Recently, I have been watching the anime Gundam Seed Destiny ... a few episodes per day the last two weeks and finally managed to complete the series. While watching the series , I thought about a lot of things which were related to the complicated plot of Gundam Seed Destiny.
First... I will give a brief introduction to the characters and storyline of Gundam Seed Destiny:
Shinn Asuka
An emotionally troubled member of the ZAFT who moved to the Plants from the neutral nation of Orb after he lost his family in an Earth Alliance attack.
Cagalli Yula Athha
The daughter of a Uzumi Nara Athha, deceased leader of the neutral nation Orb. She is trying to follows the ideals of her father
Lacus Clyne
A popular singer with a sunny disposition who has a lot of political influence among the PLANTs, possibly more than Chairman Durandal himself
Meyrin Hawke
The youngest member of the bridge crew of the the Minerva, where she serves as a communications controller for its mobile suits.
Kira Yamato
A first generation Coordinator who works with Lacus Clyne to promote peace. He excels at mobile suit combat and uses his skills try to bring an end to the war
Athrun Zala
Son of deceased PLANT chairman Patrick Zala and a mobile suit pilot. A skilled and experienced veteran of the Bloody Valentine War, he is conflicted about his motives for fighting.
Storyline:
A peace treaty has been signed between the EARTH Alliance Forces and the ZAFT forces after the previous war which resulted in mass casualties from both sides. Cagalli, the representative of Orb, a neutral nation, was meeting Chairman Gilbert Durandal regarding the excess creation and storage of weapons and mobile suit. It was then when members of the Earth Alliance special task force known as "Phantom Pain" hijack three new mobile suits from the ZAFT armory base where the meeting was held. The Minerva , a new Battleship which has never fought any battles , along with its crew, Shinn Asuka, Athrun Zala, Rey Za Burrel and Lunamaria Hawke pursues after the stolen mobile suits and the Phantom pain. Several Coordinators which wanted revenge for the previous war, activated Junius Seven, a war memorial planet, and made it fall towards the Earth atmosphere. Although efforts were made by the Chairman and Minerva to break Junius Seven into smaller pieces and reduce the impact, the damage caused were still significant and this escalated into another massive war between the Earth Alliance and the Zaft forces yet again.
The characters' dilemma was covered in the series as they were confused over different things, such as the true intention of the war, who was the real enemy, who were they fighting against, and why were they fighting yet again.
And when i watched the series, I kept thinking.
Everyone has different points of view and opinions. Hence , who shall defines which one is right and which one is wrong? More often than not, we often try to persuade others to share our same thinking or ideals. Why? This could be that we wish to bring the situation more to our advantage or we do not wish to be 'alone'.
Different groups of people may wish for the same thing and they may share the same dreams but they may not neccesary share the same view. Their desired path to achieving the goal may be different hence the conflict between them. But I believe we should always try to consider where the other party is coming from before we actually deem them as 'negative' .
Conflicts existed before as seen from history, and I believed they are here to stay. After all, we are living in a largely democractic society where peoples' opinion are consulted.
Let's just hope that there will be peace in this world. =)
First... I will give a brief introduction to the characters and storyline of Gundam Seed Destiny:
Shinn Asuka
An emotionally troubled member of the ZAFT who moved to the Plants from the neutral nation of Orb after he lost his family in an Earth Alliance attack.
Cagalli Yula Athha
The daughter of a Uzumi Nara Athha, deceased leader of the neutral nation Orb. She is trying to follows the ideals of her father
Lacus Clyne
A popular singer with a sunny disposition who has a lot of political influence among the PLANTs, possibly more than Chairman Durandal himself
Meyrin Hawke
The youngest member of the bridge crew of the the Minerva, where she serves as a communications controller for its mobile suits.
Kira Yamato
A first generation Coordinator who works with Lacus Clyne to promote peace. He excels at mobile suit combat and uses his skills try to bring an end to the war
Athrun Zala
Son of deceased PLANT chairman Patrick Zala and a mobile suit pilot. A skilled and experienced veteran of the Bloody Valentine War, he is conflicted about his motives for fighting.
Storyline:
A peace treaty has been signed between the EARTH Alliance Forces and the ZAFT forces after the previous war which resulted in mass casualties from both sides. Cagalli, the representative of Orb, a neutral nation, was meeting Chairman Gilbert Durandal regarding the excess creation and storage of weapons and mobile suit. It was then when members of the Earth Alliance special task force known as "Phantom Pain" hijack three new mobile suits from the ZAFT armory base where the meeting was held. The Minerva , a new Battleship which has never fought any battles , along with its crew, Shinn Asuka, Athrun Zala, Rey Za Burrel and Lunamaria Hawke pursues after the stolen mobile suits and the Phantom pain. Several Coordinators which wanted revenge for the previous war, activated Junius Seven, a war memorial planet, and made it fall towards the Earth atmosphere. Although efforts were made by the Chairman and Minerva to break Junius Seven into smaller pieces and reduce the impact, the damage caused were still significant and this escalated into another massive war between the Earth Alliance and the Zaft forces yet again.
The characters' dilemma was covered in the series as they were confused over different things, such as the true intention of the war, who was the real enemy, who were they fighting against, and why were they fighting yet again.
And when i watched the series, I kept thinking.
Everyone has different points of view and opinions. Hence , who shall defines which one is right and which one is wrong? More often than not, we often try to persuade others to share our same thinking or ideals. Why? This could be that we wish to bring the situation more to our advantage or we do not wish to be 'alone'.
Different groups of people may wish for the same thing and they may share the same dreams but they may not neccesary share the same view. Their desired path to achieving the goal may be different hence the conflict between them. But I believe we should always try to consider where the other party is coming from before we actually deem them as 'negative' .
Conflicts existed before as seen from history, and I believed they are here to stay. After all, we are living in a largely democractic society where peoples' opinion are consulted.
Let's just hope that there will be peace in this world. =)
1 comment:
Hi!
This is a very informative list of characters.
By the way, welcome to the blogspot group of BlogCatalog.
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