NOTHING is safe from these people. They will never stop. While it wasn't much better back in the day, I am quickly becoming convinced when you mix Marxism with post modernism, you get the perniciousness of Marxism, and the utter mind-sickly nihilism of post modernism.
So they use marxist tactics to worm themselves into things that work, and use their post modernist minds, philosophy to destroy it.
You could see them as a more weaselly and cowardly Kefka from final fantasy 6.
They want to as he put it "Create a monument to non existence".
Honestly, I don't know if there is any other way to deal with them than to never allow them any power whatsoever, possibly having them full on committed and imprisoned, or to put them out of their own and everyone else's misery.
I don't say that lightly and I don't enjoy saying it but these people do seem pretty miserable and insane. They don't ever seem to enjoy anything and they only seem to wish to spread their misery around and destroy everything functional. Furthermore they seem to be utterly incapable of being reasoned with.. As if they were some sort of demon or something, or a cancer given a body and a sentient mind.
It's a serious problem and I can't think of one good way to deal with it. Everything seems to either not work,be highly passive and reactionary against them when they break something or be brutal, nasty and heavy handed.
And yeah, I find myself often wondering at a peaceful solution to these people. They fundamentally reject knowledge, ideas, responsibility, and most every cornerstone of modern society. Cancerous parasites in a literal sense. They exploit pretty much every positive trait in people: Empathy for the unfortunate, Charity for the poor, Tolerance of people different than you, compassion for those who are less able than you, and protection of those less able to protect themselves.
The end result of the unholy trinity of marxism, feminism, and postmodernism can only be one of two things: the death of society, or the death of virtue.
Although I already gave up on western entertainment, I'm stil amazed these people won't stop until they get their grubby hands on any franchise that looked fondly upon and trample those entertainment beyond recognition. Last year was Doctor Who and Thundercats, and just a month ago, He-man got a bad re-makeover.
I'm just glad I have little to no attachments to any western entertainment. I used to have nostalgic attachment with Baldur's gate and Knights of the old republic but I saw it coming from mile away it's only a matter of time Bioware and Obsidian will change for the worse once the key figures leave the companies. So I think key message in this thread is leave any lingering attachments to your favourite series that have mainstream appeal. Having any kind of expectation for any remakes (and sequels) seem recipe for more disappointment. Just look what happened to Vampire Bloodline.
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Oh, that's funny and tragic.
Gundam SEED
Amuro still being a loser in Zeta, and Char going "fuck it, asteroid drop" in CCA
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Build, Turn A, G-Reco, Mobile Fighter G, IBO, and AGE
Fans of this franchise have seen Tomino gradually go insane, and Sunrise squeeze more bad ideas out than JK Rowling.
THE GOOD STUFF has been outnumbered by the awful for decades.
To reiterate, yes I agree old franchises are gonna get fucked up, the series are older than us both. Of course, there are going to be a lot of fuckup. But it seems that you just have very high standard when it comes to gundam expecting it to capture the original feel of Gundam or Gundam 0083 or be very high quality like Legend of Galactic Heroes, then no shit you'd get disappointed.
When Gundam released all those butchering like you mentioned, at least the creators still wanted to write stories than preaching to their target audiences about goodness of the diversity.
Even the anime franchises that came out after 2000 are not safe like Gantz or Fate series (like getting Apocrypha) but it's really beside the point. The point of my thread was more current politics mangling the old franchise. Maybe I should have just made the thread with just the quotes and adding zero contexts to it if my argument was going to be just boiled down to old franchises gonna get fucked up by their creators.
Right so...
Why do you have low standards?
I don't get torn up about this or that being destroyed, because my assumption is THAT'S THE NORM. I expect it of everything. And because of it, I don't notice or care when something is ruined, or why, because it's my default assumption
I have such a low expectation of the world, that rather than walking around looking for reasons to be disappointed, I walk around looking for reasons to be impressed.
I'm repeating myself but.... I think it's just you that you got crushed so hard by constant disappointment of Gundam, you expect nihilism out of everybody.
When I watch anime, I don't expect it to be highbrow art that will change my life. I watch it to get entertained. FFS don't expect some intricate and intellectual storyline from anime. Or are you one of those pretentious anime connoisseur that treats ghibli and 70's anime as masterpiece and look down on pleb anime like some kind of germs?
If you go through life being surprised by the next thing to go downhill, you're choosing to be angry. You are literally choosing to feed yourself a stream of things to be angry about instead of living to find things to enjoy, and do, and build, and create.