Gundam info?

[Duragon]

The original MSG is pretty lame, but the movies do a good job of condensing the story

Personally I don't think the original MSG TV is lame at all. Sure the animation and art are dated, but there are few filler episodes, characterisation is strong and we've all been otaku long enough not to define an anime solely on techincal merit alone.

As far as the movies go they do a good job of condensing the larger TV series into a more palletable movie format (Still running at five hours plus though), but due to the amount of content cut, it does so at the expense of character development.

I don't have anything against G-Gundam either (hell i'm into Macross 7 =o) ) but I would rather watch Gundam saga's that take place within the Universal Century timeline. That said, the heavily political Gundam X is sorta perennial favourite of my mine and one that I revisit often.

Still, i'm waiting for Bandai to get their collective asses in gear and get that big Zeta Gundam boxset stateside. I fear we will be in for a long and torturous wait .

Just my two