Originally posted by: Jurojin
@DDBen: All I have to say to you is that you have constantly presented yourself as one who believes that Kira is infallable when compared to Shinn as a pilot, and constantly form very half baked opinions on both Shinn's character, and possibilties in the show. You refuse to acknowledge Shinn in the same leauge of piloting as Rau/Athrun/Kira/Mwu etc, and that skews every attempt of a hypothisis in relation to Kira vs. Shinn.
@iesu 350z: He's making these opinions on the belief that he's stated before that Shinn just can't possibly beat Kira. In the episode33 thread that got deleted, you'd see it for yourself. As for my quote, what the hell are you talking about?
Once again you are quite mistaken on my comments. However I will say this. If you have a extremely successful series such as GS and the Main Character in it who was Kira. Then you have many supporting Characters. The only other character who could be argueably a main character is Athrun as they focused a lot of the story on him as well. Now you make a sequal to the series and you decide to do this after you have basically placed both of these character in situations of living happily ever after(this is shown in the shorts that thye made of the GS characters that took place before GSD was even to be made). Now when making the sequal its unreasonable to then start killing off either of the 2 main characters from the first series who were both very well liked(heck they went as far as to create Neo as a result of killing Mwu being so unpopular I suspect). As such I do not believe when we have confirmed suits that EVERYONE knows about aka Strike Freedom and Infinate Justice that are clearly ment for the 2 main characters from the first series that any director would ever kill off either of these characters before at the very least the last 2 episodes of the series. As a direct result to those facts at this point I see no reasonable way the writers could or would kill off Kira. This results in the fact I believed that IF Freedom was to be destroyed to the point that zaft was convinced it was gone this would either result in another pilot(Neo being the only person on the AA capable of fighting at even a remotely convincing level to that of Kira). So you in turn with this episode have the AA trying to get away without giving Zaft what it wants(which is a excuse to further hunt either the AA or go after Orb(as the pilots from Orb on the AA would make wonderful press for invading the country). This leaves the solution of faking your own death and considering the Captain of the Minerva was also against destroying the AA which we saw absolutely no wreckage for after either blast(so it being hit is made severly unlikely). This in turn results in the fact that as Kira, who is undeniably a increadable pilot at this point, is very unlikely to have freedom destroyed in the manor it was portrayed.
This results in 2 possibilities in my eye's.
1: That the writers have officially decided that Kira has to go and are willing to kill him off in order to make Shinn more popular.
2: The writers wanted to make the AA and Zaft fight seem to be taken care of so they could further the storyline and introduce the new MS's in order to sell more models. The only reason Kira would get a better suit is because he was defeated in freedom. We already know Kira is getting Strike Freedom and if anyone thinks thats a spoiler I'm sorry but to me this is a fact that has been displayed in the series. Unless of course you think Calgari is getting Strike freedom to avenge her brother. So what better thing to do then have Kira fake his death, as done in GS where it wasn't so much faked but after the Athrun/Kira battle he was picked up by Lacus and given Freedom to replace strike. Thus utalizing something you already know your viewers will accept.
To me this doesn't even involve Shinn who at this point is doing nothing but acting completely insane at the moment. I don't disagree that they are depicting him as getting more skillful. I more of see this episode as showing that he's reached the limits of Impulse being useful to him as he's mastered it and it no longer would allow his skills to grow. In doing this they reasonably are able to introduce Destiny which Shinn will be piloting as this is GSD(estiny) and he is the main character. Right now the remaining part of the series is going to be about setting up the final battles and defining where each of the main and sub characters will stand in the final battle.
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