He transforms from one of the main protagonists into a more secondary character that contributes one viewpoint without variation. In some ways, this isn't an entirely bad thing - it just changes his role within the series, I suppose. He is self-righteous to the extreme and seems to think that only his morals and way of dealing with things is the correct one. In Destiny, he reached the height of one-sidedness. Kira, the initial protagonist of SEED, had been flattening as a character since halfway through the first series. Done right, those might have been interesting qualities for a protagonist, but for Shinn, it only made him incredibly annoying to put up with. His background seemed far too much like a generic sobstory, and his fixation on his own tragedy made him out to be too narrow-minded and self-righteous. I found Shinn, our brand new protagonist, incredibly difficult to sympathize with, which is never a good thing. And Destiny's newly introduced characters hardly make up for it. Destiny took those existing characters and warped them into sub par, flat versions of their former selves, or else twisted them so badly that they were hardly recognizable. I feel like I should maybe elaborate more here, but there really isn't much else to say, and specifics are hard to point out without invoking spoilers.ĬHARACTER - SEED had a fantastic cast of realistic and noteworthy characters. Even the ones that were kind of interesting - such as the replacement double for Lacus Clyne - were overshadowed by the lackluster quality of everything else (and unsubstantial character development as addressed below). In all, I can think of very few story element that surprised me or that are worth mentioning on grounds of praise.
#GUNDAM SEED DESTINY REMASTERED COMPARISON SERIES#
The final resolution at the end of the series is also weak and rushed. Unfortunately, these attempts all failed as almost all the character deaths in this sequel could be seen a mile away. Surprisingly significant and unexpected character death was one of the greatest merits I found in SEED, and Destiny tried to perform the same tricks. (If SEED already had a few recycled storyline elements, then certainly Destiny has them in spades.) The basis for the new war seems trivial compared to the previous, and all the countries far too eager to participate in the conflict considering their hard-won peace. Destiny seems to try too hard in mirroring many circumstances and storylines already present in SEED, making them seem forced, unoriginal, and repetitious. And that's me admitting to my bias upfront. Admittedly, it is near-impossible for me to view Destiny as a standalone series, and as a huge fan of SEED, I know I'm prone to being a lot more critical than usual on its sequel. So yeah, we're not off to a great start here. And it has to be a cheap and forced-feeling destruction because there's hardly two year's difference between the end of the first series and the start of the sequel since they wanted to reuse a majority Thus, SEED had resolution, and the only way for Destiny to begin is by destroying that resolution. Think about it - all Gundam series start with war and end with resolution. STORY - The fact that this is a direct sequel to a Gundam series already puts Destiny's story at a disadvantage. Sometimes, sequels to popular series work. Athrun must steer the young pilot towards a mindset of mercy before his rage and desire for vengeance consumes him. Shinn works his way up through the ZAFT military forces, eventually gaining access to the cockpit of the prototype Impulse mobile suit.Īthrun Zala, a veteran of the recent war employed in the service of diplomat Cagalli Yula Athha, finds himself drawn into a new conflict between the Naturals and the Coordinators: human beings artificially enhanced before birth and hated by the Naturals for their biological advantages.Īs the new war rears its head and violence becomes inevitable, Athrun finds himself as a mentor to the bitter Shinn. Shinn Asuka finds his entire family killed as casualties of the violence, and swears his life toward a vengeful pursuit of the Earth's Natural forces, under the impression they were the ones responsible for his family's death. In the year Cosmic Era 0071, a wartime brawl between two mobile suits results in the destruction of a neutral country.
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