Finished this series just the other day. I had watched the first few episodes, got sidetracked, and then rushed through it all over the past few weeks. I feel like the early episodes were meh, which is part of the reason I let myself get sidetracked. As I got through it, it seemed to be getting bett...

Interesting that Soul Bro had the same problem with MSG on DVD that I did (vol 5, right?). I had ordered it through Amazon and got it backordered for so long that I eventually just canceled. Best Buy didn't have it for the longest time, too. I bought the whole rest of the set, but didn't watch it pa...

Hey, my question made the cut. Part of what I was trying to get at with the "contradictory sources" part is that even if you cleared out the trolls and people writing whatever pops into their head, the Gundam section of Wiki would still be a mess. Especially since a lot of these sources (e...

Mu La Flaga wrote:Dennis and Emperor Palpatine are funny

What Palpatine? I thought that was Larry King.

Some Straight Talk Express back to you guys: I hope you got the MD Geist "Culture" thing out of your system with this episode, because it's getting stale. ???? If you're gonna troll, you better know what you're talking about. "Culture" is not from MD Geist. Sorry, I somehow got ...

Great episode. Love to have a perspective on Japanese culture other than anime.

Some Straight Talk Express back to you guys: I hope you got the MD Geist "Culture" thing out of your system with this episode, because it's getting stale.

Wikipedia has a very poor reputation around Mecha fandom. Forgive the loaded question, but do you think this is really Wiki's fault? It tends to have a much better reputation (as a secondary source) around the hard science and non-controversial history sections. Rather, I suspect the real problem wi...

How is it possible to control the thing without wearing a high-visability jacket?

On race in anime--the animators don't necessarily intend for characters to look caucasian. They're drawing a generic face, which their main audience will interpret as Japanese. If you take a simple smiley face drawing and ask people in the US what race it is, most people will say white, even if they...

Running in a Real Time format: Gundam 0083. To cut it down to 24 hours, you'd end up cutting the parts that suck anyway (like the silly love triangle tacked on to the end), ending up with a core story that's actually pretty good. You start with a Gundamjack on earth, chase them into space, then the ...

http://www.examiner.com/x-16352-Japan-Headlines-Examiner~y2010m4d29-Japanese-group-aims-to-put-humanoid-robot-on-moon-by-2015 Summary: A group named "Astro-Technology SOHLA" wants to put a 2-legged robot on the moon by 2015, hitching a ride with another Japanese rover. Once there, it'll d...

One thing guys: the 4th season wasn't cut in two bits because Skiffy wanted to drag it out. It was because they had no more scripts at that point due to the Writer's Strike. It wasn't a marketing trick, just a victim of circumstance, and there was some question if BSG was going to have an ending at ...

Very reminicent of the Foundation series on the explaination of the plan. Throwing in that humanity would have to unite in the expectation of running into another intellegence comes right out of Asimov. Thinking about it, Aeolia Schenberg is a lot like Harry Selden, too. This would be the first Gund...

Before their public debut, Celestial Being often subverted the three big governments to fund their activities (like the Jupiter trip). The HRL Super Soldier project may have been originally undertaken as a prototype for the Innovators.

Even for those of us in season 2, it's likely that the remaining episodes are already in the last phases of production (if not done entirely). From the producers' point of view, these events have already happened and the rest of us just don't know it yet. It's just a matter of your point of view. T...

The second season is well under way and no one can deny that, but hasn't this entire topic been operating under the presupposition that we aren't to court it? We can say this or that doesn't happen thanks to the subs we've seen, but what harm could it do to let first-timers take shots in the dark? ...

As much as I think the Masked villain archetype is an integral part of Gundam, it would have been nice to have left it off this time around. You know for varieties sake. I'll give you this much: Gundam 00 will have its own little twist on the idea, as it so often does. EDIT: Post edited to remove s...

mrliy wrote:I just have to point out what happened while watching Gundam....

on tv: Patrick gets blow up again
my wife: patrick is blasting off again!

Patrick the "team rocket" of Gundam?!

Funny how people independently come to that nickname

As for Epyon, according to Amuro's timeline dealy (which was a great resource, thank you), Treize had about two weeks to develop its ZERO system or at least copy the system from Wing Zero. The MS itself could have been in production for a much longer time since they already had Gundam data from ear...

Point on Veda: You know, I just realized that Veda would have failed the Gundam Meisters even if Alejandro hadn't interfered. During the Taklamakan Desert (*0079 reference?*) military exercise, the Gundams were going to lose. The Thrones, not part of Veda, saved them. (Unless, Veda meant for them t...