Gundam 00 season 1 just ended it's run on the Scifi channel this last Monday. At this point I have to be honest and tell you that I'm not a fan of Gundam never did like the earlier series and I really couldn't careless about most of the Gundam universe crap. If it wasn't for the massive amounts of fanservice that Gundam gets I probably wouldn't give it any notice at all. However, when it first started airing in Japan many moons ago an anime girl in a chinadoll dress started getting huge amounts of fanservice (an example of which is posted here) and as a big fan of the chinadoll dresses I thought to my self that when it comes to America I'd have to give it a shot and check it out at least for the chinadoll dress anyways. Thankfully Gundam 00 found a home on Scifi and I started watching it hoping for some great chinadoll action. Now imagine my surprise and disappointment when I found out that that much fanservice was devoted to a dress that was in one episode for a small bit of time.
So with the chinadoll dress bit out of the way I just watched the rest of the show and was woefully underwhelmed. While not nearly as bad as the first Gundam show I watched I still just couldn't care for the characters and found myself being more annoyed at some of them than liking them. Not to mention the horrid plot as well. About the only interesting thing about it and the only reason I could see for watching it is the battles between the various Gundams and other mechs. It was better muted as well so you didn't have to listen to the prattling on of some raving mad lunatic or another. But here's the huge kicker it was still better than any of the other crap that polluted cable during that time. Gundam 00 or CSI Miami hard decision isn't it. I did miss a lot of it because once again it wasn't anything that couldn't be missed for something else...like castle crashers or dish washing.
The good the bad and the ugly about it is that hey if you like Gundam I'm sure you'll love this if you don't care about Gundam like myself then you definitely wont miss anything by not watching it EVER. A good thing about the show I guess is that you don't have to pay to see it to see if you like it and you don't even have to feel like a bad bad downloader because not only was it on SciFi but now it is being streamed for free on Youtube for your enjoyment.
The ugly part about all of this is that with the end of this series Scifi is going back to airing older Anime movies (that we've all seen a million times) and will re-start airing Gurren Lagann (not such a bad thing really) in March so for the next two months at least Scifi doesn't have any new anime during their anime block. Of course that also means that they may rebroadcast Gundam 00 as well. I'll probably check it out again to see episodes I missed because I'm sure there still wont be anything else on at that time that is even remotely more interesting.
So with the chinadoll dress bit out of the way I just watched the rest of the show and was woefully underwhelmed. While not nearly as bad as the first Gundam show I watched I still just couldn't care for the characters and found myself being more annoyed at some of them than liking them. Not to mention the horrid plot as well. About the only interesting thing about it and the only reason I could see for watching it is the battles between the various Gundams and other mechs. It was better muted as well so you didn't have to listen to the prattling on of some raving mad lunatic or another. But here's the huge kicker it was still better than any of the other crap that polluted cable during that time. Gundam 00 or CSI Miami hard decision isn't it. I did miss a lot of it because once again it wasn't anything that couldn't be missed for something else...like castle crashers or dish washing.
The good the bad and the ugly about it is that hey if you like Gundam I'm sure you'll love this if you don't care about Gundam like myself then you definitely wont miss anything by not watching it EVER. A good thing about the show I guess is that you don't have to pay to see it to see if you like it and you don't even have to feel like a bad bad downloader because not only was it on SciFi but now it is being streamed for free on Youtube for your enjoyment.
The ugly part about all of this is that with the end of this series Scifi is going back to airing older Anime movies (that we've all seen a million times) and will re-start airing Gurren Lagann (not such a bad thing really) in March so for the next two months at least Scifi doesn't have any new anime during their anime block. Of course that also means that they may rebroadcast Gundam 00 as well. I'll probably check it out again to see episodes I missed because I'm sure there still wont be anything else on at that time that is even remotely more interesting.
