Don't Stop, Carry On - Gundam thread
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I believe AGE is kind of meant to be a sort of modern (at the time) take on the Universal century, where there is various conficts going on across the century as one big long war, kind of like some of the wars in Europe before the invention of guns and their wide spread use in wars, only in space with the primary confict being between Earth & Mars
I recently watch "In the Heights" and have been listening to the music quite a bit. One of the Spanish lyrics is "no pare, sigue sigue", which translates "Don't Stop, Carry On". Apparently it was a whole dance craze in Colombia. I never really knew that Gundam was popular there.
Apparently, Hatsune Miku and Gundam share a holiday in Japan. Who knew?
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Gundam Meets Hatsune Miku on Zaku/Miku Day
The Gundam franchise gets Mikued up for their shared holiday on March 9
I finally got around to watching Gundam Seed Freedom after doing some refreshing (and get used to the new voice cast) with the original series.
I'm glad it was a film. One of the biggest issues with Seed and Destiny was the meandering pacing and filler, and I could just SEE where this could have been a 50-odd episode series and I'd be driven to madness with emo Kira and brainwashed Lacus for dozens of episodes. I've said before, seeing Destiny as a movie trilogy makes it FAR more palatable.
I think the overall story is stronger, with a meaningful character focus. I think keeping Kira and Lacus as the anchors help move the story along, but I think they did a solid job with the supporting cast. Story wise? Without that strong character driven anchor...it has a definite sense of retreading general story beats from the prior series (Intentional or bad writing? You decide!), and I think the abrupt appearance of "new type sense" and some of the new tech just feel like lazy introductions. That said, I think the left over Seed Destiny characters are well served, and I've actually been a fan of the mecha designs of this flavor of the franchise.
I was a bit surprised by the sense of nostalgia it gave me, though. Similar crafted scenes and music callbacks really sell it as a nostalgia piece. For me, SEED was the last Gundam series I watched while the brand was still a meaningful thing in the US, and seeing new content in that universe was kind of nice.
Now to see how GQuuux fares now that it has started to stream on Amazon Prime. ...
I'm glad it was a film. One of the biggest issues with Seed and Destiny was the meandering pacing and filler, and I could just SEE where this could have been a 50-odd episode series and I'd be driven to madness with emo Kira and brainwashed Lacus for dozens of episodes. I've said before, seeing Destiny as a movie trilogy makes it FAR more palatable.
I think the overall story is stronger, with a meaningful character focus. I think keeping Kira and Lacus as the anchors help move the story along, but I think they did a solid job with the supporting cast. Story wise? Without that strong character driven anchor...it has a definite sense of retreading general story beats from the prior series (Intentional or bad writing? You decide!), and I think the abrupt appearance of "new type sense" and some of the new tech just feel like lazy introductions. That said, I think the left over Seed Destiny characters are well served, and I've actually been a fan of the mecha designs of this flavor of the franchise.
I was a bit surprised by the sense of nostalgia it gave me, though. Similar crafted scenes and music callbacks really sell it as a nostalgia piece. For me, SEED was the last Gundam series I watched while the brand was still a meaningful thing in the US, and seeing new content in that universe was kind of nice.
Now to see how GQuuux fares now that it has started to stream on Amazon Prime. ...
GQuuux's first ep is intersting, I just hope that this doesn't turn into another Witch from Mercury, where the plot suddenly speeds up to reach a rushed climax, leaving plot threads on the floor!
For those who haven't seen the movie, note that the first ep of GQuacks is only the middle third of the movie. It looks like the actual beginning of the movie will be presented next week as a flashback ep before returning to the "modern day" setting.
Correct, it was just one of those "premiere movies" that everyone does lately.
Can't confirm yet where there're any "exclusive" scenes in either version.
I feel like some shots were spliced around in the first episode. Like i recall feeling it weird that were were getting our protagonist's underwear on screen before her face. But in the show it seems they reframed that as a mini flashback.
Dont quote me tho. I only saw the movie the one time
Dont quote me tho. I only saw the movie the one time