#outside of the movie there was some annoying person making comments throughout but it lessened over time

[journeytojaburo]

I did end up going to the first movie reshowing, and not to worry my past self...the captions were normal. I feel like the general flow was the slightest bit clunky at times but not any worse than the TV show's translation was.

(I had all this ready to go a lot closer to when I actually watched it, but I was having technical difficulties with the pictures I wanted to add 😭)

A collection of vaguely organized thoughts...

It has been a little over a year since I watched the first movie, but I definitely forgot a lot about it since then. The biggest thing I forgot was how long it was because when Garma died I was getting ready for Amuro reuniting with his mom and the funeral and that's the end, but no it's time for Ramba Ral (genuinely forgot his debut isn't in the 2nd movie).

I wonder if the way Haro talks comes from how Fraw calls after Amuro because in the beginning of the movie especially she bookends every statement with his name like Haro does.

Yet another scene I forgot about was the extended new segment of Wakkein crying over the treacherous journey our intrepid heroes will have to go on, which comes off as slightly less bizarre because he's less aggressive towards them at Luna II in the movie, but it still baffled me a little.

It's just a reinterpretation of the same line from the show, but Bright's response to Amuro saying his dad never hit him in the movie being this feels the tiniest bit more upsetting than the one about Amuro being spoiled 😟

I like how the scene where Bright slaps Amuro gets put together in the movie, but I'm sad Char's mysterious dirt in the outlet scheme got cut because it makes his betrayal come a little more out of nowhere. At least there's still his menacing shower scene...

I do remember Matilda being kinda malicious, but seeing moments like her disparaging White Base's crew as amateurs despite knowing exactly why they are and getting more concerned over supplies in a ship that gets shot down over its crew cements her as such a fascinating character in my mind.

The scene of Amuro saying goodbye to his mother still horrifies me even after seeing 4 times at this point (if I'm counting the Origin's rendition of it) because he's become so military-minded in such a short amount of time. This is even more accentuated by the movie's pacing where this happens after like an hour and a half instead of 14 episodes worth of time.

My last thought is that every day I wonder why that one Zeon flag got created in the 90s when the funeral scene at least has other iconography to choose from besides Germany alone (pulled from the history books vaguely or not)...

I didn't go out to the other showings, but it was a nice experience and fun to see this movie again :)

For once those special reshowings of the original gundam compilation movies are happening near where I live but the possibility that'll it be the version with the kinda scuffed captions like the official youtube channel upload had mildly concerns me