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Gundam: War in the Pocket episode 3

I switched over to the English dub. It's not half bad. Al doesn't annoy me anymore. But I swear that Spanish guy sounds like Tommy Wiseau.

Hey! The Federation is cheating! They have technology from Zeta and ZZ in 0079.

The first look at Gundam Alex and....eh?

Episode 4

Its all Al's fault.

I see you stole the ZZ's armor, Alex.

CAST OFF! CHANGE GUNDAM!

Finally, some fight scenes worth a damn. Alex is badass. But considering it'll be destroyed by the end of the show, I need another amazing fight scene from it to redeem the series for me.

Episode 5

What? Actual stakes in War in the Pocket? What madness is this?

Episode 6

Actually, this episode was pretty good. Bernie's death message was really heartfelt and Al at the end crying really showed how much he changed.

But my question was, did Bernie destroy the Alex? He cut off its head and arm, but I don't know if that counts as full on destruction considering Amuro had the Rx-78 in worse shape in the final fight against Char in MSG and it still worked.

Overall, 0080 is...okay. I don't know why this was a six episode OVA, they could have easily cut out a lot of the repetitive emphasis on Al having bad grades or his friends peer pressuring him. If this was a 90 minute movie, it'd better fit. The two stand out characters of this show are Bernie and Christina Mackenzie but even they, compared to the amount of focus Al got, don't do a whole lot. The final episode is good but the first few could have easily been combined into one.

The most interesting thing about 0080 is the Alex itself. Sure, its just a Gundam for the sake of having a Gundam there in a Gundam series, but it being made for Newtypes and it was supposed to go to Amuro is an interesting premise in itself. This Gundam could have changed the entire Zeon conflict for decades to come and forever change Newtype history. If Amuro had this Gundam, he might have killed Char, which would affect stuff like Zeta Gundam, ZZ and hell, the second Neo-Zeon war wouldn't even happen and Full Frontal might not have even existed in Unicorn oe even in the same way, or Unicorn would have never happened at all . I think an alternate history movie or OVA series with that premise would have been much more interesting then this.

Honestly, you might as well should just go online, order an HG Gundam Alex kit and build it, paint it and display it on your self, because you're going to get a better experience doing that.

Also, not to be a nitpicker, but wasn't 0079 supposed to essentially be the late 70's aesthetic/fashion set in space? This looks more like the 80s, which is inaccurate to everything in MSG. If, you're gonna go back to that era, be correct about it.