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View Poll Results: Mobile Suit Gundam 00 - Episode 04 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 17 | 12.32% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 28 | 20.29% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 48 | 34.78% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 27 | 19.57% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 8 | 5.80% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 2 | 1.45% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 2 | 1.45% | |
3 out of 10 : Bad | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10 : Very Bad | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10 : Painful | 6 | 4.35% | |
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2007-11-03, 10:50 | Link #341 | |||
The Dark Knight
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: From the deepest abyss in the world, where you think?
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2007-11-03, 11:11 | Link #342 | |
I disagree with you all.
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And as for the American powerblock - I haven't exactly noticed the complete submission of South America to the US. Oh, and what about Russia and China? What do we make of them? And Middle East isn't irrelevant. Why do you think the Gulf Wars happened? I don't know what you mean by "as an area", or why you mentioned it at all. I was just pointing out that, whereas today's big countries make all kinds of plays to assert their influences on the Middle Eastern countries and their oil reserves, in 00, nobody really cares about what happens there. They have no oil anymore, and people have learnt to make do without anyway. |
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2007-11-03, 11:34 | Link #343 | |
Logician and Romantic
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Th Middle East in 00 is exactly the Middle East it always had been. Once upon a time it was wealthy because of its once-fertile lands. Then it was wealthy because of the silk and spice routes between East and West. And currently it is wealthy because of oil. But conflict had always been there. The amount of money in the economy merely alter the scale of fighting. The current 00 Middle East is poor. But the fighting continued, because the feuds had been going on since before even the discovery of oil. This is consistent with our world. The Middle East isn't unimportant, exactly; every piece of land on the Earth has value. However, the nature of local politics and instability means outsiders wouldn't want to get involved unless they feel they absolutely had to. If people don't care for it, then it is unimportant and irrelevant. (When is the last time you seriously considered how instability in nations like Ethiopia might affect your nation?)
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2007-11-03, 12:15 | Link #344 |
I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
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And that's my point.
The Middle East may not have changed, but its importance to the rest of the world has. Nowadays, people care about what happens there. It's relevant to quite a few things, including what people pay to fill their cars' tank when they go to work. In 00, they don't, and it isn't. |
2007-11-03, 12:42 | Link #345 |
Gaijin
Join Date: Jul 2007
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The best example would be the fact that all of a sudden after hundreds of years of intense hatred and violence that Celestial Being was able to create peace in Ireland after a week of showy violence. It was just plain ridiculous, I'm half Irish and I've done quite a bit of study in the area, and I couldn't stop laughing.
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2007-11-03, 13:25 | Link #346 | |
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2007-11-03, 14:41 | Link #347 | |
The Dark Knight
Join Date: Dec 2005
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As Lockon just pointed out, they are simply keeping low to avoid getting blasted to bits by CB. The moment CB falters, they'll go right back at it. That's kinda why we hear the Gundam pilots talk about how "It's not easy to eradicate war." |
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2007-11-03, 17:25 | Link #348 | |
Gaijin
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: New York, NY
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I never got around to watching Gundam before, it never interested me. So I really couldn't have any expectations beyond the fact that robots were going to fight each other. This season I decided that as a fan of anime I should at least watch one of them and this one looked pretty at least.
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2007-11-03, 17:28 | Link #349 | |
The Dark Knight
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However, we are talking about 00's world, not our own so there are things that are stretched for simplicity and dramatic and story-telling purposes. Why they choose the IRA I have no idea. Marina's advisor even noted to her that if she doesn't find a way to get the country back on track, CB will appear. It seems that the general idea is that if there's some strife going on, CB will intervene. I suppose the IRA and the other organizations or whatever simply don't want some giant gundams to appear and start smashing their cities. How that would happen I wouldn't know. In fact, if it makes you feel better, that's what everyone's saying. Sergei, "Do they really think they stopped a 300 year conflict with a single armed intervention?" Last edited by SoldierOfDarkness; 2007-11-03 at 17:42. |
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2007-11-03, 18:46 | Link #350 | |
Logician and Romantic
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What matters isn't where the power is coming from, but that power is coming out.
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2007-11-03, 19:01 | Link #351 |
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I think the idea is that CB's strategy represents "shock and awe" working effectively... Besides CB has no reason not to conduct quasi-terror acts in their intervention, such as laying waste to civilian infrastructure. This may not solve conflict outright...but everyone will want to lay low
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2007-11-03, 19:06 | Link #352 | |
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2007-11-03, 19:27 | Link #353 | |
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I think the whole purpose of Celestial Being is to polarize the world ... sort of like a counter weight that forces the rest of the world to put aside their differences (if only temporarily). That said... it's probably a fundamentally flawed strategy that sounds like it'd probably devolve into some huge arms race. |
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2007-11-04, 01:57 | Link #354 | |
I disagree with you all.
Join Date: Dec 2005
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And while I agree that people do care about getting their energy, I think the elevators' situation is somewhat different from today's Middle East's. For one thing, the Big Three don't seem to have to step on eggs when protecting their interests. Their control over the relevant regions is much firmer. Maybe it's because, while there are more than three oil wells in the world, if you lose an Elevator, you're pretty much done. |
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