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    Backing information?

    Lets see here, shall we?

    Watched the entire series: 5 times.

    ...In Japanese: one time

    Watched Endless Waltz: 2 times.

    ...In Japanese: 3 times.

    Read the manga: at least 4 times.

    Read the offical dounjinshi: more times that I remember.

    Owned and operated a full Gundam Wing fansite: 7 years in October.

    Had this discussion with Strider: what 3 or 4 times now? *and we're always coming up with something new to throw at each other ^_^;*

    I have plenty of backing to be discussing this anime. I don't know everything about it, no one but the creators do, but I've seen this from many angles and defeded it many times. It's not like the UC series, anyone agrees with that. No, I'm not qualified to compare it to any other Gundam series (except maybe GX). That's not what I'm trying to do. I'm always happy to clear up misconceptions or defend certian characters in this show, and belive me, I can pull backing out if you really want it. I'm not just getting this opinion from some unsavory part of my anatomy. I've actually sat down and seriously disccused this with people in r/l as well as online, so I have my own opinions formed from my own little twisted brain. You may not feel 'obligated' to give your reasons to someone that's watched as much Gundam as Strider has, but how about me? I'm curious. Why is Treize your favorite character? Can you give me good, solid reasons? Was it his outfit, his voice, his attitude, what? If you want a good conversation about anything, you need details!

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    *bows to Strider* I know you and I don't agree on a lot, but at least we respect each other, which is good. Makes conversations fun. *EG* And I must admit, you've made me curious about UC Gundam. If I could find it again, I may give it another shot. Then at least I can compare. *G*

    It's not just the current generation of Gundam fans that think like that, though. A lot of younger people make up their minds basied on the eye candy and what other people think and don't really take the time to go out and figure it out themselves. But then, we did that at one point in our lives. *shrugs* *feels really old now* >< And I think a lot of Gundam discussions have been derailed by us. ^_^;; Ah well, at least we're trying to keep good discussion alive!

    And yes, Mythbusters ftw, but that should be another topic. ^_^

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    I don't watch shows that are just eye candy (although, it doesn't hurt *wink*). And I do like explosions (which is one reason I watch Mythbusters *L*). I don't care if it doesn't have explosions or great mecha as long as I like the characters and feel like they're real people. GW has that, which is why I like it. If I can't get into the characters early on in a series, I just don't care what happens to them. That was my problem with the original show. I just couldn't get into the characters at all. I dunno, maybe I should go back and try again. *shrugs*

    And GW really is an eye candy series. I'm not denying that at all! ^_^; But there's a lot more to it than that, and it always bugs me when people just dismiss it because of the eye candy. (That's not directed at you, Strider, just in general. ^_^) I think a lot of people, espically younger people, gravitate towards the eye candy and don't really pay attention to what else goes on. There's probally lots of reasons for that, but I think that's one of the main reasons why GW is so popular here in the US. (see, I got back on topic! :meh:)

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    Quatre only destroyed Sandrock because he was out of power, out of ammo, and wanted to provide a diversion so Duo could get into space. Shenlong was destroyed by Wufei later on in space (when it was in the same condition). Deathscythe was destroyed in space as well. Trowa blew it up. Duo had been captured because he couldn't fight with it anymore as it was out of power of basicly everything on it was broken. Yes, Heero self-destructed, and he's the only one to do so when his Gundam was still in good working order. Tallgeese was also run until it broke by Zechs. These guys are really hard on Gundams.

    Another thing you gotta remember, the timeline for this story is about one year. The Gundam pilots didn't just start piloting at the beginning or shortly before. They've had years of seriously intense training on how to fight with a MS. Yeah, they kick the crap out of the Leos (which isn't really that hard) with their Gundams, but they do just as well with any other MS they use. They're all exceptional pilots, and you give an exceptional pilot and exceptional weapon to pilot, of course they're going be good.

    I'm not debating about other Gundam series. The only other one that I saw all of was Gundam X (which I did enjoy). I tried watching the original, but I just couldn't get into it. *shrugs* I can't compaire other series, so I can't say if I believe you're right or wrong about the MS in those. This is just what I got out of GW. ^_^

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    OK, again I find I have to post this: the GW gundams were not so over-powered as everyone seems to think. It's just that a majority of the Leos and other MS they had to fight were crap. Serious crap. Put Heero and ZERO against Gerod and GX, and you'd have a damn good fight on your hands. Every single gundam in GW got destroyed at least once, except for Heavyarms and that's only because it was hidden for a large part of the show. Besides, how can you have a hit show when the main characters are constantly being beat by the bad guys?

    *ahem*

    *gets off soap box*

    And yes, Relena is annoying in the anime. She's a lot more bearable in the manga. I hated her until I saw EW. Then I read the manga. She's not my favorite character by any means, but she's not as bad as the anime made her out to be.

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    You're forgetting one key element: Cartoon Network. GW is the first gundam series aired on Cartoon Network. Up until then, anime was mostly a subculture over here. You had your choice of crappy-dub Sailor Moon (the original is actually pretty good), Ronin Warriors (which is still one of my favorites), or Pokemon. Well, Fox did play Escaflowne, but they didn't do a good job of the dub and it didn't go over well. I don't consider Power Rangers in this catagory. >< Then CN comes along, gets ahold of GW, and pimp the living hell out of it. They put it on right after school, so a lot of kids can rush home and watch. And an instant fangirl-base was born.

    Personal, I love GW. The story is a lot deeper than people realize, but then, I've also read all the manga for it. That does help. (yes, Strider, pacifisim is a dream, but Relena is increadibly naieve). And yeah, you have to watch the whole thing. I didn't get it all when I first watched it. Most of what I got the first time I saw it was pretty characters and explosions. A lot of the political stuff went over my head. I've watched it several times since then, read essays and manga and discussed it a lot, and I enjoy it more now than I did. I'm not saying it's for everyone, and I'm not saying it's the best anime around, but there's a lot more to the series than it looks when you first see it.

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    i say that because i hardly ever get comments on my stuff, yet people will post 5 line poems that get two or three pages.....yet, when i posted my poems (and some really funny ones from classmates) i got one comment....*grumblebitchmoan*...

    *ahem*

    sorry....anyways, thanks all....

    Cabbit: bascilly, just about every guy that plays FFXI because they have catgirls.....and all the guys love them a cute catgirl....but Elvaan are smexy too, dammit!....*LOL*....

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    Hollywood always changes stuff. I did enjoy it, personally.

    And Dan Brown didn't say it was all fact. He fully admited it was just a good fiction story. Some people believe about the Priory of Scion being real and he really just expanded on that. I don't know if he personally believes in all of it, but he said in an interview on A&E that it was just a story. He was proud of being able to write a story that was capable of generating good discussion, but the book is fiction.

    As for me personally, you'll have to give me good, solid proof before I'll belive that Mary was Jesus's wife and had his daughter. Now, I'll credit you the theory that she was one of his disciples, maybe his top one, and the Church kinda buried that because she was a woman. Knowing what I know about Church history and medeval history, that is completly plausable to me. But that they were married? Na, I just don't see that.

    Slightly unrelated note, but we had lots of protests outside the theatre in town about how everyone's going to hell. One of the trailers played before DaVinci Code was for The Omen, a movie about the anti-christ. *LMAO*

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    Ok. I know people here have seen it. Thought some might like to discuss it. Please remember, flames are bad. Unless it's a bonfire. With marshmellows. *mmmmm*

    *ahem*

    Anyways, I saw it this weekend, and I enjoyed it. I thought it was a very good story. I don't really think it was anything more than that, either. I've watched all the A&E documentarys and stuff on (and there's been a lot), and for all the theories and speculation and interpretations that people have, they're missing one key thing: proof. It's just a 'plausable theory'. So, no, I personally don't believe there is a code or that Jesus had a daughter. But I am interested in what those of you that saw it (or read it) think of the issue. Or heck, what you thought of the movie. For me, that's all it was. Good acting, good story, CRAPPY filming (yeah guys, take a hint...people do get motion sickness when you film the action scenes inside the action...it was like some dad or something was filming it with a really good quality camera). Anyhoo, that's my two cents on the matter.

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    Yes, I have fallen victum to that plague of teenage angst. XP Seriously, though, I was cleaning out my shelves, and ran across some oldies from high school. Goofy, yes, but not all that bad. I just had the insaine urge to share it. Man, I found so much great stuff! ^_^;;

    --

    You are my heart

    my world

    I would givem y life for you

    But you don't see

    what you mean to me

    You look the other way

    You're my best friend

    but I wish it were more

    I want to be near you

    to touch you

    to hold you

    be your shoulder to cry on

    and the one you laugh with

    Your partner every step of the way

    with you...

    ---

    Road Trip

    Sitting here

    Standing there

    Bored out of my mind

    I wish I were out of here

    So I drive

    through the hills

    for the rest of my life

    just driving

    Uptown

    Downtown

    Watching the buildings go by

    Over river

    Under tree

    Seeing the cows by twos and threes

    All in good company while we're driving

    on a road trip

    through the valleys of life

    Seeing the years fall past

    people coming and go

    Laughing and losing

    Just driving

    --

    Is it real?

    or just in my mind?

    Can I see?

    or am I blind?

    What did he just say?

    --

    I sit here in band

    listening to the light notes

    floating gently by.

    -------

    And now, for some fun, some poems that me and my classmates wrote back in third grade. Some of these are hilarious!

    --

    first, a few of mine:

    I wish I could be as

    High as the birds

    And as free as the wind.

    Martian Landing

    There was once a martian

    His name was Lancing.

    One day, he came down

    To earth and picke

    Me up and off we went!

    I never expected a martian to come

    And show me the universe,

    But it happened.

    Blue is like

    A clam ocean

    climbing softly

    On the beach.

    --

    and some of my favorites from my classmates.

    Space Lies

    I can jump to Pluto,

    Venus,

    Jupiter,

    And when I went to Mars I got some candy bars.

    I jumped all the way to Mercury

    And then I tried the sun

    But it didn't work so well

    It burned my bottom so bad

    I blasted right back to Earth.

    WEIRDOS ARE MEANT TO BE WEIRD

    Weirdos are a special kind of nerdy

    Elephants.

    In the old days if you were

    Really weird you would be a

    Disgrace. No you can be an

    Omnipotent weirdo like

    Steve Martian.

    Are you a weirdo? I think I'm a

    Really wearid weirdo.

    Even my dog is one.

    My weird talents don't have any

    Effect on my life. I think I'm an

    Anteater.

    Nobody knows what a weirdo is except

    The weirdo.

    The weirdo's life is not always an

    Orange peel dump.

    Being a weird never stops in your

    Everlasting life.

    Weirdos -

    Everybody likes them - a little.

    I don't understand my weird self.

    Real people are weirdos too.

    Don't ask me about weirdos, I'm a weirdo myself.

    My Life as Food

    I used to be a peanut,

    But now I'm peanut butter.

    I used to be wheat germ,

    But now I'm cream of wheat.

    I used to be dinner,

    But now I'm in the litter box.

    I'm Disappointed in Life

    Life is stupid

    You have ot go to school

    And you have to do housework

    You even have to get married -

    But the worst is kids.

    First Place Adventure

    I went to a native territory

    In Africa one day.

    I saw bushes, trees, and

    Animals. Say,

    I saw Ms. Jesser in a pot

    Being cooked by natives, you see,

    They were singin'

    The tribe song, "Guitarzan".

    Right under her,

    I saw dinosaur bones

    "Biggin's" they call 'em.

    They were worth a lot, no doubt.

    I saved Ms. Jesser and stole

    The bones and flew back to the states.

    I won the Nobel Prize for science

    To my surprise, and now,

    I live in royalty.

    YELLOW

    Yawning in the clear blue sky

    Every evening it falls out of the heavens

    Like a shooting star

    Losing sight of the precious color.

    Open up your

    Window and take in its beauty.

    (some limricks!)

    There once was a worm named Sammy.

    Who was unmistakeably clammy.

    He fell in the lake

    And said, "Goodness sake!

    I think I forgot how to swammy!"

    There once was an old man from Spain

    Who thought he was going insane.

    He got his kicks

    By playing with sticks

    And sticking htem into his brain.

    There once was a very strange man

    Who threw himself into a pan.

    He fried himself up

    And was served in a cup

    For he was a very strange man.

    There once was a girl from FreeFromm

    Who asked, "Can I go to the prom?"

    And when she got there

    She danced off her hair

    And went running home to her mom.

    one of mine, i could resist!

    (and some odd ones...it was basicly one line, and then the second line is almost a rimshot...that's the best i can describe it)

    I like your new mini, it's really a find,

    (Actually, the skirt is showing your behind.)

    My cats love to sit in freashly cleaned chairs,

    (But when they get up they leave all their hairs.)

    In winter it always snows snowflakes,

    (In summer I think it should pink pink rakes.)

    -------------

    There you have it, a dreaded look into my past. If you're traumitzed, please send all complaints to someone else because I will just laugh. Meh. :meh:

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    it's not really basied on any of the games.....it has a lot of elements from the first two, i heard, but the storyline isn't really any of the game storylines....

    and it's very rare for a movie to creep me out....this was just one of them.....

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    Went to see that one yesterday. Now, I've not played much of the games, just enough to kinda see around the town. So I wasn't sure what to expect. What I got was scenes of running around followed by scenes of terror. Seriously. I had trouble falling asleep last night. I can't really compare it to the games, but I enjoyed it. I had a tension headach afterwards because I was sitting there really tense during the 'air siren' scenes. Basicly, that's when all hell breaks loose. The zombies were really well done, and the first ones she encounters were the creepiest. Very odd ending, too, I'm really expecting a sequal. Not that it'll be very good, but the way it ends you know they'll have to continue it.

    Anyhoo, very graphic is places, very scary in places, EXCELLENT sound and music, and I much enjoyed it.

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