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$200??? Why am I not surprised The first thing I thought of when I saw that was "no way in hell are they only going to charge $80 for that, even though it's what the price SHOULD be". Taking the risk with $80 dollars on an Alpha with coked-up monkey quality control is one thing. Taking that same risk with a $200 Beta is entirely different. And one I probably won't take quite frankly

Damn, what an amazing episode! Seriously, now that Destiny is ramping up for its final arc it's getting crazy awesome! Destiny is just as powerful as it should be, although I was a little disappointed that Rey didn't do much with Legend. Hopefully we'll be seeing more of that suit in the next few eps. I LOVED Destiny's "shining finger" attack. Everything about that MS is wonderful. While I normally am lukewarm on Kunio's design skills, he did a bang-up job with Destiny: 1) Continuation from Impulse, yet different from Freedom? Check 2) Shades of Zeta Gundam? Check 3) New and unique weaponry not currently used in the Seed Universe? Check My only complaint about Destiny is that the MSIA doesn't come with those gorgeous wings. Boooo I agree, the opening music kinda sucks, but again I liked the homage to Zeta by having Shinn running along there at one point. Color me crazy, but from the way people were set-up in front of their respective MS's in the opening and closing, I really got the impression that it will be Mwu who'll take the Bling Gundam, not Cagalli. Which would be just fine in my books. To all of you who hate the show, you're forgetting the whole point of Seed and Seed Destiny: to take those parts of the old Gundam series, rework them, re-imagine them, and re-invigorate the franchise. If you guys want brand spanking new, totally unique stories, characters, and MS's, go re-watch Turn A. Seed and Destiny have always been about RE-TELLING what's come before. As someone who's watched (and sometimes suffered) through ALL of the Gundam shows that have come before, I have to say that the Seed and Destiny team are doing an EXCELLENT job. Quite frankly, I think that Seed was far superior to the original MS Gundam, and Destiny completely owns and outshadows Zeta in every single way (hehe, can't wait to see how many people I have screaming at me for that, but it's true).

Dammit, when are we gonna see the Strike Freedom and Knight Justice?? I swear, the writers of Destiny are prick-teases of the worst kind

Dude, did you not read the part where I said I loved the show itself and thought it was one of the best Gundam series produced? If Syd had even just moved the mustache down a bit lower on the face to make it like a chin-guard and had the two distinctive Gundam nose-slashes on the mask, i'd have been happy. Ah well, c'est la vie.

I have that idea in my head because it's true If you compare any of Katoki's mecha revamps, they all look amazingly cooler than the originals. Just take a look at his Gundam Wing redesigns to see what I mean. Of course, our tastes could differ and I understand that. I also think his take on Turn A is a lot better than Syd Mead's. But to be fair, I only really have a gripe with the design Syd went with for the Turn A's head. The rest of the Turn A body is cool and neat, especially the thrusters. But making the head a bit more traditional (in the way that Katoki did) would have gone a long way towards making the mecha more generally accepted instead of inspiring a "wtf" reaction when seeing it. You know that when the characters in the cartoon themselves are calling it ugly, something ain't right (see Episode 15 for this, and Lily Borjarnon's comments).

Turn A was an excellent Gundam series, one of the best around period. I just wish they'd have let Katoki work his magic on the Turn A Gundam instead of having it be pure Syd Mead. It just looks so damn goofy, and for the last, ultimate Gundam, doesn't look like a Gundam at all.

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That was awesome! hahah!

AWE - FRIGGIN - SOME! I thought that while Strike Freedom looked cool it seemed to be kind of depowered to be a new "upgrade" - if the wings are all funnels, then that suit is gonna rule. And those wings are about as Aerodynamic as the Nu Gundam's funnels, and they still flew around But again though, Knight Justice really needs more weaponry....maybe it's got some funnels hidden in its lifter pack somewhere too.

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Daaamnnnn, I can't wait to see the episode that that spoiler pic features!

I saw the Master Replica's Vader saber at my local TRU for 150 dollars, and I was very tempted to buy it. But I'm going to wait instead for the "Build Your Own" saber set coming out. As for Master Replica's....i figure when they eventually perfect the technology of the removable blade (it's bound to happen), then i'll buy one.

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Oooh, very purdy. I just wish they could've had some of those Hi-Mat wings detach and become funnels. Ah well, maybe on the third, Even Nu-er Freedom MS that'll be released for Gundam: Seed: Destiny: Athrun's Counterattack

How does this compare spec wise with the 360?

I seriously doubt that it's not Athrun who's piloting Justice. Maybe he steals it from Neo or something, but there's no way he's not getting end up in it. Although they could probably rebuild Saviour...we do see them salvaging it in the next ep, and from past precedent it seems that an MS has to be completely vaporized before it can't be rebuilt (see Strike and Freedom )

Holy god I wonder what sort of job this guy has to be able to even afford all of that. Surely that indicates some basic social skills, doesn't it?

Holy God, what a great episode! Although to be honest, I'm annoyed at the way you can have 5 shows of talk, and then suddenly one show where so much suddenly happens! Blast Impulse explodes, Chaos and Saviour get pwned, Luna gets taken out, and Abyss goes bye-bye. Best part of the ep was DEFINITELY Shinn v. Kira.....Impulse flying horizontal over the water with Freedom above was beautiful, and the look on Kira's face when Shinn evaded his strike...FINALLY we get to see Shinn become an ass-kicker. I just loved the way they paralleled Kira's introduction with Seed ep.34, and the way the parallel suddenly takes a downward turn, resulting in the last half of the show being a complete and total clusterfart. Awesome! The only part I didn't like was the way Athrun got owned soooo badly by Kira. They're supposed to be comparable warriors, and Saviour is supposed to be a next-gen MS, yet within a second Kira utterly disassembles it. Honestly, i've been pretty unimpressed with Athrun in this series...he just seems to fly around and never actually be effective - you'd think he'd finally be the one to take out Chaos this ep, but it ended up being Kira as well. What the hell happened to him?? Maybe his ass-kicking skills will reawaken with Knight Justice.....

It looks like when the hand held guns are stored, the railguns+beam sabers fold back to form the rear skirt armor of the mech, then fold out to the sides when the hand helds are being used. Very cool twist, I like that a LOT Its just a shame that there aren't any weapons in the new Hi-Mat wings though. Knight Justice having a beam shield is kinda cool, but he still needs more ammo.

Boy, is the Knight Justice ever undergunned. Saviour has more firepower than it does! If anything, it should've been this MS that got the chest cannon, not the Super Freedom.

What the hell? The Justice is completely unchanged apart from semi-folding wings! That's so lame Jesus Kunio, I didn't think you could sink so low

Hey all With all this Star Wars hype abounding, i'm thinking of signing up for Star Wars Galaxies. Ideally, i'd like to one day have a Jedi character (naturally haha). Do any of you know what the process is like for this? I mean, is it random, or will I have to spend 14 hour days sitting in front of my computer for a year before getting it? Any info would be appreciated!

I will bet a doughnut that Rey will become the pilot of the new Providence. As being something like a Raw clone with the newtype ping I can't see anyone else piloting it.

Ok, seriously, I know some of you guys are ripping on this, but I think that the designs look pretty damn good! Yes, it's Robotech, yes it's Harmony Gold, BUT it's also a new anime with transformable airplane mecha and a continuation of mospaeda designs, which people generally like. Given that there's so little Macross/Robotech anime out there, the more we have the better. Why is that such a bad thing?

That's either a product of late 90's form-over-function design or an indicator of some of the torture that the damned go through in hell: Satan "Bwa ha! I'm so evil, I give you only ONE boot!" Spawn "Waaaaandaaaa!" Bleh, Spawn's dead. It was cool for its time, but end it already.