gundam 00 s2 6
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You know how Gurren Lagann is GAINAX trying to out-Gundam Gundam? Well, maybe Saji Crossroad is just Sunrise trying to out-Shinji Shinji Ikari.
(We’ll know for sure by next episode if Saji is pleasuring himself over Louise’s battered body. Though it would be an interesting twist if it were the other way around.)
Leave it to Sunrise to manufacture drama to the utmost. Sunrise is like internet trolls, only they animate giant mecha and enjoy resurrecting the dead.
(Emo facial distortion!)
Lost the ponytails… doesn’t change outfits anymore… doesn’t host bikini girl-ladden pool parties… what happened to you, Ms. Wong?! This is change that I can’t stand for. It’s like if Clannad had a sequel where Tomoyo turns into a stereotypical grunge-rocking, plaid-wearing, nose-ring sporting lesbian because she was dumped by Tomoya for Nagisa.
I think Graham Acre has been watching a bit too much Bamboo Blade and a bit too much Last Samurai. If I had a make a list of the funniest possible people who could be Mr. Bushido (other than Acre) it would go:
5. Hosaka
4. Negishi Soichi
3. Suzaku
2. Sonohara
1. Joe the Plumber
Sunrise is slipping on their emo facial distortions. They’re like an aging prizefighter in that regard…
I can’t wait for MS IGLOO 3: Sumaragi’s Ex-Boyfriends. Each episode could be about her devising some awesome strategy that leads her current boyfriend getting inadvertently killed, much like how the original MS IGLOO and the current MS IGLOO 2 series are going. I love to see a scene where one guy is talking to another about hooking up with Sumeragi:
“She’s hawt.”
“But you’ll be killed!”
“But the hawtness!”
(Note: can we get Yoko involved too? That’ll be perfect. I’d love to order “The Black Widow Anime Collection” on Amazon someday.)
The problem with Gundam 00 S2 (besides the fact they completely forgot about the setup from the original season) is that there’s just too many subplots going on at once, and the narrative just skips between them too much. None can be properly developed because they just don’t have enough time to flesh them out in a single episode– while this approach is fine for longer movies and such, it’s not so great for a weekly TV series. In this episode of 00, we have:
1. Saji coming to grips with his uselessness.
2. Marina coming to grips with her uselessness.
3. The Gundam Meisters trying to defend the rebels.
4. The A-LAWS trying to defeat the rebels and the Meisters.
5. Anemone debating her humanness.
6. Sergei’s son falling for Louise.
7. Nina and Ms. Wong doing something mysterious.
8. Sumeragi and her past.
9. Palin and her past somehow intersecting with Sumeragi’s.
10. Mr. Haptism pining for Marie.
That’s a lot of plot points and directions.
(This makes it really hard to write about this series since a lot of stuff happens yet nothing happens. If that makes any sense. I kinda wish they would just keep to 3 or 4 different plot lines at once.)
If that’s not a “I want to share a cockpit with her” face, I don’t know what is.
I was fully expecting Mr. Bushido to go, “It’s not impossible. I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back home, they’re not much bigger than two meters.”
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“This makes it really hard to write about this series since a lot of stuff happens yet nothing happens. If that makes any sense.”
Sounds like your typical daytime soap opera with fifteen plots that lasts decades yet seems like nothing really happens. And people come back from the dead (or just come back played by a different actor).
Let me be the first to say that I’d probably be twice as likely to watch a Clannad sequel where Tomoyo turns into a stereotypical grunge-rocking, plaid-wearing, nose-ring sporting lesbian.
>>>You know how Gurren Lagann is GAINAX trying to out-Gundam Gundam? Well, maybe Saji Crossroad is just Sunrise trying to out-Shinji Shinji Ikari.
At least every time Shinji ran away he came back and “saved the day” with EVA 01. Man, Saji dosen’t even have a mech – he has to bend all of his will to take one shot from behind the controls of a cannon.
I still can’t take Mr.Bushido seriously. I’m just waiting for all the Federation and A-Laws to burst into uncontrolled laughter when he leaves the room – or when he enters for that matter.
Negs: Only if she’s chasing Kyou and Ryou. And Kotomi. Purple Haired Alliance… mmmm.
Personally, I can’t wait for
ShinnSaiji to shoot down Louise by accident, so we can get a PROPER emo scene.I don’t follow Gundam, so everything I know is from reading summaries just because they are there, but there is something about the realism of this “real robot” show that has been nagging at me for some time now. It’s not the solar power, the international politics, the Gundam physics, the masked man, or the messed up pasts. It’s the fact that a spoiled heiress can become a mecha pilot. If this happened in real life, I would cower in terror every time a jet flew overhead. I realize that everyone and his dog can become a mecha pilot by tumbling into a cockpit and following the instructions (or lack of them), but taking the normal route is different.
I think the last time I objected so strenuously to a break in realism was when watching the male protagonist of Marmalade Boy, an average-looking guy, travel to America and slam dunk on people in a pickup basketball game.
@ Sokar:
“I still can’t take Mr.Bushido seriously. I’m just waiting for all the Federation and A-Laws to burst into uncontrolled laughter when he leaves the room – or when he enters for that matter.”
Me too! Me too!
ZOMG AHEAD IS DAMNED SMEXY OMG
…sorry, what was the plot again?
Why does the amputee get so much affection? The writers of this show has some real issues.
That is obviously a ”if only she was a man” face.
They haven’t explained why Louise has a left hand again did they? Didn’t they say that stump was forever FUBAR due to magic gundam powers and stuff?
For as silly as Mr Bushido is, I still kinda like him. He pulls it off better than previous Char clones have- the worst being Chronicle Asher, who wears the mask because he’s too big of a pansy to breath the air on Earth without it. The wuss gets beaten up and thrown out of his mech’s cockpit by a friggin 14 year old boy in his first appearance- yes, a full grown man, physically overpowered by a child. Mr Bushido is light years better than that so far in spite of being so ridiculous in theme. I’m honestly hoping he takes it further and gets a samurai themed Flag-like design in the future- something like Murata’s samurai armored, katana equipped Guarlion in SRW OG.
Also, why the hell hasn’t Patrick returned yet? I want to see the punching bag again; though Louise might have been brought in just to replace him in that job. I have to admit rooting for the poor guy as he desperately tried to not be utterly humiliated in every battle. You have to admit, they guy’s got quite a luck streak in the least considering the crap he keeps surviving.
@Niles
There was a time skip of about 4 years between season one and two. Do you really find it so far fetched that over the course of 4 years someone in the military is still incapable of using the primary military weapon of this setting?
I don’t follow Gundam, so everything I know is from reading summaries just because they are there, but there is something about the realism of this “real robot†show that has been nagging at me for some time now. It’s not the solar power, the international politics, the Gundam physics, the masked man, or the messed up pasts. It’s the fact that a spoiled heiress can become a mecha pilot. If this happened in real life, I would cower in terror every time a jet flew overhead. I realize that everyone and his dog can become a mecha pilot by tumbling into a cockpit and following the instructions (or lack of them), but taking the normal route is different.
A rich person buying into a military commission is probably the most realistic thing 00 has done, actually. Besides, she did have several years to actually learn how to do it. Her money probably bought their awesome bases and uniforms and stuff. Maybe even bought Mr. Bushido’s dumb mask.
Calling it now: Louise is a cyborg with some kind of crazy GN Particle-powered hand. The odds of this are slim, but I’d like to see her rip that glove off and go all God Hand on somebody.