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Bandai 1/72 Scale Y-Wing

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Gustav Karl, engaged in aerial combat.

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"Gundam Fight all set! Ready! Go!"

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"Light of Life" transcription

(Transcribed this clip because it's hard to find and I think it's sort of important in terms of how the franchise as a whole fits together. It's interesting, if nothing else.)

"Light of Life" documents a conversation between Lalah and Amuro (as ghosts), as they observe the White Doll's Moonight Butterfly. Amuro's lines are bolded, Lalah's lines are italicized, anything else will be left plain and explained with parentheticals. I think it's unfortunate that this is such a hard clip to find, so here's a transcription of the clip's dialogue.

(White doll rises, spreads it's butterfly wings, and flies, reducing everything around it to dust)

This light, this is...Yes, this is the light that brings about the end of the world.

Those scales scattered from those shining wings, fully covered human civilization and returned it to dust. The civilization called Universal Century.

A white mobile suit, that looks like a Gundam. Is the Gundam trying to wipe out the world? The space colonies, once plentiful, are now nowhere to be found. Did the humans do this? Did they choose to bury themselves using the Gundam?

Amuro...

Is this unchangeable? If so, if we were destined to meet our doom, then was there any meaning to our existencen in this world at all?

I don't know.

Lalah!

The world belongs to the living. Only the living can answer that question.

The living...

Let's take a look once again, at the world which we were a part of. At the flow of the world turned by the living.

TITLE CARD

Is death the only thing that can make amends for the sins of man? Is prayer unable to erase men's deeds? (Not sure who's voice this is, it sounds kind of "echo"-y?)

Ever since they were born to this world, people had been fighting each other and using up earth's resources. Even after they had gone to space, they kept on fighting. Burying a mistaken civilization with their own hands. That was probably the only good deed that humans showed to the world.

(Lalah laughs)

Lalah?

You're impatient, Amuro. Look closely. That isn't a light to annihilate mankind. That's the same light that you and Char called upon. The light of life that you called in hope of living.

The light of life?

This is not the end. Look!

(shots of Gundams from all the different eras are shown, G, Wing, AWGX, SEED, 00, AGE, IBO, G-Reco, in that order. the song that plays is also really good)

This is... Lalah, what exactly am I looking at?

From the start to the end of a civilization, it's a little more than 10,000 years at most. The things created by humans will vanish without a trace after 100,000 years or so. In a universe that has witnessed more than ten billion years, how many worlds had gone by before this one of ours? It's like a spiral staircase that continues infintely, going around this endless circle, we'll reach the top someday. It won't be futile. To reach the top, everything is essential. There must be scenery we haven't seen.

(collage of the Moon Gundam, the kid with the spear, a lady from Moon-moon I think? Somebody in a cape, Mineva, and Amuro.)

All these things will give a different meaning to the future.

(shot of Hathaway sittin' like a sadboy, then the Penelope flying off like some kinda metal dragon.)

(shot of the Unicorn, in storage, with the psycoframe glowing)

Entrusting both humans and earth to such repetition. The light that does it is...

The radiance of human lives. Using the white mobile suit as a medium,

Gundams! They're proof that humans aren't powerless.

They span many ages.

Everything repeats.

Like the beating of the heart, humans, and the universe.

(shot of the Earth, with a light just beginning to come into view from around the side)

Lalah... Lalah? Are you there?

Yes, I'm here. Amuro, what do you see?

I see the world... and eternity!

(the beginning of Tobe Gundam!, the theme from the very first series, plays as the sun rises.)

Final notes - I really think this clip should be viewed by basically anyone who's a fan of the franchise, because the stuff Lalah's laying out here is, y'know, this is some BIG big-picture stuff. There's something really striking about imagining it all as one big story, it's like Sam's great line from The Two Towers, "Why, to think of it, we're in the same tale still! It's going on. Don't the great tales never end?"

Plus, I think the "It's like a spiral staircase that continues infintely, going around this endless circle, we'll reach the top someday. It won't be futile. To reach the top, everything is essential" bit is really great, like, it might seem like you're going in circles, but we can all always strive to be better, and even the small things, even the sad things, are ultimately part of life and the world.

What do y'all think of this clip?

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Guncannon in the hangar, WIP

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Jesta, moving out

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Scopedogs, from Armored Trooper Votoms

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God/Burning Gundam, from Mobile Fighter G Gundam

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Scopedogs

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Stardust Memory fanart

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Nine episodes in...

Nine episodes in, GQuuuuuuX is freakin' wild. If you're a Gundam fan, and for some reason you're not watching it, I highly suggest you do.

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Gelgoog landing on a building.

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WIP Zeong

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Godos from Zoids