Chris responds:
1. Absolutely. Bandai is always looking to get the most bang out of their plamo buck that they can. This is why they constantly release slightly different versions of models just to cash in. As a recent example, look at the MG Ball Shark Mouth version. It's no different than the previous MG Ball, but adding that Shark Mouth sticker magically makes it the MS IGLOO version. This carries over into DESTINY with one-shot appearances by minor variations that can later be turned into kits.

2. I don't know why, but people seem to enjoy asking all these "What Ifs" about Zeon during the One Year War. If you want to do these, go play Gihren's Greed. Anyway, by this point in the war, nothing could have helped the Zeon. Lack of pilots, factional leadership, and a re-moralized Federation spell doom for the Zeon war effort anyway you look at it.

3. Ok, let's say somehow they HAD won the battle. They lost the resources of Odessa, lost Solomon and lost Granada. Unless they wanted the fighting to spill into Side 3 and hit civilian colonies, stretching out the war after A Baoa Qu wouldn't accomplish anything - it would only delay defeat.

4. You could say the Earth Federation began stagnating after the One Year War. It was the most devastating war in UC history, and they never really fully recover from it. The Federation is filled with incompetent, corrupt politicians who are anti-Spacenoid. Broken governments cannot support themselves - look at the Roman Empire or any other government in history that has collapsed.

5. The mecha designs would definitely be a part of it. Look at it this way- Endless Waltz, a 3 episode OVA, had more model kits than Turn A, a 50 episode series. Also, Turn A is probably the most character-focused of Gundam TV shows, so it lacks the high level of action found in other series.

6. You have to look at this from a historical perspective. Gundam broke the mold and set the path for the real robot genre. Zeta Gundam similarly broke the mold for what a sequel series could do to stand out from the original, and it also created the formula that many Gundam shows follow. Gundam Wing and Gundam SEED follow the formulas laid down before them rather than breaking any new ground. That's not to say they don't have appeal, but it certainly sets them apart from the original series and Zeta.

Chris responds:
1. Kai isn't seen again after Zeta. After his initial appearances early on, he had a silent cameo when Char gave his speech at Dakar. After that, he's never seen again. It's safe to assume that he just continued being a freelance journalist.

2. UPDATE: According to the Universal Century timeline on Ultimate Mark, Gundam Evolve 4 takes place on November 1, UC 0083. That would place it between episodes 5-6 of Gundam 0083.

3. The rumors are completely wrong. In Tomino's novelization Beltorchika's Children, Amuro was involved with her and she was pregnant, but they weren't married. Chan Agi doesn't exist in that version, and likewise Beltorchika isn't in the movie. In essence, one is standing in for the other, but there's no connection and no philandering on Amuro's part.

Chris responds:
1. The strange apparition is a visualization of the hatred that Amuro senses coming from Dozle. Nothing fancy there.

2. Both those Gundams and the Thoroughbred appear in the manga side story From Place Beyond the Blaze. Yes, that really is the title, and no, it isn't available in English.

3. You didn't miss anything because their meeting happens off screen.

4. The Big Zam doesn't get mass produced for several reason. Mainly, by the time the prototype sees action, the war is nearly over and the Zeon don't have the resources to mass produce it. Second, even though it's powerful, it's not invincible. As shown by Amuro, any mobile suit pilot that gets within close range nullifies the advantage of the I-field.

Chris responds:
1. The upside down A is a universal quantifier that means "given any" or "for all." If you want to say that there's a connection between the series, reading the title as ∀ Gundam could mean "For all Gundams." As for Turn X, that means nothing because an upside down X is still an X (as pointed out in the series by Sochie Heim). As for connections to the Dark History or what Tomino is trying to say through those symbols, that's up to the viewer to decide.

2. There's no special meaning to "Zeta." It's the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet (whereas "Z" is the last letter in the English alphabet).

3. Literally, the "T" symbol is just the psycoframe sample that October gave to Chan at Anaheim. As for what Tomino or others think it means, that's anybody's guess. It could signify the themes of the movie, that people can understand each other, that there's hope for the world, whatever. There's plenty of things in Tomino works that aren't neatly explained and left open for the viewer to think on, and this would certainly be one of those cases.