Talk:Dublin

Hey just wanted to say thanks to SuperSaiyaMan for adding this page.

I personally think that the Dublin Colony Drop, episodes 35-36 of ZZ Gundam. Was by far the most gripping, emotional and intense sequence in the ZZ Gundam and for that matter in all of Gundam. I have read/played a lot of Gundam material and watched every completed non-SD animated production except the Gundam 00 series and film (which I am currently in the middle of) and I think it was the most intense and increadible sequence in all of it, hell not just that I would apply that to all of the Tomino anime that I have watched as well (Ideon, Aura Battle Dunbine).

This scene was the culmination of so many things in the Universal Century. It was the only time you ever saw a colony really drop on a populated city in anything but backstory. Unlike the moments in Z Gundam and Stardust Memory which were largely averted, this time the heros try desperately, however thousands die. Hayato, who had been a main character since the original series dies, Puru dies and Kamille, poor Kamille. Kamille who after being tortured to the point of comatose insanity in Zeta Gundam's first concious memories, after having regain his voice thoughts and mind, is running hopelessly in a desperate attempt to avert tragedy and crying in the rain as he watches hundreds of thousands of people die and feels it as he is developing into the strongest Newtype in the animated series as before him "the sky falls".

In addition to that we have an amazing battle against the Psycho Gundam Mk II and get to see the "Undead Psycho Gundam" the only MS more intrinsically terrifying than the Psycho Gundam is the Psycho Gundam with half of it's cover plating stripped off revealing the disturbing skeletal frame. This is the only time I think that Gundam outdid even Gainax mecha animes in terms of intensity, if only briefly.

Now if only the whole of ZZ Gundam were at this level...

Cerano Agamemnon 04:52, April 14, 2011 (UTC)