The Official Gundam 00 Anime Thread Mk X

Arbiter GUNDAM · Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:25 am

Like I was saying, Steve Blum as Ali Al-Saachez anyone?

SNT1 · Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:57 am

I don't like Steve Blum... only due to the fact that every other dub out there has Steve Blum.

teslashark · Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:06 am

Joe Kucan will suit Ali......

(rember Kane from the C&Cs

)

J-Lead · Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:23 am

Speaking of hypothetical dub jobs, I always thought that Steve Staley might be perfect for Al/Hal. After all, his work as Shiro in 08th MS Team in contrast to his work as Kadaj in Advent Children thoroughly convinces me that he is capable of using his calm and malevolent voices to dub Al and Hal respectively. It'd be interesting to hear those two voices of his coming into internal conflict with one another...

teslashark wrote:Joe Kucan will suit Ali......

(rember Kane from the C&Cs )

I can't imagine him in that role. Joe Kucan's role as Kane is an evil, calculating mastermind, not a vulgar, hot-blooded war addict. I'd have to agree with the aformentioned notion that Steve Blum might do a good Ali...

thesilentreviewer · Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:28 am

Gundam a la C&C.. hehe

What, are we gonna make Tiberium-powered Gundams now? lol

Anyways, Ep 19 already gave us a clue as to who supports the Thrones, Lagna Harvey, who, from what I heard, sounds like the 24th century's Bill Gates.

Wang Liu Ming seems too passive this episode, wonder why?

Jack · Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:29 am

J-Lead wrote:I can't imagine him in that role. Joe Kucan's role as Kane is an evil, calculating mastermind, not a vulgar, hot-blooded war addict. I'd have to agree with the aformentioned notion that Steve Blum might do a good Ali...

I think Skip Stellrecht would be good as Ali. He's got the right kind of gravelly sound.

wing zero alpha · Wed Feb 20, 2008 5:18 am

Hm. To tell the truth, I could see Crispin Freeman doing Graham Acre myself, albeit not with his standard deep tone, and Steven Blum as Ali-Al Sarshes isn't a bad idea either. As for Johnny Yong Bosch, I see him more towards Lockon Stratos than Setsuna, since the latter isn't a very emotional character (aside from choice encounters with Ali) and Bosch's strong points are with characters that can display emotion. Two others I can also think of is Scott McNeil voicing Patrick (as someone suggested earlier) and the guy that did Quatre doing Saji.

Arbiter GUNDAM · Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:39 am

wing zero alpha wrote:the guy that did Quatre doing Saji.

And he voiced Amuro Ray I believe, so there's some brownie points right there.

Zero Revenge · Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:03 am

wing zero alpha wrote:Hm. To tell the truth, I could see Crispin Freeman doing Graham Acre myself, albeit not with his standard deep tone, and Steven Blum as Ali-Al Sarshes isn't a bad idea either. As for Johnny Yong Bosch, I see him more towards Lockon Stratos than Setsuna, since the latter isn't a very emotional character (aside from choice encounters with Ali) and Bosch's strong points are with characters that can display emotion. Two others I can also think of is Scott McNeil voicing Patrick (as someone suggested earlier) and the guy that did Quatre doing Saji.

I'd be quite happy with that line up.

As long as no one from SEED and Destiny (Blue Ocean group?) did major roles on 00, i'd probably be happy enough with it.

Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:41 am

Ok everyone, I think that's enough of 00 dub casting. Since the series hasn't been licensed, there's no point in spending this many posts discussing casting wish lists.

Zangetsu · Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:55 am

I just watched 18 and did Louise lose just her hand? I thought she might be missing a leg but I'm unsure.

Dark Duel · Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:00 pm

So far as we know, just her hand.

lobster · Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:37 pm

Louise is standing in Ep 19 so she still has her legs...

Arbiter GUNDAM · Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:50 pm

Speaking of Louise again, I have to wonder if she's gonna get a prosthetic hand? I mean prosthetics would have to be pretty advanced by 2308. I mean we went from one-man suborbital flights to manned lunar landings in just eight and a half years so I think that prosthetics would have to be something like Luke Skywalker's cyber-hand by then with three HUNDRED years of development in between.

I base some of this on the fact that Tieria has to have some sort of cybernetic implants to interface with Veda. Why else would his eyes glow that color unless he's 00's version of a Newtype using a Psycommu system. Thoughts?

Dark Duel · Wed Feb 20, 2008 3:31 pm

RE: The hand.
I remember seeing a piece on 60 Minutes last year about a soldier(I think it was a Marine, but not sure) who lost his hand in Iraq and got a more or less fully functional prosthetic hand.
So while it's not commonplace and it is certainly expensive, the technology already exists today. I imagine that 300 years from now, it could be much more common or affordable.

cantfakethefunk · Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:06 pm

Sure, but not DAYS after the injury. She's going to need therapy (physical and emotional) and going to need to heal before they even think about giving a prosthetic. Plus, it's not like they just have them lying around (in all likelihood). They have to be custom-fit.

Jack · Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:27 pm

A tenner says she gets a GN Hand that can generate a barrier around her.

Dark Duel wrote:RE: The hand.
I remember seeing a piece on 60 Minutes last year about a soldier(I think it was a Marine, but not sure) who lost his hand in Iraq and got a more or less fully functional prosthetic hand.
So while it's not commonplace and it is certainly expensive, the technology already exists today. I imagine that 300 years from now, it could be much more common or affordable.

I saw a video a while ago that sounds a lot like what you're talking about:

http://spectrum.ieee.org/video?id=221

Arbiter GUNDAM · Wed Feb 20, 2008 4:48 pm

Hell, 300 years from now they might be able to regrow limbs.

Arsarcana · Wed Feb 20, 2008 5:04 pm

MBF-06/ZGMF-X12A Arbiter wrote: I base some of this on the fact that Tieria has to have some sort of cybernetic implants to interface with Veda. Why else would his eyes glow that color unless he's 00's version of a Newtype using a Psycommu system. Thoughts?

Well, CB tech is known to be more advanced that what the Powers have so their cybernetics may not be at the same level (assuming that's what Tieria's got, which seems a reasonable assumption). Still, it's quite likely that prosthetics are advanced enough that Louise could eventually have a left hand again, if not a regrown limb. Definitely something we won't be seeing this season though, if and when it happens.

Antares · Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:09 pm

Yeah I would imagine some sort of "replacement-hand" appearing later on, but right now that missing hand also plays a symbolic part.

I haven't much joined in on the discussion on Gundam00 before because, well, I didn't have much to say other than I watched it out curiosity, less out of content. But I have to say that with the more recent episodes that has changed for the better. The series finally starts to get a hook into it which makes me want to watch more. Better late than never; I would expect if the series has 50-something episodes to take some time to get into a new Gundam continuum, but when G'00 is supposed to be like CG in length, I felt that the series never picked up its pace. And for once, Setsuna's "I am Gundam" didn't just sound like some insane ramblings.

In short, the series took its sweet time to get off the ground in my eyes, but I am glad it finally did. Hopefully I am not getting my hopes up for nothing.