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gundam 00 season 2 episode 17
2 Feb 2009 02:13 amEver since last episode I've been really bothered by pretty much all of the characters. I don't know if it's intentional - I've given up on working out what's intentional in this crazy series - but all of the characters cite tremendously hypocritical reasons for fighting. Even the coup d'etat guy rubbed me the wrong way.
This all culminated with Andrei skewering Sergei this week, screaming "For the sake of my mother!!" Yes, okay, Athrun screamed that a lot too (though a different and longer version of it), but to kill your dad "for the sake of your mum"? When all he did was to stick to his duty?
Andrei's philosophy was already bothering me last week, when he sprouted, "I'm in A-LAWS so I can now protect what I want". What you want? Isn't that the whole problem with militant states? The soldiers have the right to protect/obtain what they want, at the expense of the civilians?
I mean, selfish reasons to fight are abound in Gundam. What Andrei said is not much different from the string of main characters we've had. But it's a bit rich coming from a guy dressed in A-LAWS' livery, accusing others of his own suffering...meanwhile laying waste to other people's homelands and killing civilians in thousands. It just annoys me because he feels that its enough justification for his actions. It annoys me in the same way that Shinn annoyed me - probably for the same reason.
Kira fights, and when forced to, kills, but at the end of the day he'll sit down and admit that he's destroyed someone else's life through an act of selfishness - or self-preservation. It's infuriating that Andrei should get so high and mighty about Celestial Beings and Kataron for "disturbing the peace" that A-LAWS so wants to build, when A-LAWS itself is destroying what little peace the civilians are enjoying.
He's no better than Saji, who screamed blue murder at Setsuna, but at least Saji had a moment of realisation when Kataron was attacked because of him. Andrei gets angry because he thinks Sergei and war have created his source of bitterness, but he has no qualms about creating sources of bitterness and suffering for others.
I hope that was an angry Soma in the end. Go kick his butt, gal!
This all culminated with Andrei skewering Sergei this week, screaming "For the sake of my mother!!" Yes, okay, Athrun screamed that a lot too (though a different and longer version of it), but to kill your dad "for the sake of your mum"? When all he did was to stick to his duty?
Andrei's philosophy was already bothering me last week, when he sprouted, "I'm in A-LAWS so I can now protect what I want". What you want? Isn't that the whole problem with militant states? The soldiers have the right to protect/obtain what they want, at the expense of the civilians?
I mean, selfish reasons to fight are abound in Gundam. What Andrei said is not much different from the string of main characters we've had. But it's a bit rich coming from a guy dressed in A-LAWS' livery, accusing others of his own suffering...meanwhile laying waste to other people's homelands and killing civilians in thousands. It just annoys me because he feels that its enough justification for his actions. It annoys me in the same way that Shinn annoyed me - probably for the same reason.
Kira fights, and when forced to, kills, but at the end of the day he'll sit down and admit that he's destroyed someone else's life through an act of selfishness - or self-preservation. It's infuriating that Andrei should get so high and mighty about Celestial Beings and Kataron for "disturbing the peace" that A-LAWS so wants to build, when A-LAWS itself is destroying what little peace the civilians are enjoying.
He's no better than Saji, who screamed blue murder at Setsuna, but at least Saji had a moment of realisation when Kataron was attacked because of him. Andrei gets angry because he thinks Sergei and war have created his source of bitterness, but he has no qualms about creating sources of bitterness and suffering for others.
I hope that was an angry Soma in the end. Go kick his butt, gal!
