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Originally Posted by Old_Iron

You... seem to have an extremely massive amount of faith that the people who wrote this had any clue what sort of science was involved.

...Or cared, for that matter. o.O

Actually, I just don't even think about the external factors. At the end of the day, it's about your suspension of disbelief. That's why I like that there's not much info on CE technology. It makes it easier for me to accept whatever crazy idea they could think of. Freedom being able to catch up to a speeding shuttle? Fine by me.

I wasn't aware this show turned into Gurren Lagann and Kira used his hotblooded Spiral Power to kick reason to the curb.

Seriously, that's the show. It's also what Orks do. And the Freedom isn't even freaking red.

I never got around to watching Gurren.

Originally Posted by Rising Dragon

It wouldn't be much of a big glaring impossibility if he used something else to get him into space, like the booster they used for the Strike Rouge. The Freedom simply can't get up there on it's own. It is a mobile suit designed for war. ZAFT designed it to destroy enemy mobile suits, not to make trips back and forth between Earth and space. All of its functions were geared towards combat speed, maneuverability, and heavy cannon weaponry. If ZAFT wanted it back into space, they'd load it up into a mobile suit cargo container and fucking launch it up there with a mass accelerator.

That would be under normal circumstance. But since Lacus sometimes operate under irregular circumstance, who knows whatever upgrade she had made to it?

It cannot latch onto the shuttle because it'd only prevent the shuttle from getting to space. If it didn't just kill the shuttle in the process.

I'm not concerned about whether or not he could latch on to the shuttle. From my perspective, Kira would've latched on to it immediately if he had intended to do it, but he didn't, so I don't think that was ever his plan, even if he could.

If it could do so on its own, they would've had Kira take Lacus up there safe and sound without risking her life stealing a ZAFT shuttle from Durandal's own Lacus impersonator. Storywise they could've shut down the same argument they had between the Freedom and the shuttle--that much won't really change. The Archangel's crew would have done what it could to keep Lacus safe, you KNOW that.

The thing is, Cagalli would have to stay on Earth to focus on Orb, which means the Archangel has to stay. Lacus is on a separate mission. The other thing is that Lacus wants Kira to stay to protect the Archangel. So I don't think Kira taking Lacus to space and leaving the Archangel would ever be part of her plan.

That means if the Freedom could achieve escape velocity and escape Earth's gravitational pull, IT IS A MASSIVE INCONSISTENCY IN THE STORY.

See my response above.

Stop trying to deny the reality of the situation just because someone pointed out that Destiny was flawed in its depiction of the scene. This is beneath you and it's beneath us and it's a fucking disappointment that you'd go this low.

I am not trying to deny the reality of the situation. I'm just telling you how I see the situation based on what the show tells us.