So, what are your thoughts on how Clash of the Worlds' climax saw Polish soldiers fight with fanaticism closer to that of the Imperial Japanese Army? I would say that was the most tragic part of that series.
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While I do not agree with you with all points, I do agree the show focuses a lot on political intrigue.
Its sequal crossover series Clash of The Worlds is far more diverse in comparision and has a lot more action and worldbuilding.
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I mean, it is pretty dramatic and heavy, but I think that at this point its weight has been somewhat overstated, compared to the screentime and overall attention it got. By the way some people talk about it, you'd think the entire series was centered around Poland and it's role in such a confusing world.
You may be thinking of The Serpent and the Bolt. I'm quite honestly baffled by the idea that Costantine adopting Manicheism equals to 21th century values suddenly appearing in Late Antiquity, and not!Vandals crossing the Atlantic with no rhyme or reason.
Seeing how they fought, even when Poland has fallen in the early mid stages of the war and continuing to do so till the ruins of AANW Washington DC, with even Polish officers and soldier knowing how futile it was at that point yet they still continue to fight to the last man was the saddest moment of the show.
What made it truly tragic was how Svetlena Anatova in tultomous storm of emotions along with many within GDI allowed the German Empire, who werent exactly in the mood to be forgiving or understanding either after the brutal war, to do as they please with AANW Poland and what remained of her people. Thankfully they didint go so far as to commit genocide, but Poland as a nation died when the Treaty of Hamburg was signed.
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Well this is probably mostly due to the fact that most of the screentime relating to AANW Poland was through the POV of a single polish soldier during the war, Marek Stepein rather than the nation itself or even the military. Yet what can be gleamed from the POV is telling. The fact that during war, that most of its population was evacuated from the nation when it was clear that Poland would fall so that they could enlist in the military and continue fighting till the bitter end. And how the Polish view the German Empire as Nazis and even going so far as to view GDI as the same shows how much prejudice and bad memories can do to a nation and its people. Thus they fight the way they did because they truly believed that there was no other choice or they would all die, and that made it a hook for the audience
That was why the scene when finally clarity reached to a few of the Polish soldiers and officers shortly before their last stand in Washington DC, but by then it was too late, was so tragic.
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Roosterteeth Alternate History works are like that. Many of it would look better as fantasy work or sci fi. Take a look at Tommorrow belongs to me, (which is better known by its finished version, RWBY) it was originally supposed to take place in Weimar germany, but RT and monty Oum choose to make it set in fantasy world of remnant instead.
Well, it does explain some of the arcs, like how the Fall of Beacon was caused by a self-coup by the ruling Council Chief.
Well, she's in the TTA series, considering that Clash of the Worlds is set in the "future" of TTA and could be considered a sequel to it.
How Svetlana Antonova (played by Charlize Theron) told Michelle Wayland (played by Marcia Cross), her long-time ally and friend, that the AANW Americans "are not the Americans she comes from" when talking about the harshness imposed on AANW America was definitely amongst the most interesting scenes from it, along with Svetlana being proud of her daughter Kira (played by Sophie Turner) after she distinguished herself during the war.
Ironically, in TTA , USA was presented as villains resembling imperial Japan.
Not to mention that after the war TTA USA under the new president became a Putin Russia expy, becoming antagonistic to the Republic of China and seeking deeper ties with the Reichspakt during the cold war.
Speaking of the cold war, what do you guys think of the post war situations of the three worlds in the series, particulary the AANW world being occupied and split into two spheres of influence between GDI and the Reichspakt including the divided the AANW North American statelets which became basically a bunch of third world nations with frequent terrorist attacks on both the Reichspakt and GDI forces stationed there?
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Well, it is an interesting dynamic which shows proverbially how the mighty have fallen as AANW North America was the center of the world and they had to bend the knee to the Chinese and the Germans.
Well them and Britain and Australia and to a lesser extent India, But I was actually refering to the long standing hatred of Germany by the nations of the AANW world excluding China and Japan and how this hatred that during the war is extended to GDI translated to the post war situation of the Cold War?
Speaking of China and Japan, what do you think of AANW China and Japan situation post war?
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Well, the Earth Solidarity Pact now has lots of bioweapons considering how the Earth Solidarity Pact was able to secure AANW China's biological weapons stockpile, which was returned to TTA Earth.
Oh yeah, the Earth Solidarity Pact was established as the UN counterpart after the war, but on the scale of three worlds instead of a single one as in OTL.
Still what do you think of the post war situation of AANW China who had a new regime change supported by GDI and AANW Japan who had defected to the Coalition during the war?
Not to mention the terrorist attacks and conflicts which plagued both power blocs during the cold war?
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Isn't that caused by how many in the former A4 countries and Eastern Europe in AANW Earth were unwilling to bend the knee to the "Nazis"?
To the extent of impacting not only both GDI and the Reichspakt but also neutral nations including even the LOFN to a limited extent, being decried as "Nazis Apologists" for simply staying neutral during the war?
Though to be fair to the AANW nations, outside the reformed AANW German Empire, China and Japan the terms of the Treaty of Hamburg were quite harsh and punitive, exceedingly so for nations outside of the former CIS, and occupation of the defeated AANW nations by both power bloc were harsh, strict and sometimes brutals.
It dosen't help that the Reichspakt and even GDI ironically sometimes copied the former A4 playbook in dealing with uprisings when they felt it was either necessary or when a rebellion crossed a line.
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