Originally posted by: DDBen

Are we watching the same series here!?!?!? Kira as well as everyone on the Arch Angel have spent multiple episodes talking about how they didn't know if they were taking the right actions. All they have done is protect whats important to them while they search to find out which side is really right so they know where to fight.

I simply have not seen at any point this power hungry dictator called Kira who's flying around trying to prove how cool he is. In fact the only one really doing that one is Shinn.
Mind you, I see what DDBen is getting at about him trying to find out where he should fight. Yes they fight to protect what is important to them, but they are stopping others from doing that very same thing. I never said Kira is power hungry nor trying to prove how cool he is or being like George W Bush. I won't get into politics here... Kira isn't trying to feed his ego either. But he is using his great MS and piloting skills, giving him more than the fair one-person say in things. His influence is strong because of his Seed and his MS, but he denies others the latter and most weren't born with the former.

And, regardless of how much they talk talk talk about "are we doing the right thing?" they keep going about it anyway. Maybe they're on the verge of some much needed character development or revelation about their purpose in the war, but so far they've been doing the same old stuff again and again.

Its not about "why" they're fighting, it's HOW they are fighting, Kira especially, that has people pissed...

Originally posted by: Motteh
i myself find it refreshing to have a main char who's not your stereotypical "good" guy
amen reverend. Noble selfless nice heroes are a dime a dozen in anime. Shinn's rashness, short temper, smugness with his power and impunity for others makes him stand out.

And I know what Lacus said, but that is also the very definition of narrow-mindedness...