First Japanese airing: 1995.06.23
First English airing: 2000.03.21
Dialogue Changes
Heero, to Trowa: "It hurts like hell."--"Like hell" became "so much." Either way, this line is the only thing in the entire series that makes Trowa laugh, which makes me seriously wonder about Trowa's sanity. In the original, Heero says, "shinu hodo itai zo" (It hurts as much as death) about self-destructing. Now, what's so funny about that? All the Gundam boys manage to scare me at one point, and this is Trowa's big moment ^_^
Bundt: "What the hell's the noise?"--This line was changed to "What's with all the noise?" The uncut line didn't really make sense, so I guess I like the cut version's better ^_^
OZ soldier: "I'll just have you die!"--"Have you die" was changed to "finish you off" Ah, yes, threatening people with death is a bad thing :P
OZ soldier: "Damn you!"--This became "Dang you!" Ooh, dang...haven't had that one yet ^_^
One of Sally's men: "Damn! That traitor!"--"Damn" became "man." Well, at least that's close...if you look at it carefully, all they did was take away one letter and rearrange the remaining letters ^_^
Edits
Blood on Sally's men: This happened to two people, but since it's pretty much the same thing, I'm only listing this once. In both cases, the men were turned away from a blast and their backs got pretty trashed. The blasts took away the back of their coats, revealing their shirts underneath, along with a bloody mess. Besides the mess on their backs, one of the men also had blood running down his face and arms.
Cuts
5 sec.: Assassination scene. When the narrator was talking about how the former leader of the country was assassinated, there was a scene where it showed the leader slumped over on his desk after being shot that was cut. Because of this, I think the narrator's dialogue was cut a little, but I don't think anything important was lost.
1 sec.: Man falling over after being injured by explosion. This is one of the guys I mentioned in the edits. After he was caught in the explosion, there's a shot where you can see just how injured he is as he falls over. Since the sole purpose of this shot was to show his injury, it was cut because editing it would completely defeat the purpose.
Voices
Duo Maxwell: I know for sure who his voice actor is now, but the first time I watched this episode was the first time I started thinking that Scott McNeil does Duo's voice. This was because of one of the men in Sally's group sounded like an exact mix of Piccolo and Duo. So, unless voice actors can fuse, (Geh...I don't even want to think about that!), I assumed that Scott McNeil probably did Duo. I'm so talented ^o^
In General
"How'd they get away with that?" Wow, two episodes in a row ^_^ This time it was one of Sally's men who said a "swear word": "Don't give me that load of crap!" Actually, this time is probably the most severe way it's been used so far...the first three times it was used, it was just a character kind of muttering it to themselves. This time, the guy's yelling it at Wufei...if you think about it, he's basically saying, "Don't give me that shit!" if you imagine things like I do ^_^ Anyway, this is the fourth time they've gotten away with "crap," which makes the fact that they can't say "kill" even more baffling...