Please note the parallels between Noin’s introduction to real warfare, and Relena’s introduction to hard politics:
Both scenes are of complete devastation, with bodies lying all over the place (mercifully intact, although were this reality, I doubt that would be true). The dust has not even settled, obscuring everything. Both are standing in front of door that could very easily symbolize entry into a new paradigm. They can’t see what’s ahead, but they have no choice but to go through.
Both of them started their respective episodes as innocents: Noin honestly believed wars could be fought without people dying, and that being a good pilot meant you were guaranteed survival. Relena started this episode more like many of us did at her age: She believed in her dad and was only starting to realize that he was an actual human being instead of a superhero - that he too had human failings. She was beginning to see the bigger picture. She also honestly believed that because the colonies truly did not want war - that they are all peaceful and courteous - there would be no war. Her dad would sort things out, and it would be ok.
But like Noin, Relena has now had a brutal awakening to reality. Even if the majorities on both sides of a debate don’t want a war, there will always be a minority willing to do whatever it takes to start a war. No matter what you do, or how hard you negotiate, all it takes is one person’s actions to have everything fall apart, and you physically cannot take every single person’s actions into consideration.
What Relena will realize when she emerges from the shock I have no doubt she is experiencing, is that her dad did the best he could with what he had available. Sometimes you can be the best at something, prepare for everything, and still fail.
↧
aelie-baby: Please note the parallels between Noin’s introduction to real warfare, and Relena’s...
↧