2010-11-21, 12:05 | Link #1841 | |
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That would pretty much gaurantee coordinators would be the "choosen people" though and naturals would turn into essentialy a slave race though since there genes would be alter so they were the best candidates for positions of power, prestige and wealth. I realize the genetic engineering isn't 100% effective but it works well enough to keep the naturals down and make genetic determinism a very benifical path to coordinators. |
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2010-11-21, 12:07 | Link #1842 |
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While a secondary problem, I also think that Gilbert's Destiny Plan not being expounded upon hurt this anime.
Something to keep in mind here is that the Coordinators are already well down the path that Gilbert wants to take them further on. Heck, that's a big part of what Gundam Seed's universe is all about - humanity being divided over using human genetic engineering on a massive scale (Coordinators) or choosing not to (Naturals). In some ways, Gilbert's ideas are just a logical progression of what the Coordinators are already doing. What I took from Gilbert's admittedly hilarious promotional video for the Destiny Plan is that people will be genetically engineered to be proficient at certain jobs (you'd engineer so many people to be good mechanics, so many to be good doctors, so many to be good soldiers, etc..., etc...), and so Gilbert's idea is that people will no longer need to worry about having lives that they're dissatisfied with (in the sense that everybody will be good at what they do). Or, at least, that's the sense I get. I don't know for certain because the Destiny Plan wasn't fleshed out enough, imo. The anime never makes it perfectly clear why the idea is as bad as Kira and Lacus make it out to be.
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2010-11-21, 12:53 | Link #1843 | |
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And well, good genes do develop naturally by well..err, Naturals, so while the Destiny Plan would benefit Coordinators yes, don't mean Naturals will get thrown out the window as well. Destiny Plan is basically...well, fitting people according to their "genetic destiny". Basically means if a person's genes fit for a certain job, then that would be his job. But of course, as many people would attest to, just cause our genes said so, don't mean we wanna take that job.
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2010-11-21, 13:38 | Link #1844 | |
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If anything, this solves the whole Natural-Coordinator conflict to a degree, which of course was Dullindal's intent anyway.
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2010-11-21, 15:00 | Link #1845 |
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Dullindal is just not evil enough...he should make million of his clone and throw the lines something like "the gene determines that I am the best ruler of this universe and I shall live/rule forever!!" Then the audience has the public enemy #1, shinn has the excuse to switch side, then the story would have been more exciting
Considering that this is not the "what if" thread, so I would stop here XD
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2010-11-21, 17:08 | Link #1847 |
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Let's just say this:
1 Kira Yamato is iving proof that the ultimate coordinator project is not impossible to achieve. So some time in the future, somebody may still rediscover the technology to create ultimate coordinators and perfect it to give a better success rate. 2. If they know what genes would be suitable for a desirable job, there's no stopping a parent from having their child genetically engineered to posses those specific genes. |
2010-11-21, 23:35 | Link #1848 |
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The main issue of the Destiny Plan isn't the biasness, it's the fact that they're taking away the people's free will, which is why Kira opposed it. Or at least, I'd prefer to believe it was that rather than "HURRDURRR, BECAUSE LACUS BABY SAID SOOOO"
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2010-11-22, 01:27 | Link #1849 |
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Well the biasness is a rather large problem with the Destiny plan but it's also the sort of thing that Lacus and Kira wouldn't have thought of either since they opposed the plan on the ethical grounds that it robs people of free will. The bias issue is more of implementation problem that would have probably required a level of acceptance of the destiny plan that they never had, before they would even think of it.
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2010-11-22, 09:57 | Link #1850 | |
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Based on what I heard, it's supposed to be a genetic caste system. It was explained in brief detail in one of the sidestory mangas, but did the series and the TV movies describe it?
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2010-11-22, 10:51 | Link #1851 | |
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2010-11-23, 08:47 | Link #1852 |
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they should have still made Destiny a story about Kira.. we barely know Kira's past aside from being an ultimate coordinator.. what if other experiments survived and wanted to kill kira?? they should have made it that way, really.. i think it was in the..
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i personally dislike shinn.. from the very beginning of destiny i was like "where is kira??" i really thought in destiny, they would delve in deeper into Kira's character and past |
2010-11-24, 10:23 | Link #1857 | |
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The problem with Kira is they switched over to him as the protagonist mid series because he was doing better in fan polls and I think they just sorta winged it from there since the orginal structure of the series was gone. |
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2010-11-26, 07:28 | Link #1859 |
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I dont agrre with those who says that's Kira fults if Destiny failed. I think, it's more Athrun fault than Kira's. Athrun had more screentime than him and for nothing. He made the same mistake than in the previous season etc...
Now, Kira has still a lot of potential. For exemple what about the ultimate coordinator project ? Kira is after all the only ultimate coordinator so why no one search for him ? What about Canard and Kira relationship ? etc...We need more development about the whole ultimate coordinator project. So I hope the film will be about that and not about again an EA against Zaft. |
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