2009-05-20, 16:07 | Link #861 |
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I thought the story was rather well done, but it definitely has prevalent themes that Tomino has used in the Principality of Zeon as well as Crossbone Vanguard/Zanscare Empire (aka chosen people, master race, etc). Tomino's prose are rather interesting to read. I'll summarize it if I can once I get some free time.
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2009-05-21, 03:16 | Link #862 | |
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2009-05-22, 22:41 | Link #868 | |
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And actually, Kamille apparently kept his civilian status throughout Zeta Gundam, and is the only Gundam character to have done so? I mean, he's part of the AEUG for all intents and purposes (and treated as one if when he disobeys orders), but he's never given a rank. |
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2009-05-23, 06:56 | Link #869 | |
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2009-05-23, 11:17 | Link #870 | |
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And that's not completely true. There are civilian use construction mobile suits and whatnot, like the Petite or Middle or the Med.
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2009-06-01, 08:21 | Link #872 |
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i just watched turn a gundam from beggining till end
i dont quite understand so turn a is the era after the civilization of UC was destroyed? but there also gundam wing on there..... how come? and who corin anyway? but, sochie in the ending are so cute!!!!! |
2009-06-01, 08:50 | Link #873 |
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Turn-A was described as encompassing all the previous (and even the future's) Gundam Centuries. Each of them being rebooted at some point by a Moonlight Butterfly (I think).
IIRC, from UC you had a lot of things: Zaku I, Zaku II, GM, Gallop, Kapool, Keilas Guilie (mentionned, from V Gundam), and also the multiples references of White Devil, or Enemy of the Spacenoids. But you also had the "legendary Shining Finger" from G Gundam. Corin had a flashback of the Wing 0 from AC century. And within the batch of the Dark History pictures fm I remember the X Gundam from AW century deplying it's satellite cannon. You can even link CE to UC with the Jupitris design, and the Gibraltar spaceport. And from AD there are even remnants of a space elevator in central America!!! (the only one we weren't shown in 00 Gundam BTW).
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2009-06-01, 09:31 | Link #876 |
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There are remnants of one. If you have watched the serie, remember or rewatch the part when they are in central America, looking for a linear accelerator to propell them into space, at the same place there are the large remains of a "pillar".
Later the sort of gigantic catapult they use to reach the Moon is another remnant of this space elevator (described as a branch of the tree that reached space).
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2009-06-02, 21:10 | Link #879 |
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Well, to be fair, Turn-A was envisioned as encompassing all past Gundam series, but given the sheer improbability involved it's a lot easier to just see it as the distant future of the UC timeline or an AU that follows the events of UC up to a certain point. I mean, considering that none of the previous Gundam series have people digging up mobile suits, it really makes no sense that the same thing could have happened prior to those series. There are only the most passing of references to any timelines besides UC, so it works out if you look at it that way and just ignore Corin (which generally makes the show more enjoyable sometimes...) and consider the "Shining Finger" to be an homage, what with the attacks looking nothing alike (it is sort of similar to the God/Burning Finger).
But yeah, Turn-A was an effort at uniting the franchise in the same way that various American comic books try to unite disparate ideas that have existed in the past, etc. There's a lot of holes, and you sort of just have to accept somewhere along the line that it doesn't all work out perfectly, and either forget about it or choose the version you like best. |
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