Just watched Char's Counterattack.
Jeez that movie was hardcore. Non-stop fighting between Neo Zeon and Londo Bell.
First things first: Char. I don't think his ideology was too different. He's always been one for having earth complete its migration into space, and his speech in Dakar from Zeta had much of the same rhetoric he would spout here. But I don't buy that he was still as upset about Amuro killing Lalah. That seemed to contradict their encounter with each other in Zeta. Char to Quattro seemed like a pretty natural jump. But there seemed like there was a piece here. Like we didn't see some event that transitioned Char's personality. The only thing I can think of is that Char in Zeta was planning on doing stuff like this the entire time and his actions in Zeta were an act. I wouldn't put it past him: He is shown in this movie to be pretty manipulative and uncaring about people, only seeing them as tools. Regardless of some murky character development, Char was still pretty beast in this.
Kamille. Where was he in all of this. Him and Char had a pretty friendly relationship. Why wasn't he here? He seemed to be pretty fully recovered at the end of Double Zeta, so why not try to reach out to his former comrade and mentor? For that matter, I honestly think this movie suffered from the lack of Sayla. She was mentioned briefly as "If only my sister Artesia hadn't been there, than Lalah Sune wouldn't have died" type thing, but really, this movie was a Char movie and you'd think his little sister would be interested in the fact he was leading in an army.
Quess: She was annoying. She got what she deserved. Nanai should have smacked the crap out of her even more. Hathaway...damn I'm pretty disappointed with him. He had sort of a Katz vibe going on. But he didn't need to go and kill Chan :(. She was just trying to protect him.
And speaking of deaths, Astonage NOOOOOOoooooooooooooooo. Poor Astonage :( He didn't have to die :(
Amuro was pretty cool here too. You don't really get to see him pontificate too much, but his monologue about intellectuals and revolutions was fantastic.. And normally I don't really care for the Gundam designs (I much prefer the grunt suits), but that Nu Gundam was pretty spiffy. Fin Funnels are bad ass.
In the end, it seems Amuro is the better pilot than Char. Char just couldn't keep up with Amuro and was taken out pretty decisively. It's pretty poetic that they both died arguing with each other. In the end they could never reconcile their differences.
One pleasant surprise was that Cameron had such a large role in the movie. I didn't expect I'd see him ever again >_>
Overall this was a pretty great movie. The ending scene with Amuro pushing back Axis was pretty damn well written and executed, and the part when the psycho-frame finally couldn't handle anymore and overloaded is probably one of the most beautifully directed scenes I've ever seen in a movie. Definitely iconic. I guess its only fair that Amuro vs Char ended with them both dieing.
PS: Thank god there was no Beltorchika >_>
0079 > Zeta > Char's Counterattack > Double Zeta > G Gundam
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