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Originally Posted by Sir Dearka
I'd rather think that Shinn was a confused kid who needed guidance. And Kira provided it to him. Still, it doesn't really make up for the big mistake creators did by pushing Shinnn to the background. And I didn't want him to win, but just gain more attention so I could later feel for him more when he eventually burst out crying in the arms of Lunamaria.
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I don't think that we were
supposed to want him to win.
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Originally Posted by Sir Dearka
A mature grown-up politician with ambiguous morality as the main hero of the whole Gundam series? To me, it'd not work. And I think it'd also not seem that appealing in the eyes of other SEED fans who are used to their teenage emotional berserk prodigies  |
A protagonist and a hero aren't necessarily synonymous. I think that Durandal fits the former, but he certainly doesn't fit the latter. The creators seemed to be trying to do something very different with Destiny; and as a result, it is in many ways, the most unGundam of all the Gundam TV shows.