I’ve never seen anyone bring this up, but Murrue did alright in the Strike. She held out well, considering the circumstances. In the first place, she isn’t a pilot. Furthermore, the Strike is minimally equipped and its OS is incomplete. Finally, she’s suffering from a gunshot wound.
Even so, you can see that her movements rapidly improve. I think that’s fairly impressive. If she were not wounded, I do think there is a non-zero possibility that she could win.
On that note, Kira didn’t need to intervene when he did; the Strike’s phase shift armour should have deflected even the next thrust. I would have preferred that Murrue’s wound catch up to her before we must have our shounen protagonist take over from the strong female character, you know?
At any rate, I’d love to see an AU in which she alone reached the Strike safely and became its pilot under Natarle’s command. That would be a very different history, which I find interesting to think about.
Finished Gundam Seed after 20 years, and here are some thoughts no one asked for:
- There's so many nepo babies. So many.
- Yzak gives off poodle vibes but a poodle that has eye crusties and may or may not be feral.
- Teenage drama in a warzone. I feel bad for the officers because they are also fairly young with bad interpersonal skills.
- Athren is running around driving a Gundam and Ferrari. Driving the Ferrari to his fiancée's house. ON A DRIVERS PERMIT. He's 15. When I was 15 I was lucky to get dropped off at the mall.
- Also, Athren gives off rich private school kid who played/plays tennis at his high school.
- These kids can be aged up to 18 year old university students, and the story would still make sense. Some of them are overly mature (Athren), and some of them are put into uncomfortable adult situations that make more sense for older teens.
- Okay, moving on, when Murrue told the kids to follow her until she could find someone else to figure out what to do with them—I don't think she ever thought that the authority figure would be her. It was so interesting watching her freeze and get challenged by Natarle. She clearly didn't want to be there but had no choice. It was fun watching her grow into her role.
- Everybody's fairly young. All the officers are in their 20's. Mu is 28, and Murrue and Natarle are 25 (occording to their wikis). It's like a bunch of 20 year olds (majority age of tumblr) trying to corral a bunch of 14 year olds to complete a single goal, and not get blown up in the process. Nightmare scenario for them.
- I forgot how sexist the early 00's were. It was cool seeing Murrue and Natarle brush it off. It gave me agent Carter "I know my value," energy. Y'know because sometimes when I'm in those situations, it's harder to brush off and not feel like shit.
- It was interesting seeing futuristic fashion ideas mixed with early 00s fashion. Sai, with his fire shirt/00s glasses/hair. Then, Natarle, whose style was clearly inspired by Trinity from the Matrix in her first scene (come on, the hair/long jacket/sunglasses).
- Walter's wife srsly looks like a Pokémon gym leader. Okay, and it was a choice to put a topless pic (I mean, it was clear, right?) of Walter's dead wife on his desk where everybody could see.
- The artists were really thirsty for a fighting robot show. Are all Gundam shows so thirsty? This was my first and most revisited one.
- Lastly, the original Ocean dub is still the best.
Many people are God, usually in a universe no bigger than their own minds, all-present, all-knowing. And yet, impotent outside the confines of their heads. And what God cannot do, men will attempt.
Patlabor 2: The Movie (1993) dir. Mamoru Oshii
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