Originally posted by: Mut@chi
Stupid fucking fight.

I hate this MAIN CHARACTER HAS TO WIN bullshit.
I rarely fully agree with you Mut@chi but this fight was absolutely absurd. First off Kira was in seed mode for the entire fight and while its unknown how long he had been fighting before this particular episode took place this entire fight was just plain stupid.

above and beyond everything else we have the fact that Kira no matter how distracted he was stayed to far away from the ship which is completely uncharacteristic of him. Second the Arch Angel made absolutely no attempt to fight back it has more main cannons then the Minerva by far and yet aside from one shot randomly it used none of them. Even if it was attempting to flee as they were headed for orb there is no reason once it was behind the minerva not to take a shot at there engines before it could turn around.

If that wasn't quite insulting enough we have impulse splitting up with millisecond timing of which we have never seen any hint of in the past. Actually we have seen it take much longer every other time Impulse has ever combined. Yes we can go with Shinn has improved but certain things like Freedom and Impulse fighting behind Minerva yet somehow the flyer units are making it to shinn with no delay before Kira can even remotely react understandably he was realing from the shockwave of the exploting force unit yet the Minerva was engaged in combat facing the complete oposite direction yet its able to launch 2 replacement units before freedom has any ability to react. In addition if random shots were not working with the beam riffle why wouldn't kira shoot all around shinn with the 4 other guns. If you shoot the riffle at the head and the other 4 at the arms and legs there is no way that Shinn would be able to dodge them all with no damage yet Kira could be fairly certain it wouldn't end up killing him. Then continuing to when Shinn split the unit to avoid Kira's beam saber. Having just watched Shinn seperate the unit why on earth would you aim for the torso instead of disarming the unit like he has done in every other case in GSD there is no use in disabling the weaponless leg unit when he's holding a beam saber. Which low and behold while Impulse was split in half was able to completely destroy one of Freedoms wings. on top of that when Shinn shoots the beam riffle Kira acts like he's completely disarmed I do understand he's in the process of fleeing but I see no reason for him not to disable Shinn before doing so its not like he's in any position to aid the AA and even though freedom is submergable instead of dodging kira turns around and takes a sword right through the center.

Kira will live and my guess is he asked Mwu how he survived and used his secret tactic of plot hole [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]. Also please note that if freedom did cause a nuclear blast then there is ZERO chance that the Impulse would survive at about 4 inches from it unless the average beam riffle has more force then a nuclear bomb right in your face.

Overall a abysmal episode that was no better then a clip show considering 75% of the footage was reused from both Seed and GSD. Now that this worthless token episode is out of the way perhaps GSD can take some time to do something orignal and make this series worth watching.

Please note this is after the raw and I am not yet commenting on anything actually said during this episode.