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Gundam Show Thread - MSG thru Witch from Mercury
F-ZeroOne replied to Black Valkyrie's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
I'm a little curious - why does everyone like V so much? I didn't hate it, but I found it rather depressing and I got the impression that the production staff didn't really have their heart in it. However, this may be because of the order of shows I watched at the time - SEED, Destiny, then Turn-A, then V. It may be that my impressions of V have been coloured a bit by how refreshing I found Turn-A overall... -
The most overpowered mecha of all time to come, Ideon, was a combining space truck. Do not underestimate the power of the Transforming Space Truckers Union.
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Just a heads-up: this Saturdays episode will be the Stephen "Blink, The Doctor Dances" Moffat-penned two parter. He has also been recently confirmed as taking over from Russell T. Davies as executive producer from 2010. This episode was delayed a week by the Eurovision song contest. DON'T ask.
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Actually, I'm kind of pleased. There was a sticker on the front of the box, but I didn't notice it at the time, and even if it had it wouldn't actually have meant anything to me as I hadn't realised the Legioss had designators like "Z" - and I was under the impression that only blue ones were being sold in shops. In this age of instant download anime and encyclopaedic on-line knowledge of it, its interesting that an anime fan like me can still be surprised occasionally. I realise this would be an issue for some people, and it is a lot of money for a colour I didn't think I was getting, but honestly, I mainly wanted a Legioss and the colour is only a secondary concern for me personally.
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I recently went to Japan and picked up... er... a few... things. One of them was a Legioss and Tread. I went to a shop (Yodabashi Akiba) and bought a blue one, and shipped a blue one back home. It arrived this morning. You can imagine my surprise when I opened the box and found that I had a red Legioss and Tread...
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Dammit, I'm an idiot! I should have thought of that one right away! If only old H.G. had realised that giant human-piloted robots are better visually than bacteria...
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You better be able to roller-skate over peoples faces.
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My guess would be that unless you learn to read Japanese they're going to be pretty rare. Its probably a cultural thing, the Japanese don't seem to go for superheroes in the Marvel and D.C. style in the same way... Peter F. Hamilitons Fallen Dragon features a kind of biological power armour, but again human-scaled, and occasionally spider-type tanks show up in SF but other than those already mentioned I'm having trouble - wasn't there a RPG series called Living Metal once? Wasn't that based on a book?
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Well, take heart that when the crusher meets the F-14s titanium wing-box assembly its probably going to lose quite a few teeth. By all accounts, that particular F-14 part was built.
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Some toys, he said...! Wow. Just... wow.
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This is a parody, but it pretty much sums up why Turn-A is the awesome: http://www.mahq.net/rants/neo/comic9.jpg
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Nah, Everyone has parts left over, even those inhuman cyborg modellers with multiple limbs and forty fingers. You'll know you've really arrived when you watch some tiddly little but unique and vitally important part describe a ballistic arc onto the carpet...
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I'm fond of 0083, largely because its the first actual Gundam I saw - as opposed to reading about . Its hard to disagree with the article I read before I saw it, though, that its rather shallow but well detailed and somehow makes you care. Even if it has the most completely contrived plot twist ever. I got a burnin' heart...
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Its more important than a one night stand, I need the magic when I touch your hand...
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Gravity, quake with fear - your nemesis has returned! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7350939.stm
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There would seem to be one natural choice for the soundtrack, and its about bloody time someone took notice of Yoko Kanno in Hollywood.
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I really enjoyed it. The fact they were able to use the same sets as the mini-series Rome gave it a truly epic feel. Granted, you can nit pick (the Doctor must be a really fast runner) but overall, wonderful. Also, one of the first episodes of Who I've seen which gave an impression of why Time Lords are Lords, and not just funny blokes with weird taste in hats. As for Donnas back - well, my theory is a tattoo, but RTD rarely drops things like that without a purpose...
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Dunbine: first partially organic mecha...? Time Bokan/Yattaman/and all the others: might seem an odd choice, but this and Gatchaman probably popularised the "enemy of the week" mecha, also important for tying in a toy-line with the show and a number of other anime clichés (fan service in particular... ) Escaflowne: because everyone needs to hear Kanno the first time. VOTOMs: the first - possibly the only - mecha series where the protagonist is not some lucky amateur, but an actual professional - the best at what he does.
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Thanks! I hope no-one thinks I'm making fun of depression, though; a close relative suffered for a while so I know its not a nice thing to go through. Yep, Tomino did Turn-A - and he excelled himself with it. Despite all the flak it got when the concept art first appeared, its actually quite possibly the best Gundam series, and a truly excellent science fiction show in its own right. The whole Turn-A design is incredibly clever - its still going to be talked about when the last Strike-Aelie-Wing-Zero-Freedom-Wotsit is gathering dust in some Bandai warehouse somewhere; meanwhile, the 30s-style setting gives the show a timelessness that will mean its never going to look out-of-place. I loved the cow episode; and its typical of Tomino, highlighting the plight of people caught up in a conflict they just want to live through. Family is also an important Tomino theme; many of his series revolve around a dispossessed bunch of people finding themselves bonding into a substitute family during a conflict - the crew of the White Base being perhaps the most famous. Going on to Ideon - I really wish it was a show more people would see, though I admit its formulaic episode structure makes it a bit of a trawl (its always worth bearing in mind with these older series, though, is that they were never designed to be watched in blocks of several episodes, but as a once-a-day or week treat), but Evangelion suddenly looks a little less clever once you've seen it, especially the movie. I've also recently been discovering the various series spawned from Time Bokan, and while also repetitive (being originally aimed at children) they do give an impression of being a "missing link" in a Western fans perspective of anime; the mad-cap antics of shows like Excel Saga suddenly make a bit more sense...
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Try Ideon next. Especially the movie. Then you'll know why Tominos earned the moniker "Kill 'em all!". Believe or not, hes actually said in an interview that he truly believes humankind is wonderful. Hes got a funny way of showing it at times... Apparently, Tomino suffers from mood swings. Whens hes depressed, we get Zanbot-3, Ideon and V-Gundam. Whens hes happy, we get... er... the first half of ZZ Gundam. This is why it is important that Tomino is kept miserable. Happy Tomino is not a good thing for mecha shows. After V, though, apparently he changed his medication, or read some self-help books, or got a girlfriend, or something, because we then got Turn-A Gundam which manages to be a happy Tomino show that doesn't suck.
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As always, Drifand, you make me want to run to my toys and get them to defy Gravity like you manage to! Love the pose you have the Ota Unit 2 in in the group shot, I must try that with my Ingram!
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Good grief... it actually has poseability... (actually, I like these figures a lot, for all the mickey-taking I've been doing). Not exactly Who news, but the BBC is launching an iPlayer Channel for the Wii - this basically means you can watch Doctor Who after broadcast on your little white box. In the UK at least. Sorry, but no word on international launches of the service yet... now if they can also figure out a way to make the Wii controllers interactive with the programme...
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I'm not really old enough to remember much of Space: 1999 apart from the "really cool bits where the Eagles blow up!", nor the Who episodes he wrote. but by most accounts it sounds like we've lost a good talent.
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Russell T. Davies gets a fair bit of stick, but he does know a trick or two and the "thing" at the end of the new seasons first episode was a brilliant way of making something most people know still make most people sit bolt upright. I also loved the opening sequence in the office. Edit: action figures of the Weeping Angels? Action figures? With cool standing-still-as-a-statue feature?
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They've done a couple of World War II games. You can get the demos on XBox Live. Going by the demos, they're... okay. Nothing special, a couple of nice ideas, and the later second game is rather improved (even in the demo) over the first.