Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:38 pm
Interesting analysis. I have some questions on the technical side of radar/radio jamming, but beyond that, very interesting.
I'm going to admit that G Gundam is hokey. It's meant to be. I mean it's Gundam done in the style of Dragonball Z for crying out loud.
Turn A is really quite a nice show taken on it's own. It's not great, but it's not given it due credit by you fanboi's who think Gundam == God-Like MSes and lots of childish notions about true pacifism. It's about 2 groups, where one completely outclasses the other militarily, trying to get along and not have a war(at least as much as I've seen of it, my source has been slow in supplying them and I'm on episode 21). The Moonrace are refugees, despite their awesome military power and they behave as such, in a mature fashion. I never put down GW, but it's very much Gundam for Girls, why else are all the pilots 15-16 year old pretty boys? I'll put in this way:
UC(all) == extended storyline about the conflict surrounding the evolution of a new species of humainity.
G Gundam == Gundam done in the style of DBZ, with all the requisite speeches and flashy attacks. Despite this, Domon and Rain actually have a very realisitically portrayed relationship until the final few epidosdes.
Gundam Wing == Gundam for Girls. By this I mean that the inane, teenangst "relationships" are played up, such as Heero never actually being open with Releena about how he feels about her. There is very little explanation or reasoning given to the mech battles and they are often disjointed with the preachy dialogue about how they're fighting to end conflict forever.
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