The thing I just saw felt great: opening, (chara)designs, music, new geopolitical background (even if I was introduced to it at the end of 0083), Bright.
The Titans seems to be what I supposed it would be: an instrument of terror against the colonies. Glad to see it triggered a natural answer with this AEUG group except if it is only a bunch of terrorists. If not then great because it means Casval has chosen to follow a softer path for the spacenoids liberty rather than this newtype-only revolution he was talking about before.
It seems GMs have been replaced with some mass-produced Gundam and I wonder what is this MS model the AEUG uses.
All the nods to 0079 were very welcomed (sneak-in, ...) , and the immediate Newtype mentions means they will expand this idea too (I wondered if Char was a NT, I know now!).
BUT!
1) Camille (is Kamille the official romanization?): this boy is absolutely execrable!
- he has a terrible complex around his name,
- he is way too angry (but this will probably be explained later, so OK)
- he has more than a simple teenager problem with authority
- does he know what he is doing, and more importantly why?? Because I had not the slightest idea of what was going with him.
He's like a Char^1000. He would get very well along him who could never make his mind very long.
But since he is kind of a Bright fan, I can give him time.
2) his "friend": it is Fraw all over again, even more nerving. Fraw did evolve in a good way, but if this girl gets the same change she will still be a useless repetition.
3) ... can I pick Camille again? Seriously he better changes through the events. (I know Tomino and Yasuhiko are always saying Amuro never really developed through the original series, but I think he did.)
3/5 but promising.
I really wonder how Camille can be more appreciated than Amuro, I hope I will discover the reasons in the series. But in the same time, I never had a problem with Amuro (except when he went mad after Fraw Bow just as a pressure lowering method) and find him a very good character. And how is Char this popular? I like him too but his "changes of mood" were very very annoying in 0079. (particularly when he decided to be his father's insane ideology heir)
Sakarii said:Char's pretty cool though he acts like Lalah contacts him randomly. lol
He still has not get over the stronger connection between her and Amuro.
@SkyDrop Yes, "Char" is notably older: he was 19 in 0079 (20 at the end of the war) and he's now 26-27years old in Zeta (0086)
June 26, 2019
@Gytanzo "Did the captain really need to slap Kamille?" Oooh yes, yes he did. For the audience, for popularity, for success !! Or at least that might have been´Tomino's thought.
Do you remember when Bright slapped Amuro? "You hit me twice. Not even my father has ever hitten me !" Well, this moment is INCREDIBLY famous (there are shirts of it !), it got a massive response. There were a few later punches/slaps in 79 too. But probably in reaction to the big hit this legendary slap became, Zeta will feature slapS. And by that, I mean this will be a preponderant feature of Zeta: characters will often get "corrected", to a point where I wondered if the show wasn't actually making absurd fun of the thing (even characters talk about it if I remember well !).
About Camille, let's just say for now he's an angry kid with reasons.
About the Titans and the overall context, yiu'll get some informations. But isn't it great to have a director that doesn't take young peoples for idiots and spoonfeed his world or characters thoughts to them?
May 23, 2020
@St0rmblade Lalah is still roaming as she wants, as a "free spirit" connected to her "lovers", beyond the metaphorical haunting. This is slightly evoked here and there.
(not sure if you've read the bonus chapters of The Origin, but they're a nice epilogue addition and a fine transition to the heroes wherebaouts in Zeta)
What do you have against Bright? He's a young veteran and Kamille, a military student. Not so surprising, I thought.
About Fa... well, she'll get a "role" beyond being a confort zone.
Have a good time ! (better than mine, I hope) |