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kaigounote: I don't know when I'll be watching the last episodes, since that depends on whether I'm up to it tomorrow, or maybe it'll be Sunday. So please refrain from the spoilers or the really heavy-handed hints, mmkay? I'll let you know when I'm done so you can consider it open season at that point, but not yet.
ep19: I'd be sad, but... come on, wouldn't you people know by now never to trust someone with unnaturally colored hair? Unless it's pink and in pigtails, which I suppose is the exception, but if the hair matches the eyes, PROBLEM. Just sayin'. The bit with the naked people and the sparkles, though... am I the only one who felt like I'd been sucked into an alternate shojo dimension at that point?
This bit with the song, I'm guessing, is someone's attempt to make the obligatory pacifist-trope somehow relevant. It's not working. Not for me, at least. And here I liked Marina in S1, but now she's too much of a damn saint and not enough of, well, at least a few flaws. I mean, at least Kujou/Noriega drinks heavily to make up for the rest of her brilliance. (Am I the only one who thinks of Cujo whenever someone says her name?)
ep20: hey! no last name! amazing!
...and sudden character motivation, then character development, followed immediately by character DEATH. ooookay.
Although I do have to say that Amuro's voice never really jumped out at me, in what I've seen of the original series. But this time around, Furuya's voice is such the quinessential Droll Bad Guy that I can't get over how perfect his voice is. Not a speck of megalomaniac craze, just one hundred percent smug ego. His voice grates but in a perfect, someone-please-slap-him kind of good way.
Please. Stop with the naked people and the sparkles. It's starting to get embarrassing.
ep21: I think the screenwriters made a list of everyone who'd pissed anyone else off, and then decided to see how many they could knock off the list before the final showdown. Y'know, get the characters out of the way so they're not cluttering up the screen in the finalvictory fiasco. Right. Not sure whether to take a drink or roll my eyes at the writers' ability to set up three of the Most Annoying Pins ever and knock them each down, one by one. It's like a madhouse estrogen-crazed circle jerk, with epilogue of one crazed female left. I guess we've moved on from the "if you kill someone, you lose your humanity" to "if you kill someone, you lose your sanity".
If you see the eyes GLOWING, don't just stare, SAY SOMETHING. Sure, maybe you could ignore the hair-and-eye matchy-matchy that should've been a dead giveaway, but eyes GLOWING? So not of the good. Makes me start thinking too stupid to live. Hello! Glowing! Not normal!
"Acting a little odd" gets award for understatement of the freaking series.
ep22: I'm sure there's a message in there somewhere, considering Mr. Aker -- blond hair, blue eyes, mister all-around American ambition from the way he's been treated up until now -- is suddenly the son of an obviously overly-traditional Japanese-styled family? Right up to and including the doused-in-cold-water? That came out of left field, and no, I don't consider being called Mister Bushido to have been much of a forewarning, since that fit with his romantic notions. This, though... I'm sure they're making a comment. I'm just not really sure how to go about unpacking it.
So how many other Everyman characters (and for the purposes of this question I'll pretend that 00's everyman is Setsuna, not Saji) have entire teams that they bond with? Because my recollection is that in the majority of the Gundam series, the main protagonist is a bit of a loner, and more likely to go off on his own one-on-one battle -- which, this time around, was treated as the appetizer instead of the final touch. Hunh.
Could do without the rousing hollywood-style music, though, which was like being hit upside the head with a "feel really good right now that everyone's bonding!" because you know what that says to me? it says, EVERYONE HERE IS GOING TO DIE. Okay, so no one admitted their love, but still. DIE. Music like that says DEATH, baby.
Speaking of which: SHOULDERPADS. I'm having bad 80s flashbacks! *dies*
10:57 -- speaking of flashbacks, OMFG, it's like that moment in Mo No No Ke (ep 3) when it's nothing but a plethora of babies lined up before the camera. Okay, so this version has them all the same color, but it's the same mad cut and paste skillz at work. Sorry. Tried to keep a straight face. Failed miserably. More like choked on the laughter. Because, come on.
*attempts to sober up*
*fails*
One thing I will say about this series is it uses a great deal fewer stock shots than I'm used to in mecha series. (There's a proper name for those, and I can't recall what it is; it's the animation used over and over when a character goes through specific changes like from school girl to magical princess, or mecha arrives on scene, or goes from bird-mode to fighting mode, that kind of end-with-pose. What is that called?) It's not that they didn't use it at all, only that they were more subtle about it with this; frex, the docking mode may be somewhat stock footage, but at least it's dynamic footage, plus they seemed to have edited it each time so at least you don't get the same identical segment with identical shots in identical order. Little touches like that show some effort went into things.
Whoever put out the theory that the Haptisms are Heero+Trowa+Quatre in some way... nope, I'd say anyone who observes mid-battle that he's almost out of ammo is the Honorary One Hundred Percent Trowa Love Child. Like, love child in the way that any virgin birth and/or being sprung full-grown from the head of Trowa would be a love child. That kind of love child. Though the crazy part does imply some bit of Quatre in there, still. The ammo -- or lack thereof -- carries a lot of weight as an homage.
(I guess this means the elevator was a stand-in for the colony-dropping? Given that this means it's been at least twice they've played with an alternate form of colony-dropping, come to think of it. One per season!)
....annnnnnnd that would be a serious last-minute change of Big Bads. Okay!
*stares at blank screen*
DONE.
I feel like I need a vacation. Or something really mindless to watch.
ep19: I'd be sad, but... come on, wouldn't you people know by now never to trust someone with unnaturally colored hair? Unless it's pink and in pigtails, which I suppose is the exception, but if the hair matches the eyes, PROBLEM. Just sayin'. The bit with the naked people and the sparkles, though... am I the only one who felt like I'd been sucked into an alternate shojo dimension at that point?
This bit with the song, I'm guessing, is someone's attempt to make the obligatory pacifist-trope somehow relevant. It's not working. Not for me, at least. And here I liked Marina in S1, but now she's too much of a damn saint and not enough of, well, at least a few flaws. I mean, at least Kujou/Noriega drinks heavily to make up for the rest of her brilliance. (Am I the only one who thinks of Cujo whenever someone says her name?)
ep20: hey! no last name! amazing!
...and sudden character motivation, then character development, followed immediately by character DEATH. ooookay.
Although I do have to say that Amuro's voice never really jumped out at me, in what I've seen of the original series. But this time around, Furuya's voice is such the quinessential Droll Bad Guy that I can't get over how perfect his voice is. Not a speck of megalomaniac craze, just one hundred percent smug ego. His voice grates but in a perfect, someone-please-slap-him kind of good way.
Please. Stop with the naked people and the sparkles. It's starting to get embarrassing.
ep21: I think the screenwriters made a list of everyone who'd pissed anyone else off, and then decided to see how many they could knock off the list before the final showdown. Y'know, get the characters out of the way so they're not cluttering up the screen in the final
If you see the eyes GLOWING, don't just stare, SAY SOMETHING. Sure, maybe you could ignore the hair-and-eye matchy-matchy that should've been a dead giveaway, but eyes GLOWING? So not of the good. Makes me start thinking too stupid to live. Hello! Glowing! Not normal!
"Acting a little odd" gets award for understatement of the freaking series.
ep22: I'm sure there's a message in there somewhere, considering Mr. Aker -- blond hair, blue eyes, mister all-around American ambition from the way he's been treated up until now -- is suddenly the son of an obviously overly-traditional Japanese-styled family? Right up to and including the doused-in-cold-water? That came out of left field, and no, I don't consider being called Mister Bushido to have been much of a forewarning, since that fit with his romantic notions. This, though... I'm sure they're making a comment. I'm just not really sure how to go about unpacking it.
So how many other Everyman characters (and for the purposes of this question I'll pretend that 00's everyman is Setsuna, not Saji) have entire teams that they bond with? Because my recollection is that in the majority of the Gundam series, the main protagonist is a bit of a loner, and more likely to go off on his own one-on-one battle -- which, this time around, was treated as the appetizer instead of the final touch. Hunh.
Could do without the rousing hollywood-style music, though, which was like being hit upside the head with a "feel really good right now that everyone's bonding!" because you know what that says to me? it says, EVERYONE HERE IS GOING TO DIE. Okay, so no one admitted their love, but still. DIE. Music like that says DEATH, baby.
Speaking of which: SHOULDERPADS. I'm having bad 80s flashbacks! *dies*
10:57 -- speaking of flashbacks, OMFG, it's like that moment in Mo No No Ke (ep 3) when it's nothing but a plethora of babies lined up before the camera. Okay, so this version has them all the same color, but it's the same mad cut and paste skillz at work. Sorry. Tried to keep a straight face. Failed miserably. More like choked on the laughter. Because, come on.
*attempts to sober up*
*fails*
One thing I will say about this series is it uses a great deal fewer stock shots than I'm used to in mecha series. (There's a proper name for those, and I can't recall what it is; it's the animation used over and over when a character goes through specific changes like from school girl to magical princess, or mecha arrives on scene, or goes from bird-mode to fighting mode, that kind of end-with-pose. What is that called?) It's not that they didn't use it at all, only that they were more subtle about it with this; frex, the docking mode may be somewhat stock footage, but at least it's dynamic footage, plus they seemed to have edited it each time so at least you don't get the same identical segment with identical shots in identical order. Little touches like that show some effort went into things.
Whoever put out the theory that the Haptisms are Heero+Trowa+Quatre in some way... nope, I'd say anyone who observes mid-battle that he's almost out of ammo is the Honorary One Hundred Percent Trowa Love Child. Like, love child in the way that any virgin birth and/or being sprung full-grown from the head of Trowa would be a love child. That kind of love child. Though the crazy part does imply some bit of Quatre in there, still. The ammo -- or lack thereof -- carries a lot of weight as an homage.
(I guess this means the elevator was a stand-in for the colony-dropping? Given that this means it's been at least twice they've played with an alternate form of colony-dropping, come to think of it. One per season!)
....annnnnnnd that would be a serious last-minute change of Big Bads. Okay!
*stares at blank screen*
DONE.
I feel like I need a vacation. Or something really mindless to watch.
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Date: 24 Oct 2009 04:17 pm (UTC)...not going to spoil it re colony drops/giant lazors/any other means of mass destruction. (Let's just say that this Gundam series very much surprised me in this, in the same way Turn A did.)
Agreed, the customisation of what stock shots they do use is a nice change (especially from friggin' Destiny where approximately the last half of the series was stock footage completely recycled from Gundam Seed).
...BRING STABITY ZAKISHI-WARASHI. OH GODS. DEAD OF FUNNY AND THIS MUST BE DRAWN BY SOMEONE. :D
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Date: 26 Oct 2009 12:36 am (UTC)