I recently watched A Wakening of the Trailblazer, so I'm making a thread about it.
What is your thoughts on the movie? I thought it was pretty good.

It's not good. Not really even worth watching unless you just really miss seeing the cast from the show.
Now that movie within the movie, Celestial Being, is baller.

>>23400920 (OP)
I wish Gadelaza and Raphael amounted to more, Graham dying is just bullshit though I know the stakes are high but killing the meme character?

>>23401079
>Graham dying is just bullshit though

he lived, bitch

>>23401102
doesn't count until he's in something like 00 Freedom or shit. Where the fuck is S3?

>>23401075
>It's not good.
What makes you say so?

>>23401196
They should make versions of them in GXVS2, they'd be fun variations and they already got how many suits for Setsuna alone as is?

It's mostly solid. I can understand some of the issues people have with it.
>it's more like Macross thematically than Gundam
>Descartes Shaman
>in the end it all comes down solely to Setsuna with nobody else having any agency or big role to play

>>23401196
>What makes you say so?
I'm not going to say the movie doesn't try to be different because it does, and I think it even succeeds at being different, but it feels mostly like just a vehicle to sell more palette swap model kits than a proper epilogue to the TV show. Nobody really needed to come back for anything plot related nor character arc related besides Setsuna and that resolution could have easily been an episode 50 ending.

>>23401102
Was that in one of the side mangas 2 people read?

>>23400920 (OP)
It's just fine. Not great, but it exists, it just doesn't really fit with 00, or the other Gundams for that matter. I get they had to do something with the "dialogues to come" plot point but it just felt out of place and generic desu in execution.

There are a couple pros though. The ELS are probably the most compelling "villain" even though they weren't really evil, though that isn't saying much considering Ribbons and the other retard with the god complex are the most boring aspect of one of the most interesting entries in the series. The QAN[T] is also a really cool MS, it's a big step up in design from the budget-cut S2 suits, I just wish we got to see it do more. Finally there was some capacity of Feldt and Setsuna romance, I don't care how little it makes sense plotwise, Feldt is 10x better than Marina in every regard.

>>23401760
I meant franchise not series

>>23401753
No, some stage play sequel they made for the show's 10th anniversary.

>>23401760
>Feldt is 10x better than Marina in every regard.
Not that hard considering Marina was never a love interest.

>>23400920 (OP)
>Sausage Mizushima
>Truth Furuya

>>23401760
Feldt was competing with the Gundam, not Marina though.

The parody was better than the actual movie.

>action movie lacked a final boss

Manga adaptation was much better at raising the stakes late-game. The culmination of multiple ELS raisers would have made it much dreadfully clear that mankind stands no chance brute-forcing their way through this. That only with the Quanta could they reach some form of ceasefire that would save everyone.

>>23402657
>made it much dreadfully clear that mankind stands no chance brute-forcing their way through this. That only with the Quanta could they reach some form of ceasefire that would save everyone.
It was already clear when 80% of the EF army died in like 2 hours and most of the named characters were about to die/get absorbed by the ELS right before Setsuna communicated with them. Did you even watch the movie?

>>23401106
>Where the fuck is S3?
Be patient, I feel like they're purposely avoiding 00 stuff until 2027 and go full force. They did lowkey confirm thatan 00 project will happen in 20th anniversary

>>23400920 (OP)
I'm disappointed that 00 QANT had so little screen time. Hell I've only seen the movie scene once, but iirc QANT was pretty much used to rush to the horde and then Setsuna talk no justsu the ELS.

>>23401760
Marina is his mother/incest. Feldt can still be his wife. You know, Gundam and celibacy not included.

meh it felt unnecessary, it's just oh you have aliens that are just eating shit well USE THE POWER OF UNDERSTANDING HARDER

>>23400920 (OP)

It's the most amazing thing that ever existed. Because it introduced the Sol Brave's. The latest evolution of the Flag.

As the the plot of the movie... Meeeeeh... The aliens concept isn't a terrible idea... And they went pretty original with it... But it was all based on Newtype like hax. Innovator. Whatever.

Most of the Mobile Suits from the movie are pretty great... Except the 00 Quant. Which was just completely broken because they needed to end the movie. So it teleports. Because why not? Not a bad looking machine, but christ was the ending forced.

I don't think it was bad overall... But the concepts they were going for, kind of ruined it a bit. They hinted at "the dialogues" near the end of the series... But they rushed the concept and it was less for it.

>>23400920 (OP)
Its a vapid stupid little toy commercial and I hated almost all of it. But I really loved the ending. That did a lot of rehabilitation for it in my eyes

>>23403312
about the ending, there's quite literally no reason for Turn A to bitch out, no? There's no war on sight and even if MB reactivates, humanity has already abandoned Earth.

>>23404493
00 Humanity obviously built the Turn X

>>23400920 (OP)
incredible ms design from yanase zabanya/harute/raphael are better than their s1/s2 counterparts
I think about the scene where ELS Setsuna visits marina a lot
>>23401753
Take it back, the 00 side stories were great
>>23403312
every gundam is in part a toy commercial, how was the movie any more egregious in that regard?

>>23404600
If only bandai has the balls to actually give us the info of the roles of each AUs in the dark history, maybe some shit like how 00 is either the end or the beginning of it, how Devil Gundam could be a prototype of turn A or something

I actually liked it a lot as the third act of 00's overarching storyline and how it muses on how the use of force to achieve specific outcomes only begets force returned in kind. I feel like the movie could've actually benefitted by opening with the famous Clauswitz quote about war as a continuation of policy by other means, as it acts as the other side of the coin opposite Einstein's quote of peace being unable to be kept by force: sometimes you end up throwing hands because communication just fails, but to truly bring an end to a conflict requires a commitment to diplomatic means.