[Residentbadass]

Originally Posted by lommm

i watched the whole series last month and i saw it like this:

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Gadved did have a lot to do witth the Claw Man... he was already working with him when the drifter Van was used to test Dann...

Gadved became fed up with the original Original Seven, so he along with the Claw Man, killed them all off to be able to start a new Original Seven...

whether Van and his bride fell in love or not had nothing to do with the Claw Man killing her... The Claw Man killed Ray's wife and Van's bride because those two women were the greatest scientists with the most knowledge of the Original Seven... they would not only know the Original Seven's weak points, but they had the knowledge to build more powerful Armors that could defeat the Original Seven (such as Ray's Vulcan)...

Van just had the misfortune of falling in love with a marked woman...

and the Claw Man had the misfortune of f**king with a guy who had nothing else to live for except the one woman (or person for that matter) who had ever shown him love...

I don't believe the Claw Man ever wanted Van to be a member of the Original Seven... that was Godved's choice, to assuage his guilt over being involved with the attack at the wedding... after all, it was her dying wish that Godved give Dann to Van...


now, Michael's motivation is threefold...
1 - he is young and impressionable, and apparently easily brainwashed, as he buys into the cult of the Claw Man pretty easily and he believes he is somehow making a better world
2 - he has a big ego, and with everyone telling him he's a genius and the best Armor pilot ever, he wants to continue getting better and better
3 - he's in love with Fasolina... we see this early on, even before she sleeps with him... he is in love with her, so sticking with the Claw Man allows him to stay close to her

that's the way I see it... this show is about 80% great, but a couple of the early fillerish eps are misplaced and the actual resolving of the conspiracy and cult of the Claw Man is rushed because of it... but several of the character are really great (Van and Ray especially)... I almost feel like the show would have been better off to be structured more along the lines of Shinichiro Watanabe's shows... sure, there's a through line for the plot of the whole series, but he only uses the last three or four episodes to resolve it, not the last 12 eps, the way this show does...

also, what's with the show being on "Planet Endless Illlusion"???? It could have been much better to be on Earth in the distant future, post apocolyptic war or something...

Spoiler:

From my understanding, the "Planet Endless Illusion" was when Earth got rocked by something apocalyptic, and the survivors jumped on a space ship to get there. "Mother" is describing Earth, from where the people gained all the knowledge to survive. Somewhat like the Trigun universe where people messed with Earth and had to bail because of it.

That being said, I have a concern thats not addressed in the show. The Claw Man said he crashed on the moon where a civil war broke out. Now, my question is a.) How the hell did he get to "Planet Endless Illusion", and b.) how did he live so long if he was one of the first to scout the planet. I probably missed something in the anime itself.

And lommm, now that I think about it, you're probably dead on with that. Seeing how

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That one dude on the island with the mansion and the dogs wanted to keep Van from leaving.

and how

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the claw man didn't really recognize Van.

Add in the fact that Gadved is pretty much a disciplined man with strict principles, I think you hit the nail on the head.