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Originally Posted by wingdarkness
While the regulars already know my debate on Shinn from the nth power (for the newer Gundamfreaks which I have seen proliferating the threads--and I'm glad for that), you can't look at Shinn as a normal anime character...YOU CAN"T DO IT...Despite whatever hate you may garner, you can't ignore this...
Spoiler for The $hit you can't ignore:
Shinn Asuka is the only character in the history of literature (NOT ANIME) who was presented as the "new" main character of a work and had his entire ability to drive the plot totally taken away from him and destroyed while he was inauspiciously replaced as the driving force of a work ...I claim that he is the only character that has EVER been given this treatment in ALL HISTORY...Not one member of animesuki has ever been able to give me one work of art (whether it be movies, televised drama, novels, short-stories, Biblical lore, Greek mythology, ancient writings, etc) where an intended main character totally had his work stripped from him and his entire ability to drive the plot nullified...After ep 34 Shinn's actions create nothing that gives his character the ability to shape the actual DESTINY of DESTINY...He is reduced into a glorified side-character...a side character so sad that Rey, (Rey for God's Sake  ) was given a final development (In the last 3 eps) that trumped Shinn's 49 episodes worth of presence that yielded no conclusion in the original work...
Shinn will always be the ***asterisk-character *** in my book and I have taken on the challenge to defend him to the death (well forum death^^) because nothing in my entire life in-regards to viewing media has made me more bitter than this show and it's treatment of his character (Yeah and that means the lack of DESTINY intro poses too!)...THAT ALONE makes me disregard most of the joy I've had with CE despite my harsh criticisms (and I've enjoyed many a CE moment despite what many think)...Maybe some can accept a rose smelling like $hit, but a rose by any other name just isn't the same (If you watch it for just comedy, character cuteness, or fanboy l33t-crumbs good for you) ...And I'm glad that Fukuda and company will not have another chance to make things right, because I believe even a fool could have found a better way to transpose the sad-story that is GSD (Yeah and I mean despite delays, in-fighting, production woes IT STILL could have been better)...And it's not like Fukuda is blind to this as he admitted to GSD being a personal failure in many respects...
SO let Fukuda and his big-budget kill the CE off right in a blockbuster movie, because he doesn't deserve to do another TV series (Because he ruined his own universe in such a way that can't be recovered or repaired in anyway for my money) and whether or not it was totally his fault, he was the man in-charge and the head of Voltron has to take blame for the other lions not growling properly...Hopefully he does a great movie because his biggest defenders have said he's excellent when it comes to this and I'd like to see him prove it...So kill the trilogy talk because it's over...Be happy CE still has an animated spark left...
 So Vamoose.... |
You're wrong, WD. Gohan. After Goku "died" to cell, he was the one that should have taken over the fort. But nah, Goku came back better and badder than ever with his SSJ3 and Vegito fusion and kicked so much ass.
And actually, well, in George RR Martin's books, he regularly slaughters main characters =X.