TopTierHealer
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Which is why I keep insisting that Chris is not an engineer. He has an engineering degree but his job is being an office drone.
First off, Bob, quit pretending you have any idea what "grok" means. You have never read Stranger in a Strange Land; hell, I have sincere doubts you've read any books in years, possibly not since the last time you had to read one for a book report. You're a faker geek than fake geek girls; at least they can be attractive.
Second, it really doesn't surprise me that G Gundam is the only Gundam he'd be interested in, or probably knows anything about. I'm currently watching both the original 1979 Gundam series and G Gundam, and I understand perfectly why people might not be keen on the latter.
I can't speak for much of the other Universal Century series (I only saw Unicorn while it was airing on Toonami years ago, which definitely left me confused at the time since I had no real context for the plot), but the original Gundam is a war series, picking up in the middle of a space war where half of humanity has already been killed. It wastes no time in impressing on you the harshness of the setting, and it shows the toll that the events are taking on the civilians thrust into the conflict, especially Amuro as he's forced to pilot the Gundam over and over again. It does a good job of keeping a serious tone and keeping you invested as the tension rises, more than I was initially expecting it to. There are certainly some goofy parts due to its age, but it's a well-crafted story.
G Gundam, on the other hand, is the polar opposite. It throws all the plot out the window and effectively becomes a Saturday morning cartoon, with hilariously evil villains, callouts for special attacks, and some of the goofiest mecha designs of any show (I still get a kick out of Neo Holland's Gundam that's literally a fucking windmill). The plot is paper-thin and generally just there to hurry the next mecha fight along; the characters have not too much depth to them, often to the point of stereotype; and the tone is consistently ridiculous.
That said, I absolutely love both series, because each one doesn't try to be anything it's not. I like that Gundam 1979 doesn't mince words when it comes to the horrors of war, and it does a good job of showing how these characters are trying to deal with their shit situation. Conversely, I love how over-the-top everything in G Gundam is, with every episode finding new ways to get even more ridiculous than the last, along with plenty of YELLING DIALOGUE. It's also even more funny to watch if you imagine that Domon is literally autistic (he sure doesn't seem interested in anything but fighting and he's completely oblivious to Rain's feelings for him).
And that said, I also get why people weren't a fan of it at the time, or even today. G Gundam came out after 15 years of various UC series and movies, and its major departure from the original series would certainly have been jarring at the time. People who were expecting more serious fare probably found it disappointing, and it's telling that (aside from the Gunpla series like Build Fighters) most of the series that followed went back to a more serious tone, to my knowledge. And of course, there's the fact that Sunrise is still producing UC content today, so they know what's popular with most people. G Gundam has its fans, but it's perfectly reasonable to me that a UC fan wouldn't necessarily enjoy it.
Bobby, in his endlessly simple way, just goes "DURR ROBOT HORSEY" and calls it a day. Fat fuck probably couldn't even get through one episode of any of the other series before falling asleep.
Off topic but I never got into Gundam as a whole and it's a 50 year old franchise at this point. I loved LOTGH and I wanted to get into Gundam. What's the watching/reading order you'd recommend?
