Comments on: Moment the Sixth: Burn A

By: Pontifus

Pontifus — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:00:57 +0000

∀’s use of the land and the things found in it to drive the story forward made it all the more compelling for me, considering that (if I remember correctly) much of the show takes place in what used to be the eastern and southern United States, which is where I’ve spent the vast majority of my life. I went to college in a mountainous area that looks like it might house some ancient mobile suits.

It’s very unusual, I think, to see the land feature so prominently in a show that doesn’t seem to have much of an environmentalist agenda. Then again, I suppose what’s causing all the problems in the show is misuse of the land by previous generations. I wonder what my future grandchildren would think of A.

On the other hand, though, “misuse” of the land gives the people of the earth a means by which to defend themselves.

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By: IKnight

IKnight — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:57:19 +0000

I like how ∀'s setting means that the characters (re)discover modern warfare (unlike your standard Gundam, in which people would know what nukes are). They literally excavate their weapons from the ground, I suppose (if I recall correctly, wasn't that what was happening in the twenty-seventh episode?). I'd mention defamiliarisation, if it wasn't a word I feel I hear enough already. The land-blight thing is an interesting one, too. From what I've seen of the genre, the connection of the story to the physical land it's set in in ∀ (its, um, 'landedness'?) is very unusual.