On the issue of Newtypes, I still don't agree with Shiro being a Newtype. If he possessed any Newtype ability at all, he and his team wouldn't have struggled so much trying to stop Norris in the series. I also don't believe that the Aina-Shino romance on its own is valid evidence to suggest they ar...

I don't ever notice anything or see any evidence in the series to suggest any of the characters are Newtypes. I therefore assume that they are normal soldiers. I'm not saying they're Newtypes (except for Shiro and Aina because seriously, two people knowing each other for less than a week and fallin...

As far as the 08th ms team goes, I always felt that the fact that Kojima was planning to use Nuclear Weapon's on the area if they failed in destroying the Apsalus otherwise was the key point of drama we were meant to cling on to. We know that the Apsalus will not succeed in taking out Jaburo, but t...

I think the greater issue with dropping new Mobile Suits into the OYW era is that they are part of the overall larger problem of stuffing the timeline with things that trivialize the contributions of the core series. Kikka and Co. saving the GMs at Jaburo from the time bombs was meant to have some g...

If you watch the scene closely you can see the kid run out of the elevator as the Gouf passes by.

What we should be asking is why does he look like Bernie's cousin Ernie.

Personally, I've always felt the Gouf Custom battle was the best example of how not to do a combat scene. Now I generally place a lot of emphasis on the characters within the robots as it is what ultimately drives the drama. Norris himself is like a hollow echo of the character he's obviously meant ...

As I said, they can try and make is as "unofficial" as they want, but according to their own policy if it's animated, it's official. Like it or not, Sunrise cannot delete that entry from the Universal Century timeline. Why not? If they made the rules, what's stopping them from arbitrarily...

And yet it took us a decade to get Osama Bin Laden. Don't underestimate just how difficult it is to get insurgents that don't have a fixed physical location and which are hard to identify on the day to day. The state has significant mobility and flexibility disadvantages when it comes to fighting a...

Well it's a good thing a lot of the recent criticisms in this thread are about different things than the above observation:3

It's like episode 13 or something where after a really awesome battle with the Shadow Angels where the Aquarion proves it is in fact crucifixion proof, they have an entire episode that is 80% restating plot points from the first half of the show as they run recap footage while the characters say eve...

Shinji103 wrote: only the most devoted of mindless fanboys can deny that one certain episode of Aquarion was downright terrible. ^^b

Well yeah. Any kind of recap or semi-recap episode is almost always terrible. Goes without saying.

So in that sense, unless Sunrise is planning some kind of big retcon, Unicorn is presenting us with a story that doesn't really matter in the long run. This is a part of what I am talking about. The other half involves the notion of what is essentially another Gundam side story making the same mist...

You do realize that Kawamori did not write or direct the majority of SDF Macross or Frontier and did did not do either of those duties when it came to 7 right? Even Zero wasn't written by him, but rather one of the original writers for SDF Macross. I know he's an easy target of criticism as the Geor...

Honestly while watching episode four my attention was unable to focus on the talky bits for too long. Kinda the opposite effect I had re-watching 08th MS Team recently where I focused to the point of realizing how lightweight the dialogue was. Still, the inherent complexity of the Unicorn story (and...

You know I'm quite sure myself what a "semi-sniper" or "semi-cannon" is supposed to be. I do know what a seme-sniper is. Lockon's a seme-sniper :3

This is a forum to discuss technical issues, not bad writing. Considering that this is a work of fiction, which means it was written that means the technical prowess (or lack thereof) shown in the OVA can only stem from the writing itself :3 At least I'd hope the mechanical action director would li...

I honestly don't take much stock in the magical notion of "refitting" older Mobile Suits to allow them to match newer models. These aren't exactly your old Dell computer with plug and play expansion slots. The Zeon Remnants having well kept standard Mobile Suits is one thing but those rand...

I don't think it's unreasonable to point out (fannishly whine) about how Mobile Suits which are supposedly equal or better than the original Gundam never seem to perform as such. We know they all can fight on the bounce so they could all attempt to keep up with the Byalant rather than be less effect...

They were likely rookies with little to no actual combat experience. Don't forget that officially speaking, Torrington is considered a backwater base, where test pilots and new recruits sortie in mostly training missions, when not serving as aggressors for new prototype MS. This is not intended as ...

It has been confirmed that Alto is a perfect waifu.