Originally posted by: DDBen
Originally posted by: iesu 350z
anyways shinn was avoiding the inveitable.. pft trying to save stellar? she cant even live without the dome thing she recharges in, shes bound to die, but i was laughing when shinn dropped stellar into the lake LOL boy was that amusing, this is how i saw it... she isnt DEAD yet.. shinn just dropped her into the water knowing she CAnnot swim, then realizing that she is still alive when her arms reach upwards LOL, and in his head "OH SHIT shes ALIVE!! I DIDNT KILL HER IT WAS KIRA! KIRA THAt bastard i'll get revenge!!"
This is by far the best explination of how Stellar died that I have heard [img][/img] That and it made me laugh.

Originally posted by: Jurojin
When Shinn struck Kira's shield, he first hit with the tip- because of the extreme speed he was flying, it created an incredible amount of force at ONE point, the point of contact. Shinn basically turned himself into a Gundam sized armor piercing round.
Shinn's sword piercing both the shield and the phase shift armor on its own was about as likely as him reflecting a shot from the beam riffle off of his own shield which disperses beams and melting the shoulder of freedom. Oh and also as likely as Kira never using his rail guns or wing cannons. Having now seen the subbed version of this episode I definatly feel that Kira was making it so Shinn would believe he won. Kira and the AA were aiming specifically to do as little damage as possible so Zaft would have no excuse or footage to call them a enemy. Freedom on the otherhand had already disabled several suits and thus Zaft would have footage of it "attacking them" if they needed it from the Minerva's logs anyway. So whats the best thing for Kira to do. After watching a major blast from the Minerva's main cannon he disabled Shinn's Sensors and fled into the water after allowing the sword to pierce Freedom in a noncritical location.

Also note Shinn definatly did some damage and Kira was having difficulty ignoring him however Shinn never really had the advantage in this fight. Kira cutting off the head and arm of the chest flyer was always with the intention if disabling Shinn's sensors so the AA could escape into the ocean. In the end he took the sword into his suit to get a sure fire hit on the head of Impulse making it unable to dodge or swing the sword to make a more critical hit on Freedom.

Wow, I really like this idea. And its makes sense, too. I dont think Kira intended to take quite that hard a hit (he looked a bit panicked) I agree his priority was taking out Impulses main camera... and we see absolutely nothing to show that Freedom didn't just let it self sink down into the ocean, where the AA would now be free to recover what was left. I doubt we are going to have to worry about Kira very long this time around, hopefully the next episode will show him being recovered.

All in all though, I like what you are implying. AA and Freedom "faking their deaths" so they can get back safely to Orb.