They also consistently used footage of the normal Wing Gundam when they were talking about Wing Zero.
And footage of the Sword Impulse when they were talking about the Destiny.
And they called pronounced Qant[T] "quan tee"instead of "Quanta".

I'm getting technical I know, but the Turn X is the machine reverse engineered to create the Turn A Gundam. And if the reverse engineered machine is classified as a Gundam, I see no reason why the original can't be considered one. I've always referred to the X as a Gundam personally.

But I also agree that that article was mostly bullshit. It came off as a very uninformed, really casual discussion of the entire franchise.

if the GM can't be considered a gundam, then the Turn X shouldn't either.

That's apples to oranges dude.

The GM is the Mass production scaled back version of the Gundam in every way. It's just technologically inferior. RX-79 (G)'s, yes those are classified as Gundams. GM's aren't. The Turn A & X aren't mass production suits though. They're unique. Seeing as the two have always been officially labeled as brother units, why is it so out there to consider the X a Gundam?

Bit of a slower episode of IBO compared to previous weeks.

But it's good to see that Mika does at least have a softer side.

I liked Episode 4 of IBO, not as much as the others, but it's still good.There wasn't a single fight this episode, which is cool, you don't need a fight every episode. Next episode looks to be set in space, so the story is moving along a bit faster then what I was expecting. But the mention of having go through these Civilian backways to get to Earth is making me think we're gonna end up on some weird Axis like asteroid community at some point on the trip.

I think McGillis might become one of my favorite characters in IBO once we get on further. So far he's called out Coral, shown respect, and got a decent amount of info on Tekkadan. I'm not too keen on his subordinate yet, but next episode looks like it's gonna ramp it up.

Also, the Tekkadan boys talked about how they are going to use the Graze at some point. Maybe that shot of the guy in the intro who died in the last episode is just hiding someone else piloting the Graze. Also, shouldn't they have 2 Grazes?

Mmm...

Yeah, the pronunciation stuff got to me.

Not saying that's a bad thing, but having to go through everything and give recommendations on each kinda requires dedication to the series. As in, watching everything. Don't watch Victory Gundam because it's "disconnected from the rest of U.C.", don't watch it because the plot is a frigging mess.

I imagine they either sold the extra Graze or canabalized it for parts to repair Barbatos.

Oh god yes. That show is so broken in terms of story telling. It's just the weakest plot ever. Dry characters & non-existent plot coupled with more than a few unnecessary and weirdly unorthodox MS designs make Victory one of my least favorite series. Right down at the bottom with Reconguista & 0080.

Dedication on the writer's part, not the viewers. That's the whole point of "giving a recommendation". How do you know the person writing it hasn't gone through and watched everything?

Besides, the writer had to cover everything in what was most likely a pretty restricted word count. That can be really hard, especially when there's a lot to say about things. So to say something isn't worth watching because it's "disconnected" isn't necessarily wrong, it's an opinion - which is what the whole article is. Besides, arguing it on something that you agree isn't worth watching anyway seems kinda redundant.

You could ask everyone in this thread to write the same piece and they'd come up with different things. There's no right and wrong answers here and for the fandom to be apparently so up in arms is just sad. They should just be happy people are actually writing about it again.