Beastro wrote: ↑Fri Oct 18, 2019 3:47 am
I have strong issues with pacifism, but I'm willing to try to understand the positions of many, but Ai's mentality is one that makes me think of CS Lewis' quote that pacifists only "help create a world in which there are no pacifists" and that I would eagerly wish to be the one to spare the world her presence by putting the bullet in the back of head myself if she was real.
Personally I don't see anything wrong with pacifism itself. It's good ideal in world that's history is full of wars, bloodshed and cruelty. I do question would you really be willing to commit murder just because some one's way of thinking irks you. I mean I don't see how that would be worth it for being put away behind bars or possibly being executed.
Si vis pacem, para bellum is my view on things, or as expressed in B5 "Don't start things, but finish them".
This might play into my reputation for excessive optimism and sensitivity ( ), but I'm going to give Ai a chance. She's well-meaning, if unconciously arrogant, and thinking that you know everything or that your viewpoint is just better is not unheard of at that age. She's just entered a whole new world, almost literally, only to find out that it isn't what she expected. Imagine signing up for Starfleet and ending up on Red Dwarf, or walking through the wardrobe in the spare room and ending up in Ankh-Morpork.
The review is 4 episodes in, so maybe she'll lose some of that naivety, or maybe some of her better qualities will come to the fore.
Glad to see some honest-to-goodness SF anime back on the menu! Hope folks will go and check the whole show out, I've always thought fairly highly of Planetes.
ORCACommander wrote: ↑Sat Oct 19, 2019 3:20 am
anyone else notice the trigun link is broke and i can not recall chuck actually publishing a trigun review....
Trigun is probably an upcoming review. Code Geass was in that listing on the side for a while before the actual review came out.
Anyway, as for this show, while there may be worse "first day on the job" experiences than what Ai had, having a man in a diaper land on your face crotch first is still pretty bad no matter how you look at it.
Planetes is one of those Sci-Fi shows that seems mostly plausible... till you play KSP and realize some scenes don't make much sense.
Like with the coffin. Ai was threathening to chuck it back into Earth or something. Except she has no way in hell of achieving enough of change in dV to accomplish that. The worst she could do is change the trajectory slightly enough for it to hit something valuable. Great work Ai.
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TGLS wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2019 11:08 am
The answer is simple: Ai's an idiot.
And this one would be true. Remember, Tanabe does not know what the abbreviation EVA stands for and yet still, she does have EVA-clearification. This isn't something that every Tom, Dick and Sakura gets, even by the time the anime plays at and yet still, she does not know what EVA means or even the basics of communications while being in space... I'm very much convinced, that she got to where she is, by external help, not by test results.
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TGLS wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2019 11:08 am
The answer is simple: Ai's an idiot.
And this one would be true. Remember, Tanabe does not know what the abbreviation EVA stands for and yet still, she does have EVA-clearification. This isn't something that every Tom, Dick and Sakura gets, even by the time the anime plays at and yet still, she does not know what EVA means or even the basics of communications while being in space... I'm very much convinced, that she got to where she is, by external help, not by test results.
Now, this actually does make a very small amount of sense, as they’re probably saying extravehicular activity in Japanese, while EVA is spelled in English. Naturally, as an English dub, this is completely lost.
TGLS wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2019 11:08 am
The answer is simple: Ai's an idiot.
And this one would be true. Remember, Tanabe does not know what the abbreviation EVA stands for and yet still, she does have EVA-clearification. This isn't something that every Tom, Dick and Sakura gets, even by the time the anime plays at and yet still, she does not know what EVA means or even the basics of communications while being in space... I'm very much convinced, that she got to where she is, by external help, not by test results.
Now, this actually does make a very small amount of sense, as they’re probably saying extravehicular activity in Japanese, while EVA is spelled in English. Naturally, as an English dub, this is completely lost.
That would make sense. This could very well be one of those cases were meaning or intent is lost in translation.
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), but I'm going to give Ai a chance. She's well-meaning, if unconciously arrogant, and thinking that you know everything or that your viewpoint is just better is not unheard of at that age. She's just entered a whole new world, almost literally, only to find out that it isn't what she expected. Imagine signing up for Starfleet and ending up on Red Dwarf, or walking through the wardrobe in the spare room and ending up in Ankh-Morpork.
