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Originally Posted by DonQuigleone
Also, Transformers is a poor example of Mecha. For one thing, it lacks Pilots. The pilots in Mecha are an important element, as it humanizes the whole thing. In fact,
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Yet having robots show humanoid emotions and actions is not humanizing, if not that than the interaction between robots and humans on equal level is
Viewers seeing 'living tin cans' in the same light as if they were portrayed as human actually makes this a very succesfull implimentation
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Mecha is kind of like Chivalric Romance in Space. It hearkens back to a time where armed conflicts were largely decided by single battles between "heroes". By underplaying the role of mass formations, and elevating the individual, Mecha makes war narratives "glorious" again. The Giant Robot allows the individual to stand out among the faceless masses.
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Irony in th fact that chivalry never existed, 'knights' being noblemen too heavy to actually do combat and glorious battles being bloody fields of slaughter and gore where poor buggers died for a meager salary and were more expendable than the arrows they fired
Ah the old saying "as time goes by, a memory will become more beautiful"
