Living here in jersey, fighting villains from afar…
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.
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.
Heated Circuit Rivalry
Same goes for sci-fi in general
“tHeY mAdE sTaRtReK pOlItIcAl”
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.
How about Robot Jox?
Post-apocalyptic is automatically political. Plus it is 2 opposing super powers. Sounds like a cold war that went hot.
What mecha story has gay shit? I’d like to watch it.
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury
Most Gundam shows, Evangelion
Darling in the Franxx
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.
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.
I’d watch gay mechs fuck.
Japanese businessman: AHHHHHHH! On top of the corporate headquarters!?
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.
Pacific Rim?
It went easy on the politics, but they were an important part.
Politicians = stupid
Transformers?
There was that episode where Optimus Prime discussed the AIDS crisis with Michael Dukakis.
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.
I’m pretty sure you have to be in some kind of love with your partner to pilot one of those.
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?
LOL I’ll let you know once I get around to it.
