>>13425038> Someone give me a good reason why latter UC is a AUI think the problem with F91 and Victory is that Tomino didn't really build off anything related to early UC to make them, and because they're set so long after Char's Counterattack there are no legacy characters, ships, units or anything that really connect the two so they end up feeling very disconnected. When he was making Zeta he took the finale of 0079 and extrapolated an interesting story out from that to make Zeta, with ZZ taking the dangling plot threads of Zeta while Char's Counterattack just took two of the characters and gave them their own movie to work out their relationship. All well and good and each of them built on stuff established in their predecessors.
Neither F91 or Victory really did that though. Both of them basically went "okay, so the status quo has been re-established, several decades have passed and now another bunch of Spacenoids want to pick a fight with the Federation". Which doesn't really build off anything in regards to the previous shows, at least as a plot hook. There are small nods to it here and there, like how Jupiter was supplying a lot of them and the continuing decline in power of the Federation, but it's all really background stuff and doesn't have nearly the same impact as the way the early to mid UC stuff built off each other.
Part of it is that the Zeonic wars had remarkably little effect on the setting. I mean, this is a series of wars that killed off over half the population of humanity and lasted roughly 15 years, nearly bankrupting the dominant power at least once. And yet, the status quo is resumed without any overt changes. Sure, the Federation got weaker and weaker, but really Zeon and all it's successors had no major effect and by the time of Char's Counterattack or Unicorn you'd be hard pressed to tell that anything had happened besides what it up and tells you happened, because all the same pieces are in place despite all those conflicts.
