Sorry for the triple posting, mods. It's hard to copy-and-paste from separate posts, constantly scrolling back and forth, to get to the ones I want to reply to. :P When posting, you can scroll below the text-entry box to the recap of previous posts, and at the top of each post in that is a "Qu...

Pretty much all of your questions will be answered in the fullness of time, mostly in the next 10-15 episodes. After which, you'll have a slew of new questions, because answering some of the current ones just prompts more questions. Some of your thinking is on the right road, other things are not --...

Wow, everyone! So much great discussion about my comments and the points I bring up and questions I ask! People like to help, and it's always refreshing to find someone for whom it's all more or less new. It's like helping someone remember how to drive, and basking in the new car smell. The Coordin...

Episode 14 is the first recap episode, but done differently and with some neat stuff - essentially, a history lesson of the Cosmic Era universe mixed in with the episode clips. The revelation and explanation of the N-jammers, rendering nuclear reactors and weapons useless, following the nuking of J...

On another board, I remember someone making the claim that Patrick Zala was a first-generation Coordinator, which had some interesting implications for his unseen parents. Had they passed away? Did he have a falling out with them? Or was he so fanatical as to throw even his parents under the prover...

One thing to keep in mind with this "race war" however is that essentially every Coordinator we see is the child or grandchild of naturals. Coordinators haven't been around long enough to hit a fourth generation yet, they're barely into the third. This is a point the staff conspicuously ig...

I don't think it's merely a "deep connection" -- it's pretty well implied that Amuro & Lalah are "soul mates", hence her "Why did I only meet you now?" And that's the sort of "complete understanding" that Newtypeness is supposed to promote, the good side o...

Possibly the Titans were feeling the power of the essentially-unlimited bank account, and began commissioning all sorts of things. Though the Marasais were a free bribe -- I mean gift, gift -- to keep the Titans from looking too closely at what AE was doing. The first episodes of the show are, howev...

If people think back to, say, the time between 1935 and 1965, military equipment advanced very quickly, such that vehicles and aircraft would be fielded in large numbers, and then retired as obsolete within five or ten years. By 1950, Sherman tanks, as built, were essentially hopelessly obsolete, de...

Emma spent an awful lot of time fighting Yazan's Hambrabi team, and not getting her ass kicked. That's more than Kamille can say about his time in the Mk II, since he abandoned it after getting his ass kicked by Yazan's Hambrabi team. The fact that Emma survived, against such tough opposition (Yazan...

Even planets, if you get enough of them together.

ShadowCell wrote:i see Graham Aker had a hard time getting a job after 00

Maybe he wanted to keep an eye on the bridge bunny who looks like the love child of Dearka and Howard Mason?

I just liked how not-Tiffa had the precognition to figure out how to escape, but not enough to recognize that the Gundam wasn't a badguy.

G-forces don't work that way in space. The G-forces sustained by pilots in aggressively maneuvering aircraft within an atmosphere are the result of the pilot rapidly shifting the direction of movement; the G-forces can be thought of as resistance to these moves, since the aircraft, per Newton's Firs...

Sayla: she was in medical school, and now she's a doctor.

Amuro: Hayato mentions that he's in space, probably rebuilding the AEUG/EFSF forces in preparation for an attack against Axis.

I mean details about what happen before OYW and such [where someone just try to brush aside anything written that's bad about feddie]. And please do not repeat the Zeon thing over and over since I make my stand already about not being Zeon fan. Anyway I think debating in circle is going nowhere and...

I'd say it's because the bigwigs on Earth didn't live in space, and so missed out on the significance of 30 Bunch abruptly ceasing communication & interaction with its fellow Side 1 colonies, and possibly those of other Sides. This wasn't some overlooked orphan Island-1 drifiting on the fringe ...

And Again the fed’s action soon after [sanction, EFSF, Naval review, rejection of colonial autonomy] does show that the fed blatantly reject Side 3’s independence. And trying to isolate Side 3 via sanction is one clear way for the fed to show its hostility against Side 3’s independence at the very ...

and completely ignore all argument about the fed not accept it, build up EFSF, and put sanction on it? What about the Federation "not accepting" Zeon's independence? They essentially ignored the Side, just like the Federation ignores all problems in space whenever it can (and sometimes wh...

I won't used the word atrocious for Zeon if I think it is ok. And it is not ok for Titans to commit it and should I trust its boss who fail to stop its repeated acts? I agree that both Zeon and Titans are evil, but I do not agree that spacenoids have to like the fed because it looks like the lesser...