Not to mention the way Riddhe grabbed Banagher's magnum and shot a hot load all over Loni's face. :) But seriously, when the showcase of every obscure machine from MSV takes up so much screentime that very little actually happens in one-sixth of Unicorn 's runtime, "porn" is really all it ...

Y'know, on reflection, the staff missed a big opportunity to base this episode on the style of daikaijuu movies. After all, isn't the whole thing of Shamblo attacking Dakar very giant monster movie-like? That aside, the whole thing with Banagher ignoring all of the people Loni killed is a pretty com...

Gosh, Brain Powerd (can I add the missing "e?" Please?) sure started out interesting. In many ways, it never really stopped being interesting. It did, though, stop being coherent around the time America claims Orphan as the 51st State. If not before. I must admit, it's been awhile since I ...

I always wondered what ethnicity Ali was. He seemed to be able to pass asmiddle eastern and French pretty easily. Well, many of France's old colonies were in North Africa (Algeria was the last one to be let go). As I understand it, there are quite a few North Africans (again, mostly Algerians) wand...

Sinhalese-Tamil conflict on Ceylon I'm pretty sure this was just the background reason for CB intervening. I really don't think they intended it to be anymore than it was Given how Gundam usually handles ethnic conflict (there's black people in Africa, and they sided with Zeon!), I'll hail first st...

I'm watching official translations - either that or Amazon is directly selling VERY convincing bootlegs at full retail price. :P I'm just having a hard time adjusting my brain to a whole new set of weird names. Call it an artifact of the fansub days or a stubborn resistance to a minor bit of censor...

Personally, the first season of 00 is probably my favorite 21st century Gundam series (with Unicorn coming up swiftly from behind, as of Episode 3). It looks good, design- and animation-wise, it's relatively smart, and it runs at a pretty efficient clip. It also manages a pretty nice balance between...

Yup, that's the one.

I dunno why I find it so hilarious, but I do.

I'll agree on the fights. In Zeta, as with many Gundam TV series, only about 15% of the fights actually mean anything. The rest are filler, a means to fill up an action quota. In general, I think that 52 episodes is too long for Gundam. If a 26-episode structure were used properly (like the first se...

Why IS Cagalli a Princess? Orb doesn't have a king, so this title doesn't make sense. Is she the only one? If so, why? I suspect for the same reason why Princess Celestia isn't "Queen," "God-Empress," or "Muad'Dib." :wink: Some bean-counters got it in their heads that ...

I like Range Murata and his retro style, but the man only draws two kinds of characters: Nazi men and little girls in skintight pleather or woolen coats. :P And gods forbid any of his tech designs be put under anything resembling scrutiny: There's an extent to which it doesn't matter how big the van...

^ For all her impact afterward, she may as well have died in S1. She's not the only one I could say that about. What I have might be a genuine rumor, or it might be a misconception I had that just stuck with me for ten years: I remember something prior to Gundam SEED 's first airing, when it was bei...

Isn't it entirely possible though that the nations on this planet already existed way before the Exile from the first series visited this planet? [/color] Given Luscinia's speech before Exile-dropping, that is a definite possibility. I'd forgotten whether Exile had returned to Earth or was just col...

Hoo, boy... not sure if this thread is the right place, but I'd like to find a particular episode. There's a meme a friend of mine and I have based on Chris's rendition of Ali's "I'm A Warmonger" speech, and I'm trying to find the episode with the version I remember the most. :P I checked ...

On reflection, Zeta was one hell of a cynical series. That's kind of a big handicap: Science fiction is at its most appealing when it's generally optimistic, and Zeta's very pessimistic. Even if the opportunity Gundam Wing created had been better handled and somehow sustained, I don't think Zeta wou...

Regardless of whether Dio's fate was a good idea or not, his presence in this series is completely disorienting. As of the first episode, I have absolutely no sense of time or place, largely because of him. From the looks of it, this is the planet that Exile reached at the end of the first series. A...

AmuroNT1 wrote:and Clotho plays video games...on his WonderSwan.

Y'know, if they had purposefully meant Clotho to be a retro gamer, that would add so much to his character...

I'll just shut up and read more impressions before I say anything about my opinions.

My recent shows have been... My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Season 2. I've been waiting for this one for... well... ever since Season 1 finished. I dropped Doctor Who in disgust with "Let's Kill Hitler," so I don't feel inclined to assume a show will stay good just because it's been g...

A new Last Exile show? Now, that's a surprise!

Excuse me while I check this out...

So far, I've only managed the first episode. However, I was so surprised by my reaction that I wanted to at least mention it. That reaction was... nothing. It was suitably Gundam, it hit all the key points of Gundam, but aside from that, I really have no feelings on it. There was nothing that made m...