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Dec. 16th, 2008 09:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pezGood to know I'm not the only one who thinks Code Geass >>> Gundam 00.
Code Geass = mind games, human weaknesses, politics (there's more of it in season 2), messing about with loyalties, Big Mistakes, ultimate betrayals, saying hurtful lies because the truth is even more painful, everyone having different motivations for the same goal.
Gundam 00 = stupid people and silly politics. Politics are always fun, but only if it's clever. I'm not buying into the stuff about an Arab country that still clings to old values but has a QUEEN. Amongst everything else. It's fine if people admit it's all just lol-tastic entertainment, but then people say "this is srs bznz look politics so clever"... same for the characters. The story'd probably be a lot more amazing if they don't keep using the token stupid character's stupidity in every episode. Why hasn't anyone shot Setsuna F Seiei yet?
Nothing wrong with G00 as entertainment - hell, I'm watching it too, it's entertaining - but please, it's not serious business. There are lots of clever bits, just like Code Geass, and CG has its own problems too, but G00 has glaring problems that just make me go ".......", because I'm the sort of person who requires completeness, especially when it's work done by a group of professionals. Quite often G00 had me thinking "that was yet another terrible plot device they just used..."
To me, Gundam Seed is also better than G00. I still have to pluck up the courage to watch GSD though.
And...
I've been wanting to ask this: why is it that in anime, whenever there are Chinese characters they are usually done in a certain way no matter what timeline or universe the story is set in? orz
Code Geass = mind games, human weaknesses, politics (there's more of it in season 2), messing about with loyalties, Big Mistakes, ultimate betrayals, saying hurtful lies because the truth is even more painful, everyone having different motivations for the same goal.
Gundam 00 = stupid people and silly politics. Politics are always fun, but only if it's clever. I'm not buying into the stuff about an Arab country that still clings to old values but has a QUEEN. Amongst everything else. It's fine if people admit it's all just lol-tastic entertainment, but then people say "this is srs bznz look politics so clever"... same for the characters. The story'd probably be a lot more amazing if they don't keep using the token stupid character's stupidity in every episode. Why hasn't anyone shot Setsuna F Seiei yet?
Nothing wrong with G00 as entertainment - hell, I'm watching it too, it's entertaining - but please, it's not serious business. There are lots of clever bits, just like Code Geass, and CG has its own problems too, but G00 has glaring problems that just make me go ".......", because I'm the sort of person who requires completeness, especially when it's work done by a group of professionals. Quite often G00 had me thinking "that was yet another terrible plot device they just used..."
To me, Gundam Seed is also better than G00. I still have to pluck up the courage to watch GSD though.
And...
I've been wanting to ask this: why is it that in anime, whenever there are Chinese characters they are usually done in a certain way no matter what timeline or universe the story is set in? orz
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Date: 2008-12-16 02:13 pm (UTC)True, but the only ones I liked were Orange, Gino, Cornelia and Guilford. Yay for side-characters!
Still not sure what happened to Xingke, might have died because of his illness.
Yeah, we used to laugh that Xingke and Hong Long are actually one person. And this season there's also Tytania with Dr. Lee...
*waves Orange fan flag!*
Date: 2008-12-16 02:15 pm (UTC)*SNORT*
Re: *waves Orange fan flag!*
Date: 2008-12-16 03:54 pm (UTC)THEY ALL LOOK THE SAME!!!
Re: *waves Orange fan flag!*
Date: 2008-12-16 03:55 pm (UTC)Re: *waves Orange fan flag!*
Date: 2008-12-16 05:23 pm (UTC)