And I think it's why I respect GQX as a nostalgia trip more than Star Trek: Picard's third season or Ghostbusters Afterlife because, unlike those, it's not cynically trying to jack ME off, it's just the writers getting to jack THEMSELVES off, and that's more honest and artistically expressive.

nostalgiaslop is one thing but there is a difference between keys jingling and the team behind the scenes actually caring about what theyre homaging and to me GQuuuuuuX is the latter

the black one-winged strike freedom in question:

honestly given how 00 S2 has a lot of Zeta elements the 00 Raiser was giving me Emma-Katz's Mk. II -> Super Gundam combo

in a setting where the guy who can shoot through the atmosphere is named lockon stratos a name such as anew returner is probably just another john job for them

this element specifically made me feel like i was watching a kaiju movie during the first half of awott

symboli rudolf is an emperor while air groove is an empress like okay man

a lot of Gundam-type faceplates do have those lines that make them look like they're crying, I noticed this when panel lining my Strike and F91 gunplas in particular while it's especially obvious in Destiny where it's part of the design

its not a 1 to 1 but the white joints are reminding me of G40 Industrial Type

im not quite sure what the significance is, but the name when pronounced sounds similar to "Arrows" and i have a feeling its worth pointing out somehow

even Tieria Erde falls under this kind of name if the wiki info is to be trusted, for basically having the meaning of "Earth Earthy"

one of the side 00 materials have someone named Grave Violento i believe

i watch the ending of the movie and automatically cry on the spot its very much a religious experience yeah