Quote:I don't plan for ORB to be overrun, and the Earth Alliance is coming apart at the seams. Which will lead to increasingly desperate measures on their part. ZAFT are going to have problems of their own, however at the moment they're doing better than in canon due to lower casualties at JOSH-A. That's going to change.
A revolving door for Blue Cosmos leaders then. Combined with Sutherland dying and apparently a bunch of military leadership, the Earth Alliance forces seem rather impotent. I'll be surprised if they manage to pull anything off at this rate, which is a bit of a problem.
It also seems like Orb won't be overrun at all.
The EA will knock -themselves- out of the war out of sheer incompetence. This makes the coming battles... a lot less tense for me.
As for incompetence, well there is a noticable tendency for the EA to rely on numbers over quality. They're likely to take horrible casualties in anything they do. But they can afford this because they significantly outnumber their opponents. Once they get some momentum, they can and will roll over a lot of opposition.
Quote:Basically, there were only a limited number of available crew on the Black Pearl - only a small number were willing to commit outright treason of this nature. As a result, there aren't enough people to staff all the bridge postions. Natarle is running the ship from CIC and Thomas is sitting in the big chair and giving general orders because he's the one with the plan. Natarle's still the captain and once they've a few more crew will go back to sitting up front with Thomas returning to the Archangel.
Question: How did Thomas end up as the Captain? And Natarle in the CIC? That's... odd. And doesn't make much sense to me.
Quote:That's a good point. I'll have to address that - there's probably more actual deaths in my version, but they're far more faceless. I'll have to see what I can to to tighten that up.
On the one hand, I love Natarle living and being on the Archangel's side. From a skill point of view, I believe Natarle is the best captain in the entire series, although I think she suffers from some preconceptions -- esp. in the beginning of the series. On the other, having just watched ep. 49, wow. That's an incredibly tragic and powerful scene at the end. As much as I dislike that they die, I love the way they do it.
With the latest addition, meh. A lot of the deaths that made the series so poignant and drove character development seems to have gone poof. It's nice to see Andy -and- Aisha live but ... meh again. Just seems to have a different feel now and it's heading toward a bit too perfectly for the protagonists.
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