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[Apollo][Gundam Zeta] thoughts on ep17 as I walk back to the dorm. TLDR I hated it
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four is interesting I guess
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but... fucking hell. this ep was insulting
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beltorchika is an incoherent, nonsense character and I hate her in both the "I dislike her" and "she makes the show's writing worse" way
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everything interesting about kamille is fading into the background and he's being written like amuro 2 in most respects
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and then, fucking, Mirai. take a great character with an arc about how she's a human being and not a measure of her fiance's worth and turn her into a character with no traits other than "mother and wife"
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it's frustrating since Tomino can do better than this. the women in the main cast of 0079 were well realized thoughtfully written characters
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he fucking chose to be a lazy misogynist in zeta's writing
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this is going to bug me through the rest of the show if it keeps up and I'm not sure if the good moments will outweigh the bad feelings the show is leaving me w/
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any zeta watchers have input?
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(ollying out imminently FYI)
化けの花
i didnt react as viscerally to it but i think if this is how it's landing for you so far you are probably not going to warm up to it
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because the weird fucking gender shit in zeta is not going away
oh i'm scary
yeah I'm gonna be honest, in terms of unhinged opinions about women you ain't seen nothin yet
Dragons Dragons
yeah as good as zeta is when it's good, it is increasingly weird about women and the entire cast suffers from it
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clockworkbrain: tbh it's not just the misogyny
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the only non-static characters are amuro, kamille, and emma
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emma got left in atmo and we haven't heard from her
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kamille's development has swerved toward making him amuro 2.0
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and this is not amuro's show
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i understand that tomino wanted to do more w/amuro's character but if he just wanted to develop amuro, why introduce kamille at all
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every other character is totally static, no changes as the show plods along
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while in 0079 the cast evolving and reacting to the war was a key part of the appeal
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if it was just one of these factors i'd bear it, but both the misogynistic writing and the lack of actual character arcs is driving me up the wall
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how is zz comparatively