(one) Maya wisps: Damn you, Telstra. I want cable. Twenty five minutes is too long to wait for a five meg download.
(one) Maya wisps: And while I'm dreaming, I'd like a 256 node beowulf cluster made entirely of Crays.
(one) Maya wisps: Oh, and a private jet which turns into a giant robot.
(one) TGGM wisps: A private, giant robot.
(one) Maya wisps: Nothing beats a giant robot.
(one) Maya wisps: Except maybe another giant robot.
(one) TGGM wisps: True.
(one) TGGM wisps that he would love to have a giant robot.
(one) TGGM wisps: In a big silo. Underground.
(one) Maya wisps: Well, you can't have mine!
(one) TGGM wisps: And it could have amountain on top, that splits in half when it opens!
(one) Maya wisps: Bah, you want a Thunderbird, TGGM!
(one) TGGM wisps: I do?
(one) TGGM wisps that he hasn't seen the Thunderbirds since he was about 4, and therefore doesn't really remember them.
(one) Maya wisps: Although they were just spaceships, not giant robots.
(one) TGGM wisps: Bah, that's no good.
(one) Maya wisps: But my ultimate giant robot dream is five giant robots, which can join together to make a SUPER giant robot!
(one) TGGM wisps: Although.... I want a giant robot that can fly through space!
(one) Maya wisps: And I shall call it... Nortlov.
(one) Ded wisps: Isn't that Voltron or something?
(one) Ded wisps: I remember voltron from when I was little!
(one) TGGM wisps: Oh yeah! 5 giant robots, in 5 underground silos that are under splitting mountains, that transform into a mega-ultra giant robot that can fly through space!
(one) Maya wisps: I remember Voltron from when I was not so little.
(one) Maya wisps: Gods I feel old.
(one) TGGM wisps: And shoot lasers out if it's eyes!
(one) TGGM wisps that he has a Voltron.
(one) Maya wisps: Voltron has an UBER COOL SWORD MOVE!
(one) TGGM wisps: And a megazord.
(one) TGGM wisps: And a superhuman samurai cybersquad thingy.
(one) Maya wisps: The Power Rangers were nothing but _cheap knockoffs_!
(one) TGGM wisps: Yeah, but they have cool toys. ;-)
(one) Maya wisps: Although the very first joining robot was made from three planes.
(one) Maya wisps: And they could slot into each other three different ways, to make three different giant robots!
(one) TGGM wisps: Wow!
(one) TGGM wisps: That would be cool!
(one) Maya wisps: A land robot, an air robot and a water robot! And then in the last episode, one of the pilots was killed. Thus allowing the spoof 'Gekigangar' from Nadesico to gain life.
(one) Maya wisps: Although I hear they're actually going to release Gekigangar as an OAV series.
(one) Maya wisps: Hmmm... I _think_ the series with the three planes also had the robots with Breast Missiles!
(one) Maya wisps: (I kid you not!)
(one) TGGM wisps: Breast missiles?
(one) Maya wisps: Original Anime Video. I think. Like an anime series made for video, rather than going to TV.
(one) TGGM wisps: Ah. Anime.
(one) Maya wisps: It was a female robot which had Breast Missiles! *whoosh* *boom*
(one) Maya wisps: Hmmm... I wonder what the Best Giant Robot Ever would be.
(one) TGGM wisps: Someone should make a giant transforming robot show that's actually good.
(one) TGGM wisps: You know, not made for kids.
(one) Maya wisps: They did.
(one) Maya wisps: The Robotech/Macross series.
(one) Maya wisps: Plus, the Gundam series, and all it's spinoffs. Well, it was good, but now it's a bit of a hack.
(one) TGGM wisps: Never heard of either. :-(
(one) Maya wisps: Oh, and Vandread has joining robots in it, but it's not a very well known series. Interesting premise, though, and quite good CGI.
(one) Maya wisps: In fact, giant robots are practically a staple of shounen (boys') anime.
(one) Maya wisps: What's even better is when the giant robots can only be piloted by 'special' teenagers. Then you end up with Evangelion.
(one) TGGM wisps: They probably showed these sort of shows at 3am on channel 7 or 9 here. Meaning that noone knew about them except people who were already fans. Then cancelled them because the ratings were poor.
(one) Insanity wisps: Or Digimon, maya :P
(one) TGGM wisps: Evangelion started well, but after a while it stopped being about giant robots and became incomprehensible.
(one) Maya wisps: Don't mention that name, Insanity.
(one) Maya wisps: TGGM, Evangelion was never about giant robots. They were just a hook to attempt to draw viwers in.
(one) TGGM wisps: But it would have been great if it was about the robots. 'Cause they were cool. But it wasn't, it was incomprehensible.
(one) Maya wisps: Hah. You think the series itself was incomprehensible? You should have seen End of Evangelion (the final movie).
(one) Maya wisps: That was _proof_ that Anno Hideaki was on crack.
(one) TGGM wisps that he has had at least 3 people try to explain the story to him, and isn't sure that any of tghem actually knew what they were on about.
(one) Insanity wisps: Does it make more or less sense than the MGS2 plot?
(one) Maya wisps: Well, like most anime, it requires you actually seeing _every_ episode. It's not a 'villian of the week' series.
(one) Insanity wisps: http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2001-11-30&res=l
(one) TGGM wisps that he saw every episode of Evangelion. 3 times. Still ended up thinking "WTF!?" - only with more exclamation marks and less censoring.
(one) RekeeuqS wisps: mgs" made sense
(one) RekeeuqS wisps: for a while
(one) Maya wisps: Well, yeah, it is a series big on the WTF factor.
(one) RekeeuqS wisps: but then it started getting wierd...
(one) RekeeuqS wisps: and then sudden;y caved in on itself, with sanek having 'infinite ammo' and the colonel not being real and it all being a game...?
(one) RekeeuqS wisps: snake not sanek