[I Fail at Life]

Originally Posted by Haak

Episode 36

It's just one guy for crying out load. A whole military base can't capture one guy?!?!

Well the plot keeps thickening. I don't mind the direction it's going that much but I wish it would do it better.

Personally I don't know what Athrun was thinking when he decided to argue with the Chairman. The holes in the Chairman's reasoning are obvious. If Archangel is on their side then he expects them to come to him and if they don't then he can destroy them. I think the obvious solution is for ZAFT to try and contact Archangel for negotiations. Athrun could have easily pointed that out and yet he didn't. Maybe he realised the Chairman's real side then but we don't know and that's the issue. Like I said, I don't know what Athrun was thinking so i don't know what the story is trying to achieve. Was the story saying the Chairman's rationale looked reasonable on paper but Athrun knew otherwise or is the story saying the Chairman's rational had obvious holes but Athrun didn't feel the need to push?

Episode 37

And thus Athrun survives. Cue surprise from absolutely no one.

Well at least Meyrin survived too. I'd have been incredibly pissed if they let Meyrin die.

I hope Shinn becomes a full blown antagonist now. He'd make a great antagonist.

Spoiler for @ monster:

Re-arranged somethings due to overlap





Yes but still. The way they acted with it seemed very much like something they knew was going against their principles, and that principle in question was their ideals.



And I made it clear that it's false equivalence and fanwanking anyway. The fact is that they didn't keep with their ideals and broke it completely. That's what I'm complaining about. Talking about how they could have is just even more annoying to me, because that's what I would have want to have happened.



My whole point was that it was out of character...



And neutrality is justification for that. Because they are neutral, they can justify their non-aggression and justify their right as a sovereign nation.



He did not fail to uphold the ideals just because the Earth Alliance invaded. Even if everyone had fought to he last man, the Earth Alliance would have ultimately invaded.

That aside, what sort of fundamental change would you be expecting if those ideals were fundamental and the Earth Alliance had still managed to invade?

The former.