Valyrian1124 said:
This protective gel for reentry is a pretty interesting idea. Seems like it could have a good use for protecting ships from incoming lasers.
billng said:Yzak is so evil, gotta love it
terrablu2003 said:Yzak must suffer greatly before burst, is a bastard!
supersayen said:why the hell did he kill those civilians ?
Are they forcing the drama ?
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CodeBlazeFate said:Damn Yzak blowing up those civilians
I don't get the hate for Yzak. We the audience knew that there were civilians on the shuttle, but Yzak had no reasonable way of knowing that. The only civilian bystander he was aware of was Lacus, and she had already been transferred off of the Archangel back into ZAFT's hands. Lacus was apparently not questioned as to what she saw inside the Archangel, so again ZAFT doesn't know that there were civilians from Heliopolis. Even if ZAFT had found that out from Lacus, ZAFT didn't know that the civilians were transferred from the Archangel to the admiral's ship. It's pretty reasonable to assume that a shuttle escaping from the admiral's ship is probably carrying key Earth Forces personnel, possibly the admiral himself. Rau Le Creuset apparently viewed the admiral as one of Earth's best admirals, so from ZAFT's perspective there is a good chance that he would have been on the shuttle. Militaries generally don't let their best men die when they have a chance to evacuate them.
The ONLY inkling of info Yzak received was Kira saying "No! Don't shoot!" (which could have meant anything, such as Kira trying to save other Earth officers). Yzak was also reentering the atmosphere in a machine that cannot survive reenty. He was under pressure to deal as much damage as he could before trying to escape and survive. This is war. Yzak can't stop for 5 minutes to think through all possible scenarios. He has to make a choice RIGHT THEN AND NOW and go, or else he's dead. In the situation he was in and with the information he had access to, shooting the shuttle was the right call.
Knowing the genre conventions of anime writing, yeah they're probably trying to make Yzak look evil, but in this instance it doesn't quite work, at least if you're adhering to Western standards regarding war.
emeraldrosary said:I hate Yzak for destroying the civilian ship. He thought it was full of runaway soldiers but even if he knew they were civilians I believe he would've shot anyway. That's just the kind of hot-headed slimeball he is.
I'm hard pressed to think of any nation during wartime that wouldn't pass up the opportunity to eliminate as many enemy personnel as possible, even if they were fleeing. That's a rather standard tactic (ie, shooting surrendering Vietnamese and Japanese soldiers, the Highway of Death, etc). That isn't to say it's morally right, just saying that it's nothing out of the ordinary when it comes to the standards for modern warfare. Then again, victor's justice and hypocrisy starts coming into play here, as nations regularly try and execute the people they defeat for "war crimes" while their own men who committed the very same actions get let off the hook.
NoviSun said:I figured the refugees were going to get it. ZAFT just lost whatever honor it had.
Even if Yzak had known beforehand, does the actions of one soldier reflect on the disposition of an entire civilization?
Thus far, it seems that ZAFT has the moral high ground in the war. Earth were the aggressors and wiped out an entire colony. We haven't heard of the Earth suffering from any large scale massacres, so it seems that ZAFT has most graciously refrained from responding in kind and wiping out Earth cities. If New York was hit by a nuclear weapon, you certainly wouldn't see the United States holding back.
lol that was a 5 y/o post I made. I just remember Yzak was rly dumb here, not even evil, just painfully stupid and reckless to the point of being dislikable, but I haven't even seen this damn show since then so idfk or remember the context well, I just know he did get better, eventually.