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even after all these years, it's still really funny that nether gundam is the one that got mass-produced.
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# ¿ Mar 5, 2020 02:48 |
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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 00:01 |
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gms won the 1 year war, but no one finds that exciting so in-universe and out it is quietly ignored.
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# ¿ Mar 12, 2020 01:02 |
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zeon just plain never had the resources or manpower to conquer earth. but if they had stayed in space then eventually the federation's unchecked war production would have overwhelmed them anyway. i guess they could have started doing orbital bombardments (with objects smaller than colonies) on launch sites to keep the flow of troops into space in check, but that would be a whole other arms race the feds still might win. zeon never seemed terribly interested in suppression or containment, though. making 50 different mobile suits/armors exclusively for fighting on earth was vastly preferable to ever questioning if they should be fighting on earth at all. so obviously, the only route to zeon victory was mass producing the zakrello.
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# ¿ Mar 12, 2020 16:05 |
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i bet the part about invading earth was entirely gihren's idea.
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# ¿ Mar 12, 2020 20:00 |
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zeon had a bunch of huge advantages they pissed away on boondoggles and amuro. their initial success was due to a combination of invalidating all the good federation weapons technology with minovsky particles and then introducing mobile suits which were perfectly suited for this new environment. zeon might have been able to raze all federation forces from the earth, but instead they tried to conquer and occupy territory. that's something their tech advantage would never be able to accomplish.
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# ¿ Mar 12, 2020 20:47 |
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aside from char, i don't think zeon ever really figured out that the gundam was just a mobile suit. amuro was the real weapon. for all the bullshit newtypes can do in a mobile weapon, they aren't particularly impressive outside of one. but regardless of how practical it might be, assassinating the living war god while he is just a surly, horny teenager isn't very interesting. sweet-rear end robot fights are way better.
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# ¿ Mar 14, 2020 13:02 |
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kamille learned the hard way that if you live by the sword*, you die by the sword. *newtype ghost
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# ¿ Mar 14, 2020 16:40 |
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i always really liked how all that was set off by fa repeatedly shouting his name in a public place, despite knowing perfectly well how sensitive he was about his name. she was either completely oblivious or loving with him, but the latter is funnier so let's go with that.
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2020 14:05 |
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kamille chose a poor time to punch jerid in the face, but that doesn't mean punching jerid in the face is ever a bad idea.
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2020 18:12 |
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probably, but the titans were never as iconic as zeon.
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2020 22:22 |
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maybe some of those endless, pointless kamille vs. titans fights would have been interesting if he had fought sinister neo-guntanks.
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# ¿ Mar 16, 2020 04:36 |
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i think when i first watched msg i liked a lot of it ironically, what with all of the silliness. now i love it sincerely.
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# ¿ Mar 17, 2020 02:13 |
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Gripweed posted:A new video produced under the theme of "BEYOND", the concept of the 40th anniversary of Gundam. Banagher, the protagonist of Mobile Suit Gundam UC, travels across the world beyond the boundaries of his work. An original story that conveys the appeal of Gundam to a wide range of people across borders and generations. if it is meant to convey the appeal of gundam, why is banagher there?
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# ¿ Mar 19, 2020 15:32 |
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seed aged like fine milk but i liked it well enough when it was new.
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2020 04:56 |
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the universe is slightly tainted by destiny existing
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2020 05:51 |
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the most interesting thing about seed is the many ways in which they got msg so incredibly wrong.
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# ¿ Apr 1, 2020 17:29 |
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the horn is used to hold an appropriately sized top hat in place. obviously.
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# ¿ Apr 8, 2020 19:18 |
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00 s2 had a lot of problems, but by far the biggest was that hobo exia was only in one episode.
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# ¿ Apr 11, 2020 20:41 |
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there were a lot of reasons for this, but amuro spent so much time alone in the cockpit, with no backup. or worse, guntank backup.
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# ¿ Apr 20, 2020 03:15 |
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because it rocks, that's why.
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# ¿ Apr 27, 2020 06:17 |
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war does suck, and model kits are neat. nothing contradictory there.
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# ¿ Apr 30, 2020 22:07 |
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char was a dick, but not so much that he'd simply forget kamille existed once he was out of sight. he certainly would have found out what happened to kamille, whether by newtype flashes or otherwise. if nothing else, he certainly would have sought out info on all the known powerful newtypes while planning the events of cca. the dude had a very healthy respect for the absolute bullshit newtype kids can pull.
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# ¿ May 10, 2020 05:09 |
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i'm not sure if kamille served as any of char's post-zeta motivations, but that's very different from char caring so little that he never bothered to find out what happened to kamille. however, he had enough going on at the time that he might have only looked into it after kamille's recovery and permanent retirement. kamille had a reasonably happy ending, but he never became the newtype messiah char hoped for and that's likely where char's interest ended.
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# ¿ May 10, 2020 13:54 |
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Nessus posted:Didn't minovsky particles also gently caress up EM communication in various forms? Or was that just if you deliberately goosed your reactor to do it? I was never sure if that was a retcon or if it was in there from the beginning, but it does a fair bit to let the UC still work as science marches on, even if as a retro-future: "you can't have ubiquitious mobile wireless networking or whatever because it's incompatible with the dirt-cheap totally clean energy." that was part of the rationale for mobile suits. radar doesn't work, so guided missiles don't work.
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# ¿ May 18, 2020 02:18 |
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stealth bits are gone because it is all newtypes, all the time now. they aren't stealthy when used against other newtypes.
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# ¿ May 18, 2020 14:51 |
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ah, the ghost gundam then. that was a crossbone variant, i think.
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# ¿ May 18, 2020 15:31 |
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if aeug hadn't picked him up kamille would have died shortly after stealing the mk2.
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# ¿ May 20, 2020 07:01 |
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prior to mikazuki, uso had a worse everything than anyone.
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# ¿ May 20, 2020 07:03 |
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even the treads make sense, as there's no way for it to fire such enormous cannons and stay on two feet. they are artillery, not beam guns. it only gets silly and pointless in space.
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# ¿ May 20, 2020 17:31 |
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turrets on base ships aren't generally allowed to achieve anything in gundam. that would take away the focus from robot fights.
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# ¿ May 22, 2020 06:06 |
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the federation only had one amuro, but zeon had like 50 chars and that number only goes up with each new oyw story.
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# ¿ May 29, 2020 19:48 |
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my favorite thing about 0083 is how people somehow watch it and then think it serves as a demonstration of zeon nobility. it's also kind of funny how awful nina is, but that can't carry a show.
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# ¿ Jun 1, 2020 00:21 |
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i don't think fa ever tried piloting a ms that wasn't trash for idiot clowns, right?
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2020 06:05 |
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he's a pretty poor leader, too.
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2020 07:28 |
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he's a skilled pilot, but char never remotely lived up to his inflated reputation. i don't think anyone could.
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2020 07:43 |
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even though kamille survived, scirocco still killed char's aspirations for him.
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# ¿ Jun 12, 2020 01:55 |
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the format of crossbone being multiple short manga means that there are a shitload of main unit upgrades. it's hard to keep track of them all.
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# ¿ Jun 15, 2020 08:00 |
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ImpAtom posted:Hmm. Hmm. Yes. On the other hand: wait, when was blue destiny ever animated?
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# ¿ Jun 18, 2020 06:02 |
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don't underestimate the zakrello. just don't do it.
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# ¿ Jun 20, 2020 03:43 |
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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 00:01 |
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i think any uc character would freeze up if confronted with a love love sekiha tenkyoken.
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# ¿ Jun 23, 2020 06:46 |