neko’s thinkbox

Here comes the family photo! 3, 2, 1… Cheese!

Hmm… I don’t really know what to say. What I do feel right now… Well, it’s some kind of a void. Something is missing. I’m somewhat confused now… Yes, the end was rushed as hell indeed. But… was it really THAT bad as many people say? I’ll try to gather some facts and thoughts on this. I strongly encourage you to share your views on GSD as well so I can maybe understand a few things better, and to correct me if I misunderstood a few things.
This time I’ll exceptionally do a very short summary of the plot, as I find it important to recall a few of the happenings that took place in the last episodes. You can wait for the thinkbox in the next entry if you want.

As always, I skipped the Opening song, because there’s an unbearable amount of FAIL, as I explained in an earlier post of mine. Except for the last episode, where I usually watch everything for the last time, for the nostalgia.

Where’s Candlejack when you need hi-

So… ZAFT attacks Orb, thinking that they harbor Djibril in side their country. Amongst all the chaos, Jona gets crushed by a Mobile Suit. I found that scene so hilarious that I watched it over and over again, mohahaha. I’m being bad I know. Anyway, during the whole battle, everyone noticed Djibril’s ship flying away, but only Lunamaria could chase it. Wasn’t he… everyone’s enemy? Even so, they’re not going after him? Ooookay… (And Lunamaria’s skills suck, for a Red Coat. Geez.)

Better than curveball!

Djibril, on the far side of the moon (Tsukihime anyone? ^^), fires a powerful laser weapon, the Requiem, that curbs around some magnetic portals or gates and destroys a few Plants - his original plan to hit the capital failed since our guys Yzak and Dearka unintentionally messed a bit with one of the portals, ruining the aim of the laser. Now… all of a sudden, this happened. I mean, if that Djibril already possessed such a powerful weapon, why didn’t he make use of it earlier? That’s a bit… well, whatever. Fact is, they’re playing right into Dullindal’s hands.
Well, soon enough, our known Minerva crew will dispose of Djibril and the people in charge of the Requiem (without destroying it though). And under normal conditions, the whole conflict would be over.

Mr Dictator in person.

However, it’s only about to start. Dullindal reveals his Denta… Destiny Plan that defines the lives of every newborn child from birth on through specific modifications in the human genome - while completely eradicating the genes that might cause conflict amongst the people. So to say, it makes them believe that it’s worthless to fight. However, the unspoken words say that Dullindal would become everyone’s leader, and he’s be… yes, the Führer. He’s the Mussolini, the Hitler of the Cosmic Era. His charismatic words in numerous appearances on TV make of him a leader whom noone will ever doubt of. Fearing no consequence from his population’s side, he makes use of the Requiem himself and orders to fire at the different army bases of the Alliance, sort of a ‘preventive measure’, in case of, while still condemning those who aren’t complying to his plans.

In the meantime, well… We need to part from a totally unimportant character, Meer ‘fake Lacus’ Campbell. She died, great. That’s all there was to say. Yet, the producers have decided to waste another half an episode in addition to the whole shopping episode on such an unimportant character. If at least she hadn’t been shot at, we wouldn’t have to endure the torture of reading her boring diary.

Lacus: Just die. You sucked anyway, Meer.

And then it’s the end already, the Archangel, the Freedom and the Justice destroy some gates and eventually get rid of the Requiem, then go to ZAFT’s Messiah fortress, evade the completely unexpected Neo-Genesis (a miniature of that huge ass weapon from the last episodes of Gundam SEED), and destroy the Messiah. Erm… Well, somewhere during all that chaos, Neo suddenly remembers that he IS in fact Mwu la Fllaga, Kira fights Rey who turns out to be Raww le Klueze’s clone, did I forget someone? Oh, yeah, the very end: Talia Gladys, the captain of the Minerva, creates a Family meeting inside of the Messiah with Rey and wounded Dullindal, before they all die in the collapsing and exploding building. Mankind has been saved from a lethal threat once again, the end? Wow that was fast. Well, on to the more serious things now.

Fission Mailed!

As I said earlier, the thinkbox will be in the next entry, which I will have finished in a few minutes (or in an hour, depends), once I found some good screenshots.