[FINISH} Gundam 00 - aco's anime review

[acolyte_to_jippity]

I think it comes from what your expecting in a movie, a short story about what occurred after the series or a separate stand along story. Movies like the gundam 00 and endless waltz fit the first definition.

Movies for other series may be a lot stronger and better developed to the point there they can stand alone such as the disappearance of haruhi suzumiya, which while it is after the series you can watch it by itself and understand what is going on.

personally, i want movies set after series-end to be more of the series, but in a 2-hour format.

i wouldn't go out and watch endless waltz or waking the trailblzor, without first finishing the series. that's just dumb.

[kyperioth]

True, I'd much prefer the anime movie to be geared toward "completing" a series or giving it an alternate ending (Evangelion, as an example).
But for some reason, I didn't think either of those two Gundam series movies actually gave the original series a completion.
It felt more like, well back to the same old rutine of "bad-guy" enters and "good-guy" overcomes like in most the Gundam plots.

I will say though, that's generalizing the plots bigtime. Considering in the first half a season xyz could be the "bad-guy" but by the end xyz turns out to be a "good-guy".


Do I expect too much of a mecha franchise? I mean Macross pulls it off well with compilation of OVA's, then series and then movies... Why can't Gundam series pull off good material throughout?


***Edit***
Maybe I'm too much of an old-fashioned SDF-Macross fan.

[acolyte_to_jippity]

macross frontier is awesome

[ZERO]

or giving it an alternate ending (Evangelion, as an example).

You should be careful about the implicit assumptions made with particular examples or at the very least where, when and how you reference exactly what is going on in Evangelion. That being a series I watched before I even knew what anime was I have watched it a lot as I was unaware of the existence of anime and thus other things I could watch instead at the time. So what I mean to say is that even someone like me who has seen that series many times over can not declare for sure if there are any alternate endings in Evangelion.

As for what you said about gundam and macross, this is an important statement b/c both of these things follow very set formulas for presentation. All Gundam series will follow a particular formula and that is why they are called Gundam. Likewise all macross series will follow a set formula that is implied by the name macross. This is without exception from the movies, ovas and tv shows.

[acolyte_to_jippity]

if i may zero,
there are no alternate endings to eva. there is the ending, and then there is the powerpoint presentation.

that's it, unless you count the fanfic i'm writing...but seriously, even I don't count that piece of shit.

[ZERO]

But does my fact fiction count?

[acolyte_to_jippity]

But does my fact fiction count?

...yes?

[StarsMine]

aco, have you seen 08th MS team? it is by far my favorite Gundam series, even if the movie sucked.. all it was was a damn recap of the show >.<
Its a gundam show with no over powered Ace pilots, hell there are no gundams in it either o.O just Mobile suits. Great great characters, and amazing gorilla fighting tactics based off of some WWII skirmishes

also I will never count ep 12 as the real ending, it ended with 11.

I have Zeta gundam ling around here to watch, direct squeal to the original, but much more thought out, and with more Char , Char = one of the best, dynamic character in anime of all time, to bad so many people get put off of gundam by G and Seed when they showed those pieces of shit, few watch any UC gundam