Confused by end of "Giant Robo OVA" (spoilers)

[Crossroads Inc.]

For those that watched the show, as you all know if the final episode, the Big Bad guy and his Giant Eye of DOOM gets all three of the special power tubes that we have been told the who show will bring about the end of the world.

Upon activation of all said three tubes however, the Giant Eye of Doom apparently begins a Detoxification process that actually 'saves' the world along with a prerecorded message explaining what is happening and what the Eye of Doom was 'supposed' to do.

This left me pondering... IN virtually all shows, the good guys are supposed to stop the bad guys... yet here, if at any point the good gys had blown up or stopped the Giant Eye of Doom, then the world really WOULD have died when the toxins from the Power Tubes built up and hit critical mass. Conversely, if the good guys had failed in the first episode and the "Badguys" got all three special tubes, then presumably the Eye of Doom would have activated properly and the Big Bad guy would have been told "Oh yeah, your mission of vengeance is actually based on lies and your weapons is actually meant to save the world."

Sooo, I'm I correct in realizing if the goodguys "Won" the earth gets screwed, and if the badguys "won" in the first episode, the Earth gets saved with the possibility of NOT having the largest Earth cities laid waste to?

[scythewielder]

That's pretty much the gist of the plot twist in question, yes, as far as I can remember. Some people love that, others hate it...but I'm definitely among the first group. It was a nice change of pace from the standard super robot premise and therefore I'd say Yasuhiro Imagawa did a good job (even considering how the OVA left off promising more adventures and so forth that we'll likely never get to see in animated form).

[Crossroads Inc.]

That's pretty much the gist of the plot twist in question, yes, as far as I can remember. Some people love that, others hate it...but I'm definitely among the first group. It was a nice change of pace from the standard super robot premise and therefore I'd say Yasuhiro Imagawa did a good job (even considering how the OVA left off promising more adventures and so forth that we'll likely never get to see in animated form).

Thats what I assumed really...

And yeah the Giant Robo OVA was 'interesting' It was a radical departure the Giant Robot genre in general which oyu could see as either good or bad. Given that it was just 7 episodes, there isn't a lot of room for the normal "Meet giant monster, fight monster, save the day" style of usual Giant Robot shows. In truth Giant Robo fights (on screen) only THREE times in the whole show.

Of course the OVA was really more an homage to "Gigantor" then the original Giant Robo, incorporating characters, robots, and plot eliminates, as well as homage's to many other past shows. The whole "Suzumi Drive" aspect that the story centeres around was defiantly something new, and while the ending directly alluded to a Sequel, Im not sure there will ever be one.

A part of me would like to see a more faithful, and possibly campy, remake of the original Show.
Terrible Warlord from space Lands on Earth but is 'trapped' on the Ocean on his spaceship. Seeking help from Earths evildoers, he 'hires' the International Terrorist group 'Big Fire'. In the first attack, his most powerful Weapon is stolen from a secret base by Earth Police and a small boy. Que the rest of the show involving lots of giant monsters and "Big Fire" vs the World Police."

Campy to be sure, but done in the style of the Giant Robo OVA, would be quite fun.

[Sriad]

As you may have guessed by now, I'm a big fan of the series. I disliked the extra twist at first, but have since come around; it's of a common cloth with the rest of the series. It makes sense, if only twisted mad science sense, that to save the world from its utopian infrastructure you'd need a cadre of the most powerful self-interested "terrorists" you could get your hands on.

I continue to hope to see further adventures of Giant Robo in that awesomely anachronistic fusion world, but it's a very dim, low level hope. And TBH what we've got is enough.

[Crossroads Inc.]

As you may have guessed by now, I'm a big fan of the series. I disliked the extra twist at first, but have since come around; it's of a common cloth with the rest of the series. It makes sense, if only twisted mad science sense, that to save the world from its utopian infrastructure you'd need a cadre of the most powerful self-interested "terrorists" you could get your hands on.

I continue to hope to see further adventures of Giant Robo in that awesomely anachronistic fusion world, but it's a very dim, low level hope. And TBH what we've got is enough.

I'm curious, DID Big Fire know the truth behind the Drives poisoning of the air? I always got the impression all they knew was that the Eye of Doom would neutralize the Drives, and then they could hold the world for ransom after capturing the only Oil reserves left. Straight forward thuggery as far as I know.