ChrisG

You forgot the Galbaldy.

The Hedge Knight is well worth reading. It's set about 100 years before Game of Thrones, but it connects to the main series in a very subtle way you wouldn't expect. You can find The Hedge Knight in paperback in Legends, the anthology it was originally published in back in 1998. There's also another recent anthology out there called Legends II. It contains another story from Martin about the further adventures of Dunk and Egg, but I haven't read it yet.

After listening to the clips, I would say that with the exception of Minmay, the old Robotech voice actors were better. Given HG/ADV's relationship and the fact that Carl Macek works for ADV, I wonder why they didn't try to round up the old Robotech actors. Maybe that's been answered in another thread somewhere, but I haven't been keeping up with Macross dub news.

Angel Links is based in the Outlaw Star universe. It's a security company that briefly appears in an Outlaw Star episode. IMO, Angel Links is a piece of crap that is nowhere near as funny or well-produced as Outlaw Star. It doesn't feature any of the qualities which made OS great.

Kawamori is definitely one of my top designers. Lots of fans always talk about Okawara and Katoki, and I don't think enough credit is given to guys like Junichi Akutsu, Kimitoshi Yamane or Junya Ishigaki. Those guys are all great designers and deserve more main mecha work...especially in Gundam.

The way I see it, I don't have a problem with AnimEigo's higher price. I was one of the ones who purchased the original 9 disc box set. Sure, it was $250 and not dubbed, but then again, I've had it for more than 4 years and have watched many times since receiving it. It's not so much an issue of cost as it is value. I'd been hyped ever since AnimEigo first announced that Macross license in 1999. I would've been willing to pay as much as $300 or $350 for that set, so I don't at all feel ripped off, or that I was paying the price so that other people could get it more cheaply years down the line.

If you look on Right Stuf.com, they're selling the 3 box sets for $39 each. I'm sure you could probably find it on eBay too.

That's the end of X ASTRAY, which has been over for more than a year. It takes place during the two month gap between the beginning of episode 47 of SEED and the rest of the episode.

Going into SEED mode has nothing to do with being a Coordinator or an Ultimate Coordinator. It's just a visual representation of someone going beyond their limits. At the end of SEED, Cagalli went into SEED mode too, and she's just a Natural. How Lacus surpasses her limits by sitting in a chair on a battleship is anybody's guess, but that's how it is.

All this nonsense of Impulse vs Freedom is months old. The show is over, so what's the purpose of pointlessly arguing who should have won, what their mental focus was on, or what Gundam they had?

Me neither. I got techno-geek...I mean, the guy's girlfriend is a sex toy!...but not a particular ethnicity. I know a good chunk of Jewish people and I know a lot of geeks and he definitely was more the latter (who can be the former too, but certainly don't have to be). There's a video playing of his marriage to the sexbot. If you look closely, you can see he's wearing a yarmulke and he breaks a glass on the floor.

Actually, Jerry Chu was in charge or marketing, not customer service.

In the early eps of SEED you see GINNs equipped with ion cannons, but those are heavy weapons with their own power sources. ZAFT did not have beam rifle/saber technology until they stole the Gundams. And you're right, they did incorporate them incredibly fast onto their mobile suits. The Heliopolis incident occurs on January 25th, and by the time the Archangel lands in Africa on Valentine's Day, some of Andy Waltfeld's BuCUEs have already been refitted with beam sabers.

I ordered 11 vols of Dunbine and Megazone 23 Part 2 during one of their sales in late April. It took about 2 weeks for the package to arrive. I don't know if they take as long as a month, but the average I've read is 2 weeks.

You probably should play the other two games before making these kinds of statements. Naked Snake (aka Big Boss) is not the same person as Solid Snake from MGS 1, 2, 4.

Athrun has always been a badass with guns, even back in SEED. Early on in DESTINY, he wowed all the ZAFT newbies with his target practice skills at the shooting range.

The quality of the show means nothing if its predecessor got low ratings. CN is in the business to air series that will generate high ratings and bring in advertising revenue. It's perfectly understandable (if annoying) why they would choose to pass over Zeta.

It is a rare thing, but not quite. In Gundam ZZ, there's several instances when Judau Ashta goes back to using the Zeta Gundam after he's already received the ZZ Gundam.

Dubbing is an extravagant expense if you're a small company like AnimEigo. They have limited finances, and it usually doesn't make sense for them to dub things because their primary audience is hardcore otaku. On another note, with HG and ADV having such a close relationship, maybe DYRL will finally be licensed and released the proper way.

Well, Junichi Akutsu did do the initial designs for the first five Gundams from SEED, which Okawara 'cleaned up'. Here's a pic for those who haven't seen the original versions: http://www.mahq.net/seedoriginals.jpg There's two reasons I see why Bandai uses Okawara as their main Gundam designer. 1. His designs are easier to animate and easier to make models/toys out of. 2. He has seniority in the company over all the other designers. As nice as Akutsu's SEED and ASTRAY designs are, you can see that they're more complicated than Okawara's. Just look at Akutsu's Astray Red Frame compared to Okawara's M1 Astray.

The explosion caused by the Tannhauser hitting the water was before Shinn stabbed Freedom. The giant explosion at the end had to have been Freedom's reactor, because the Tannhauser hitting anything doesn't produce that type of explosion.

If by 'some' you mean Wing and SEED, then yes, but there's plenty of other AU's aside from them.

I don't know why you feel the need to bash me specifically, but if you think I'm a 'Tomino fanboy' you're sorely mistaken. If you believe I constantly praise Tomino, then apparently you didn't read the ZZ reviews. On the subject of originality, it's not usually a surprise in mecha shows when it's clear someone is going to die. That's obvious in the case of Hayao Kakizaki and Roy Focker in SDF Macross. Yeah, so Tomino likes to kill people in Victory, and you can see a lot of the deaths coming a mile away. Despite that, the story, characters and action are interesting. I don't have anything against AUs as you would suggest, but in regards to the SEED franchise it seems to just settle for grocery shopping UC. I like the concept of AUs and really want to see the concept explored, as it was in G, X and Turn A. Just rehashing the same old stuff from UC doesn't make something an AU.

I believe those screenshots are for MGS3: Subsistence rather than MGS4. And the cel-shaded game is MGA2.

Actually, the official word now from Bandai quoted to me by Jerry Chu is that they'll be releasing a DVD with eps 3-4 so that people don't have to wait longer. As a bonus/make-up, episode 5 will be released with the Mave-chan spinoff.