Jump to content

Gubaba

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    11673

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Gubaba

  1. Gubaba
    Yeah...it's like getting a speeding ticket, and then driving away from the cop at 90 mph...
  2. Gubaba
    Nah...cloned Amuro brains don't count. If it doesn't have the red afro, it's not really Amuro. I'll need to check up on that...Wikipedia (I know, I know...) has this to say: Thing is, I'm not sure there ever WAS a real Char Aznable in the anime (there certainly wasn't in the novelization), and I doubt that Unicorn is basing its story off of The Origin, since that showed Char's body floating in space after his shuttle was destroyed.
  3. Gubaba
    Man, that would be lame. In Gundam Evolve? Sure. A brief cameo in MS Igloo? Okay. But if they put them in a major role in anything, I don't think it would work.
  4. Gubaba
    Ah. Y'know, I like MacrossWorld. I check it (and often hang around) a couple of times every day. But I think that if I were given a 3-Day ban, I could probably control myself enough not to piss the mods off further by trying to sneak back in.
  5. Gubaba
    I dunno, the episode with the little alien guys with telekinetic powers saying "We must examine her!" made me pretty uncomfortable as a child. Uncomfortable enough that I still remember it, when I've (blissfully) forgotten so many other things about that show...
  6. Gubaba
    Quite honestly? I think the writers tend to forget that the city is on a spaceship. They want to show a city that looks like someplace you'd actually want to live (but primarily it's an idealized 1980s Tokyo). As you say, fifty- to seventy-thousand people is a lot, but one of the Macross short stories mentions a group of high school boys ALL WEARING DIFFERENT SCHOOL UNIFORMS. How many boys-only high schools would there be on the Macross? How many cafés and discos and restaurants would they realistically have? Most likely, Macross City would not even really exist. They might have built dormitory-style rooms for all the civilians, but there's no earthly reason to go to all the trouble to rebuild the entire city inside the ship...except that it heps make the story fun and interesting.
  7. Gubaba
    I still don't really get it...CCA is SUPPOSED to be all about them. That's kind of like saying that Return of the Jedi was nothing but Luke and Vader fanservice. Or that DYRL had too much Hikaru, Misa, and Minmay. But whatever...if you don't like 'em, you don't like 'em. It's a pretty safe bet that no future Gundam animation will have them in it, so the point is kind of moot.
  8. Gubaba
    No, Battlestar Galactica had the horrid robot dog. But I think Twiki was worse because A) he was in more scenes than the Daggit was, and B) he spoke.
  9. Gubaba
    Well, the "Ohnogi question" will be settled once and for all soon. But putting it aside for a moment, he seems to be, thanks to Shaloom's notes, a convenient place to focus whatever feelings you have about Sheryl or Ranka, and how they ended up. Final Vegeta sees him as a usuper and a backstabber; on Animesuki, they seem to be ready to grant him sainthood (and rip Kawamori to shreds while they're at it). But I wonder...if none of this stuff about Ohnogi had come to light (or been invented, as the case may be), if the little tidbit that during pre-production, Sheryl was originally envisioned as a bit player in the series (as was Minmay in SDFM, I hasten to repeat), would Frontier have seemed as disjointed (for good or ill) as many people are claiming now? To me, watching it week-by-week, the story seemed to progress pretty naturally. Once I heard that Ohnogi had taken over, I looked back at those episodes to find things that might bear his stamp (of course, I wasn't really sure what "his stamp" would look like). If you want to find radical 90 degree turns, it's possible...but it may just be a natural part of the story. Reversals of fortune, sudden revelations, and shifts in focus are inherently dramatic...why, for example, does the fact that Sheryl is revealed to have an incurable disease mean that she was initially intended to die. Isn't it par for the course in science-fiction or fantasy stories to have an insolvable problem that gets solved by the end? Anyway, my point is that external factors can alter your view of any story. With Frontier, I was enjoying Sheryl's character the best, until some particularly obnoxious Sheryl fans showed up here, hurling insults at anyone who disagreed with them that Ranka was worthless. Immediately, I became more of a Ranka fan, and didn't WANT Alto and Sheryl to end up together, simply because I don't like the idea of internet tough guys getting what they want. That was not my original position, and if those jerks hadn't acting like greasy buttholes about the whole thing, I probably would've been disappointed by the triangle ending also. As it was, I was immensely satisfied by the final episode. Now, the Sheryl fanatics really shouldn't have influenced my opinions about Frontier, but they did. Final Vegeta didn't like the ending of the show, and thought Ranka got the shaft, and lo! He's an "interview" that claims that someone did it that way ON PURPOSE to rescue a show that had "lost its way." Hell, I'd be pissed, too. I'm not sure I'd try to demonize the writer while I was at it, but hey, to each his own. * To return to the "Ohnogi Question" briefly, I have a long list of reasons why I think the whole thing is a particularly nasty hoax...but I have little real proof for it yet. Once we get our hands on Famitsu Issue 1035 (with the Kawamori interview where he supposedly revealed Ohnogi's role in the show), THEN we'll know for sure.
  10. Gubaba
    You say that like it's a bad thing...
  11. Gubaba
    God...I haven't seen Twiki since the show went off the air...in my memory, he looked pretty lame, but seeing him again...ugh, he looks even WORSE than I recalled, bidi bidi bidi.
  12. Gubaba
    I do, too, so before it gets locked, I'm wondering...looking up Macross1979, his custom title is "ryno Version 3.0." Was there a "2.0" as well?
  13. Gubaba
    Hmmm...I only saw it once (on YouTube, with Spanish subtitles), and that was enough. I admire your strength and fortitude.
  14. Gubaba
    I'm not sure what you're talking about when you say that Victory gets ignored...most Gundam fans I know like it. Now G-Saviour...THAT gets ignored. I can understand being dead-tired with OYW stuff...they make far too much of it (especially if you include comics), but you're not the first person I've heard who's sick of Char and Amuro, and I don't really understand it. They're central in MSG. Char is quite important in Zeta, but Amuro's a relatively minor character. They get referenced in Double Zeta, but don't actualy appear. And they're the main characters again in CCA. Compare that to the many, many, MANY Gundam productions that DON'T feature them...I'm confused. Anyway, I don't want more with Char and Amuro, their stories are done. And so, as far as I'm concerned, is the true story of Gundam. It ended for me in 1989, and I'm happy with it that way. I'm not saying this is how other people should view Gundam, it's just how I view it. To me, Gundam is Tomino's story, and I'm not terribly interested in other creators' "take" on the saga. Likewise, MSG, Z, ZZ, and CCA are the core story of Gundam (again, to me), and although I enjoy other Gundam series, and get Gundam Ace every month, I'm just not as attached to anything beyond that core story.
  15. Gubaba
    Ah, I gotcha. Personally, I'm hoping for a big mindf*ck finale, since nothing screams "Eva" to me like a head-scratch-inducing finish.
  16. Gubaba
    Well, in '98, they released the Gundam Movie Trilogy, 0080, and 0083 through AnimeVillage.com. You couldn't get them in stores, at least initially. They allowed that to happen in either '99 or '00. Then Wing debuted in '00, with MSG following in '01.
  17. Gubaba
    But... But... They DID release it on video first!
  18. Gubaba
    I think you're looking to the movies to provide something they won't/can't. Yes, the first movie was almost the same as the TV series (until the end), but it looks like things are going to diverge in this movie, and it'll probably be almost completely different by the next. Anyway, I don't think the endings of either the series or the old movies are THAT confusing. Nowehre near as strange as say, 8 1/2 or Finnegans Wake. If you don't "get" it, watch it again. After six or seven viewings, The End of Evangelion can turn out to be quite comprehensible. At least, that's how it was for me.
  19. Gubaba
    I like to think Bandai really messed up in how they released the UC series out of order (releasing CCA before Zeta seemed especially silly), instead going for movies and OVAs before touching any of the TV shows...but I'm not sure it would have worked any way they went at it. It seems like the first idea was to release it all in chronological order through AnimeVillage.com. Then they got Wing on Cartoon Network, and I think their goal was to get people curious about the show through Wing, and then lead them to UC. But that didn't really work. Instead, you got kids thinking that Wing WAS the original, and UC was just a cheap, dated-looking knock-off. I think the REAL problem was that, by not releasing any Gundam animation in the U.S. until 1998, they simply waited too long. The general anime fans didn't want to relate to twenty-year-old series, with multiple timelines, confusing chronology, and hundreds and hundreds of episodes. If they had released the first series in the first big anime push of '92 or '93, it might have been more successful. Although, even then, any series longer than 26 episodes has always been facing an uphill battle...unless it's Ranma 1/2.
  20. Gubaba
    I never saw it...I had been quite excited when AnimeVillage.com had opened, and I snapped up the Gundam Movie Trilogy, 0080, and 0083. I figured Zeta would follow soon after. Imagine my surprise when Wing was the first Gundam TV series to make it to the U.S. As UC stuff came out on DVD, I snapped it up, but I kept waiting and waiting for a subbed MSG, Zeta, and Double Zeta. Zeta finally came out, and I'm still waiting for the others... But for me, Gundam has always been the story of Amuro and Char. The side stories and post-CCA stuff...well, I'll watch it, and I like a lot of it, butI don't think of it as the "main" story of Gundam. The alternate universe stuff doesn't really interest me.
  21. Gubaba
    Do you take all Engrish so seriously...?
  22. Gubaba
    Robotech: The Depressing Chronicles...? Robotech: The Desultory Chronicles...? Robotech: That Darn Cat...? (Nah, I know what you meant; but watching it again...why would you do such a thing?)
  23. Gubaba
    Ah, yes, yes. You see, what Kai Shiden REALLY meant to say was "Quattro is A., CHAR." as in "Aznable, Char." But it was revealed in Tomino's Zeta Gndam novels that Kai doesn't know how to use punctuation correctly.
  24. Gubaba
    Are you suggesting that the SC artists should've taken their cues from "Plastic Little"...?
  25. Gubaba
    Hmmm...I think I have to agree, although the oft-used Valkyrie transformation sequences were pretty good. Dynamite 7, though had quite good animation all around, IMHO.
×
×
  • Create New...