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amplexadversary · 12 days ago

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fuck it's 2:40 and I have been typing up a ramble about Reinhard von Lohengramm that is in desperate need of proofreading because it has been a HOT minute since I watched LoGH.

Like, the FPA is my favorite faction in that show by a long shot and I'm less into the nobility drama on the other side

but someone else made a post fucking ages ago that I just saw which really ties in well to how I got an impression of Rein as a tragic figure, whose good intentions did not deliver, destroyed him and those close to him, re-enacted the very wrong that kicked off his ambition in the first place onto two different people, and left the whole galaxy worse off than it was before he took power.

#it's in my draaaaaaafts #sorry for being in the tag I promise I don't do this often #for this fandom #ignore Morg #LoGH spoilers #legend of the Galactic Heroes spoilers #Somebody explained that Rein has much more of a Fraternal intent toward being in power than a Paternalistic one #and it goes together so well with his own personal tragedy of still being ruled by the expectations of the empire #as well as Yang's whole thesis on doubting that even the best possible autocracy is preferable to democracy #because YANG believes that autocracy itself deeply flawed - more so than the problem-ridden democracy he's from #if we take Yang's perspective it summarizes Rein's fate perfectly; he tried to be a ''better'' autocrat but he couldn't do it #because the position of an autocrat comes with expectations that undermine what he wanted to do #which contrasts Yang's rejection of Shenkopp urging YANG to stage a coup and take over the Alliance #So the problem of me writing a serious bit about the OVA is that it's been long enough that there's a lot I'm not remembering #also it's a bonkers complex plot by virtue of its sheer scale of #fuck what is the word I want. it's not coverage but it's three AM #but anyway there is always always always something that I'm going to forget or leave out because it is a LOT of story #SCOPE that's what I wanted #LoGH's SCOPE is crazy because of the number of characters #factions motivations societal events space battles speculative technology etcetc is massive #and to be entirely honest I find that more than a little intimidating #also a HUGE amount of the backbone of my opinion on this show is built on conversations with a friend who knows it *much* better than I do #okay shaddup Morgan you're going to run out of tags #there is a limit it's somewhere arounf thirty

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