Trying to title Gundam 00 Season Two posts is horrendously challenging.
DM: War is never a battle between good and evil, [it is complex]. The same cannot be said about G00. The villains are overwhelmingly one-dimensional and the protagonists have tacked-on back stories that feel like one huge afterthought. Early attempts made to incorporate current affairs into the story so as to create authenticity and maturity were quickly abandoned in favour of a more simplistic geopolitical paradigm in the second season.
Crusader: Aeolia wasn’t a saint, creating a band of self righteous terrorists to impose his will [on] every one.
[Azadistan and its constituent ideologues form a typical hypocritocracy]
I wonder if there’s an appreciable difference between “conviction” and “self-righteousness”? The latter seems to be reserved rather quickly for scapegoats. Getting fuddled up in strict politics seems phyrric from the start – especially in Gundam. Like DM and others have said before, struggle is complex. For that very reason, G00’s politics seem like a rhetorical backdrop that insufficiently attempts to support the human reality of sufferance. Is there a distinct gap in theory and practice? – in politics and experience? – in social structure and personal agency? No clue.