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I'm 99% certain it is indeed Simon, and 90% certain the thin guy he's talking to is a grown-up Rossiu.
Being both an idiot fanboy and a spoiler magnet, searching for TTGL wallpapers this weekend brought me up close to some pretty well founded speculation that this was about to happen. As aniki Tank has mentioned it's a hell of a change of direction. With what we've all been obliged to think of as the show's best feature gone, and several new characters in the wings, at this stage it's anyone's guess.
What I want to talk about is the one scene this week that gave me momentary chills, when Kamina's gung-ho encouragement of Simon on the deck of the Daiganzan gets stripped of its soft comic edge for just a second and it's just a grown man punching a kid in the face. It hit me just then that we'd been here before, in Eureka Seven. Two revolutionary heroes, leaders of men, skilled mecha pilots, charismatic, brave and foolhardy - except Kamina is the fantasy of such a person, Holland the reality - a selfish, immature bully and egotistical jerk.
If he hadn't died then the show could very easily have gone down that road, of bringing Kamina face to face with his shortcomings until he was forced to become the man he only thought he was. But now we have Simon, who's not Renton, and Yoko who isn't Eureka and TTGL is, I hope, going to take a turn that I can't idly map onto other favourite shows of mine. The simplistic route would have Simon following in his big brother's footsteps and finishing what he began, which the series prologue certainly intimates. Of course there's plenty of room for surprises along that road.
Meanwhile, it's only fitting that all the single males on this thread should pay tribute to their fallen hero by walking into a bar this weekend, finding the nearest redhead who looks like she knows her way around a sniper rifle, and crying lustily: "What an amazingly nice body! You surface girls are in a whole different league!" |
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