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what's up, gull and such here, recent "wait there's more than one of us" realizers. whoops!

still giant robot fans, still pmd: explorers enthusiasts. imagine we are wearing a big button that says "ask us about Void Stranger". you should play all the games we like right now. the media backlog continues to grow ever further, and finally fucking continuing Initial D slips further and further out of reach.....

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gull
@gull

watched the first nine episodes of gundam seed (hd remaster) with a friend who is very familiar with gundam seed

and i gotta say this is some of the most fucking fun i have EVER had watching a tv show. it's... intensely Mid-To-Alright so far just on its own but like. i was constantly pointing at the obvious divide in quality between "non-hd remaster stuff that was so blatantly upscaled it looks like it was uprezzed from 144p and smeared over with vaseline" and "non-hd remaster stuff that looks ffffine at least" and "stuff that's like blatantly hd remaster original", and also constantly laughing my ass off at plenty of the non-hd remaster visual goofiness. she was absolutely bringin' me along on the context ride and doing plenty of reminding me that the feddies fired the opening shots in this by LITERALLY FUCKING NUKING JUNIUS SEVEN. we were both absolutely on the edge of our seats keeping time between Kira (little fucking bitch boy) complaining about war and chomping at the bit to make a guy very dead. we both hooted and hollered whenever athrun or mu or rau were on screen we LOVE those guys.

it's so hard to believe that three years prior, they were busy giving the Gundam franchise of the 20th century a beautiful, thematically interesting, excellently realized capstone of a show, starring a funny little driver with no space magic put in the cockpit of an Actual God Machine That Would Kill On Its Own Recognizance If Given The Chance who can actually back up his nonviolent ideals with action to always subvert and de-escalate fights that end up pointed his way using all the mecha tools he has in really clever and interesting ways, all the way to the end...

and then GUNDAM SEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i'm loving this. this - watching SEED with my pal and thoroughly riffing upon it, not SEED itself - might be one of my new favorite Gundam experiences

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porglezomp
@porglezomp

I'm in SEED Destiny right now with two friends, and I think both of the SEED shows are the worst Gundam I've watched so far by a decent margin, but it's fun to hoot and holler at when it's stupid.

We watched most of the first episode in both HD remaster and the original and very firmly decided to switch back to the original largely because the number of shots that got horribly cropped to go from 4:3 to 16:9 was just awful. They really just mangle the composition of their show.

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gull
@gull

i actually kind of wanna keep watching the HD remaster for the mangling, honestly - i can TELL how much they ruined it with the crop, but we've kind of already locked in on this being a Riffing Experience and the hd remaster doing its 'High Definition Remastering' adds so much fuel to that fire. maybe someday i'll go back and watch the standard 4:3, give it a fairer shake in that aspect (not like i can't do it! i absolutely know how), but for now i think the HD Remaster has finally found its purpose on my screen

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porglezomp
@porglezomp

Yeah very fair! I'm watching it for the cultural experience of watching every gundam. The actual reason I personally wanted to do original is to match GGP, and also some of the small narrative changes they made in the remaster are wild.

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Toblo1
@Toblo1

Having grown up in the Internet era of "Gundam Seed and Destiny suck", it was kinda nutty going through both shows myself last year and going "Huh. Not exactly as bad as I expected it to be".

Positives: Mobile Suit designs (at least on average. Love the "Main" Gundams like Buster, Strike, Impulse and Destiny), OST, Openings/Endings, Mu La Flaga and Rau Le Creuset carried the show on their goddamn backs, (Hot take) i actually liked Shinn as a concept/character, some very Big Wipeouts for a Gundam Show of the time.

Negatives: Incredibly Unsubtle Writing, the Kira-Wank was not exaggerated (although I can't bring myself to 100% hate the guy even with the Remaster retconning that moment), teenage romantic melodrama out the wazoo and the less I say about Destiny's villains the better.

and yet weirdly enough I wouldn't put this on the podium of Bad Gundam Media despite how modern internet/Gundam Fandom gets about it. The Cosmic Era had enough good elements to it that it worth slogging through all the bad which is more than I could say for something like G-Savior or AGE.

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gull
@gull

my deep and terrible secret is that i'm actually a G-Saviour liker

more on topic though: nine episodes in i'm not getting the Complete Travesty some folks put it out there as off it, it really is mostly averaging out to Just Alright (aside from being so much fun to point at and hoot and holler about - so far Gundam SEED HD Remaster has been a HELL of a spectator sport!). rau really is fucking carrying (and i'm liking both athrun and mu so far), and the OP/EDs and MS design really do be going hard. i am certainly not going to be forgetting this at least

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Toblo1
@Toblo1

The design vibe I got from CE suits is very "Make Em Very Pointy" in energy.

Considering how much I love the jetpack modules many suits in this continuity get (Windhams, the Strike's Aile Pack, Duel Gundam's Assault Shroud, etc), it makes too much sense.

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