Gundam, but with like planes instead 10/25, I promise
I have a friend who's recently started watching Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans. He says he's been enjoying it, but as long as I've known him, he's had a problem with the Gundam franchise which, from what I can tell, is not altogether uncommon: he has a hard time suspending his disbelief in the viability of mobile suits. While this is not a problem I generally have, I can definitely see where he, and people like him, are coming from as I have definitely have experienced this to some degree when watching 08th MS Team. I think that's interesting, considering that's many people's favorite series, often lauded as being the most realistic, since it follows a normal military regiment as opposed to a Newtype main character and his (always his, but that's a topic for another time) supporting cast.
This would be fine and could indeed be a very interesting idea if it wasn't so heavily predicated on guerilla warfare with 60 foot humanoid space tanks. For some reason, while I have no problem watching squads of mobile suits being sort of sneaky in space or fighting each other directly on the ground, I do take issue with gigantic mechs trying to outsneak each other through a Southeast Asian jungle and not expecting their giant footsteps and constant tree knocking to alert everything in a five mile radius.
To the show's credit, that stops being the focus about halfway through the 12-episode (episode 13 is dumb and pointless, fight me) runtime and the Gouf fight is a particularly good time. I'm mostly just trying to say I understand how the idea of mobile suits might push someone's suspension of disbelief.
Having been watching quite a bit of Gundam, especially over the last year or so, I've noticed that the Gundams and other mobile suits could probably all be replaced with more traditional machines like tanks and planes with almost no impact on the actual stories of the shows. However, despite what I said before about some people like my friend having trouble enjoying the franchise because they have a hard time believing the machines, for a lot of other people like myself, they act as a huge draw. Separately, I've wondered if this is partially because the humanoid form is easier to identify with (i.e. it's easier for me to understand exactly what kind of trouble someone would be in if their arm or leg was damaged as opposed to, say, the wing of a starfighter) and can be more impactful more easily.
All of this, of course, is not to mention the fact that, at this point, the shows and movies are essentially a giant advertising campaign for Gunpla, especially the Build series which focuses directly on Gunpla itself.
In any case, I'm curious what kind of audience a show with the exact same script as Mobile Suit Gundam, but with different, more reasonable mechanical designs might attract.
This morning, I weighed 181.4 lbs
Yesterday, I ate:
On a tangentially related note, I've come to the conclusion that Unicorn Gundam is one of my favorite mobile suit designs, partially because I genuinely quite like its design in unicorn mode with its minimal color pallete, but also because within seconds, it can explode into one of the most obnoxiously overdesigned mobile suits in the franchise, possibly only surpassed by its successors, the Banshee Norn the Phenex (I promise I spelled that correctly) If Unicorn Gundam is rock and roll, Banshee Norn is heavy metal and Phenex (really, that's how they spelled it) is glam.
Take it easy!
This would be fine and could indeed be a very interesting idea if it wasn't so heavily predicated on guerilla warfare with 60 foot humanoid space tanks. For some reason, while I have no problem watching squads of mobile suits being sort of sneaky in space or fighting each other directly on the ground, I do take issue with gigantic mechs trying to outsneak each other through a Southeast Asian jungle and not expecting their giant footsteps and constant tree knocking to alert everything in a five mile radius.
To the show's credit, that stops being the focus about halfway through the 12-episode (episode 13 is dumb and pointless, fight me) runtime and the Gouf fight is a particularly good time. I'm mostly just trying to say I understand how the idea of mobile suits might push someone's suspension of disbelief.
Having been watching quite a bit of Gundam, especially over the last year or so, I've noticed that the Gundams and other mobile suits could probably all be replaced with more traditional machines like tanks and planes with almost no impact on the actual stories of the shows. However, despite what I said before about some people like my friend having trouble enjoying the franchise because they have a hard time believing the machines, for a lot of other people like myself, they act as a huge draw. Separately, I've wondered if this is partially because the humanoid form is easier to identify with (i.e. it's easier for me to understand exactly what kind of trouble someone would be in if their arm or leg was damaged as opposed to, say, the wing of a starfighter) and can be more impactful more easily.
All of this, of course, is not to mention the fact that, at this point, the shows and movies are essentially a giant advertising campaign for Gunpla, especially the Build series which focuses directly on Gunpla itself.
In any case, I'm curious what kind of audience a show with the exact same script as Mobile Suit Gundam, but with different, more reasonable mechanical designs might attract.
This morning, I weighed 181.4 lbs
Yesterday, I ate:
~ Two eggs
~ Pasta
~ Carrots w/ peanut butter
~ Two potato grillers
~ A cheesy bean and rice burrito
~ A bowl of kix
~ Half a bowl of cinnamon toast crunch
On a tangentially related note, I've come to the conclusion that Unicorn Gundam is one of my favorite mobile suit designs, partially because I genuinely quite like its design in unicorn mode with its minimal color pallete, but also because within seconds, it can explode into one of the most obnoxiously overdesigned mobile suits in the franchise, possibly only surpassed by its successors, the Banshee Norn the Phenex (I promise I spelled that correctly) If Unicorn Gundam is rock and roll, Banshee Norn is heavy metal and Phenex (really, that's how they spelled it) is glam.
Take it easy!
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