Episode 7 - "Farewell to the Solar System"
Equivalent SBY Episode: Episode 10 - "Farewell, Solar System! From the Galaxy, With Love!"
For a rewrite, it's amazing to me how much of this episode is new material. The original's premise is the same: The Yamato is at the edge of the Solar System, and each of the crew is allowed to send 5 minutes snippets back to earth. However, that premise and the jist of Tokugawa's message back to Earth are pretty much where similarities end. The party was added, or was significantly brought forward in this. And we got to see more with the new extended cast. The fact that there's more females on the cast than just Mori means that she doesn't have to provide ALL the fanservice. Also I liked they made in this one that Kodai is not the only crewman to not have anyone to contact back on Earth. In the original, Yuki nagged him to take his five minutes and he kept putting it off until the very end, where Mori finally got him into the comm room. After a minute or two passes with Kodai just sitting in the room not placing a call, Mori comes in and asks if he needs help, and that's when he breaks it to her that he had no one TO call. Here, they just drop it casually and that was it.
It's fairly obvious now that Yuki Mori's past has been DRASTICALLY rewritten. In the original it was perfectly normal. The scene where the mother was showing one of the characters pictures of potential omai candidates was originally Mori's in SBY. Now she has no memories past last year...which is when the (nonexistant in SBY) other sister of Stasha and Sasha, now identified as Yurisha. They seem to be hinting with a hammer that Yuki is Yurisha, which is why I expect it isn't.
Also, they seem to be establishing a relationship triangle between Kodai, Yuki, and Yamamoto. The original the primary relationship triangle was between Kodai, Yuki, and Shima, so we'll wait to see if Shima is out, or if this will blow into a Takahasi-esque "love dodecahedron".
And Red Scarf is back as the Ending! YAY!
Episode 8 - "When You Wish Upon a Star"
Equivalent SBY Episode: Episode 11 - "Resolution! Break Through the Gamilons' Absolute Defense Line!" and Episode 12 - "Certain Death! The Wishing Star of Orion, Hell-star!"
This was a pretty faithful rewrite/condensation of these episodes. As far as I can remember. It did what the original did, establishing Dessler, his personality, and his court. As well as the final fate of the survivors of Pluto base. Interesting to note the two Talons here, clearing up a lot of fan speculation and hypothesis over the character redesign.
A lot more deal here is made on the "Second-class Gamilons", racial discrimination is being played up in this series. Interesting.
Sanada make a reference here to "Wave Motion Shields", something we didn't see until the penultimate episode of the original, and seen by some as a massive asspull by the writers. Now being retconned into a "Chekov's Gun" of sorts. Nice.
Episode 9 - "A Clockwork Prisoner"
Equivalent SBY Episode: Original
I don't have much to compare this too, as it's original. It's a good episode and helps to provide insight into silicon souls in this series.
In the original, they never captured a robot on Titan. In fact, they didn't capture a Gamilon, or see one until later in the series when they captured a pilot and learned the Gamilon's brainwashed their pilots prior to launching them so they could reveal info if captured. While this has the barest elements of that story, it doesn't really match up. It's more "do robots dream of electric sheep".
Episode 10 -
"The Cosmic Graveyard"
Equivalent SBY Episode: Episode 15
- "Desperate Escape! The Galaxy's Different Dimension"
This episode is FAR FAR superior to the original. It starts the same, with the Yamato being mired in a "Sargasso Sea" in subspace, along with a Gamilon ship. However, the episode varies strongly starting there. Whereas the original they wound up fighting, they truce here and cooperate together. The resolution is better, too, since in the original, Starsha somehow magically sent them a signal they could follow out. This, in my opinion worked much better, and established a new Gamilon Officer, Storm Leader Ditz. With her coming on board, we get some of the reactions that we got in the original when the recovered the aforementioned pilot; namely, disbelief that the enemy is human....er, humanoid at least. We also see that some Gamilon Officer have honor, while others just seem to be butchers. And typically, it's the "Superior" blue Gamilons that are the butchers.
Also what is up the Yamato's Astro Navigation? Is it the afore mentioned Yurisha? Or something more sinister. Hmm...
More to come as more episodes are posted.
Equivalent SBY Episode: Episode 10 - "Farewell, Solar System! From the Galaxy, With Love!"
For a rewrite, it's amazing to me how much of this episode is new material. The original's premise is the same: The Yamato is at the edge of the Solar System, and each of the crew is allowed to send 5 minutes snippets back to earth. However, that premise and the jist of Tokugawa's message back to Earth are pretty much where similarities end. The party was added, or was significantly brought forward in this. And we got to see more with the new extended cast. The fact that there's more females on the cast than just Mori means that she doesn't have to provide ALL the fanservice. Also I liked they made in this one that Kodai is not the only crewman to not have anyone to contact back on Earth. In the original, Yuki nagged him to take his five minutes and he kept putting it off until the very end, where Mori finally got him into the comm room. After a minute or two passes with Kodai just sitting in the room not placing a call, Mori comes in and asks if he needs help, and that's when he breaks it to her that he had no one TO call. Here, they just drop it casually and that was it.
It's fairly obvious now that Yuki Mori's past has been DRASTICALLY rewritten. In the original it was perfectly normal. The scene where the mother was showing one of the characters pictures of potential omai candidates was originally Mori's in SBY. Now she has no memories past last year...which is when the (nonexistant in SBY) other sister of Stasha and Sasha, now identified as Yurisha. They seem to be hinting with a hammer that Yuki is Yurisha, which is why I expect it isn't.
Also, they seem to be establishing a relationship triangle between Kodai, Yuki, and Yamamoto. The original the primary relationship triangle was between Kodai, Yuki, and Shima, so we'll wait to see if Shima is out, or if this will blow into a Takahasi-esque "love dodecahedron".
And Red Scarf is back as the Ending! YAY!
Episode 8 - "When You Wish Upon a Star"
Equivalent SBY Episode: Episode 11 - "Resolution! Break Through the Gamilons' Absolute Defense Line!" and Episode 12 - "Certain Death! The Wishing Star of Orion, Hell-star!"
This was a pretty faithful rewrite/condensation of these episodes. As far as I can remember. It did what the original did, establishing Dessler, his personality, and his court. As well as the final fate of the survivors of Pluto base. Interesting to note the two Talons here, clearing up a lot of fan speculation and hypothesis over the character redesign.
A lot more deal here is made on the "Second-class Gamilons", racial discrimination is being played up in this series. Interesting.
Sanada make a reference here to "Wave Motion Shields", something we didn't see until the penultimate episode of the original, and seen by some as a massive asspull by the writers. Now being retconned into a "Chekov's Gun" of sorts. Nice.
Episode 9 - "A Clockwork Prisoner"
Equivalent SBY Episode: Original
I don't have much to compare this too, as it's original. It's a good episode and helps to provide insight into silicon souls in this series.
In the original, they never captured a robot on Titan. In fact, they didn't capture a Gamilon, or see one until later in the series when they captured a pilot and learned the Gamilon's brainwashed their pilots prior to launching them so they could reveal info if captured. While this has the barest elements of that story, it doesn't really match up. It's more "do robots dream of electric sheep".
Episode 10 -
"The Cosmic Graveyard"
Equivalent SBY Episode: Episode 15
- "Desperate Escape! The Galaxy's Different Dimension"
This episode is FAR FAR superior to the original. It starts the same, with the Yamato being mired in a "Sargasso Sea" in subspace, along with a Gamilon ship. However, the episode varies strongly starting there. Whereas the original they wound up fighting, they truce here and cooperate together. The resolution is better, too, since in the original, Starsha somehow magically sent them a signal they could follow out. This, in my opinion worked much better, and established a new Gamilon Officer, Storm Leader Ditz. With her coming on board, we get some of the reactions that we got in the original when the recovered the aforementioned pilot; namely, disbelief that the enemy is human....er, humanoid at least. We also see that some Gamilon Officer have honor, while others just seem to be butchers. And typically, it's the "Superior" blue Gamilons that are the butchers.
Also what is up the Yamato's Astro Navigation? Is it the afore mentioned Yurisha? Or something more sinister. Hmm...
More to come as more episodes are posted.