Carbuncle.Skulloneix said:
»Everything Kira pulls in SEED/Destiny is already 10x more HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE than anything anyone did in 00,
How? I remember That Kurdis Brat, I forget his name, dodgeing excellently and his super Sword to take try to take out the second Momento Mori was insane. Or how bout the Lock On Death Star run to snipe the small hole they made? And lets not forget Mr Bushido XD
Because Kira's plans are outright stupid. His grand plan to end war forever is literally to just bully everyone if they start to look at each other funny. He doesn't try to negotiate a peace, or find common ground; he just shoots them down and expects them to go home with no thought to what'll happen later, let alone once he's out of the picture. Destiny proved that his plans don't work since the EA and ZAFT went right back to developing new mobile suits and shooting WMDs at each other once Lacus and Kira went into hiding.
And don't even get me started on Aegis' self-detonation and the asspull that is shutting down the Freedom's reactor in the second it took Shinn to stab him.
Setsuna only dodges so well in s1 because the whole point was that the Gundams were so much more advanced than everything the power blocks had. As soon as they're on equal footing (once the Earth forces get the GN-X) Celestial Being get their ***wrecked harder than most villains usually do.
In s2 his dodging is because he spent the last 3 years having to survive on his own, with no base or ship to return to, while fighting off the A-LAWS. All he could do was dodge or die when discovered by patrols, because all repairs had to be carried out himself with nothing but the remains of enemy suits for parts.
And the Trans-Am Raiser Sword is just a glorified beam cannon.
How is using a sniper to hit a small target bad? And what about Mr Bushido?
Carbuncle.Skulloneix said:
»True, nothing in Unicorn to Ripp off tho? Or AGE? Not seen either.
Unicorn's gimmick is the NT-D system, which wouldn't work in CE since there aren't any newtype-specific weapons to counter.
AGE's unique system was the different equipment sets, which Destiny already tried with the Impulse. The only difference is that AGE suits swap out the arms and legs instead of swapping out the backpack.
Carbuncle.Skulloneix said:
»At least we can agree, Destiny failed to live up to what it COULD HAVE BEEN. Who knows what it would be, but almost anything we can think of would be better than how Destiny was handled, even at the cost of my Fanboy-ism being neutered. XD
I think you hit it right tho, something Stargazer-ish. CE could still be salvaged, maybe....
SEED as a whole failed to live up to it's potential, not just Destiny. To be honest, it needs a solid rewrite from the beginning of SEED, not just a good series to round it off.