@Rising Dragon: thank for the info about the other Gundam shows!
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Originally Posted by Skye629
And Orga.......does your Shiden have the NTD? Just curious rofl
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Haha, how cool would it be if it had, eh. But jokes aside, I wonder if his Shinden at least has the AV. I seriously hope they installed it on it, like with Shino's custom, because he will need all the helpful systems he can get when piloting.
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Originally Posted by Irenesharda
With McGillis and his talks with Almiria, its open for interpretation,but I took it more as him humoring her, but also telling her that one can be taken seriously in his world, even if one is a child.
Because really, that Almiria's real grip, that everyone considers her a child and because of that her status as a person really doesn't matter. They pass over her as if she's not really there. It's a mix of the aristocratic upbringing she has, plus the normal desire to grow up as fast as she can, that most little girls go through, that gives way to this.
Not being taken seriously because of age, is also a problem that all of out protagonists have had to and still do face. All of Tekkadan is still underestimated and talked down to by almost everyone, even people inside their own group of Teiwaz. Kudelia even at times isn't taken seriously because of her age and sex.
I think McGillis is just acknowledging this and putting it in a way for a girl like Almiria to understand.
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Such an interpretation, that Macky simply played along, is certainly possible, but I guess it's just the combined effect of his sitting Almiria down on his lap, his suggestion of free love for all and the forehead to forehead contact that left me creeped out. He made no slightest attempt to correct her rather disturbing interpretation on the matter of basically consumating child marriage (I think he could have interjected something like 'in a few years' or 'once you're a bit older', or, as a smooth talker that he is, he could have changed the subject a little, to make it less creepy and correct her a little, yet he chose not to), and I'm inclined to believe that it might have been intentional on his part. I think it shows, almost better than anything we've seen from him to date, just how sad and lonely a human being McGillis is.
In my interpretation, by playing along, he roped Almiria into sincerely supporting him and his ideas, and it shows how much he longs deep down to be understood and wants simple support and comfort from a fellow human being and is desperate for someone to talk to (talking about suicide with a kid? wtf, unless he's that desperate to have someone listen to him). He wants all of that even if it's from only a child who doesn't understand even a hundredth of what stands behind his words. It's tragic, really.
All in all, besides the lolicon creepeness approaching dangerous levels, this was my impression of the scene, and it didn't change after a couple of rewatches.
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Originally Posted by NBG
Sooo what was the deal with them talking about contracts for the farm and orphanage? Didn't really understand that scene.
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From what I understood from the talk between Dexter and Cucubita, besides the threat of being targeted by Tekkadan's enemies that Tenzen12 mentioned, Tekkadan's members also helped a lot with the farm as farm hands (seeing as Hush came to get them, and it was at least two trucks of the members there), but now that Tekkadan is preparing for a full-scale war, it can't afford to outsource its members to any other task, as it needs its every fighting member on the frontlines, thus cutting off its civilian business (the farm) and anything that can be a liability to their war (orphanage on said farm) so they can focus only on fighting. They still have the mine business though, but I suspect they're going to either put it on hold for the time being or have Kudelia's company do most of the management work temporary.
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Originally Posted by DMurphy
The thing that makes me headtilt a little about Shino piloting Flauros -- because he is definitely going to be piloting it, bar it turning out to not be AV compatible or something -- is that it's apparently a long range unit when Shino is decidedly not a long range fighter.
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Even Akihiro seems fine doing both long and close range (he usually goes into close combat when he's done sniping or out of ammo), and on the Makanai island Shino armed himself with two rifles by his own choice (nevermind that he got no chance to use one of them as it was destroyed right off the bat), so I believe he should be able to expand his style and handle it just fine - at least better than any of the other prospective candidates we have atm.
A couple of other random thoughts from me.
With how flabbergusted we all were, along with Chad
, at the Nadi/Merribit reveal, I only now realized that it's not just Naze and his girls (Lafter in particular) who will have to make a difficult choice in the not very distant future when Tekkadan and Teiwaz come into some sort of conflict, but Merribit as well, since even if she's a more or less Tekkadan member in spirit now, she's still an overseer from Teiwaz in position, and I wouldn't be surprised if the fur coat sexist clown tried to make her spy on the boys for him (not that she would agree, but it wouldn't stop a piece of trash like Donomikols)
Another thing I've just realized: Isuguri set up meetings for Orga with the representatives of every economic block's colony on Mars, right? That means there's a meeting with Kudelia's Scumbag Dad, too! Oh how I wish they could show us that.
if you have an account on Neogaf it would be very awesome of you to post it over there 
