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Friday Fun Thread for January 6, 2023

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What TV shows did you enjoy this year? Thinking about starting watching a new one with friends and figured I would solicit opinions.

So far this year I've watched Severance, Andor, and House of the Dragon; the former two I very much enjoyed and the latter I thought was mediocre.

I enjoyed Zeta Gundam a lot more than my abortive attempts at watching 0079 (in which I was filtered by the ugly animation) and ZZ (in which I was filtered by the goofy early episodes).

Were you watching the TV series or the movies of 0079? The movies cleaned things up a bit, though I would still recommend the TV series even with its very rough animation simply because the movies cut out so much. (There's also always the Gundam: The Origin manga series, but it makes so many changes that I can understand if one would be weirded out by the aesthetical shifts.)

I would also beg you to stick with ZZ, it does get better later on.

Were you watching the TV series or the movies of 0079?

The episodes. It's been my experience that episodes in Gundam series already feel very rushed, so I can't imagine how disjointed the compilation movies must be.

I would also beg you to stick with ZZ, it does get better later on.

Yes, I've seen the same said on /m/ about a zillion times. I probably will get around to trying again at some point.

It's been my experience that episodes in Gundam series already feel very rushed, so I can't imagine how disjointed the compilation movies must be.

I suppose they will move very fast for you; the movies really streamline and compress the overall storyline, but a lot of that is, again, cutting out stuff (some of it is forgettable stuff like Cucuruz Doan's Island or the salt episode; some of it is better stuff like more episodes with Ramba Ral or M'Quve's attempt to use a nuke against the Feds). They still have a proper cinematic flow, IMO.