Re: Intro
Jacob Trenta (jjtrenta@geocities.com)
Fri, 17 Mar 2000 13:22:59 -0600
Not everyone was heckling at those UTA showings, Walter. I was hooked when
you showed episode 4 at one of those and have gotten several others hooked
after I obtained copies from the club. I also would have been at that A-Kon
panel but having been up since early Friday morning, I crashed around 5am
Sunday. :(
Jacob Trenta
A pig that doesn't fly is only a pig - Porco Rosso
----- Original Message -----
From: "Walter Amos"
To:
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: Intro
> On 16 Mar 2000, Sean Wyles wrote:
>
> > I thought I would to. I admit it, I am a lurker. hehe
> >
> > I am 25 and live in Texas. I first discovered the greatness that is LOGH
> > through some people I knew at Anime UTA (what is weird about this is I
dont go
> > to school there....at least I think its weird) and it truely is one of
the
>
> Since everyone else is doing these:
>
> Name: Walter Amos
> Age: 33
> Education: BA/MA in physics
>
> The thing that hooked me on anime in the first place was "Space
> Battleship Yamato" in tis incarnation as "Star Blazers" in the US.
> Always a fan of space opera and cool bad guys in capes, I found nothing
> that grabbed me quite like it until a friend showed me the first LoGH
> movie sometime around 1991. It only took the first 5 minutes of that
> movie to convince me that this was something I needed to see more of.
> My basic reactions:
>
> "Hey! That scrolling text is in German! I can read that!"
>
>
>
> "Hey! That music! They're using Mahler for background music!"
>
>
>
> "Hey! You mean to tell me that cloud in the background is an entire
> *spacefleet* ?!?!"
>
> advincing in their thousands? These people must have read my mind...>
>
> "Hey! This Empire is entirely composed of Germans, has ships and space
> fortresses that have gilded Doric columns and silver Prussian Eagles in
> their interior design, have the most splendid uniforms including capes
> and epaulets, and their high admirals can wear mutton chop sideburns??"
>
>
>
> Needless to say I devoted myself to finding everything I could about
> this show that almost no one else had ever heard of. I managed to
> procure some poor quality multi-generational fansubs of the first
> several episodes from a friend in San Antonio. While the video quality
> was poor, these included up to episode 4, which finally let me see the
> full dress uniforms of the Imperial admiralty. After mopping the drool
> off the floor I decided that somedy I simply had to have one of these.
> (You have noticed by now that I'm a fan of pomp and circumstance?)
>
> Discussing the show on the net and IRC, I got in touch with Bruce
> Carlson, who graciously began supplying me with much better quality
> fansubs. I was pleased when I was eventually able to repay his kindness
> by sending him copies of the fansubs my friends and I did of Miyazaki's
> "Future Boy Conan" as "The Conan Project".
>
> I also wanted to quote the particular letter I did above because it
> makes me happy to reflect that it was my copies of Bruce's fansubs that
> I put in the UTA club library, and that these have helped interest a
> new group of fans in the show is immensely gratifying. Especially in
> light of the difficulty I experienced early on in trying to get some
> episodes of LoGH shown at UTA some years back when I was there. It was
> difficult to get past the heckles of "Boring Germans in Space!" about a
> show I enjoyed so much. But I felt redeemed when I eventually managed
> to complete our fansub of the 2nd movie ("Overture to a New War") after
> someting like a year's hiatus after our initial start on it, and showed
> it at the club. The obvious enjoyment and laughter at lines like
> "Hmm, I've never seen a formation like this before..." made it
> worthwhile. Most amazingly of all, many people actually applauded at
> the end. That rarely happened in my experience for anything at UTA and
> really made me feel good.
>
> Several years ago, before any of the 2nd series had been fansubbed, I
> did a panel at A-Kon on LoGH. Since I am one of those few people
> insane enough to watch LoGH even unsubbed (I am, after all, from a
> generation of fans who got into this before subs existed at all) I had
> a copy of the episode where Julian reviews the history of the birth of
> the Empire and the Alliance. I wanted to show that and discuss more
> background of the show not immediately obvious. WHile I was a bit
> disappointed that this panel had been scheduled early Sunday morning, I
> was surprised at the number of people who showed up (over 15, I think,
> for an early Sunday panel on a show that wasn't a big fan
> flavor-of-the-month!) It has been a few years but I want to do such a
> panel again at this coming A-Kon. I am hoping the activity of the UTA
> in showing the series this semester will bring a new group of people
> interested in such a discussion.
>
> As was mentioned previously in a post about Sakura Con, I am trying to
> figure out a way to get Takayuki Karahashi to come to A-Kon as well,
> since he is the only person who can bring the LoGH pilot dub screened
> at Anime Expo last summer. But with or without Taka I still want to do
> a panel this year. Now if I can also only find my old copy of that
> "Cho Kuseni Narisou" ("I'll Make a Habit of It") episode that is an
> LoGH parody to show...
>
>
>
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> "Zu jeder Zeit, an jeder (sic) Ort, bleibt das Tun | Walter Amos
> der Menschen das gleiche..." - Galactic Heroes II |
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