Gundam Anonymous

Post by **To2fPic** » Fri Jun 10, 2005 7:30 pm

The sadness that is Gundam Seed Destiny continues to amaze me. I am sad. I don't know if should continue watching it...

Post by **Brainpiercing** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 1:43 pm

Hmm, I've watched some more Z. Well, so far the big kick for me hasn't appeared, but at least one thing is good: As gundam series bad guys go, that Scirocco guy is positively scary.

Post by **Messatsu** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 3:25 pm

Heh i use to be the consummate Gundam whore amongst my friends( which annoyed the fuck out of them

). But sufficed to say that I have watched: The original gundam series (its been a while), Z(still not done with it), ZZ( hated it half way throu), Chars counter attack( good movie ), Wing( bleh it was my 1st taste of gundam, horrible), G-gundam( Can you say DBZ Wannabe, Lamest of them all) and Ive still to watch X, turn-a and V

Oh and on a final note, I didn't like seed felt it was to much like a retelling of the original series and i haven't watched Destiny yet.

Post by **Libaax** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 9:04 pm

If you dont like seed then dont ever watch destiny cause its a remake of seed storywise,characther wise but it isnt half as good.

Post by **Messatsu** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 1:24 am

Libaax wrote:If you dont like seed then dont ever watch destiny cause its a remake of seed storywise,characther wise but it isnt half as good.

No its more because i suspect it of being Z'ds modern reincarnation.

On a side note has anybody ever found or seen the three movies based on the original series?

Post by **Starnum** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 9:46 pm

Yeah, I own them.

Post by **To2fPic** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 9:54 pm

It's just the shortened vers of the original series. It's actually quite good imo.

Post by **Messatsu** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 2:19 pm

Where did you get em Starnum?

Post by **Brainpiercing** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 5:08 pm

I watched some more Z, well, I'm almost through now. I must say, considering the bad things done in the show, it's pretty rough, and I guess it'll get rougher.
Characterisations are pretty good overall. Still some weirdness on the motivations of the vilains.
Camille gets quite a bit of profile, although his characters isn't really very likable, even at ep. 40+. He's probably quite realistic though, he's got to get a little cold after all the shocks he had to suffer.

Well, since I've watched ZZ I approximately already know what will happen to him in the end, so I guess I can expect an even greater bodycount in the last few eps. Since I'm a wimp this touches me quite a bit, somehow V compensated better for its mass-destruction.

Well, it's not a bad show so far, but somehow it hasn't been something where I hunger for each new ep. Only V could do that to a certain extent.

Post by **Starnum** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 9:15 am

Messatsu wrote:Where did you get em Starnum?

From a friend. Beyond that, I couldn't tell you where they came from, sorry.

Post by **Dominion** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 11:04 am

i change my mind... Turn-A Gundam is a very entertaining show when youre stoned

Post by **Brainpiercing** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 12:11 pm

Starnum wrote:
Messatsu wrote:Where did you get em Starnum?
From a friend. Beyond that, I couldn't tell you where they came from, sorry.

For all the pirates.... box?

Post by **Brainpiercing** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 10:40 pm

I've started watching gundam seed, in spite of the warnings I've seen everywhere, and I must say, it's far better than what I've heard about it so far. Yes, Kira does get a little emotional sometimes, but hell, he's in a stressful situation, why shouldn't he?

And of course I don't notice the similarities to 0079 because I haven't watched that one, yet, so it's just the standard gundam fare that makes the overall impression a little bland.
I found the animation and the characters much better than in Wing, though, and from the beginning the action isn't just mindless slugfests.

Well, so far I like this show, I'll see how it goes on.

Post by **Libaax** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 11:19 pm

I likeed Seed it was very good. Just wait till you watch Destiny who reuse everything in Seed which is why its not as good as it should be.

Post by **LordMune** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 1:10 am

I get physically ill from watching Seed. I forced myself through the first half-hour of the first episode of Seed special edition or whatever it's called (an OVA I believe, three feature-length episodes containing all of Seed), but then I had to go lie down for a bit due to extreme nausea. Stupid voices, characters who are nothing but clichés on two legs, PINK EXPLOSIONS and icky digitally painted animation makes Mune a sad boy.

Post by **To2fPic** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 1:55 am

You're not the only one mune...

Post by **LordMune** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 11:45 am

That's good to hear, I thought I was the only sane person left post-Seed. :\

Post by **Brainpiercing** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 1:38 pm

Hm, I don't quite get what you guys think is so bad, sure the pink explosions are stupid, but the computer animated machines aren't so bad.

Well, what really irks me is that up to ep 25 there are already THREE eps full of recap. They must have really lacked material for the plot at that point.

Post by **TheDarkness** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 3:32 pm

well actually the only REAL recap episode is number 26. rest still have a few new things. But 26 is only recap.

Still Seed is 10 times as good as Wing. I mean your complaining about how cliche Seed was? Then what about Wing that in total had about 20 different battle animations. With the rest they just changed the background a little.

The part about pink explosions.. Well ok it sucks. But well have you played final fantasy x? The explosions in that game are sometimes pink or purple or even both. No one complained about those.

I'm just glad i never saw the dual audio version cause i heard those were terrible according to quite a few people i've talked to.

Post by **Messatsu** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 10:41 pm

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Post by **Brainpiercing** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 12:45 pm

I've finished Seed, and overall I liked it. It wasn't perfect, no doubt about that, but at least it was majorly better than Wing IMHO. Wing was really annoying in the earlier eps, and Seed was never so bad.

I also found the bad guys a little better for once, and the cause of the war made sense. A total annihilation war finally seemed plausible, since it wasn't just space-dwellers against earth dwellers with some weird motive for killing each other. The main villain as a total nihilist was something comparatively new to me from Gundam, and a nice touch I thought.

Post by **TheDarkness** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 12:48 pm

anyway... is it just me or do most gundam series have a villian using a mask.... i know both wing and seed had em. And i believe there also was on in gundam X

Post by **Brainpiercing** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 8:25 pm

Hmm, my next exploit in the gundam world.

I've watched half of the movie "Char's counterattack", but so far have no motivation to watch the second half. (Er, another one of the masked villains, although he got rid of the mask in Z-gundam.)

The story seems hurried and forced, and Char is contradicting himself all the time. And Amuro in that movie is almost cold.

Well, whatever. Even though this was done by Tomino directly I don't think it will be one of his better pieces.

Post by **Messatsu** » Sun Jul 17, 2005 8:52 pm

well it has been said that tomino was under a depression when he made char's counterattack. If im not mistaken

Post by **Brainpiercing** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 5:42 pm

Must have been some depression. I was actuallly looking forward to this movie, damn.