I can't believe we went through all that build up just to off Gihren the same way Tarantino offed Hitler in Inglorious Bastards lmao.
One of the recurring themes in Gundam, as a franchise, has been about how the new world keeps getting strangled stillborn by those clinging to the old world, by the Oldtypes who keep forcing Newtypes into the pre-existing power structures and status quo, who insist on weaponising their abilities. That's kinda here in full force, complete with Chekov's guns and all. Kycillia's the usual fascist nonsense, but the show did a pretty good job of explaining it's allure through Nyaan's story- though it does make me sad to see home girl fall for it and pull the trigger on the Space WMD. Challia's perspective, at least, is grounded in his own personal trauma from having stared into the cold, unfeeling void of space- the closest to heroic we're going to get, he bequeaths on to Machu the freedom to act to prevent mass death. Beard Man is getting up there in favourite UC characters now.
(Khara you're not slick making the most queer coded guy in the show say that line. Subtext is for cowards, y'all better gimme sloppy Char x Challia make-out sesh by the finale)
Next week:
The weapon itself was a shock to me. What did that actually do? It didn't just destroy A Baoa Qu; it will have consequences. But what?
With how short this show is going to be, we'll probably never know.
Kycilia's handling of Gihren was masterful. She's also Char in CCA-maxxing, but it's always like that with the Zeons.
The parallels in both Macchu and Nyaan getting guns gifted to them, one given a push, and the other "do what you want" is interesting.
Challia Bull is amazing, as most people who have seen G-Spam Gundam agree.
The introduction of seasonal Anime around 2007 had terrible consequences in the world of anime.
Resonates a lot with themes in the older shows about how the younger generations need to be given agency to decide their path toward the future.
The only shows that'll get an extended run will be the popular battle shonens of the moment lol
and like, the slightly competent romcoms.
It looks like it's a black hole gun- Nyaan opened a hole in spacetime and gravity + the energy released did it's thing? It wasn't clear if there were other effects tho, I dunno if half of A Baoa Qu got teleported to another universe or what.
As always, the problem comes back to capitalism.