Gundam Show Thread - MSG thru Witch from Mercury

[Seto Kaiba]

16 hours ago, Big s said:

Definitely tough to tell the male characters from the female ones. Just look for the missing upper lip and then you know it’s supposed to be an adult lady.

14 hours ago, pengbuzz said:

To me, the animation looked "dead"; I mean, it lacked something to it that I can't quite put my finger on. Yeah, they looked bored and all, but something important is missing.

I had a bit of an epiphany about this as I was getting ready for dinner.

Gundam SEED's characters mostly look the same because Hisashi Hirai's one of those designers who can only draw like six or so designs.  But at the same time, there's also an in-story explanation for why everyone looks the goddamn same.  Most of these characters are Coordinators.  Designer babies whose parents handpicked most, if not all, aspects of their genetic code.  They all look the same because the Coordinators, like the global elites who perverted the gene-repair tech used to cure reproductive harm from NBC weapons to create the first Coordinators, insist on engineering their kids to be good looking and the Lego Genetics way Coordinator gene tech works likely means all of them have the very same genes for generic good looks.  If everyone's a designer baby whose looks were tailored to the same beauty ideal at the genetic level, everyone's gonna look very similar as they grow up. 

That's also likely the real world reason behind the fertility problems Coordinators have.  It's glossed-over as issues of "genetic compatibility" between individuals... but Coordinator society is full of people who were extensively genetically engineered using the same templates for desirable traits, Coordinator genetic diversity must be in the freaking toilet.  It's entirely possible that many coordinators who aren't related in familiar terms are genetically close enough to be third or fourth-degree relatives.  Coordinators have fertility issues that get worse with each successive generation because they're technically massively inbred.  That might even explain why second and third generation coordinators like Shinn have volatile tempers and overall poor emotional control.

Even the Naturals have been subjected to much more limited applications of the same gene editing technology to repair the reproductive harm caused by the use of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons in the world wars before the start of the Cosmic Era.  So that might explain why even they don't look too different.

So it's bad design, but it's also unintentionally brilliant in a fridge logic sort of way.

 

16 hours ago, Big s said:

finally finished the last four episodes of the first seed series on Netflix. The glitch with the voices came back and one guy just had his lips flapping with no sound. There was another odd issue, where it seemed like the voice audio was far far louder than the bgm. Had to switch back to the Japanese audio again and the music was much louder. Hopefully that’s not a problem on the next series and there’s no more audio issues.

after watching Seed, I think I liked it far less than I did my first time around. I actually hate Kira. This dude just goes around crying about how he needs to protect his friends, then bangs their fiancés. I get that he’s young, but he’s also a coordinator and should know that 💩ain’t right. Don’t make friends with this guy, he’ll either get you killed or leave you with a lifetime of emotional scars to drive a therapist into therapy. 
Athrun wasn’t as bad since at least he wasn’t putting up with his bs. When he found out Kira was going after his leftovers, he banged Kira’s sister.

I'm not a dubs guy by any means, and with the quality of the SEED dub I'm tempted to make a smartarse remark about how no audio is the opposite of a problem...

Anyhoo... yeah, Kira is a very polarizing character.  The accusations that he's a godmode sue are not without good reason, and the reason Shinn failed to supplant him as the main character in Destiny has a lot to do (according to the creators) with Shinn being wildly unpopular.

That said, a lifetime of emotonal scars or death is par for the course for a Gundam character so I'm not sure he's necessarily any worse than anyone else in that regard.

[Big s]

38 minutes ago, Seto Kaiba said:

That said, a lifetime of emotonal scars or death is par for the course for a Gundam character so I'm not sure he's necessarily any worse than anyone else in that regard.

Yeah, but at least other main characters didn’t bang their friends fiancé or at least not multiple friends fiancés.