Heh, I was still in Lagann-hen fanboy mode when I read posts so I only read the praises and glossed over the critique. I didn’t think it felt that disjointed myself but hey

@kadian1364

Have you ever noticed that when a trailer or synopsis comes out, the fans of the show complain about spoilers while those who haven’t seen the show haven’t got a clue what they’re on about. When you’ve seen the show, you’re more susceptible (I’ve so spelt that wrong) to things like that. Like book adaptations and so on while the newbies wouldn’t notice they’re missing anything. I think Lagann-hen can appeal to newbies but it’s hard to tell from our perspectives.

It’s a tough thing to judge from our position, but I don’t think the movie stands enough alone if you hadn’t seen the TV series, and the story, characters, etc wouldn’t have had such profound effect as they did for us. I’d still direct newcomers to the original first, and then recommend the movies to supplement it.

While I thought TTGL TV had more than enough padding and could use a few episodes of compression, I thought Lagann-hen still over-compressed it (no need to speak of Gurren-hen’s horrible ratio). Yeah, you’ll still get the major points and a feel for all the characters, but the plot just feels… disjointed. The timeline felt like everything was forced with unnatural haste, and things are popping out of nowhere (even more than the show does normally). Of course, this may simply be the result of me watching the original…

However you’re right, I was annoyed at Gurren-hen being denied the Battle of Teppelin, but adding it to the second movie was a great choice.