Quote Originally Posted by masamuneehs
Finally, something that really made me roll my eyes when I saw it, but forgot to mention in my first post. Nobody's said anything yet about the GN particle "bubble shield" that the Virtue deployed. So the things are natural by-product of the Gundams engine, jam communications AND can deflect enemy fire? Pft... I really didn't like that.
Well, GN particles are "heavy particles." It's not completely absurd to think that they would be able to deflect beam fire. (Unless those were bright shiny blue bullets.) Oscillating at a high frequency, you could see how they could also jam communications. It's all bullshit theoretical physics based off imaginary particles...so it's basically real quantum physics. It's no different from "tachyon" being used anywhere and everywhere to do every damn thing.
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I'm glad terrorism showed up as an important topic. That and the massive number of civilian casualties. It adds a big layer of realism to this series. Modern day wars are too messy to be solved with a single war between two clearly defined sides. No one is a perfect shot, and the blood of innocents spilled tends to bring out the extremists. (My country's media tries not to tell us, but even the barely educated knows we're only making things worse.)

Setsuna's backstory is also very interesting. How did he go from being a jihadist to a Gundam pilot? What did he mean by, "I'm the one still alive" in that context?