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  1. That annoyed me incredibly, because the blocking the beams with the palm cannons should have WORKED. It was the first actual improvised use of them in an interesting way... but no, they had to make the pinnacle of ZAFTs mobile suit advances and the titular suit of the show look like a chump.
  2. Both, but more specifically Victory. I don't mean anything about their quality at all (Victory was a good series, and I liked F-91 despite it being a tad... broken) what I mean is that jumping ahead in time to free yourself of connections to previous series... removes any reason for making a sequel in that timeline. Victory was UC in name only. It may as well have been the first alternate universe, and the same would apply if you jumped 90 years ahead in the Cosmic Era. Why bother? Positive proof that higher ups interfering with Tomino was more often than not a good thing.
  3. They made that mistake with the Universal Century and I'd rather them not do that again.
  4. They brought Andy back for quite a good reason - the show didn't have a lot of compelling adult characters, and he very much was one. The difference his, there is no problem with his return. His survival was completely plausible (an explosion of his mobile suit seen from the distance on Earth isn't a clear, concise and absolute 'death') and more importantly, his survival had consequences - the person with him died, and he was severely injured. He came back a changed character, a semi-cripple who instead of piloting a mobile suit now used his command abilities and experience. I think anybody who critisises his return is only really looking for excuses to score points against Fukuda, because it was obviously for the better, just like Dearka's supposedly merchandising prompted alliegance shift, and all the other terrible ideas they canned that were initially planned for late in the series. On the other hand, Mu steps in front of a positron blast in space, explodes, obviously dies an unmistakable death... and through retconning away of a couple of frames of footage, he gets to return in Destiny and eventually the only price of what happened to him turned out to be a scratch on his face. He didn't even come back for a reasonable reason, he just does, and when he's back he does nothing to justify his return, only things that ruin his character.
  5. It's saying that there are always people who have amusing over-the-top knee-jerk reactions, just like how there were Japanese UC fansites that had polls where people were voting the original Gundam SEED "Worst Gundam series ever". Destiny's a pretty low point, but it ain't that low.
  6. Oh no, repeated topics? The obsession some people have with ONE THREAD FOR A TOPIC AND ONE THREAD ONLY, EVER! is absolutely ridiculous. GOUF was the worst of the worst in that regard though, it was so overmoderated at times it wasn't even worth bothering with, so I'm not going to miss it a great deal.
  7. It about time someone noticed Fukuda isn't the devil who's personally responsible for every single woe the series has. If anything, his directing stayed fairly solid, he just didn't have much to work with. Even some of the recap episodes were very well done as far as recaps go. The production issues and the horrendous writing are just unforgivable though. Ugh, no. Tomino is Gundam's past, not it's future. Fortunately Tomino agrees.
  8. No. The entire old cast and their allies made it through almost COMPLETELY unscathed and just steamrollered over anybody in their path. Freedom and Justice took absolutely no damage at all, Freedom didn't even so much as lose a funnel. Their sides entire visable casualties were a whole two Murasame's that Lunamaria killed - right before Athrun takes 30 seconds to dismantle Impulse. Of course on the other side of things, Destiny, Legend, Impulse, Minerva - they don't even make it to the second half of the episode.
  9. It just so happens that what the 'other side' is saying IS complete and utter nonsense!
  10. No, ZZ has absolutely no links to CCA and is completely skippable - Char and Amuro make no appearances at all and the story does not lead into CCA at all. I'd also recommend skipping it simply because it's the worst Gundam tv series in existance. About the only thing that happens in it is that it clears the Neo-Zeon deck for Char to make his (completely nonsensical and out of character) evil turn in CCA. The old cast had everything to do with his development because all the amount of time wasted on their garbage plot threads was time not spent developing the old cast, especially after the writers decided they wouldn't even bother spending what spare time they had left on the old cast and just made it into Gundam SEED: Kira and Lacus Are Always Right. Oh please. This is as bad a misuse of the word 'puppet' as the show itself makes. 'Puppet' implies he is under control, whereas Shinn has been convinced by Dullandil and Rey's arguements. Convinced with quite solid logic I might add, unlike how Kira, Lacus and the old crew work entirely off baseless assumptions and outright paranoia (but surprise, they always happen to be right). Anakin analogies It's ridiculous to even to compare because there was no "no choice" situation with Anakin, his turning evil was laughable bullshit that didn't even remotely make sense. He's literally good one minute, evil the next. More laughable than the suggestion that Shinn should have listened to Athrun's complete insanity as a 'way out'.
  11. Nope, you're not the only one. I've liked him from start to end, and it would be a massive understatement to say I prefer him to Kira and Athrun.
  12. Not even really necessary since writers already cut off Athrun's manhood long ago when they shifted the focus of the show to Kira "Jesus" Yamato.
  13. I think people who feel the crew of the Pegasus were all over the top bad are forgetting exactly what they situation is - Since the Cylon attack, they've believed themselves to be the last living humans alive. Except unlike Galactica, they have no fleet, no 50,000 civilians, no mythical world to search for. Nothing to maintain their humanity. They're just one battlestar, alone. With the number onboard a battlestar too few to repopulate the species, there was no hope at all for the rebuilding of the human race, so they had no purpose, nothing to live for but to inflict as much harm against the Cylons as they could before their race ended. Everything and everyone left in the universe was an adversary to them and a threat. Great episode. The show somehow never fails to keep on outdoing itself week after week. A let down compared to the original series Pegasus story? LOL. That's all that needs to be said on that.
  14. Remember how Destiny jumped the shark a while back? Well, episode 49 turned around and took another pass. Except this time it used an orbital booster and flew way over that shark and off into the land of ridiculous. This show is so bad it hurts, but at least it's providing some cheap laughs.
  15. The mech in the top row is not the Testament, as you can see from the closer in picture of the unit. Apart from having little in common with the Testament's frame, it is most obviously missing Testament's distinctive V-Fins.
  16. Welcome to growing up. In 15 years anime fans will be decrying the state of anime and wishing it was more like it was in the 'good old days' too. Anime is saturated now, so unlike the past where you only experience mostly the top tier of anime was available now second, third and fourth rate anime is all being pushed at us, either through company releases or fansubs. You can look at the 70s/80s and think they were just so much better than now because they had things like Mazinger, Getter Robo, Grendizer, Ideon, Gundam, Macross Gunbuster, etc.. But what about Gowapper 5 Godam, Magnerobo Ga-Keen, Uchuu Senshi Baldios, Saikyou Robo Daihoja, Ginga Senpuu Bryger, Ginga Reppuu Baxinger, Kousoku Denshin Albegas, Ginga Shippuu Sasuraiger, Psycho Armor Govarian, Tokusou Kihei Dorvack, Panzer World Galient, or Mashin Eiyuuden Watarubor? Never heard of most of those? Guess why. That's just a handful from one genre, if you looked at everything from years back you'd end up with a huge list of completely terrible anime, just like you can now. In years to come people are going to look at 'current anime' and they'll be remembering the Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex and Fullmetal Alchemist like shows, and the Erementar Gerad, Tsubasa Chronicle, Speed Grapher or whatever other forgettable crap you can think of will become just that - forgotten, just like all the dire trash that was made before 1995. Sturgeon's Law in action. I mean, that's not to say things haven't changed. The day of cell art has died and digital animation has taken it's place (as a lover of old style anime this is tough to deal with at times). The OVA format is all but dead. Certain genres (eg, giant robots and mecha) have become stagnant, and anime on the whole is less 'experimental' because with the downturn of the anime market in more recent times things have gravitated towards formula and doing what has been successful. These are just natural progression. Sure. More than ten years ago, did you ever see something like the scene in Ghost in the Shell: Innocence when Batou and Togusa were flying to the Chinese city, the scope of the city shown, the exact detail in which the plane they were flying in was modeled down to the smallest detail such as the rotor and it's dozen individual wing flaps, the hundreds of birds flying around through the spirals of the city, each one of them unique? Ever see such haunting vision of a vast, lifeless future where technology has replaced the organic? Sounds pretty amazing when you describe it dramatically, considering both our examples are probably a couple of minutes of animation at most. Even better question: have you seen many things in recent times so completely awful as the Max and Milia knife duel? It goes both ways.
  17. FMP is on break due to the US Open being shown in it's timeslot.
  18. I don't who you guys have been listening too... Fullmetal Alchemist and Standalone Complex both did well on Adult Swim. They stopped at the end of their first seasons and went on break, in part because neither series had been fully dubbed. Both are back with new episodes in October and November respectively, and both in the prime timeslots.
  19. Pretty good. It provided closure for the series in a way that ended one story but opened the door for another to continue on (ie, the movie).
  20. The anime splits completely from the manga as of episode 25, and is a hell of a lot better than the manga is. 51 episodes.
  21. Macross 7 was operating under peace conditions until the conflict began, so Battle 7's fighter squadrons at the time of the Fire Valkyrie's creation didn't need to be upgraded on a priority basis. Of course, giving Basara an older plane was the original idea, until it was dropped for various reasons. Basara was to start in a VF-11, and after it's destruction halfway through the series be upgraded to the VF-19. Macross 7 shows no evidence at all that Anima Spiritia is not heavily connected to singing. The rest is just nothing but retroactively shoehorning Macross 7 themes back into Macross where they had no place. No thanks.
  22. He's been the one giving the orders on Archangel since the beginning so he's not completely without command experience. Not that the actions taken by the Archangel and the various disasters resulting from them speak too well of his actual command ability.
  23. The fallacy of the 'Cop Rock' analogy is quite simple, in that it's silly to try and equate Macross 7 with failure when it was anything but a failure.
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