gundam 00 21
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Damn lucky control panels…
There wasn’t a lot to this episode. A lot of things happened, but I’m dubious as to any have any real significance. The only interesting but, for me, was that the most mentally stable (except for the Felt is 14 thing, but I think my readers sympathize with that) Gundam Meister gets punched out this round, and… out of all the characters in Gundam 00 that I would have bet on to take down the first Gundam… who would have thunk Patrick?! Not Sergei, not Soma, not Gauron, and not Graham. Patrick! This upset ranks up there with The Asa Ending and the New York Giants upsetting the Patriots last month.
(The funny thing is that despite more numbers and more skilled pilots in the AEU, HRL, and Union, they did poorly against the Gundams. I mean, 19 vs. 4, and the 4 got shut down by Corner and his boy toy halfway through. But I still can’t get over Patrick actually being useful. What next, Marina makes cornbread and ends the war between all the factions?)
Points of Interest
Emo facial distortion! Mmm… Patrick is quickly supplanting Graham as my favorite pilot. He’s a complete idiot, a womanizer, but he’s a decent source for emo facial distortions. He’s the idiot savant pilot… he must be the off-spring of Rika and Maebara.
Sumeragi giving the bridge bunnies liquor before a major battle… now there’s the tactician we all know and love.
(Felt reminds me more and more of Chiaki. I can’t wait for her to start calling Sumeragi, “Sumeragi-neesama.” Though by that same token, Tieria would have to start– OH GEASS NO!)
Enjoyed Tieria blasting Sumeragi for her tactical deficiencies. Wait, so you’re telling me that the ultrapowerful quantum computer (one powerful enough to run Windows Vista with the Aero interface) thought it was a good idea to have four emo happy pilots– two of whom would be arch-nemesis when they’re not cutting each other’s hair on the beach– and a drunk who would be better off swinging from a stripper’s pole? It’s almost like Sunrise is slowly turning Gundam 00 into a parody of itself. The only thing missing is someone coming back from the dead and announcing, “What, Mwu came back, why can’t I?”
Lockon’s “Don’t break formation!” cracked me up. Uh, what kind of formations do you really expect to use in space? And why does it matter? Then it was revealed that the formation was just a straight line with Exia in front. I mean, are they fighting in a three dimensional plane, or are they preparing to mambo?
Setsuna’s dream sequence with Marina… he has issues… but I’m more convinced than ever that he just needs to get laid, and most of them will go away.
Is there anyone else in Saji’s family to kill off? The big question is if he’ll make an actual impact on the plot before the series is over.
I still think the GN-X suits are ugly. I mean, why do they have those large lapels? They don’t seem to have any functional purpose.
And, finally, from last time…
Kabitzin: Haha Graham is going to wait until his Flying V formation has softened up one of the weaker Gundam units (probably Nena) and then swoop in for the killsteal (triple deek)!
Can we get the Bash Brothers or the Oreo Line involved in this as well?
Beowulf Lee: How in the world could going through a straight shota h-scene enable him to make better decisions?
Well, after the two fantasy sequences this episode, it has to be Marina, and, yes, he’s a troubled teenaged boy going through a lot of angst. Sex will remove a lot of angst, and he’s more concerned about getting laid, maybe he can concentrate on fighting better. I can’t find a link, but there was an article I remember reading a few years ago about how some Japanese moms would have sex with their teenaged sons to help them focus on their schoolwork. I think similar concept.
Unentschieden: Also CB being controlled by a computer is not surprising since the founder should be dead for about 200 Years-it would be really lame if Schenberg actually would show up in person.
Apparently, you’re not familiar with Sunrise’s other works… though I think it’ll be really awesome if it turned out Aeolia is really a severed head in a pickle jar, much like the Futurama / Lord Genome way. I still don’t get why is there such a plush computer room on the moon. I mean, where does it get its power from? Why is it decorated so nicely? Why doesn’t anyone notice that someone has built such a vast structure on the moon? And if it can transmit and receive signals, why hasn’t it be detected yet? This is almost as bad as the premise in Battlestar Galatica that Cylons can’t be differentiated from humans, yet Cylons can instantly back themselves up… don’t you need a powerful energy source and an antenna? I swear, sci-fi drives me crazy sometimes… yet I digress.
Amuro1X: Seeing as how the organization has been around for about two centuries, I’d think they’d have a few people working behind the scenes maintaining the organization alive.
I get it! They’re actually using the Outlaw system from Shakugan no Shana. I mean, that one is even more ridiculous… people shuffling around and sending 8.5×11 papers… don’t Flame Haze know how to e-mail, blog, or twitter? (11:31PM SHANA: I thought about Yuji. 11:32PM SHANA: I thought about Yuji. 11:33PM SHANA: I thought about Yuji… okay maybe not twitter.) Or at least carry around iPhones?
teabeans: What is it with Sunrise and animating mobile suits kicking each other? I mean it’s great for conveying the message they intended; in this case the GN-X units being on par with the Gundam Thrones, but it was like the most ineffectual attack Sergei could have performed as we’ve seen the gundams take rather high caliber rounds and shrug them off.
teabeans, I’m with you on this one. Modern fighter combat is all about who can lock onto who first, and I just don’t robots kung-fu fighting in the future. Sure, it looks cool, but I think we’re regressing if mobile suits are whipping out swords and shields like its 1699.
Shadowfox: Man I think at this point, we need to add Gundam X to the list of similarities, which now includes Gundam Wing and Full Metal Panic. The Veda supercomputer reminds me of the supercomputer in Gundam X, which also so happens to be on the moon, Lets face it, Veda is the new D.O.M.E. now. The only difference is that D.O.M.E. actually did something useful (allowing the X/XX gundams to use their WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION!!!!!1111) while Veda recruits emo kids as gundam meisters and can’t even protect itself from being hacked.
Wing is definitely the wrong choice and assumption for the series. Outside of the inexplicable Friends ED, there’s a lot fewer awkward moments between the Meisters than in Gundam Wing. X was a series that just didn’t get enough love from the viewers… though I found it almost impossible to take seriously with all the fighting for spare parts. It’s almost as bad as starting a Star Wars movie with a trade tariff dispute.
Andrex: Everybody thinks better after a straight shota h-scene, or at least so I thought.
Yep… these are my readers.
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The spicy wolf image was on purpose, right?
take the most sane pilot out on the original CB Gundam team? yep, the train wreck is now inevitable, if it hasn’t already happened and the train still won’t stop.
“I saw that thing a mile clear down the road and decided to gun it and get in on that action too!”
All I can think about after this episode is that we’re 21 episodes in and I still can’t think of what “00” is supposed to signify.
> I still think the GN-X suits are ugly. I mean, why do they have those large lapels? They don’t seem to
> have any functional purpose.
Gundam… functional … purpose… ERROR!!!!
Yay Patrick wins! Truly Ireland has a favorite son and it ain’t a meister. Truly Oberst Katie has made him a man. If only she’d do the same for that Aker fellow he needs to kill two meisters if he is going to keep his ace title now that Patrick has nailed a meister. In fact since Patrick shot down Lockon, the best of the four, Aker needs not only to shoot down two he needs to rip apart Potemayo and seize the bridge bunnies to maintain his position. In a flag of course…
Now that Lockon is supposed to be blind he can now grope Felt with impunity. Felt could even be his eyes… Lockon needs to thank Patrick for kicking his ass when stupid Lockon got love struck by the immobile Teiria and made a move on the fat one instead of Felt. Then again Dynames has been known to make moves on Nadleeh.
I didn’t think it’d take 5 whole responses before somebody cracked a “14 is the new 17” line. How is this not on Chris Hansen’s RSS reader yet?
Hehe, flying in a straight line with Exia in the front. It sounds like an excuse for one of the Gundams behind him to take a free shot. If you stick the Virtue in the back, Tieria can solve his own “these guys aren’t fit to be pilots” problem by himself~
Given Saji’s propensity for having everyone around him die, I think you might want to re-think your theory on Yoko a bit…
>>Given Saji’s propensity for having everyone around him die, I think you might want to re-think your theory on Yoko a bit…
So what should we call him? A doomdude? :D
I can’t find a link, but there was an article I remember reading a few years ago about how some Japanese moms would have sex with their teenaged sons to help them focus on their schoolwork. I think similar concept.
I think you’re confusing your news sources with your h-mangas.
teabeans: What is it with Sunrise and animating mobile suits kicking each other? I mean it’s great for conveying the message they intended; in this case the GN-X units being on par with the Gundam Thrones, but it was like the most ineffectual attack Sergei could have performed as we’ve seen the gundams take rather high caliber rounds and shrug them off.
By this point in the Gundam franchise the kick isn’t an attempt at realism, its a service for the fanboys in the form of a loose reference to the famous “Char kick”. Although the kick in this episode is a bit different, the kick is about as closely connected to Char as the choke is to Darth Vader.
>> Enjoyed Tieria blasting Sumeragi for her tactical deficiencies.
I rather enjoyed Tieria trying to tell Lockon he had the hots for him…
Tieria : “Lockon, could it be you know im -”
> Halleleuja interrupts
Lockon : “Lets just leave it at that”
Tieria: *damn i lost my chance to confess… he sure has a nice ass*
I think you’re confusing your news sources with your h-mangas.
Mmm…. I think I actually have something along those lines on my hard drive from a torrent a while back. Time to take a stroll through the old pr0n folder.
Well, with a 2nd seaon planned to release later this year… I got my money on seeing a timeskipped Saji being the ace pilot of (insert faction name here), trying to bring an end to the war while piloting (insert Greek word here) Gundam.
He needs to get laid immediately.
Maybe not as implicit as SEED was, but something that can tell us “He got laid†with Marina and continue with his inner struggles to stop the conflicts and stop fighting. Damn it, I’m still waiting for Vicent’s work on Gundam.
“but I think we’re regressing if mobile suits are whipping out swords and shields like its 1699.”
Nitpick but you must mean 1299, in 1699 firearms were already standart in most armies.
“Damn lucky control panels…”
Haha, didn’t think about that. I was comparing melonpan size and damn if Felt isn’t catching up fast at the tender age of 14. And here we had Jason thinking she was going to be the DFC of the series. And I thought that Marina was going to be the DFC but that last image has me thinking otherwise. Marina has to crash over after an all-night coding session and we’ll know for sure.
“>> Enjoyed Tieria blasting Sumeragi for her tactical deficiencies.
I rather enjoyed Tieria trying to tell Lockon he had the hots for him…”
Nah. In grand Sunrise style, Tieria continues to blast Sumeragi because she’s subconciously jealous our brunette tactical forecaster has bigger tits.
One question: If you paid Yoko up with Saiji, who would die first?
The one thing I facking facepalmed over was Sumeragi NOT switching control of the Gundams to standalone. NOOOOO. She sends them out knowing Veda could shut them down. Always at the worst time as well.
Sumeragi is the saddest excuse of a “tactician” Ive ever watching in an anime. At least the Meisters arent as bad in comparsion.
Angtsy teens are need to pilot mecha anyhow.
Sure, it looks cool, but I think we’re regressing if mobile suits are whipping out swords and shields like its 1699.
Dune?
“so you’re telling me that the ultrapowerful quantum computer (one powerful enough to run Windows Vista with the Aero interface) …” this is the most hilarious line never read in my life. I need one of this.
Humor aside, one thing that really stood out for me this ep was of course Tieria’s line which was cutoff. “Could it be you know I’m-“, I filled in “a cyborg” there, but that’s just me. :p But there has to be some kind of mechanical linkage going on there, and I wonder if that’s what he was trying to say. How it relates to what Lockon was saying I don’t know though…
By the by, is anything at all going on with Hallelujah in the near future? It’s nice he gets one cameo shot an episode, but him blowing up the facility all the way back in episode 11 can’t be the entire story Sunrise was trying to tell with his character.
Giant lapels are useful for giant collections of punk lapel badges, of course. ‘Believe in the ruins!’ . . . ‘Combat Rock!’ . . . ‘Cash for Chaos!’ . . . now that would be a suit upgrade.
Lockon will surely live on. He would become the new Mwu wearing a mask.
I need that tradmark character was missing.
Wonder if Saji would in the end meet and help out CB directly or indirectly.
“I can’t find a link, but there was an article I remember reading a few years ago about how some Japanese moms would have sex with their teenaged sons to help them focus on their schoolwork.”
SAUCE!!!
With Lockon possibly out of the picture, Saji can now, conveniently, waltz in to be the new meister of Dynames.