NAIDA AND RUBINA: WHAT'S BEHIND THE MASK - 32
By Gerdha & Joe7
(first article: here; previous article: here)

ANALYSIS ABOUT RUBINA

RUBINA TALKS ABOUT DUKE FLEED AT SKARMOON BASE

In Dialogue 3 it is not clear why Rubina claims that Duke Fleed's opinion should be relevant from a legal standpoint. In fact, when she talks to his father, she says:

Rubina: (...) For what Duke Fleed is concerned, I will see him directly and I will talk with him.

Officially, for several years Planet Fleed was a Veghian territory: Duke Fleed, although was formally the King of Fleed, had no more authority on that planet. It can therefore be assumed that Rubina intends to meet Duke Fleed not as King of Fleed, but as the pilot of Grendizer, the "enemy" who was fighting against Vega for years.

As she speaks about a possible peace with the Earth, she might consider Duke Fleed as an appropriate interlocutor for negotiating with Vega Empire.

Moreover, Rubina speaks to her father about Planet Fleed who is returning to life: it can be a new planet for Veghians, who had lost their own one. Let's read again:

Rubina: (...)Don't attack Earth anymore!
King Vega: (disappointed) But what are you saying? We have anything but hope of conquering Earth as we have lost Planet Vega.
Rubina: No, we have also Planet Fleed.
King Vega: (surprised) Planet Fleed?
Rubina: Planet Fleed is re-birthing itself. Let's go to Planet Fleed, and start creating a new homeland. For what Duke Fleed is concerned, I will see him directly and I will talk with him.
King Vega: No!! We cannot have peace unless we defeat Grendizer and conquer Earth!

Substantially, King Vega says that, without ending the war against Grendizer and Earth, the matter of transferring the Veghian population makes no sense. In fact, King Vega did not have the necessary resources for such a mass transfer: even if they wanted to move to Fleed, King Vega was using all the latest available resources (especially energy) in the war against Grendizer.

The answer of King Vega to Rubina is very logical. His daughter seems to underestimate the practical problems that Vega kingdom has, which seems unlikely. So, the explanation for Rubina's attitude should be different. Duke Fleed could be her passport to regain her royal prerogatives. If Duke Fleed had accepted her as an interlocutor, she would have reacquired her role as a princess. But the plan could work only if Duke Fleed ignored her true legal status. In fact, Rubina lies to Duke Fleed on Earth "forgetting" to reveal the "small" detail that, legally, she was no longer Vega princess. An information that would certainly have been of the greatest importance to Duke Fleed. She is a perfect manipulator ...

Anyway, it is not clear, even in this case, the relationship between cause and effect that Rubina attributes to the meeting with Duke Fleed, and why King Vega considers this meeting so dangerous to dethrone her daughter and then to consent to the dangerous (for her) Zuril's plan to use her as a bait to capture Grendizer pilot. All this contrasts with King Vega's sorrow for Rubina's death in ep73: if he really loved (though in his own way) his daughter, why does King Vega assume these inconsistent behaviors in ep72? Is it a question of superficiality from the authors, a question of scenes and dialogues written at random for not knowing how to pass the time? Or, so far, the script is building the matrioska to be unveiled later?

(to be continued here)

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Edited by joe 7 - 2/5/2020, 14:35