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timepiececlock1. Zoom Player seems able to handle these extra-large mkv files without the playback hiccups I was experiencing with VLC and MediaPlayer.
2. Is it really necessary for a 24 minute episode to be 344 MB? I mean, I like a good picture, but that's honestly way bigger than necessary. I happened to like a standard of about 170 MB, very much thank you.
3. Ah... this is so... Gundam. I mean, I haven't really watched very many Gundam shows, but this one is already so... it. I'm in a perpetual state of confusion and I expect that will continue for another 4 or 5 episodes until I memorize the names of all the countries and all the people and all the significant giant robots. The funny thing, and this was true for GWing as well, is that the plot isn't really that complicated, it's just the delivery and execution makes it really hard to follow if you're out of practice, and I suspect especially if you're not able to understand Japanese and forced to rely on subtitles.
Other observations:
Am I supposed to assume that the pretty purple-haired one is gay? Or at least a crossdresser? He wears soft, pink clothing and I keep expecting to hear him with a female dubbed voice any second now. Or are we having ourselves a Furuba [spoiler] situation?
Except for Setsuna, the pilots haven't turned into full "types" yet. That's good. I hope they do interesting things with these guys, aside from the traditional boy-band team layout.
"I could read his feelings from the way he moved his mobile suit." Oh god, you're one of THOSE. ...and please, that sentence, it just hangs and begs for something.
Although the separation of nations into the three given superpowers is an example of fairly obvious political geography by convenience, I am amused that the China/Russia/India/Australia/Indonesia slice is called the "Human Reform League". How quaintly post-communist of them.
Interesting that the timeline for this series is "AD" instead of some other mysterious far-flung era designation. And they're trying very hard to reference the 21st century. I hope it doesn't take us 300 years to get flying mechs. They already use a simplified version for fork-lifting stuff in warehouses.
::much more happens::
The IRA? ::snort:: The IRA folding because some other terrorists told them violence was bad? ::snicker:: Yeah, that's likely.
About mapping characters and coincidences... the young student who lives next to Setsuna, his sister is the reporter, right? I think? And he doesn't appear to have any other involvement, besides being an engineering student.
I will continue forward. Next time I'll watch several and condense the posts, I promise.
2. Is it really necessary for a 24 minute episode to be 344 MB? I mean, I like a good picture, but that's honestly way bigger than necessary. I happened to like a standard of about 170 MB, very much thank you.
3. Ah... this is so... Gundam. I mean, I haven't really watched very many Gundam shows, but this one is already so... it. I'm in a perpetual state of confusion and I expect that will continue for another 4 or 5 episodes until I memorize the names of all the countries and all the people and all the significant giant robots. The funny thing, and this was true for GWing as well, is that the plot isn't really that complicated, it's just the delivery and execution makes it really hard to follow if you're out of practice, and I suspect especially if you're not able to understand Japanese and forced to rely on subtitles.
Other observations:
Am I supposed to assume that the pretty purple-haired one is gay? Or at least a crossdresser? He wears soft, pink clothing and I keep expecting to hear him with a female dubbed voice any second now. Or are we having ourselves a Furuba [spoiler] situation?
Except for Setsuna, the pilots haven't turned into full "types" yet. That's good. I hope they do interesting things with these guys, aside from the traditional boy-band team layout.
"I could read his feelings from the way he moved his mobile suit." Oh god, you're one of THOSE. ...and please, that sentence, it just hangs and begs for something.
Although the separation of nations into the three given superpowers is an example of fairly obvious political geography by convenience, I am amused that the China/Russia/India/Australia/Indonesia slice is called the "Human Reform League". How quaintly post-communist of them.
Interesting that the timeline for this series is "AD" instead of some other mysterious far-flung era designation. And they're trying very hard to reference the 21st century. I hope it doesn't take us 300 years to get flying mechs. They already use a simplified version for fork-lifting stuff in warehouses.
::much more happens::
The IRA? ::snort:: The IRA folding because some other terrorists told them violence was bad? ::snicker:: Yeah, that's likely.
About mapping characters and coincidences... the young student who lives next to Setsuna, his sister is the reporter, right? I think? And he doesn't appear to have any other involvement, besides being an engineering student.
I will continue forward. Next time I'll watch several and condense the posts, I promise.
