niche audience involves playing to an unusual number of strange fetishes, including incest, that may have some small, distorted roots in broader Japanese culture (like how a low birth rate means less odds of having a sibling, so otaku weirdos are more likely to fetishise sisters they've never had). It's very much like the bizarre poo poo we've seen in Western superhero comics with the aging and shrinking of their demographics. It's easy to compare the more unpleasant excesses of late-night anime to stuff like Ultimatum or Mark Millar's nastier outpourings, even if their particular audiences may be more or less tolerant of particular forms of hideousness.
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Feb 25, 2016 16:22
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Nine of Eight posted:I'm shocked to state that this week's episode was 100% not poo poo or gross. Hooray! Good posts in a thread about a not-very-good show? I'd dig it.
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Feb 29, 2016 14:36
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Gyra_Solune posted:yeah the only weird part about this show is that honestly it might have been better served without the doom aliens Does kind of bring an extra urgency to the political machinations, though. As in, on the one hand, the system is terrible. On the other, if it doesn't hold together to some degree, everyone dies. I would honestly not be surprised by some grimdark ending where by taking down the Stasi elite and their fancy Russian mechs, our heroes cripple East Germany's military and let the BETA swarm in and eat everyone. Axmann going 'gently caress it, burn the world' with his massive weapons stockpile may or may not factor into this.
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Mar 16, 2016 22:56
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Nine of Eight posted:
I appreciate this post, and wish to see more.
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OnimaruXLR posted:I think a good Muv Luv TV show might be a pseudo documentarian story that talks about the BETA invasion in it's entirety, starting on Mars, and ending in Japan in 2001 when whatsisface shows up at the beginning of Alternative. But that's probably too dry to ever get actually made A TV show in the style of World War Z, maybe?
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