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Old 2007-09-10, 06:00   Link #91
brolycjw
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So? Brightman was talking about how the Gundam shows of the '90s were made with the same technology as the shows of the '70s and '80s. How does what you posted relate to that?

My aside was just to observe that most current shows are still technically hand-drawn. It's not an argument of any sort, so there's no point in trying to refute it.
Still, the animation of CE being better than UC is debatable anyway. Character designs in UC were unique, and all characters have very different facial features, appealing or not. While characters in CE have the same faces, with the only difference being the hair, hair color. eye color and gender, totally unrealistic when people in real lives can look so different. Let's not even get started about the mobile suit designs in CE, Dragoons idea taken from funnels, Destiny Gundam's wings of light copied from V2 Gundam, Gold plated Akatsuki copied from Hyaku Shiki, gold plates which deflect beams copied from V2 assault gundam, barrier generated originating from fin funnel barrier of Nu Gundam. I feel sorry for the original gundams, talk about a lack of creativity and plagiarism.

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Your logic is backwards. Usually speaking, a weapon is specifically banned because it's considered to be too powerful. By the way, just because a weapon has been banned by treaty, that doesn't mean that countries can't use them.
Your view is myopic. The effectiveness of a weapon does not depend on the destruction it causes, the reason nuclear weapons are banned is because they cause mass destruction to innocent civilian lives, and when both sides have nuclear weapons, using them would utterly destroy each other and nothing would be left, defeating the purpose of war.

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Not entirely. Realism a relative scale, and it's one that isn't all that hard to measure. Mobile Suit Gundam may be the most realistic of the UC TV shows, but it's still got the monster-of-the-week mobile armors and the psychic warriors. Whether it's more realistic than Wing is very much subject to question.
Yet, UC gundam series show a much more accurate portrayal of war, no one benefits, even the good side. Many side characters were killed in action, without much drama, just bam! dead. In CCA, even the two protagonists died. Few side characters died in the entire span of AU and CE, and even when they do, a big fuss is made about them. And Kira was simply being immature and retarded when he refused to take lives, as several great ms pilots said, having mercy for your enemy is endangering your own life. Usso killed the person who taught him that, despite his utmost respect for him. Even at 13 yo, he understood that logic, unlike another whiny 16 yo we all know. When your enemy goes to war, they are prepared to lay down their lives, if they lose and get killed, they deserve it. Furthermore, innocent lives might be lost if they enemy side is intending to cause harm to the population. Kira is the least realistic in terms of character if you want to argue about realism. I know this is going out of topic, but you kept referring to the pilots in UC series anyway.

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