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The Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) compilation movies are currently available on YouTube from Sunrise/Bandai’s own channel for free. Of course you can get anything on your list for free but it doesn’t get a whole lot more convenient!

You’ll find a lot of fans argue about whether you should watch the compilation movies or the original 43 episode series, but personally the movies are fine. You miss out on a lot of iconic 70s anime jank (the spike ball flail never shows up in the movies) but the story is more or less completely intact and modern Gundam tends to reflect the movies more than the series. All of the extremely un-subtle “Zeon is Nazi Germany” is still 100% there.

If you get hooked on Gundam though do not watch the Zeta movies. They’re weirdly animated because they switch back and forth between the original animation and 2004 animation and lots of the plot is changed.

This is the sort of thing the wording had me thinking. The meeting of the nuclear command authority was public knowledge, Pakistan clearly wanted everyone to know about it. But targeting of nuclear facilities or nuclear forces actually mobilizing? That’s the sort of thing that’d wake up the feds monitoring global intelligence extremely quickly.

CNN (yeah I know, media) reports that Vance’s involvement started after the US received “alarming intelligence”. I think later on we’re gonna learn how close this was to going nuclear and it’d make Able Archer 83 blush.