• SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org
        2 months

        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”.

  • MissesAutumnRains@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    2 months

    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.

    • hansolo@lemmy.today
      2 months

      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.

      • RobotToaster@mander.xyz
        2 months

        Mecha are useful in that they combine the “shining armour” and “gallant steed” of classic stories into a single object.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2 months

      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.

    • _stranger_@lemmy.world
      2 months

      I’m pretty sure you have to be in some kind of love with your partner to pilot one of those.

      • MNByChoice@midwest.social
        2 months

        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.

        • lumpenproletariat@quokk.auEnglish
          2 months

          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.

    • Godort@lemmy.ca
      2 months

      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?

    • Apeman42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      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.

    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.netEnglish
      2 months

      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.

      • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
        2 months

        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

        • Grail@multiverse.soulism.netEnglish
          2 months

          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.

  • TaterTot@piefed.socialEnglish
    2 months

    I know, I know, this is a common complaint about media in general these days.

    But I swear on Char Aznabel’s big red Zaku, if they take the gay stuff and politics out of my big ass robot shows, I’m going to Operation British the Whitehouse!

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    2 months

    No, that still leaves underage pilots going into combat and suffering immense mental trauma.

    • Gobo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      This was a TV commercial for string cheese initially. It was I want pizza minus the bread and no tomato sauce.