Murderous dictators do not become benevolent leaders just because "the public eye is on them." They don't become benevolent leaders because the social order is destabilized. That was the entire point I was making: Rustal is NOT a benevolent leader, and he more than likely will never becom...

Yeah, I don't disagree, and if anyone were sitting around calling those endings "realistic," I'd be laughing at them, too. As I've said before, realism isn't the spectrum on which the quality of this series (or any Gundam series for that matter) rests, and the epilogue being ridiculously i...

The concept of Rustal leading Gjallarhorn into being an idealized democratic organization is farcical, whether it's an overnight change of heart, or whether he's "forced into it," it's equally nonsensical to his character, to his leadership style, and to the status of the world at the end...

You know, for all the talk about how "realism doesn't matter", you guys sure seem fixated on the idea of Rustal getting swift, abrupt karma for his actions. You're making it sound like you wanted a bolt of lightning to rip its way out of the crystal-clear sky and fry him. I'm the one that...

Yeah, I don't think any of the legitimate criticism I've read of the ending is bothered by the fact that it was or wasn't happy enough, or by the "realism" of the situation, or lack thereof. Those things are all completely separate from the mess tonal inconsistency, characters behaving cou...

-I mean, really, show us some more in-depth-cockpit shots of impaled pilots and their last dying words! It seriously got old to the point that I don't even care or feel sorry anymore. It felt artificial. Say what you want about "beam spam" (why is this even a bad word in some Gundam fan c...

So many plot points in the ending just derive from nothing. Rustal winning doesn't bother me, but he went from a paper-thin character to a self-contradiction at the drop of a hat. His insistence that all of Tekkadan must die plays into nothing at all, in the end. It was just an excuse to hang a las...

Yeesh. I was expecting it to be bad, but I wasn't expecting quite THAT bad. Overall, I feel like Season 1 started strong, meandered a lot through the middle, and then picked up again at the end. I know the early parts of Season 2 aren't well-liked by many but I enjoyed it up until the last four epis...

The nature of the question is inherently a little outside my way of thinking about it--I'd much rather see a show survive by its quality than by its toy line. That said, I think what's most important to getting the same kind of cultural footprint would be doing something innovative enough capture th...

It wouldn't take a large weight of explosives to turn a shuttle into decent bomb--even by 2017 standards. The tradeoff in maneuverability for destructive power would be a minimal loss for an enormous gain. As for having them be something that is there but needs to be armed, it's possible, but there'...

Yeah, I can't consider the victim of child rape "lucky" to be in their situation, even if the alternative is desperate poverty.

I haven't liked the direction they've taken UC in for (at least) the last several years, so I'm not especially optimistic. I'd love to see it turn out well, or at least get some good Gunpla out of it.

I'm not being antagonistic with you sdwoodchuck, but you seem to try hard to make your opinion a fact, especially with the writing part of the show. Its one thing to disagree with the writing of the show, its another thing to say the writing should have gone like this because you think it should ha...

sdwoodchuck, you're either a troll or just silly. Re-read your posts. You've focused and obsessed over Hush for a few pages now. Your only rebuttal? It was bad writing and the writers probably were forced to change their original plans. That's the strength of your ability to "discuss". &q...

I definitely didn't want him to be a major player--I was of the opinion that Season 1 already had a slightly bloated cast, and I'd have preferred less newcomers. I'm fine with Hush being a side character; I'm just saying he's not a particularly well-written one. It's a pretty simple statement; if pe...

Hush's character arc is too abbreviated? Ok it seems like you were one of the writers. Saying his character arc was abbreviated is just general criticism; it has nothing to do with "being one of the writers." If you're going to take a childish tone about a simple discussion and disagreeme...

Yeah. He didn't save Hush this time. Telling him to retreat when he's mortally wounded and literally can't move would be some goofy-ass writing. Mika acknowledging Hush is a checkmark in Mika's development. Hush's character arc is too abbreviated for what you're describing to work. He gets set on hi...

Ultimately Hush was recognized by Mika not only as someone to protect but as a capable comrade hence why he "left that area to Hush" eventhough he knew he was dead/dying. Ultimately he was recognized as a capable pilot. I thought Mika was just saying nice words that one would say to a dyi...

This final really just depends on how attached you have gotten to these characters over the course of 49 episodes. I have grown to love these characters and thus, I am fully invested in the final. Yet I can see how this falls flat for some, but I want to Raise my Flag and let it be known that I lik...

If Hush was written as a character who was in over his head, I'd agree with you. Unfortunately, that's really not how he's written. He has the beginnings of a tragic arc, and then he gets shoved into the background until he dies. It's not that he's cut out to be an ace pilot (that would have been a...