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[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 87 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Same goes for sci-fi in general

"tHeY mAdE sTaRtReK pOlItIcAl"

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 months ago

680 episode seasons, from which only 3 episodes are not space Aesop’s fables.

[-] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 29 points 2 months ago

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".

[-] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 months ago

Same folks who thought Colbert was a conservative commentator.

[-] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Ahh, my second boyfriend.

He was an idiot but tried to convince me I was the idiot.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I mean, you dated him.

Same reason I don't think that highly of my exes

[-] CubitOom@infosec.pub 61 points 2 months ago
[-] MissesAutumnRains 49 points 2 months ago

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 12 points 2 months ago

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 8 points 2 months ago

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

[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Heated Circuit Rivalry

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago
[-] brown567@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

Glad to hear the ancient tongues still spoken 👍

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 34 points 2 months ago
[-] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Japanese businessman: AHHHHHHH! On top of the corporate headquarters!?

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 24 points 2 months ago

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

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

Or you can take that out and backfill with 90s era pop culture satire. Megas XLR is a masterpiece.

[-] Gathorall@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I think that part too may have some political messaging.

[-] TaterTot@piefed.social 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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!

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago
[-] Viceversa@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

What mecha story has gay shit? I'd like to watch it.

[-] Sonicdemon86@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury

[-] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago
[-] belluck 11 points 2 months ago

Most Gundam shows, Evangelion

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Squid in a schoolgirls ass is just fine and dandy but heaven forbid someone is gay.

[-] brown567@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Censorship rules always end up stupid because individual morality isn't consistent and blacklists are never comprehensive

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

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).

[-] Maultasche@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Darling in the Franxx

[-] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 6 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

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.net 5 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

is that what they call jacking on to the matrix?

[-] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 3 points 2 months ago

Now you're getting the picture! That's also where Handsome Jack gets his name from

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 months ago

Living here in jersey, fighting villains from afar...

[-] Apeman42@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

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

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[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Am in the middle of watching Gundam Origins.

[-] Godort@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

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?

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

LOL I’ll let you know once I get around to it.

[-] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago

What’s the original meme from?

[-] Gobo@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

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

[-] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago

It's looks like You Can't Do That On Television but I don't think it is.

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[-] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago
[-] Sonicdemon86@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Post-apocalyptic is automatically political. Plus it is 2 opposing super powers. Sounds like a cold war that went hot.

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[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Exo-Squad from the 90s, didn't have gay stuff. But damn if it wasn't heavy on the politics.

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