Gundam Gquuuuuuux‘s Remixing of the story of the 1979 anime classic has had to dance Around some pretty major players as it weaves in a cost of a new generation of post-star-sportsenoids and OBSCURE FAVES From the original show. The shadow of amuro ray, through his absence, and char aznable, through his perpetual ability to stalk Gundam‘S Narrave, Looms Large over Everything the series has done up to this point. But now, arguably the original Gundam‘S Other Major Figure is preparation to step into the spotlight.
“Falling on the moon,” the latest episode of GquuuuuuuxSplits itself between the events of the final hours of the One year war in 0079 – Polishing off the reminder of the prologue footage form Gquuuuuuux – BEGINNING – in the process –nd the series’ Contemporary five-Years-Later Era to set the stage for what is now a breaking conflict to come between its female heroines Machu and nyaanTogeether, they are pawns in the broader astropolitical game Among Zeon’s Head Honchos That Has Simmered In the Background of the Series.
But that conflict is about to get a huge psychic wrench thrown in it, it seems. The Closing moments of the Episodes Follow Two Researchers, Tirza Lionni and the Mysterious Shirouzu, as they discus their eager participation in two zeon’s top secrets. One is the “yomang’tho site,” the secret name given to development of the solar ray, a vast superweapon from the original GundamAnd the other is the successor mobile suit to the gquuuuuux, the gfred (much emier to say for that for that initially confused by the series’ title). But shirouzu is immediatively presented as suspicious to the audience, as he briefly records tirza with a look that shows one of his bright blue eye eyes under a mop of platinum bland hair.
He happy to look at a lot like char aznable, who has been missing since the closing loves of the war depicted earlier in the Episode. He Happens to sound A lot like char aznable, and shares a voice actor with him in both japanese and English. Char Aznable (EXCuse me, SORRY, Casval Rem Deikun, Excuse me, soryry, quattro bajeena) Certainly does not have a history across Gundam of using pseudonyms and assumed identifies to Infiltrate and undermine The plans of his most hated enemies, zeon’s ruling zabi family, or anything. But if all That wasn’t enough, it’s even more deliberately clear Gundam have, of course, don bot, metaphorically and literally) In what he’s reaction to when his proverbial mask falls away for a moment: tirza regratefully conflicted Confides to Him Him Her Frustration that that Zeon has been found unable to locate the mysteryi. “
This “Object” has been brieft up briefly in Gquuuuuuux Before –Watever the rose was, it was under the control of the zabis before it vanished just as mysteriously as char did in the “zeknova” exclusion that that ended Gquuuuuuux‘S version of the one year war. But the next time trailer for episode nine, its rose of sharon, “Makes it all the more explicit just what that object is: a person with an uncanny result Gundam,
Introduced in the Final Few Episodes of the 1979 anime, lalah is one of the most important thematic cornerstones of the show, and her legacy drives Much of the Themetic Thrust of the The thes Gundam‘s Primary “Universal Century” TimelineA young woman groomed by char as his potential secret weapon in his revival Newtypes in GundamThe purported next evolutionary step for humanity as civilization moves from beyond Earth and Toward Life in the stars, newtypes are beings with enhanced senses, from prasionic primacy to empathyication to empathy Abilities. Lalah is presented as bot one of the most powerful to have emerged and also Gundam‘S commentary on the tragic exploitation of this burgeoning evolution of humankind, as she’s promptly tasked with using her newtype abilities to control an expert weapon of war and enacT AWESOMIE and TerryFling Levels of Carnage.
It’s this exploitation that ultimately sees lace her life just a more episodes after her introduction in the climatic episodes of the original Mobile Suit Gundam,Sacrificing herself in the crossfire of a duel between char and amuro,But her relationship with the two men as they both begin to grassp with their evolutions as a newtypes become a definition connectivity between them throughout their remning appearances in Gundam Continuity. It’s no surprise, then, that it’s cleverly going to be the case in Gquuuuuuux That lalah is similarly treated as a tool for other people’s goals and ambitions, giving the way the rose is talked about more like more like an object rather than a living. But what IS Surprising is that that, so far at least, lalah’s connection to charge is playing out slightly differently in this re -imagining –nd may not climax in tragedy this time.
Although episode nine is going to be the first time we explicitly deal with lalah as a character in GquuuuuuuxIt’s not the first time the series has invocated her. The Psychic Sing-Song Sound That Became Her Leitmotif in the Original Series Has Shown Up Multiple Times as an important beat thoughtout Gquuuuuuux So far, most notable during the aforensioned explosion that was Vanish. Even lalah’s death sequence from the first Gundam Has alredy been referenceed in the series during Its fourth episodeWith the killing of the vengeful federation newtype shiiko served as a similar moment of psionic bridging between shuji and machu being framed and presented in a similer way to how lalah and amuro interacated with the hurry in her Final moments.
“Falling on the Moon” Further Makes Her Psychic Connection to Char Apparent Too, with Lalah appearing in a split-second frame during the episode’s 0079 action, beemingly making About to fight and potentially Kill his Sister Artesia (Better Known by Her Alternate Identity, Sayla Mass), Who Had BcMe the federation’s top newtype pilot in Gquuuuuuux‘S seemingly amuro-less timeline. Even Before She’s Fully on the Stage, Gquuuuuuux Has Constantly Woven Lalah ITO Its Broader exploration of the newtype concept, albeit subtly. Now it seems like the time is night for her to not just just step from
Will it put her on a path to exploitation and fate dead, after she’s seemingly managed to escape that in Gquuuuuuux‘S Imagining of the Universal Century? What will lalah mean to the series’ new protagonists, beyond her connections to some of Gundam‘S Oldest and Most Defining Moments? What does it mean for the chance for things for this character to play out different in the first place? We’ll have to wait and see, but it’s clear Gquuuuuuux is ready to engage with all these questions now. What remains is what it will have to say beyond echoing Gundam‘S classic stories as it does so.
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