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.
I mean, you dated him.
Same reason I don’t think that highly of my exes
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.
Rotate thine viewing device?
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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.
I think that part too may have some political messaging.
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.
Fanfic doesn’t count or you need to include all fanfiction. I don’t think we should break open that particular pandoras box just yet
That’s just Bergerac!
omg i forgot about this one.
Exo-Squad from the 90s, didn’t have gay stuff. But damn if it wasn’t heavy on the politics.
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!
What mecha story has gay shit? I’d like to watch it.
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury
IBO too.
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
Well yeah, someone has to think of the children (and their apparent love of tentacles that is only matched by the intensity of their homophobia).
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.
What happens if only one of the robits gets a roberection? Is that gay enough I don’t know how the cybersex is supposed to work my great aunt warned me about people like me
Look, it’s really simple. Master Chief’s suit has a fleshlight built into it and Cortana can control it. It’s called the autojacker. Read Fall of Reach, it’s all in there.
is that what they call jacking on to the matrix?
Now you’re getting the picture! That’s also where Handsome Jack gets his name from
Darling in the Franxx
Pacific Rim?
It went easy on the politics, but they were an important part.
Politicians = stupid
It’s also a climate change allegory and there’s a stupid wall that doesn’t work.
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.
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.
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.
Thanks!
It’s looks like You Can’t Do That On Television but I don’t think it is.
Commercial for Polly-o string cheese
How about Robot Jox?
Post-apocalyptic is automatically political. Plus it is 2 opposing super powers. Sounds like a cold war that went hot.
Vassiiiiilllllyyyyy!
It’s robot fights instead of waging war? Like saying g gundam isn’t political
