[badlander86]

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Originally Posted by Den-O

Sorry it's just that movie copped out so hard on any actual plot. Oh there're aliens! They want to assimilate Earth. Setsuna, travel to their homeworld blah blah blah friendship. Giant flower floating in space? Yup that happened. Pointless 50 years later epilogue is also pointless.

I love OO the series. I thought season 1 was great and season 2 was fantastic. But the movie was really unnecessary. Which makes me really sad because I was incredibly pumped for it at the time

Wasn't the actual plot of season 2 about Aeolia's real mission to prepare mankind for its ascension and the "dialogues to come" and wasn't the movie pretty much an example of this .

When mankind faces a species that cannot communicate by normal means? It's admittedly a Trekkie/Dr.Who type scenario which would have been better accepted in other types of Sci-fi but you know....gimme big robots beating on big robots is all the sci-fi people expect from a Gundam movie. I get that, its really how different people accept what is permissible in their favorite genre. What I say probably won't change anyone's minds about the movie but it really sucks that there are most viewers that will dismiss the entire OO saga as a waste of time just because they didn't like the movie because 'hurr ALIENS?!' in their Gundam.

For one thing I think OO finally gave their "psychics" the Innovators an actual purpose other than just these guys who are seemingly gifted with pseudo-Force type powers that gives them an edge in Mobile Suit combat. Which is to say if people can accepted concepts like Newtypes, X-Rounders, Coordinators (though to be honest I really don't remember if those guys were any different from reg humans) and other supposedly evolve humans in Gundam fiction, extraterrestrial life should not be so much of a stretch.