Saturday, June 18, 2005

Life, universe, everything

Ok, so this entry isn't going to as all inclusive as the title suggests, but still it has been a long time (11 days!) since i wrote anything here. And i have plenty to talk about.
Medical centre life is ok i guess, starting to get into the swing of things, as now I can somewhat assimilate myself into the system. Some days are just slow days, the usual sick parade people with URTI (upper respiratory tract infection ie flu fever running nose cough), people coming for FFI for IPPT, ORD, overseas detachment, and the many blood drawings, admin files, ECGs and medical dockets to wade through and carry out. Or days could be like yesterday, where we had 3 on base emergencies, 1 of which had to be sent to TTSH. On the way to the hospital, 1 of the ambulance's wheels blew so we had to send the car down to send the patient.
So yeah, my life is more or less consumed by the workings of the medical centre. Apart from that, went to watch batman with peiyi and yangqi on wed. Worth it for only 8 bucks. It really captured the feel of batman, the gritty feel and the notion the criminals have of him as an avenging angel from their worst nightmares.
Ok, these are my thoughts about the climatic Seed Destiny episode 34. For one, I think reading all the forum posts and having made to wait till 5 in morning on monday to watch it kinda over hyped it for me so I didn't think it was all that great. But rewatching it I could feel the raw intensity of shin's emotions. Still, it would never be as intense as the kira vs athrun fight in seed where they went all out, no holds barred to kill each other.
And I shall provide my own arguments on why kira lost:
1) He was distracted. The archangel was being bombarded, he had to quickly try and escape while protecting it.
2) He never intended to fight shin. He merely wanted to try and escape but shin was relentless.
3) He fought too predictably. Shin's research helped him predict kira's moves (never go for the cockpit etc) and used that to his advantage
4) Shin was in psycho mode. Misguided he may be, but he thought kira killed stellar which caused him to go all psycho and he channelled his anger to good use.
5) Shin used very unorthodox tactics that took advantage of his mobile suit's abilities (open get, the flyers and silhouetes)
6) Shin fought relentlessly and never gave kira a chance to cut and run. The only time kira had the upper hand was when kira cut off Impulse's head and left arm, but shin used the upper portion of the MS to ram the Freedom and blew it up with the Core Splendor's vulcans, throwing kira off balance and giving him time to refit itself with new parts.
In any case, bring on the new Gundams. The prospect of Destiny, Strike Freedom and Infinte Justice is great.
Kira, Athrun and Shin. Kira's the naive person, thinking by his efforts he can stop a war from happening, instead he causes the situation to be far more complicated. Athrun is too passive and indecisive, if there is even the slightest amount of doubt he can't act desicively. Shin is just a hot-blooded immature teenager with grief issues, and unfortunately also equipped with a powerful state of the art war machine. These kind of people can't even get a driver's license let allow pilot a mobile suit in real life. He's a danger to himself and all those around him as he cannot comprehend the power he has. He only acts out of anger and hate, and i'm sure we all know where that leads to... It's not surprising they're been calling him Darth Shin. I personally think the series will end with cagari getting killed by shin, then athrun goes mega SEED mode and whacks Shin's ass and kills him. And Kira and Rey will have this mega DRAGOON battle.
In any case, Destiny is hotting up, bring on the new Gundams for more robot action...

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