Is it better to watch the original Mobile Suit Gundam Series or the compilation movies
Is it better to watch the original Mobile Suit Gundam Series or the compilation movies
-I am partial to the UC. And to 0079. It does have some patchy moments. Some of those are tied into the things about the show I'm not a huge fan of. I don't mind the stuff with the kids or the survivors of the colony. But I can't say I love the G Armor and the much-repeated combination sequences. The compilation movies slim the series down, trim out things like said G Armor in favor of Core Booster, Guntank is replaced with a second Guncannon in Soldiers of Sorrow, a lot of the villain-of-the-week enemies like Zakrello are gone, Solomon and A Baoa Qu get a little more detail. So I suppose it is about a good a time-and-content edit of the series can be, takes as much of the good stuff as can be fit into three movies and takes out some of the things hindsight led them to think better of, and stronger leverage in the bargain after the series' popularity exploded after the first airing run let them produce and market them all in rapid succession. They are part of what established the team's credibility enough to get them as much freedom as they had with Zeta years later. Short version, they are both good, if you really want to save time and cut out anything not completely vital to the story, movies are sufficient. If you don't mind a slower process with more content, the series is still great, but it does have some veiled concessions to the sponsors that don't age as well.-
-Since the movies were made so soon after, there aren't really any parts that conflict with later series like Zeta, and in some cases the movies are treated like a canon edit to begin with. Series is 43 episodes. Movies are each 2 hours long or thereabouts. There are several valid factors to base your decision on.-
-I don't mind watching the Gogg fight, or Zakrello, or Cucuruz or a lot of the other things in 0079. But I can totally get someone feeling the opposite and unequivocally favoring the movies.-
There both good in my opinion. I think there just slight differences between the movies and the 0079