Same goes for sci-fi in general
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680 episode seasons, from which only 3 episodes are not space Aesop’s fables.
That's the problem when you find someone too stupid to even understand the analogies used to try and teach them. For someone it's just the story of "stuff happening to a little girl bringing food to her grandma in the woods".
Same folks who thought Colbert was a conservative commentator.
Ahh, my second boyfriend.
He was an idiot but tried to convince me I was the idiot.
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A show about big fighting mechs isn't complete if the pilots aren't gay and in love and hate each other and exclusively communicate through monologues of their ideals on the current political climate.
The human drama is the central focus, the mechs is just changing the set pieces.
there's only so many plots.
For example: It's a standard workplace love story exploring the ego and id. It's just that the workplace is an underground base where some dudes are letting teenagers pilot alien hybrid mechs to bring about the end of humanity.
Mecha are useful in that they combine the "shining armour" and "gallant steed" of classic stories into a single object.
Heated Circuit Rivalry
Battletech is basically all of that except gay. I'm trying to think of any gay characters in Battletech...Rhonda Snord? Maybe a couple of the clanners?
Katherine Steiner-Davion (Victor's crazy sister; not her grandmother, Actual Katrina Steiner) might be considered aromantic...or a psychopath, which I think is an overriding factor.
I wonder if it's more illegal to be gay in the Draconis Combine or in the Capellan Confederation.
There's a "rumored" lesbian love affair between Heather Durant and Terens Amaris which results in house Amaris ruling over the Rim Worlds Republic, teeing up her great x5 grandson Stefan to essentially ruin civilization forever. So that's...kind of canon.
Glad to hear the ancient tongues still spoken 👍
A poor imitation. That's clearly none pizza with up beef, not left beef.
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I'd watch gay mechs fuck.
Japanese businessman: AHHHHHHH! On top of the corporate headquarters!?
No, that still leaves underage pilots going into combat and suffering immense mental trauma.
Or you can take that out and backfill with 90s era pop culture satire. Megas XLR is a masterpiece.
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I swear on Char Aznabel's big red Zaku, if they take the yaoi and politics out of my big ass robot shows, I'm going to drop a space colony on Australia!
And another one on Ireland.
And then retroactively drop one on the midwestern United States years before that totally happened despite nobody ever mentioning it.
Living here in jersey, fighting villains from afar...
If this is supposed to prove a mecha show with no gay stuff, I'm sure I can dig up some fanfic to argue otherwise.
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What mecha story has gay shit? I'd like to watch it.
Most Gundam shows, Evangelion
The most popular recent one is Brave Bang Bravern.
Keep in mind Japan has heavy censorship so a lot of the "gay mechas" are implied and subversive theming instead of openly gay.
Squid in a schoolgirls ass is just fine and dandy but heaven forbid someone is gay.
Censorship rules always end up stupid because individual morality isn't consistent and blacklists are never comprehensive
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Darling in the Franxx
Pacific Rim. If two straight people merge their minds through a psychic bridge, they both become bigender and then it's gay. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
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Am in the middle of watching Gundam Origins.
Is that the one that feels like Char is recounting the story of 0079 but in a way that makes him seem way more cool and badass than he was?
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Pacific Rim?
Transformers?
1980's? Yes.
2000's? No. Full of politics. Government waste, spies, Area 51 coverups, discussions of the deep state and military use in civilian areas. One of the movies referenced wars in the middle east.
1980s had political themes. Even the basic premise was a civil war between authoritarians and rebels fleeing a world ravaged by industrial over exploitation.
And one of the 80s episodes referenced the Cuban Missile Crisis as the US and USSR almost went to war over a missing jet.
Mind you it was a kids show from the 89s designed to sell toys, but it had some politics. Everything is ultimately politics, you can’t avoid it.
There was that episode where Optimus Prime discussed the AIDS crisis with Michael Dukakis.
I'm pretty sure you have to be in some kind of love with your partner to pilot one of those.
What’s the original meme from?
This was a TV commercial for string cheese initially. It was I want pizza minus the bread and no tomato sauce.
It's looks like You Can't Do That On Television but I don't think it is.
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How about Robot Jox?
Post-apocalyptic is automatically political. Plus it is 2 opposing super powers. Sounds like a cold war that went hot.
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Gay stuff?
Shit maybe the reason I don't much care for mecha anime is because I've never seen one that was even a little gay. Er... Unless FLCL counts as a mecha anime. 🤔
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