Were it up to me, I would have done 08th MS Team like this; Sanders and Karen would both be Junior Officers, with Karen probably being an O2 to show her veteran pilot status off a little more. Eledore and Michel would retain their enlisted ranks and continue to provide team support (Sunrise got this bit correct). But, there would be a new character filling the role of "Commander" probably an O4 Lieutenant Commander. He wouldn't pilot a Mobile Suit, he would be in the Command Vehicle with Michel and Eledore directing the battles and providing oversight. This would allow Shiro to come in and still be the hotheaded new guy that Karen needs to reign in, but without shoehorning him into a leadership role. Hell, there could be an episode or two where The Commander hops in a Mobile Suit and blows people away with how experienced he is, which he would be considering he's a more senior Officer and was good enough to survive to that point. Could even have The Commander fight the Zeon Ace, instead of Shiro just getting lucky, to really show off The Commander's skill set.
So I found this little easter egg in 08th MS Team. It's the boot up check list for the Apsalus. Apparently Mobile Suits run on DirectX Software Development Kit and a bunch of 20th century GPU's and CPU's.
"Welcome to Windows for Warships Setup. To set up Windows now, insert disk 1 of 1,512,965 and press ENTER."
nah they'd have just wheeled in a big ass server with it preloaded and transferred it over 35 seperate SCSI connections.
Imagine the techs having to spend a whole day just uploading software to a mobile suit. At least the UC ones. Cosmic era (Seed) and the one in gundam wing (at least the gundams) can be updated in the mobile suit.
we spend about 2-3 hours uploading patch to a giant dishwasher, it's not terribly difficult to imagine ^.^
It's been bugging me the last week. I was wondering why the RX-178 gundam mk II was the mk II when chronologically it is probably 3rd or 4th generation. And it is probably because war in the pocket and stardust memory (the actual animes) came out years later after zeta did. War in the pocket released in 1989 about 4 years after zeta. Stardust memory in 91. So I would 1st generation gundams are all of the rx-78s (8?), the 78-nt-1 from war in the pocket, the rx-79 ground gundams in 8th ms team and the ones in thunderbolt. 2nd generation the GP0 series from stardust memory.
This puts a whole new level to the question 'holy fuck what the hell is wrong with people?' I mean, how perverse do you have to be to spring that kind of joke on an 11 year old? Who, probably won't get it for a while anyway. But of course it's even worse, because they chose to imply through artistic license that they did, or would do, exactly this. As a joke. *Grumble grumble* I can think of worse things but I'm pretty sure they'd have to go in the taboo channel
Watchin' Justice League Action and I'm really enjoying it. It's funny without being overly cartoonish--reminds me a lot of the old Teen Titans cartoon. The action's pretty on par with the previous Justice League cartoon and JLU. Gilbert Gottfried's Mister Mxyzptlk is a treat as always, not to mention any show with Plastic Man in it is a win in my book.
They teased at the end of TTGo movie that the old Teen Titans may be making a comeback soon. I would excite.
Something about transformers and every battle dissolving into a fist fight even though everyone has or is a gun.
Yeah but I would totally punch shit if I were a giant robot, because nobody could stop me (except another giant robot, which is the ideal thing for me to punch anyway.) If I could fly I would not forget about that, because being able to fly would be boss as fuck.
