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Logicblade posted:I think it's about time... I stood up to the Victory. Victory has probably the best fight choreography in UC Gundam, so you're in for a treat if you liked the ep1 fight. Usso is a stone cold little fucker.
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 19:35 |
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So... when they do they keep the Victory fully formed out of the gate? I mean I get that transforming mechs are cool, but it's just not practical to have a bunch of bottom fighters get destroyed every time you try to dock mid fight. I suppose at least they have the presence of mind to have spares. Also Zanscare is really trying to hit every villain note right out the gate here, murdering civilians, burning down forests, murdering subordinates, it's a murder party for everyone!
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 20:31 |
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Logicblade posted:So... when they do they keep the Victory fully formed out of the gate? I mean I get that transforming mechs are cool, but it's just not practical to have a bunch of bottom fighters get destroyed every time you try to dock mid fight. I suppose at least they have the presence of mind to have spares. I might be misremembering, but I thought the idea was they don't have a truck large enough to transport it fully formed and having a giant robot just walking around is bad if you're trying to keep a low profile.
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 20:33 |
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In theory the uncombined victory is a bit faster than the combine form and so it can get to where it needs to go faster and then combine for fightin'. On top of that it is lower profile.
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 20:33 |
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The best part of Victory is the keep calling the legs 'boots'. In English.
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 20:34 |
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So what's the cutest mobile suit? I mean, you could go with Bearguy but I think that's too obvious. It might be the Acguy, though.
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 20:40 |
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The Muffinlord posted:So what's the cutest mobile suit? I mean, you could go with Bearguy but I think that's too obvious. It might be the Acguy, though. Tha kapool is pretty fuckin cute
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 20:41 |
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Logicblade posted:So... when they do they keep the Victory fully formed out of the gate? I mean I get that transforming mechs are cool, but it's just not practical to have a bunch of bottom fighters get destroyed every time you try to dock mid fight. I suppose at least they have the presence of mind to have spares. It's the low profile thing. Zanscare has a huge military advantage and the League Militaire absolutely can't afford a knock-down-drag-out with them at the start of the series, so it's a lot more nondescript to move your mobile suits around as much smaller jets tarped over on trucks than to have them marching around visibly. That and the V Gundam is quite specifically designed to be cheap as dirt and mass produced like mad, so throwing away component fighters isn't actually a huge deal. The V Gundam is only a "Gundam" in a sense that it's aesthetically designed to look like one as a propaganda device; performance and cost wise it's a bog-standard grunt, through and through. Zanscare are easily the most openly and unquestionably evil UC Gundam villains, easily outpacing even the Titans.
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 20:42 |
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Droyer posted:Tha kapool is pretty fuckin cute
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 20:44 |
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So I just finished episode six... what just happened? Like seriously, what the gently caress? I just killed two of my own subordinates five minutes ago and now I'm gonna catch that gundam! Oh poo poo the pilot is a kid, I better blow myself up with a grenade, reality is too cruel!
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 21:04 |
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Logicblade posted:So I just finished episode six... what just happened? Like seriously, what the gently caress? Welcome to the Victory Gundam experience
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 21:07 |
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Visionary director/writer Tominooooooo
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 21:09 |
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Logicblade posted:Ok... that's a little more reasonable. Too used to my gundam protagonists being in their late teens, I forget that the Victory cast is actually younger. I'm hoping she grows out of it a little, but hey that's why I'm watching. That and because I want to see how messed up this gets. He's still got a long way to go before he unlocks that Ace bonus!
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 21:10 |
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That's far from the most ridiculous thing in Victory Gundam too.
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 21:10 |
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Logicblade posted:So I just finished episode six... what just happened? Like seriously, what the gently caress? The Victory Gundam Experience.
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 21:13 |
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It just keeps getting better. and by better I mean worse. So much worse. Well I can't say you guys didn't warn me about the guillotine at least. Usso's Confirmed Kill Count: 2
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 21:53 |
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Droyer posted:I like the G-armor. It's dumb and silly, but a lot of stuff in the original was and a lot of gundam things still are. I enjoy silly things like the Zakrello and the aquatic Zeon MSes but the G-Armor and its gimmick never did anything for me.
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 21:54 |
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Victory Gundam is unironically good
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 21:55 |
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...okay i clearly need to get back on the wagon so I can go and watch Victory
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 21:55 |
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Some day I will finish Victory maybe, but I made it about 30ish episodes in and just lost momentum.
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 21:56 |
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When you fall off the train of one of those 50ish episode behemoths it's real hard to get back on it
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 21:56 |
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Srice posted:When you fall off the train of one of those 50ish episode behemoths it's real hard to get back on it oh man can i relate i thought i was on like episode 40-something of ZZ but it turns out I was ten off, goddamn
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 22:03 |
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FWIW it took me about six months to get through Victory Gundam. In that same timeframe I moved halfway across the United States twice. It's by far the least interesting Gundam series imo. Maybe not the worst technically, but I'd say even Destiny manages to be more entertaining and interesting despite (Because of?) probably being the worse show.
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 22:05 |
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I like Victory, but it definitely has problems, especially in regards to women.
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 22:09 |
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Srice posted:Some day I will finish Victory maybe, but I made it about 30ish episodes in and just lost momentum. The ending has one of the best scenes in Gundam, IMO.
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 22:11 |
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I think the Victory Gundam Side Story manga is kind of cool though, where Usso meets old man Judau Ashta.
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 22:11 |
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Gyra_Solune posted:oh man can i relate ZZ also took me quite a bit of time to finish, maybe half a year if not more? I think if I started watching Gundam shows now instead of many years ago I'd have real trouble even finishing something like Zeta, there's just so many episodes.
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 22:19 |
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Victory is way too long for me, considering the content. I could go through a 26-episode series where everyone not named Usso or Shakti dies at some point, but 52 episodes is way too much for me.
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 22:20 |
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Everyone should stand up to the victory.
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 22:20 |
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Srice posted:ZZ also took me quite a bit of time to finish, maybe half a year if not more? I doubt I'll ever finish Zeta.
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 22:24 |
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everythingWasBees posted:I doubt I'll ever finish Zeta. You should. It's a good show.
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 22:26 |
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everythingWasBees posted:I doubt I'll ever finish Zeta. I can't blame you because in this day and age it's a real tough sell to say that you gotta slog through to get to the good parts
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 22:26 |
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Srice posted:I can't blame you because in this day and age it's a real tough sell to say that you gotta slog through to get to the good parts But the show is made of good parts
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 22:28 |
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The best Zeta episodes are the ones Imagawa did.
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 22:30 |
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Raxivace posted:The best Zeta episodes are the ones Imagawa did. This is not surprising in the least.
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 22:31 |
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People's attention spans are too short today, is the real problem. The shows are great, it's the viewers that are bad
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 22:31 |
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boom boom boom posted:But the show is made of good parts A lot of the skirmish of the week stuff gets repetitive for me. It caused me to bail on my rewatch awhile ago The good parts are still really good tho
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 22:32 |
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I always liked Zanscare as an enemy faction, since they were dealing with religion as a source of political legitimacy. It's been 100 years since Zeon Zum Daikun's prediction about Newtypes, why wouldn't some opportunist assholes exploit that for military and political gain? Zeon was always super secular and philosophical, but also had the fascist bent towards a metaphysical cult, Zanscare actually went whole hog with using a Newtype religion as a tool to control the masses. A very interesting, and natural, extension of the idea of Newtypes, but I also tend to really be interested in strange Sci-Fi religions like in Stranger in a Strange Land and Childhood's End anyway.
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 22:56 |
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Episode 8 was pretty tame, I suppose we needed an 'Amuro is leaving White Base' kind of episode. I don't know if we've got another confirmed kill this episode, but one of those grunts definitely didn't eject the cockpit this episode, so I'll just call it a kill. Anyway that's probably it for me today. Usso's confirmed Kill Count: 3
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# ? Oct 13, 2015 23:03 |
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i'm glad i watched Zeta for Four, Scirocco, and a bunch of the suits...but man that ending was really rough.
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