User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 334: Sin and Sacrifice, Review/@comment-202.156.10.11-20130607160115/@comment-7418318-20130610101306

Nah... lightsabers (and Gundam beamsabers) don't make sense to me.

How comes that those "lasers" or "beams" can block each other as if both were physical objects? If those beams of the same kind hit each other, they should either not interact, or combine into one stronger beam with the direction being the product of their vectors (sorry, I can't say it any less-mathematic way in english).

Warhammer 40K style powered or psychic closecombat weapons make far more sense to me. They are physical weapons (wether sword, hammer, axe or whatever) that are enhanced with energy of some kind or another. Depending on the specific weapon it can have a powerfield that amplifies their destructive power, channel the wielders psychic abilities through the weapon or are "just" charged up with electricity.... and there are even some weapons that have a demon bound into it, but that is a chapter for itself.

Anyway back to Gundam: Often enough action movies/series use the story as a tool to get more combat on the screen. With the Gundam series (or at least the good ones) it's the other way round. Combat, war and even the Gundams themselfs are tools to tell a story. What really counts are the characters.

Gundam 00 even tackles problems we have today (religious fanatisism, ethnic conflics, economical wars over oil, terrorism) and delve into the morality aspects of war. Is fighting against warmongers moral? Is killing a murderer moral? Does the character go for revenge, or bury his past to save his friends? Will the former child-sodier, who thinks fighting is the only thing he can do ever be able to return to a normal live? How far does a soldier go when given amoral orders? What kind of actions are justified for gaining (or enforcing) world-wide peace? Does a soldier have to follow amoral orders?

That's the kind of things that Gundam 00 deals with. The mecha fights are just a little visual pep-up, but ultimately you could also tell the core-story in a medival setting without any mecha, because it's really the characters and the story that counts, not the machines.