What do I mean by what?

Lame list. They put Heero on it instead of Duo? WTF? I usually love their lists as they are fun, but they have never gotten their Gundam lists right.

I saw that one and the one on the origin of Gundam. I can't believe Gundam is what initially spawned Hentai.

How the Origin alters UC continuity.


Wait what?

EDIT:

*Goes and watches the episode*

Holy shit I can't believe that Sayla shower scene spawned Hentai as we know it. And that MSG overall kind of created otaku culture.

Well the beginning of the episode has them fighting at the Battle of Solomon and the three Rick Dom dudes from the Battle of Odessa are alive and they kill General Revill. That doesn't make sense because:

1. General Revill died with Degwin when Gihren used the space beam cannon on their armadas.

2. The Rick Dom pilots died at the Battle of Odessa, which was well before the event in #1.


Also, Char was using the Gelgoog during the time when Dozzle was fighting at Solomon, but the battle at the beginning there has him in a Zaku.

I know, right?

That fight is not actually the Battle of Solomon. It's from a battle early in one the One Year War. It's the battle of Loum, where Zeon's Mobile suits completely domininate the federation and Char and the Tri-stars have risen to prominence. So it doesn't create an continuity errors there since all of this is way before all that.

With General Revill, Zeon only captures him for a bit. At least in the manga, I don't know about the anime, but that would be one hell of a continuity error if he died.

It shows him on the ship and then the Tri-Star dudes (I think that was just their dub name though) say, "That is Revill's ship" and blow it up.

Well, he got away in the manga. Maybe they'll show it in episode 4.

Also, good news! Episode 4 of the Origin will still be coming out this fall, and is focusing on the the end of Char's origin. The Zaku I stuff, finally circling back to the intial MS fight in episode 1, seeing the Rx-78 being developed. But there's going to be a Battle of Loum arc starting with episode 5.

I watched the second Origin episode tonight and it was a vast improvement over the first one except for one major plot hole, they messed up the ages of Char and Sayla. Sayla was 10 even though it takes place in 0071, which would make Char 14, when that is not possible. Char should only be 11 at that point and Sayla is 8. That is a major screw up, but then, there were a lot of errors in the subtitles, so maybe Sunrise's translators translated it incorrectly. That aside, this was really good. It was paced a lot better than the first episode and I loved all of the bits that featured Ramba Ral. Still wondering how Ramba is going to end up being loyal to Kycilia though. Anyway, the scene with the prototype Zakus was probably my favorite part.

On the other hand, I don't like that there is an actual Char Aznable. That just felt kind of forced and I already know where this road is going to lead to, so that kind of takes away from the fun. Regardless, I do look forward to the next episode.

When you first think about it, it's a really dumb plot convience. Oh, this Char guy just so happens to almost exactly look like Casval save for the eye color. But after thinking about it, I think it was nesscessary to explain Char's rise in the Zeon ranks. With all the different background checks that the Zeon military academy and the Zeon forces had to do to let him in, making up an indentity just wouldn't work as well.

Plus, it is also this really cool explanation as to why Char wears sunglasses suspiciously often. I think it was during the Garma arc in 0079 someone asked Char about his sunglasses and he says something to the extent of "It's a spacenoid thing." The hiding of his eye color explains that one line in a really cool way.

...You do know this is adapted from a manga right?

They aren't just now making this up.

The manga author did though.

Oh, another screw up is Amuro has a store bought Haro with him, but it was established right in the first episode of Gundam that he created Haro.

Powerman, your viewpoint does make sense and I did think about it, but it is still kind of just convenient and something that has been done to death a million times. We'll see how the show goes with that though. Hopefully they can find some interesting and new way to pull off the switcheroo.