What's more likely is that there might be only 1 male alive up there
Even after the literal end of the world, it's
still a bloody harem anime.
But nah, like it's been said, Armstrong was untouched and plenty of G-Com's personnel survived, both of whom still have access to all of their resources, so they shouldn't have too many problems in that regard. Though I really didn't think very hard about Sandra's hypothetical post-war empire, since it wasn't important to the story. She did mean it when she said she'd be nice about it though. :lol
Aside from being tonally horrendously inconsistent and weird, the main issue was the weird characterisation. And I don't just mean the characters acting literally nothing like themselves in any way whatsoever, it's also that the premise requires the entirety of the UN HQ being the stupidest people to ever exist in human history.
The Antagonists have made a concerted effort to exterminate humanity for decades, and have never ever responded to any communication from humanity. (Except with viral data streams) It would be obvious to literally everyone that any peace is solely a pragmatic measure that will be revoked the very instant they develop countermeasures for whatever threat forced them to make the play.
The UN might agree to peace under those circumstances, but not as a mere Armistice, they'd only accept something like that if it were an actual surrender on the Antags part. Including total disarmament. Because anything else would be preposterously moronic.
There's also the weird thing of having a humaniform Antag with Anime cliches which doesn't remotely match the tone of the rest of the piece.
And the asinine stupidity of the anti-WF defence. If a countermeasure would cause your own forces more destruction than not using it. i.e. A countermeasure that apparently eradicates your entire species, then they wouldn't use it. Obviously. Contrived plot hole you could drop a planet through.
Also don't forget Dr Strangelove was released in 1964. It's a freaking old movie. I know I haven't seen it, and a lot of other people won't have either.
Which works for the reference, but still doesn't work for the setting. Even stretching things considerably the Human/Antag conflict doesn't remotely map onto US/Russia Cold War.
I appreciate what you're trying to do, but the setting is simply an abysmal match for it.
I uh... *waves hands indistinctly* Caitlin was
really convincing?
But no, you're right, there really are far too many handwaves for it to hold up as a story. To be honest, and I know this doesn't justify anything, this was never meant to be anything more than a blatant transplant of the movie's plot into the BAHH setting; it was supposed to be a short joke piece,
maybe 10,000 words at most, as something to have a laugh with the thread about over Christmas. But then the outline alone was 7K words, and then the Avalanche Syndrome just kept spiralling from there...
As for the countermeasure being stupid, maybe. But from the AGs' perspective, if the UN started using the G-Gun to blow up all the Breaches, they'd be pretty fucked. At least this way, the UN would have to think twice before using it. (And then of course they didn't
tell anyone about it, but that's just part of the
Strangelove package.)
I also don't really agree that AG Caitlin's existence is
that out of place. I mean, this
is an anime setting. And Caitlin being an AG is something that's come up in the thread before.
Anyway, thanks for the feedback. I appreciate the thought.
Each of those rounds was at least an episode of (admittedly glorious) animation. Tell me otherwise.
The first went four episodes, probably with at least one episode of this update to handle the pre fight setup and one intermission episode. Six episodes before we got to Kojis first bout. Then three or more episodes of that.
Then they wrap up Setsunas three fights mostly off screen in one episode and mostly skip Sandras.
I want to believe.
EDIT: It occurs to me that, at 35K words, I now have the longest post in the thread.
Don't get any ideas now
@Avalanche 
