After watching ep. 2 (Youtube still has it up.), they've made it painfully obvious of which series they're modelling the storyline after. Although this isnt exactly a bad thing for me, considering Wing still remains my favorite. However, the characters personalities are even modelled after those of the G-boys. Setsuna(Heero), Stratos (Bits of Duo and Wufei), Allelujah (Trowa) and Tiera (Remnants of Quatre). Even the mechs themselves have resemblents To Wing, Shenlong and Heavyarms. Union's Ace's appearance even seems cloned from the first episode appearance of Zechs Marquise in Wing. Another striking, if not annoying, resemblance is the Gundam's movements. The fights seem like something directly out of SRW or G-Gundam.. They just look incredibly impossible. Just an observation. One thing I can state from watching the first 2 episodes is that It manages to capture and keep my attention throughout the duration of the episode. Clone of Wing or not, I hope they maintain this ability throughout the series, where-as Seed and Destiny could not. Perhaps FMA's director is responsible for this.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: *More Spoilers* Episodes 1 and 2 was Re: [gundam] *SPOILERS!!!* Basic info on Episode 1Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:46:38 -0400 I'm sure Bandai has killed the YouTube version by now... While episode 1 was indeed largely a "show off the new Gundams" episode, we also got a teeny, tiny bit of background. Apparently even in the 25th century (is it just me, or has non-war related technology seemingly not advanced very far?) killing people in the Middle East because they don't believe what you do still hasn't gone out of fashion. The mobile suit being shown off at the demonstration violated some sort of agreement apparently by being more powerful than was allowed. While it's true that there are two Gundams that are largely gun platforms, it appears that one of them is more of a sniper suit, while the other is a heavy assault mobile suit that can take down heavily armored targets. The power plants in the torsos of the Gundams are apparently as much of a mystery to the world at large as they are to us. Episode 2 starts out with a little more background. Three major powers - Union in the Western Hemisphere; HRA in East Asia (including Russia); AEU in Europe. Japan is a "Special Economic Zone" in the Union, whatever that means. Ten years ago, the three powers apparently each finished work on an orbital elevator (one in each nation) that connects to a ring that goes around the world and provides solar power. The president of the Union mentions at one point that it's taken ten years to get things stablized, suggesting some sort of mass world-wide economic problems. The blond pilot who watched the Exia trash the mobile suit in the first episode turns out to be a Union ace (which I thought a bit odd, since he looked more like a European to me), and given his sudden obsession with Exia is probably either as evil as they come (which we'll learn eventually), or someone who will become a hero mid-series. Speaking of Exia, its pilot appears to be the new Heero, with all the emotional depth of Wing's famous character. I'm just waiting for him to threaten to kill some hapless female civilian who accidentally sees him wandering around... The intro shows him with a female (I don't recognize her, but what I watched didn't have good quality there) who I'm guessing will be the one who breaks him out of his emotional shell. >From what's been said, it looks as if Celestial Being's goal is to get >everyone so angry at CB that they quit fighting with each other in order to >ally against CB. I'm sure an alternate goal that has a slightly better odds >of protagonist survival will turn up mid-way through the series... Also... Tamilese and Sinhalese have been fighting over Sri Lanka using only mobile suits? They don't use infantry anymore? Despite the apparent absurdity of that theory, that must be the case since the Gundams stopped all of the day's fighting by blowing up all of the mobile suits (along with a base belonging to the HRA unit that wasn't really helping to stop the fighting as the HRA claimed it was)! /rolleyes I have to admit that I am curious as to how a guy from 200 years earlier is leading CB... Either he was put on ice, cloned, or they've decided to use a dead guy as their "spokesman". Will it get good? Dunno. But I'll stick around for a while. junior ---------[ Received Mail Content ]----------Subject : Re: *SPOILERS!!!* Basic info on Episode 1 was Re: [gundam] Gundam 00 TrailerDate : Sat, 13 Oct 2007 01:59:02 -0400From : "Dr. Core" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To : [EMAIL PROTECTED] that everyone has seen it on YouTube, what do you think? Good job with the fansub, BTW. Whoever deserves the credit... Oh ... yeah... a slight chance of spoiler in today's post, for those hypersensitive to spoilers. But then... if you don't want spoilers, just watch it on YouTube! Joseph Riggs wrote: > character seeing the mobile suit sounds as if it might actually be a neat little dangling plot hook, > although I don't think it occupies much of the time in the episode. Hmm that part before the OP plays? It's a little mysterious, but... ok I guess it portends a backstory arc of some sort... As hooks go, it's relatively weak. > From the sound of things, the first episode is the "blow stuff up and announce what the goal of > the 'good guy faction' is" episode. Since there's no official villain faction at this time (we don't AKA fan service. After seeing the episode myself, well... intellectually, it's as bad as the synopsis sounds, the characters are straight out of cookie-cutters, the dialogs are generic and the action scenes are style over substance. But the fan in me did get serviced. So I'd give it a few more episodes... after all, watching YouTube on Saturday mornings isn't exactly a chore. In terms of MS designs, the quartet seems a slightly uncomfortable mix. With Exia as melee/generalist, Kyrios as raider, Dynames as sniper, and Virtues as heavy gunner. Not a lot of difference between Dynames and Virtues' roles, but I guess having two gunners in a team of four is not unreasonable. > even know if any of the Earth groups are as bad as SEED's Atlantic Federation leadership), > that's pretty much the most that I'd really expect. Hmmm... the OP pretty much established CB as the protagonists. So the bad guys are whoever who "uses violences for their self-interest" etc... There is at least one dispassionate (?) observer amongst AEU's ranks. 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