Every anime has a production committee who figures out how they pay for it (anime make miney from a wide range of sources) and they told the writers they needed to write mechs in to get the gunpla bucks.

Plus Jane Austen at the time was a sharp critique of English nobility and high class, but presenting it in a stylized and popular way.

Nothing comparable to treating a mobile suit like an extension of the body, or killing people, or both at the same time (e.g. the "duel" between Char Aznable and Kycilia Zabi).

Pretty good quote from the article and a succinct way to sum up the human dilemma of existing in a society.

Where my Gundam Wing fans at? (there are literally dozens of us...dozens!)