I've actually been digging the original Mobile Suit Gundam recently. Never really been the biggest giant robot fan, but this isn't the same kind of ridiculous, robot porn shows that generally turn me off. It's actually shaping up to be a rather good space opera. None of the characters are particularly engaging at the moment, and it's definitely taking its sweet time with the pacing, but it has a surprisingly mature take on warfare and its consequences that isn't nearly as tired and corny as a lot of the later series that just ran that concept into the ground. Looking forward to finishing this series and then going on to the second one, Zeta Gundam, which seems to be one of the gundam shows by which all other gundam shows are measured.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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