i feel like i had an interesting like. journey. with newtypes. i think even early in the show, we were like oh i get it. theyre psychic. about char and then amuro. and that perception was strengthened over time... i remember us being like 'oh their fucking weird dueling rivalry' during some of the fighting in the tunnels in jaburo for sure? so like the idea that there were people with psychic powers was not Shocking when lalah got introduced.

i really wasnt sure at all where they were going with it for large swathes of the end, though! i still dont feel like i have entirely comprehended everything that happened psychically; i got a lot of it for sure! i do feel like the just overwhelming feeling of the visuals and the soundscape, especially in some of those last scenes with lalah, was a HUGE strength and the execution there was phenomenal. i can still see in my minds eye the like lovingly rended gray ocean growing choppy and foamy and coming to mountainous waves on either side of the single bright star-bird of lalah's dress... just monumentous.

idk im still rotating some stuff in my mind. realism versus the fantastical... realism Intertwined with the fantastical... i really do think i will need/want to rewatch at Least large swathes of gundam 0079.

oh one thing that was really funny abt watching the end of gundam having been completely assuming the entire time that char was psychic was how much we kept being like wait okay what?? is he not supposed to be obviously psychic??? are we supposed to believe he doesnt know hes psychic??? i thought he was clearly psychic??? what???