I realized that don't love Gundam, I just love Char. I am one of those people who likes CCA, and will actually defend his Oedipus character arc.



My question is how can I be a better Gundam fan and learn to appreciate the actual mecha and story more?

Why do you need to?

To have something to talk about on /m/. Its mostly actual hardware talk a lot of the time. I would like to be able to participate in that and talk to other fans more. I am not sure if that makes any sense.

Just get some real life friends retard, take these twitter memes back and stay there.

Just find a different community with a topic you actually care about if it's discussion with people that you want

I don’t get the hate personally. he’s flawed but has good qualities also.

You still here OP?

I’m not OP I just saw the thread and commented

I appreciate his position as a sort of tragic villain by the end of his life. Some people make fun of the Lalah could have been a mother to me shit but I think one thing I think is good about the way Tomino does character motivations is often times their grander schemes and behaviors are traced back to a singular hangup that may be silly, mundane, or futile compared to the actions they inspired. Some examples that come to mind are Jiron, the lady who takes a bath with Uso in Victory, even Hathaway. I think the people who think this kind of characterization is silly need to ask if maybe we are closer to the characters in spirit than we admit.

>I think one thing I think

Yeah the characters feel a lot more human in a way, instead of being an exaggerated generic motivation.

Butterfly effect is real
