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10 out of 10: Near Perfect... | 5 | 6.58% | |
9 out of 10: Excellent... | 6 | 7.89% | |
8 out of 10: Very Good... | 5 | 6.58% | |
7 out of 10: Good... | 10 | 13.16% | |
6 out of 10: Average... | 12 | 15.79% | |
5 out of 10: Below Average... | 9 | 11.84% | |
4 out of 10: Poor... | 8 | 10.53% | |
3 out of 10: Bad... | 4 | 5.26% | |
2 out of 10: Very Bad... | 6 | 7.89% | |
1 out of 10: Torturous... | 11 | 14.47% | |
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2012-09-24, 11:05 | Link #101 | |
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Also at least this episode has a character at long last coming to a realization about who he really wants to be. Yeah it's basically him realizing that he should stop being an asshole and just be a decent person when he has defenseless people at his mercy, but it's something that Shinn never really accomplished if you want to make a comparison. So while not a good finale I'd definitely say it's a lot better than Seed Destiny's at least. And really I think this idea that AGE is "worse than Destiny" has to be recency bias and the Gundam Cycle at work and not to mention people just not remembering how nonsensical the narrative was by the time it ended. AGE has quite a few things that don't add up (Ezelcants plan, Kio's stubborn refusal to fight under any circumstances even when it means his comrades will end up dying, Zera Grins existence, Fram's sacrifice, ), but many that do (Zehearts foolish end, Flit becoming a savior, Kio finally using the full potential of the Gundam FX) than don't in my estimation whereas Destiny was the king of time wasting, clip shows, stock footage and just general boredom for the last 3 quarters of it's run and I literally felt nothing watching it's finale, whereas at least this episode had a good scene for Flit that made the first half work well enough. Destiny episode 50 is almost inconceivable to top in terms of poor production and writing for a finale. To me the original Seed is a better comparison as to the quality of AGE. Lot of copying old storylines, some bizarre character interactions and purposes some of which could be solved easily through better decision making and dialogue, but otherwise enough to like to at least make the watch feel worth it in the end even with all the ups and downs. I'd never rewatch either, but I don't regret watching either like I did Destiny. |
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2012-09-24, 11:05 | Link #102 |
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Well, The Baranoke is a Diva-class ship with a huge red sail, so honestly the controls should eb the same, the layout was similar. The hijacking part bothered me though. But that's the least of my worries in this episode.
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2012-09-24, 11:06 | Link #103 |
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Even so, I would expect that the ship had been heavily customized and cannot be effective utilized (even if it can be piloted by any crew) in combat.
Just having a difference in parameter sets and weaponry can change the set of tactics available, and a captain who knows jack shit about the details can't do squat. Of course the controls could be similar or if not, computer-assisted. But piloting is different from effective utilization in combat. EDIT: and regarding the hijacking, they can't do anything about it if Nacchan says it's Asem's request. though I find it weird that Asem didn't tell the crew about it. |
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2012-09-24, 11:21 | Link #105 | |
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Though I agree it's of little importance compared to other things but since no one talked that much about it, I kind of just rambled on a little. |
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2012-09-24, 11:24 | Link #106 |
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The ship didn't seem to be terribly specialized beyond the Invisible Umbrella system. That said, as pirates they wouldn't be experienced in large-scale battles. Natora, for all her ups and downs as captain, does have that experience, as does her crew. They could've mentioned it as such, but to me it makes sense that she'd take over so that the Baronche, which as we should remember has her people in it, whom she feels responsible for, has better odds of survival in the final battle.
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2012-09-24, 12:04 | Link #107 |
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I thought the ending was a very reasonable conclusion to it, might actually be one of the most reasonable and realistic conclusion to war in recent Gundam - all the pro-war Vagans and the Zeheart whom is the leader were all dead, Ezelcant is so sick he won't be able to lead anymore, the canon attached to Second Moon was going to blow and bring Second Moon and millions of civilians along with it, in that situation just like Flit said even if he didn't do anything the Vagans would still die. Given that Flit, as the top commander of the Federation forces (ie he actually has some authority and say in all of this, unlike most Gundam protagonists whom by all reasonable accounts are just mere soldiers following orders) had shown that he was not going to take advantage of the situation by firing the plasma dive missile into space and show the Vagans he wasn't going to kill them despite having the very power to do so and instead will offer the helping hand, it should be all the reason a relatively sane person would need to take such an offer, and yes the Vagans did take it. The flow to reach such a conclusion is actually very logical and makes plenty of sense. If you take just this bit alone there's actually no magical "kill some final boss and it's good" feel to it which is actually quite commendable for a mecha anime.
In light of all of that they really didn't even need Sid and Vagan Gear to play that mgaical final boss, it actually ruined the conclusion and took away valuable time to maybe flush out some scenes better (they could've made some scene to show the urgency of cutting off Second Moon from the canon structure by showing some explosions affecting Second Moon and its civilians for example, just to make it so the Vagans really are backed into a corner and drive home to Flit that there are innocent civis at hand), except I think they just want to prove that Kio is still right in his no-kill policy and therefore must let him exercise it just one last time.
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2012-09-24, 12:58 | Link #108 | |
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Story: Destiny's story/plot is better than AGE coz (at least) for the first half or 2/3 of the series, it’s all well-developed (characters, events & action) and still within the realm of logic. It didn’t turn silly as quickly as AGE. One example from gen 1 is: how can a ragtag group of mobile suits from the quarreling colony factions which (in the early episodes) can barely scratch a single Gafran (the weakest of Vagan grunt MSs) can put up a fight (let alone win) in the battle against a horde of Gafrans, Baqtos, Zedas, and a Vagan’s advanced (at the time) battleship? Surely AGE-1 & G-Exes alone won’t be able to make a difference in that massive battle (forgot the name of the battle). And that’s just one silliness that happened earlier in Gen 1 of the series. There’s a lot more as episodes gone by. Action: This is where AGE is on-par with Destiny or even excels. Destiny’s drawback is (as everybody already knows) there’s a continent of stock-footage. Still, the action itself is very good. It’s stylish, fast, and has great fight-choreography overall. AGE’s action mainly prevail in the “minimal stock footage” department which I very much appreciate it. Still, the overall action in Gen 1 is what I call as uninspired. It’s very slow and badly choreographed. Then AGE improve itself greatly in Gen 2 and Gen 3 where the action is plenty, fast, and nicely choreographed too. OST (BGM & songs): I know that this pretty much depends on taste, but I find myself enjoying almost every single BGM in Destiny. The score is great and memorable. The songs (OP, ED, insert) are no different. It’s one of the best in Gundam franchise. As for AGE, the BGM is forgettable (I can’t remember even a single one of the BGMs) and the only songs I enjoy out of the series are only 3 (the 1st OP, the 1st & 2nd ED). If you find this as only one man’s preference, you can compare the sales for Destiny’s OST and AGE’s OST yourselves. At least commercial success can speak for itself. Characters: Overall, Destiny’s characters has more “oomph” compared to the blandness of AGE’s characters. Even if some of them didn’t well-developed, most of them are consistent almost throughout the entire series (minus the final episode where almost everyone do some really questionable action). Also, most of Destiny’s charas are enjoyable to watch when they’re doing their thing compared to AGE’s. Even Shinn’s character who turned into a whiny villain for the last 1/3 of the series is not as useless and as annoying as Kio, for example. You might also want to argue that Heine Westenfluss in Destiny is the equal of Girard Spriggan in AGE. Still, Heine is meant to be a “guess star” character and he didn’t take (waste) that much valuable screen-time compared to Girard and her backstory. In short, most of the characters in Destiny serve actual purposes and treated better compared to AGE's charas. Character artwork: Another taste-based point. But at least here, I will say that Destiny’s characters have more complex traits compared to the simple portrayal of characters in AGE. Fair enough, right? So, according to my opinion above, Destiny scores 4/5 points while AGE only score 1/5. That one score from AGE comes from its action which, if you compare the time they’re made, AGE hardly wins over Destiny. Once again, all this comes from me who really really don’t like (if not outright hate) Destiny as an overall series. So, no, I’m not really biased. Most of the elements in Destiny is indeed better than AGE.
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2012-09-24, 13:02 | Link #109 |
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a very fast turn event for this episode, everything was skip so fast make me like huh!? especially on the SID appear, dunno what happen the next thing it hijack the Gear but end up other way around? And first time to see final boss appear so late, finish off so fast... a record maybe.
The battle between the 3 gundam vs Gear was not bad though. and so Wendy end up with who ? able to see Yurin one last time , in the end more like Yurin save the day, since she convinced Flit xD Overall was not bad but not great, I quite like this series, just skip too many thing wasted a lot of potential, maybe due to the earlier bad negative feedback, and end up shorten the series, rewrite? end up become almost nothing..
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2012-09-24, 13:07 | Link #110 |
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AGE for me, had the least convincing (if not also the funniest looking) villain ever presented in a Gundam series. I cannot be convinced of their reasons for fighting after the prime villain was introduced and his reasons stated. I found it quite laughable. Unfortunately, crazy is what the Federation had to deal with, so they had to put up with the foolishness.
And poor Flit. He cannot forget Yurin even after so many decades. Ok, Vagans have some pretty nifty uniforms based on 19th century Meiji-Era style, but thats one small originality and pretty much the only thing it has going. Overall? I wouldn't say this series is poor. Asemu and Kio had some stylish machines, and Kio utilize his funnels quite creatively. The action is fast paced, and the plot isn't boring. But the characters weren't the most interesting bunch, and I am affronted by the way female characters are treated in the series. Not to mention the last episode being a very rushed advancement of plot that gave absolutely no time for deeper development. Its a shame. - Tak
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2012-09-24, 13:42 | Link #111 | |
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2012-09-24, 13:45 | Link #112 | ||||||
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Also that thing with the Zalam/Euba, they were given beam rifles like the G-Exes which could do damage, which allowed them to close the gap on the Vagan suits using their skill and experience. The reason they sucked so bad in the Fardain arc was that they were using those ineffective weapons and thus got curb stomped. It'd be like Miyamoto Musashi trying to beat a tank with his Katana. Yeah he's one of the greatest swordsmen of all time, but the technology gap is clearly too much. I'm pretty sure this is expressly explained by either Vargas or Flit at one point before the final attack on Ambat. Quote:
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Shinn by comparison to AGE's Asuno family seemed to flip flop between being portrayed as a reasonable level headed pilot who could help change the flow of the battle he was in to a raving bug-eyed revenge obsessed madman whenever Kira was in the scene seemingly just so Kira could be portrayed as clearly the better man. That doesn't strike me as consistent...now that I think of it neither do things like Talia sacrificing herself with Durandal for no good reason despite having a son to look after and despite always showing to have been a fairly level headed captain that puts duty before relationships...especially ones that are long over. It's too bad though that Fram basically ended up similar to Talia in that despite her convictions she ultimately ends up sacrificing herself along with her madman commander who then loses it over her death moments later and ends up dying in regret anyway. Just doesn't feel like either of character needed to die so I will give that it's a problem that both series share at times. I can also agree though that Spriggan was certainly a Heine, but it feels like she got more of a real backstory than Heine even if she was mostly a throwaway character of the arc. About all we learned about Heine was that Athrun greatly respected him and he was voiced by T.M Revolution and then he died really fast without accomplishing much because goddammit he was in the grunt suit facing a Gundam and that show followed the rule of Main character in Gundam>Minor character in Gundam>Minor character in grunt suit>no name in grunt suit to the letter regardless of how much skill the person was ostensibly supposed to have. At least in AGE characters like Abis, Flit and Asemu didn't betray their skill level just because their suit was getting a little old and they were up against the big fancy new Gundams. There were limits to what they could do, but they could still do things. Plus most importantly AGE doesn't consistently retcon it's characters deaths where convenient just because people happened to like those cast members in the past. Quote:
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2012-09-24, 14:02 | Link #114 |
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Ending was hasty, but emotional moments in this two last episodes worked better than earlier ones. I think writers actually raised their level for the last two episodes. AGE was not bad series, but far from the top. If this manuscript had been applied in 80s we might not have Gundam serieses anymore
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2012-09-24, 14:08 | Link #115 | |
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2012-09-24, 14:20 | Link #116 | |
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2012-09-24, 14:48 | Link #117 | |
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2012-09-24, 14:50 | Link #118 |
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I so heard David Hayter in my head going: "VAGAN... GEAR!!!! O_o"
*sigh* And they killed Zehart and Fram for THIS!? They could have at least kept them alive for this cheese at the end... random working together and all... At least I got most of my frustration out in ICQ... My post would be a lot of swearing in capslock otherwise... But now I can only say... this was dissapointing... Thank you... Better luck next time... *walks off, never looking back at AGE again*
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