Before saying much else or driving myself in circles trying to analyze it, I should probably ask the most fundamental question I can think of: "Is Tekkadan supposed to be normal?" My take on it is that Tekkadan are supposed to be normal kids in an abnormal situation. They're normal in the...

Eh, Thunderbolt is middle of the road compared to other recent Gundam stuff. Better than Unicorn and G-Reco (neither of which I liked basically at all), but not as good as IBO or Build Fighters (both of which were fantastic). As far as the "understanding" stuff, Thunderbolt has the same ta...

This is actually very unnerving to me because of his frequent and cavalier brutality. More troubling is how the story makes little effort toward acknowledging that as abnormal or disturbing behavior. Perhaps this response is conditioning from similar protagonists who did have severe emotional traum...

You're watching the dub, right? Mikazuki's range of emotion is honestly far more nuanced in Japanese. It feels as though the direction he's been given has been deadpan instead of introspective. I would disagree with that. I watched the sub as it was released and I'm watching the dub as it airs, and...

I watched the first two episodes when they were up on Youtube and they didn't particularly impress me. I just recently watched the December Sky version and I have to admit, it wasn't as bad as I expected it to be. The main problem is that they tried to be relentlessly grimdark without giving us any ...

It's generally agreed even among fans of the show that the middle section -- roughly where you are now to about episode 14 or so -- is the weakest part of the show, mostly do to poor pacing. It's not bad , but it certainly would have benefitted from some tighter plotting. It's also more character-fo...

You make space elevators sound so easy, BFK! It's true that finding a strong material is the single greatest hurdle in making a space elevator possible in the first place, but you've significantly undersold the applicable parameters. Well, yes. Books can (and have) been written on the subject, and ...

The space colonies are probably the most scientifically plausible part of Gundam. There's no reason why they couldn't work (unlike, say, giant robots, which are impractical for a variety of reasons -- to say nothing of effects that rely on fictional branches of science, like Minovsky particles or N-...

Yeah, we see a bunch of old-school mecha (OYW-era, or not long after) in Unicorn, especially during the Torrington battle. The explanation there is that they're basically obsolete units that haven't been decommissioned yet, so they're being used to garrison a backwater base with little strategic val...

Newtype powers honestly seem to be pretty damn random in who they manifest. Let's take a quick look at the various people who develop newtype abilities. Amuro: a young man who's fairly anti-social and pretty introverted, who starts out without much drive but ultimately does care about both the peopl...

We see the Tekkadan pilots training against the Turbine pilots from their cockpits without needing separate simulation equipment.

Yeah, TMS are pretty much a technological dead end. They were popular during the Gryps era and the first Neo Zeon war, but after that they pretty much fade away except for the occasional one-off with a vastly simplified transformation mode. The drawbacks don't seem to be worth the benefits.

I believe that it's less the GN Tau drives specifically and more the mobile suit power in general. True GN Drives provide both power and GN particles, while GN Tau drives only provide GN particles and require an external power source to do so. Non-Gundams in 00 are generally powered by an internal b...

Brave Fencer Kirby's first post is about as good an answer as you can possibly expect. His reply concerned more mecha themselves, or rather their actions in different environments My response was a broad answer to a broad question, about whether versatility or specialization was preferable, and app...

War is bad. Don't do it. Pretty straightforward message and one the Gundam series has been peddling for a long, long time. With few exceptions (like the 00 movie), that's not actually Gundam's message. It'd be more accurate to say that Gundam sees war as a necessary evil. Solving conflicts without ...

The idea behind "generations" of fighters is that some new technology is important enough that older tech becomes obsolete after the introduction of certain features. For fighter planes in the real world, it's roughly generation 1 (original jet fighters), generation 2 (supersonic flight an...

Presumably because it continues to sell to third world countries... though it may simply be the same problem as the F-35, an ongoing disaster being dragged out because the military doesn't want to own up to the fact that it sunk money into a bad design. Point of order: the F-35 is actually a pretty...

The answer is, as with any question this broad, "it depends". Versatility is a good priority if you have limited numbers available and want to be able to cover all your bases with a smaller force. Specialization is better if you can afford it or if the various roles you're trying to fill a...

Wrong. An electron-positron annihilation produces pure energy. Gamma rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation, which is "pure energy", as they're composed of photons, which are massless. So you're both correct. A positron-electron annihilation does produce pure energy... in the form o...

The problem with that explanation is that it is not how antimatter works. Annihilation would happen immediately after the antimatter leaves its container. It wouldn't be able to travel enough to create a beam before encountering the first atmosphere molecules immediately in front of the Minerva. Cl...