[Orange Ranger]

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Originally Posted by Locke

I've had no internet all day, so after spending a lot of time sleeping and working on my garden, I made this mega post of my watching.

G-Gundam 07 - Despite being maybe the most racist episode yet, it had some great character focus and some really enjoyable character focus as well. It's largely an of the week style show, but it doesn't just cocktease at wider things in play, it realises them.

The only real issue I had is why doesn't Domon...just ask Chico? I can understand why he needs to fight, if that is his only way to communicate with the pilots but here he has about ten billion oppurtunities to just take the photo out, ask and leave but just doesn't, causing all manner of chaos and problems because of it. What a shit hero.

Also of course, the Tequila Gundam has a cool design, so it does one pose (not even an
attack, just a pose) and is destroyed. This was quite possibly the worst battle in the entire series so far, I hope to Christ we never get a battle as shit as this ever again.

I feel like I have no investment in this show at all, because Domon is a horrible person and his powers are so hax I have to kind of argue the show with myself and go 'oh yeah well he might have lost there', it's just boring. Maybe it isn't as 'heroic' but I love seeing my heroes struggle, being on the left foot and having to pull out all the stops to win.

There ain't no problem in G-Gundam that can't be solved by the Shining Finger, it seems, which functions more as a weak plot device than an actual attack. Tekka is just as bad, in the opposite direction, making up random rules and drama as it goes along to create completely false tension in all its battles.

I will say that the first batch of G-Gundam episodes are mostly formulaic. It doesn't really get going until episode 12.