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Old 2012-07-24, 07:06   Link #21
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But we all know this series wouldn't end up with Flit killing all the Vegans. What we need to know is how will Flit end up in this series. Will he die? Will he accept the Vegans?
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Old 2012-07-24, 07:37   Link #22
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But we all know this series wouldn't end up with Flit killing all the Vegans. What we need to know is how will Flit end up in this series. Will he die? Will he accept the Vegans?
My prediction is that after re-capturing the Luna Base Flit and the others will go to Second Moon to hunt down Ezelcant and take the war to them once and for all, upon seeing the harsh conditions the Vagan civilians live under (and possibly see a few of them murdered by Fed forces he brought along) he will overlap this image with the Vagan invasion of his own home town he himself has experienced and with some talk from Kio and Asemu will mellow out and focuses his energy on killing Ezelcant and the Vagan military. After that he will fulfil his destiny of being the Messiah along with his family by bringing the Vagan civilians back to Earth peacefully (afterall he is the only real tactician out of the 3 protagonist with enough knowledge of actually doing anything proper) thus actually ending the war and protect his loved ones like he always wanted.
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Old 2012-07-24, 08:02   Link #23
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Thing is this supposedly a hundred year war. 70 years have passed 30 to go. Unless Flit goes to cold sleep he wont be around at a hundred and being enough to pilot a Gundam.

Which brings to question if Ezelcant has anymore contingency plans besides that tube guy.

We know the EXA-DB asteroid is still out there as well as Sid.
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Old 2012-07-25, 07:29   Link #24
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Well, it looks like we have to look at the Gundam Age game to know more about Flit in his teenage/young adult years. And it seems his rival will be Dole, which is the brother of Fram, which is the pilot of the mobile suit similar to Yurin's.
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Old 2012-07-29, 20:21   Link #25
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Flit is really gone now isn't he?

He's refusing to acknowledge any fault on the Federation's side and doesn't even want to understand anyone. Girard is a Vagan now and deserved to be exterminated, her reasons for defecting not-withstanding.

They're setting him up in a way that it's going to be pretty difficult for him to redeem himself. THat attitude of his is unbecoming of a Gundam pilot and protagonist. You don't have to be a naive idealist like Kio, or a Kira, but that attitude of unwilling to understand that the other guy is most often just doing his job, and being consumed by hatred is just wrong.
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Old 2012-07-29, 21:29   Link #26
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It's kinda funny (ironic?) to see him fight against Girard. Too bad she got the Thielva(?) than the Fawnfarsia.
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Old 2012-07-29, 22:03   Link #27
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Yeah, at this point Flit is akin to the likes of Azrael and Patrick Zala of Gundam SEED, the bad guy leaders of Gundam X, etc. etc. etc x infinitum. Even bad guys like Scirocco and Kagatie were more understanding and less raging like the raving border-psycho Flit Asuno. And look what happened to all those guys. (crushed by a waverider, crushed by debris, shot by his own subordinate, vaped by a positronic beam etc.)

He's going to need some serious b*tchslapping and major effort to make a comeback from this kind of low.
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Old 2012-07-29, 22:13   Link #28
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It'll be hard (logically) since (1) his upbringing has pointed him for that black and white outlook (UE is bad, I'm a Saviour (aka right)) (2) all his times he had been fighting. It's all been fighting the devil all his life, it'll be like questioning his whole life up til now to make him change his mind. And people, especially old ones, doesn't want to hear their life's purpose all along is very wrong.
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Old 2012-07-29, 22:56   Link #29
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Yeah, at this point Flit is akin to the likes of Azrael and Patrick Zala of Gundam SEED, the bad guy leaders of Gundam X, etc. etc. etc x infinitum. Even bad guys like Scirocco and Kagatie were more understanding and less raging like the raving border-psycho Flit Asuno. And look what happened to all those guys. (crushed by a waverider, crushed by debris, shot by his own subordinate, vaped by a positronic beam etc.)

He's going to need some serious b*tchslapping and major effort to make a comeback from this kind of low.
Has the enemy shown him anything otherwise? It goes both ways you know

In SEED there were moderate factions on both sides. In AGE...there's nothing on the Vagan side except we'll all follow Ezcelant's plan to the death even though it has nothing to do with saving us to begin with.

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After 42 I have a feeling the x-rounder psychic abilities will come into play and maybe open Flit up a bit. Though someone on the Vagan side will have to offer the olive branch first.
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Old 2012-07-29, 22:56   Link #30
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Flit is really gone now isn't he?

He's refusing to acknowledge any fault on the Federation's side and doesn't even want to understand anyone. Girard is a Vagan now and deserved to be exterminated, her reasons for defecting not-withstanding.
Because Vegans to Flit are Nazis. Heck Kio confirmed Ezelcant's a Social Darwinist. Even to this day Nazis even non-German ones are being hunted down.

Do not equate Reina's personal tragedy to the genocide that has been committed by the Vegans. The mere fact she stayed in the Federation military for a time means she let herself be bought.

In fact this whole revenge on the Federation is an overreaction on her part. Her beef is with a few officials not the entire Federation. Since she can't or rather dare touch those that hurt her by going public she lashes out.

Seriously this is bad writing. Do the writers expect sympathy with this sob story?

Flit if anything is consistent. To him traitors safety isn't his concern anymore. He purged the Federation of collaborators. He told Kio not to go after Shanalua and focus on the mission. Girard Sprigan in an enemy combatant.
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Old 2012-07-30, 01:04   Link #31
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Has the enemy shown him anything otherwise? It goes both ways you know

In SEED there were moderate factions on both sides. In AGE...there's nothing on the Vagan side except we'll all follow Ezcelant's plan to the death even though it has nothing to do with saving us to begin with.



After 42 I have a feeling the x-rounder psychic abilities will come into play and maybe open Flit up a bit. Though someone on the Vagan side will have to offer the olive branch first.
Yeah but they don't know that, and Zeheart is being moron and not listening to Asemu....for now.
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Old 2012-07-30, 02:11   Link #32
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Asemu should bring proofs like recording or detailing the Eden plan or something.

Talking just like that is not going to convince anyone.
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Old 2012-07-30, 08:43   Link #33
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In fact this whole revenge on the Federation is an overreaction on her part. Her beef is with a few officials not the entire Federation. Since she can't or rather dare touch those that hurt her by going public she lashes out.

Seriously this is bad writing. Do the writers expect sympathy with this sob story?
I don't get why this would fall into bad writing.

People who has bad personal experiences with the government will definitely say that the government is corrupted, even if not all government people are bad. With Reina, her love is lost. Even it is shallow or corny, I still won't think that it is an example of bad writing for this series with a straightforward story.

It is a standard plot, yes. But making things too complicated is not good for series that has a limited plot development time.

I would understand if her pet kitty dies due to the Federation experimenting it to pilot an MS. That would really be a good example of bad writing.
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Old 2012-07-30, 15:08   Link #34
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I don't get why this would fall into bad writing.

People who has bad personal experiences with the government will definitely say that the government is corrupted, even if not all government people are bad. With Reina, her love is lost. Even it is shallow or corny, I still won't think that it is an example of bad writing for this series with a straightforward story.

It is a standard plot, yes. But making things too complicated is not good for series that has a limited plot development time.

I would understand if her pet kitty dies due to the Federation experimenting it to pilot an MS. That would really be a good example of bad writing.
I think what the show is getting at more and more lately is that peoples personality and outlook in their later years are often defined by the experiences they had during childhood and it can often lead to conflict and a lack of understanding between even generations of the same family. This is a very real phenomenon that was discussed to quite an extent in my social sciences courses in University so I don't see any bad writing about it here even if it's obviously done in a very straightforward manner for the purposes of conflict in a kids TV show.

In Flits case his defining experience with the Vagans was seeing people like Desil murder innocent people like Yurin and his mother at an impressionable young age whereas someone like Kio's defining experience was meeting Lu, Girard and Shanalua and seeing the situation that the Vagan's and their cohorts have been placed in by a corrupt Federation. Big difference between the two and thus a big part of the the conflict of extreme ideals they are having now.

Also for the record obviously I don't think we're supposed to side with Flit here and frankly I don't even think we're expected supposed to side wholeheartedly with Kio given what's been shown and how his methods aren't really working the way he's going about them now. I think rather we're supposed to try to understand how their experiences have defined and will probably continue to define them as this conflict heads towards it's conclusion.
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Old 2012-07-30, 17:08   Link #35
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No we're not suppose to.

We're suppose to root for all three of them who will come together to save humanity.

I mean they really went black, white, and gray on all three of them it's not even funny.
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I don't think we're "suppose to root" for them; we have different approach on the series afterall. But their contributions to this war are the ones to look forward to.
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In Flits case his defining experience with the Vagans was seeing people like Desil murder innocent people like Yurin and his mother at an impressionable young age whereas someone like Kio's defining experience was meeting Lu, Girard and Shanalua and seeing the situation that the Vagan's and their cohorts have been placed in by a corrupt Federation. Big difference between the two and thus a big part of the the conflict of extreme ideals they are having now.
That's more or less it. Flit came the conclusion that the Vagan are all like Desil and therefore are monsters that need to be wiped out.

Thing is they aren't. Desil was the Black Sheep of the Vagan. None of them really liked him, he was this psychotic nutjob who liked killing and their cause was a conviently way for him to get his kicks. Most of the Vagan soliders seem to be like Zeheart. Honorable, but misguidedly loyal towards a guy that's basically fooling all of them.
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Alright I'm pretty sure I've watched most of the episodes but where in the world are you guys getting this "the vagans" are peaceful people and aren't monsters?

Since Flit's generation all they have done is destroy colonies and gun down innocent civilians.

When we finally get a chance to see inside of Vaga even the civilians' mindset isn't that much different from the military. They act like the Earthlings are on Earth laughing at them for the living conditions and such when the people weren't even aware of their plight to begin with.

The people on Earth had nothing to do with it. The Vagan's ancestors chose to leave the Earth sphere and when things went sour the Federation abandoned them but that was centuries ago. Even then Flit avenged them by purging the Federation officials who were involved in their plight.

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Honorable, but misguidedly loyal towards a guy that's basically fooling all of them.
There is nothing honorable in sitting in a chair on a battleship and firing barrages at innocent civilians on the ground who had nothing to do with their plight on mars.

It amazes me that you guys will cry that Flit is on the same level as Hitler yet hasn't really done anything while we have a group of people that are killing people left and right and you are willing to call them honorable. They have done nothing honorable throughout the generation. Zeheart only acted as he did out of friendship with Asemu and that's a different story.
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Old 2012-07-31, 01:02   Link #39
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There is nothing honorable in sitting in a chair on a battleship and firing barrages at innocent civilians on the ground who had nothing to do with their plight on mars.

It amazes me that you guys will cry that Flit is on the same level as Hitler yet hasn't really done anything while we have a group of people that are killing people left and right and you are willing to call them honorable. They have done nothing honorable throughout the generation. Zeheart only acted as he did out of friendship with Asemu and that's a different story.
This so many times.

We've seen time and again the faceless Vagan minions murdering civilians, also where is the honour in destroying an entire colony which Flit lived in? The only "honourable" Vagan thus far is Zeheart - but even that I'd argue otherwise - there is absolutely no honour in leading an invasion which rains death on civilians from above while you watch and nods in approval that everything is going to plan from your cult leader, whatever honour he had build up in Gen 2 just flew right out the window that moment. I thought Gato was bad when it came to blind loyalty but at least he only directs his fury against fellow soldiers, but Zeheart is at a all time low carrying out Ezelcant's orders on killing freaking civilians.

Then we've seen people like half of the psychos in Magician 8 or that fat commander who enjoys killing like it's playtime, I'm not sure they look that honourable either.

It's so funny that people seems to judge Flit by his cries of "exterminate" - which he hasn't actually carried out yet, yet they completely overlook the actions of the Vagan military.

Oh wait it doesn't surprise me - afterall that's how the UCist white-wash the Zeon, so easily fooled by the "cool dude".
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Sorry but to say that all vagans are monsters and deserve to be exterminated based on the actions of a few bad apples is just stupid.

It's an issue with the writing, but you have to assume that the majority of them aren't advocating genocide. There's probably people with resentment towards the Earthnoids like Dean but to go from that to everyone being psychos....
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