Today's mobile suit is capable of abolishing anything in it's set path by way it's incredibly powerful satellite cannon - Welcome the GX-9900 Gundam X.
Built at the height of MS advancement by the UNE, the GX-9900 series is one of the most advanced MS of its time. The series was mass-produced and pressed into service near the end of the 7th Space War. After the environmental devastation at the end of the 7th Space War, MS development on Earth became stagnant as humanity recovered; Gundam X and its brethren Gundam series remains top-of-the-line after 15 years. Because the UNE no longer existed, there was no regulation over the Gundams and they found second-life in the hands of the Vultures. It's because of Vulture-use that no two Gundam X are exactly alike.
Piloted by Garrod Ran, the unit is purposed as a heavy assault MS. The Satellite Cannon is it's signature weapon that makes the MS so powerful. The cannon requires power beyond what Gundam X is capable on its own, UNE engineers created the D.O.M.E. (DOME) lunar microwave satellite to power its cannon. It utilizes the solar energies collected at the moon-base and transfers it in a microwave-beam to Gundam X when needed. When activated, the solar panels unfolds its crossed-solar panels, giving it the signature "X", and charges it's energy capacitors for a powerful particle beam blast, capable of wiping out a MS squad with a single shot; while powerful, the weapon has its weaknesses. Two major drawbacks that attest to this is it's ridiculously lengthy charge time, and the fact the satellite cannon can only be utilized when the moon is within orbit, relative to the X's position at the time. Such an immense setback would require immaculate strategy to be most effective when needed.
Garrod's unit was eventually defeated and heavily damaged, thus being repaired and giving way to the Gundam X Divider, which would later be succeeded by the GX-9901 Gundam Double X.
Not only was it not a nice twist, it was super-cliché. Steins;Gate is definitely not the first story where somebody tries to change the future by traveling to the past, only to discover that they can't change/improve the outcome. And arguably it's one of the worst of that particular variety of story.
He added a nice new factor to time travel, but ruined it halfway in and only created an average drama based on it. That's what's not to like.
Remember the explanation with two ropes? Time in S;G do allow for different futures, it just requires more effort than it would in a butterfly-effect kind of story. If you don't make a big difference you'll just leap to an analogous time-line, where the same major events will happen, just a bit differently. You can however drastically alter time and jump to a whole other world line, where the events differ significantly.
Stories where the future can't be changed are indeed common enough but S;G isn't one of them, is it?
I will concede that the drama in S;G follows a standard formula, it isn't exactly one of the best out there but please recommend me some dramas because you must have seen a lot of great ones to call it just average.
you can't compare the two, regardless of how much you want to tackle them both in an alleyway.
Don't like Feyris? Go take yer annoying boys and girls up in your Ice Cream Truck, while I'll take Feyris back home where she can serve me some "ice cream".....
Remember the explanation with two ropes? Time in S;G do allow for different futures, it just requires more effort than it would in a butterfly-effect kind of story. If you don't make a big difference you'll just leap to an analogous time-line, where the same major events will happen, just a bit differently. You can however drastically alter time and jump to a whole other world line, where the events differ significantly.
Stories where the future can't be changed are indeed common enough but S;G isn't one of them, is it?
I will concede that the drama in S;G follows a standard formula, it isn't exactly one of the best out there but please recommend me some dramas because you must have seen a lot of great ones to call it just average.
I don't think the way time works in S;G is cliche at all. The only other sci-fi story with time that vaguely reminds me of it is Isaac Asimov's foundation series itself. Both give time inertia and that's where the similarities end.
Admittedly I've not seen every sci-fi anime/movie out there but I can't see how the way time works in S;G could be a cliche.
I don't think the way time works in S;G is cliche at all. The only other sci-fi story with time that vaguely reminds me of it is Isaac Asimov's foundation series itself. Both give time inertia and that's where the similarities end.
Admittedly I've not seen every sci-fi anime/movie out there but I can't see how the way time works in S;G could be a cliche.
Well what I meant is that traveling back in time to change the future is cliche, but the way the time works in S;G is what makes it different than the others.
Little Nia is definitely loli, BRS isn't loli(except in some pictures, but she's too tall to be a loli.. you fools!)
Steins;Gate's time travel was less inevitable fate and more making a moderately significant change for a big change to occur(This DOES NOT negate the butterfly effect. You can either make a big change the day before or a small change earlier on. As Dravonic said; inertia)
It's true that Steins;Gate provides an explanation while Madoka doesn't.
But I'd rather a show give no explanation and just chalk it up to the viewer's imagination or fate than a show give a bad, contradictory and paradox-creating explanation like Steins;Gate does.
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And I'm tired!
