I watched Zeta last summer and thought it was great, especially since I was expecting it to be overrated.

I got Zeta from the library, and didn’t want to spend 100 dollars on ZZ blu rays, so this is an exciting development. I know I’ve heard mixed things, but I like Tomino, and I like weird stuff, and I like weird…

I was hoping someone would post it. At this point I prefer several Gundam shows/movies to 08th, but that fight is one of the best.

I am currently reading it from my library. I think I’m in volume 6 or so. Honestly making Duo the defacto protagonist is already a big improvement.

I remember watching it back before Adult Swim had the black screens. The bumpers were footage from an actual pool and I watched it alongside shows like Aqua Teen Hunger Force and the Brak Show.

The Cullen promos are all excellent. I occasionally still rewatch the promo for 08th MS Team.

I didn’t want to be pedantic in my post, but I was hoping someone could explain this to me. I loved shows like Cowboy Bebop and Fullmetal Alchemist, but weren’t they Adult Swim shows?

While a lot of these shows hold a place in my heart, some that meant the most to me don’t hold up. Gundam Wing was a show I thought was brilliant at 15 and recognize as an adult was bonkers and not as deep or complex as it was clearly trying to be. Heck, it’s the inspiration for one of my proudest io9 comments I’ve…

James, I am appreciating the increased Gundam posting, especially since your article about getting into models was one of many pandemic pushes of me back into Gunpla.

I don’t remember and I texted my mom and she doesn’t either. She said he either asked if I knew it wasn’t real or he played along with it - so complete opposite possibilities.

My mom likes to tell the story of when she took me to a convention in 1996, and the late Jeremy Bulloch was there with Kenny Baker, David Prowse, and Peter Mayhew. I was really excited, because Boba Fett was this sixth grader’s favorite character.

I think the best version of this kind of Superman that hasn’t been topped since is the Justice Lords version from the DCAU. A lot of it comes down to the respect the writers have for both the concept and their audience.

That’s exciting! I had a dream but never a means back in high school of building a Mobile Suit to scale with the minifigures.

And Orko (the outstanding Griffin Newman)—who basically gets resurrected as Orko the White—is a total badass, leaving me still utterly bewildered that my least favorite He-Man character is now favorite.

I really thought I had outgrown and moved past Gundam before the pandemic. After James’ article about Gunpla, I dove back in and have built several kits and watched series new to me that I hadn’t watched before that I now love. I got Zeta from the local library, I watched and love F91, and Turn A Gundam might be one…

I’ve enjoyed Lower Decks a lot. If you took out the jokes it seems like it would be a pretty typical Trek show. Honestly even if I didn’t like it I’d just be pumped that a Star Trek show canonized and portrayed Cetacean Ops. 

Is Discovery S3 worth finishing? I stopped after the first parter of the Georgiou redemption episode because I really don’t like her or the Mirror Universe, and read spoilers for the next episode. So, spoilers I guess:
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Honestly the cause of the Burn didn’t bother me too much, but it really bugs me that the…

I saw it on mute with subtitles and still gasped.

Give him enough time and he’ll become a Spidey himself.

I’ve been watching and rewatching various Gundam series lately, and I have to say, I don’t think Wing really holds up (there’s charm in how self-serious and over-dramatic it gets, but it’s not very good).

If I were going to select a 90's Gundam show it would be Turn A Gundam. The setting is unique, the characters are…

This is pretty cool, I really wish contemporary fiction would get more into the awe and wonder that space has been known to inspire with things like the Overview Effect. Even slower and more contemplative space fiction can tend to focus on the dour and isolation, rather than contextualizing our unique place in the…