Oh. My. God.

Has anybody here ever watched Turn A Gundam? I've just finished watching it, and personally I think it's the best Gundam series I've ever seen.

Just for clarification, I've seen Gundam Z, Gundam F91, Char's Counterattack, Gundam Victory, Gundam SEED, Gundam SEED DESTINY, and Turn-A Gundam.

Reason why I like it is, to put it simply: quite good character development. and overall quite consistent plot.

I say quite good, because I personally thought there were some inconsistencies with Corin here and there. But if f***uda wants to learn about developing a large number of characters at the same time, then he should be tied in a chair and forced to watch Turn-A. Yep, remember how messy/non-existent character development was in GSD due to too many characters popping out here and there? Well, eventhough Turn-A had quite a no. of characters to develop, I'd say Tomino did it superbly well. (Probably because we don't have overextended sulking scenes or an obscene amount of flashbacks )

And the plot. Although I thought Turn-A was character driven (I thought Gundam Z was more plot driven), it doesn't mean it suffers in the plot. On the contrary, you feel relaxed and tense at the same time. There is a war going on, but it does not involve the whole world/federation/whatever. But when the battles do begin, every scene is worth watching. No reuse scenes; amazed at how the "camera" is panned during the battles; and the skirmishes are brief, not long drawn out like some dragonball fight. Esp. when it came down to the last 2 episodes, everything was like racing at the speed of a bullet. Although there was no big ass cannon to destroy, everything was moving so fast that my eyes couldn't leave the CRT monitor.

And best of all, the remaining half of the last episode is used to conclude the roles of all the characters. No abrupt ending like what I've seen in GS, GSD, or Gundam Z.

At the end of the day, still one of the best I've seen. Don't let the mustached mobile suit Turn-U away from the series. Although the first... 20 eppies might be a bit slow, it's very crucial to character development, making the characters alive, so that you can feel for them as the series progresses towards its finale in Eppy 50.

Phew. Another Long review.

I got it from Hero Legends fansub. They have a complette 1-50 torrent, and they also have torrents that are arranged in 5 eps (1-5, 6-10...). I used the latter torrents. Just google for hero legends and you'll be able to find them.

Basically I use WMP, but I have Core Media, VLC, Kazaa Lite, Matroska Pack installed.

Wufei, what exactly did you think was lame about the plot after the switching side thing? Oh, and how all the guns that Turn-A discovered crumbled into dust, that was damn funny. haha.

Infested, try to be patient la. At least better than watching Athrun go "grrrrrr ughhhhh arghhh* and then *faints*

wufei: haha. i got that a little too. I was like thirsting for more Turn-A fights, especially with how well the fights were choreographed. But maybe i didn't mind the slightly slow pacing... so I could afford to wait heh. But... I think after sometime I didn't care bout them switching back to their original places coz it was like towards eppy 40+ everybody (viewers and characters alike) was still confused who was the real Dianna. And only by then did they return to their true places.

infested, I didn't like GSD very much too. I personally thought it was still okayyyyy (very forced okay) until eppy 42/43. But after that... Well, let's not go there. It's been discussed to death.

I'm planning to watch the 08th MS Team too. Heard it's another one of those damn sad Gundam shows. I simply love sad Gundam shows. One of the reasons why I loved Gundam Victory and Gundam Zeta so much.

Downloading the 12 ep series now, though boxtorrent classifies it an OVA. Didn't know there was a movie thing. Is it like a compilation of the 12 episodes?

Eh eh long time never came. Anyway to answer wufei's question, why the Turn-A Gundam cockpit sit at the kuku there.... coz COCK pit mar... that's why its at the cock there la. Jeez, I hope this doesn't qualify as vulgar language. It's a literal explanation of the matter after all.

This post has been edited by Shogun: Dec 8 2005, 02:18 AM