Shinsen got it first this time
Shinsen Subs - Gundam00 - Episode 8 - avi
but I'll still wait for Mendoi-Conclave... Nothing against Shinsen, but I'm sticking with what's been best so far. And they haven't made us wait much...
Shinsen got it first this time
Shinsen Subs - Gundam00 - Episode 8 - avi
but I'll still wait for Mendoi-Conclave... Nothing against Shinsen, but I'm sticking with what's been best so far. And they haven't made us wait much...
Humans are different from animals. We must die for a reason. Now is the time for us to regulate ourselves and reclaim our dignity. The one who holds endless potential and displays his strength and kindness to the world. Only mankind has God, a power that allows us to go above and beyond what we are now, a God that we call "possibility".
Okay...so now they have cloaking devices. Interesting....
That princess seems like shes more of a older sister to Setsuna then a future love interest. I kinda found it amusing that that Tieria just blew away that terrorist base with one shot. It was like Target found, firing, *boom everyone dies*, ok mission accomplished time to go home. And just when you thought that the bust size in this show cant get anymore out of control Sumaragi again never fails to surprise. Lockon being serious kinda felt weird. Anyway great episode.
"Be sure to take this piece of $#!t(meant sheet)" - My dynamics professor(heavy japanese accent)
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Setsuna is such a retard, why has he been entrusted with a Gundam?! He's always leaving behind or wasting equipment, he has a knack for letting his personal feelings led him, and he can't keep a secret or use stealth at all. Tieria should have just shot him in the back.
Anyway, the CB management never seems phased by anything that gets thrown at them so maybe it's all been going according to their secret master plan, but what the heck is that plan? The terrorism thing got the international community to 'use' them, which I guess gives them some semblance of legitimacy in the eyes of the world governments but what could they hope to accomplish?
Did Setsuna give away his identity knowing she wont believe him? Or did he just act on impulse because he was pissed at the girl's ideals? Im leaning towards the second one, seeing as to how he reacted with his reunion just the previous episode.
Peace.
Next episode seems to be an interesting and would follow the usual Gundam small amount of powerful mobile suits versus impossible odds thing.
Well, thats always what Gundam was known for anyway. Only 8th MS team showed that some Gundam Pilots can be retards.Originally Posted by animus
As for questioning Setsuna as a pilot, I'm having my doubts as well. He is far too unpredictable for a stealth mission like he got. Hence, getting caught stupidly, hence releving himself.
For all you awesome people, it's just Phoenix. The numbers are just the amount of times people misspell it.
I'm just getting tired of mission accomplished thing. Don't get me wrong love the plot and politics thats involved with this series, but it gets very annoying when ever the gundam shows up nottin can stand against it. Yes I know thats wut gundams usually are but thought it would be different in this one. As for setsuna his actions is like main character of GSD forgot his name (not kira lol) very stupid. Hopefully we get some better suit not gundam look alike but on par with them.
Bah, if people don't want Gundam staples like (Gundam >> *) they shouldn't bother with any new series that has Gundam in the title (except maybe 08th MS Team). If the producers made 00 too different from any of its other namesakes they'd lose a lot of the older fanbase that's come to expect certain things from the franchise. It's not like they're out to create some fantastic innovative piece of art, they're out to build on the Gundam franchise and reap profits from a younger generation while maintaining the interest of the older generation. Thus they are likely to keep taking the ideas of the older series, polishing them to resonate with today's younger audiences, modernizing the animation and spitting out things relatively predictable to a seasoned Gundam fan, but interesting to a new person in the same way the original (in this case Wing) was to people years ago.
But it is a tradition that eventually 'they' come up with something that can at least challenge the Gundams dominance, though the Gundams will of course be victorious in the end.
Felt is really attached to Haro. Kind of...strangely so. I don't really know anything about Haro units, so maybe that's completely normal (even if it's not her Haro unit). Maybe this is the first one ever made in this timeline, or she had some involvement with this one's development.
Or maybe she's just a 14 year old girl who likes rotund and occasionally annoying robots.
personally, i felt this episode was not as well executed as the others. it was just... ok
Hmm...I was thinking about something. It seems at least half of the Gundam Meisters have serious mental problems...possibly 3 out of four; i.e. (Setsuna was a child soldier, claims 'he is gundam', Allelujah possibly has DID, Lockon apparently had heavy childhood trauma). And I'm sure there's something with Tiera (besides being a dick). I wouldn't be surprised if they were all escaped mental patients or something. Maybe that Haro keeps Duo...err Lockon in check or something.
waited for mendoi's, so...
I liked some of it. The fact that the entire search for the terrorists was actually conducted in a very believable way (even if absurdly accelerated... it'd take months for all that stuff to come together) was something I liked, along with the conversation between Saji and his sister about CB's "true objective" and the common civilian's place in a world like this.
What I didn't like: Setsuna acting like a retard, useless fanservice, and the fact that the terrorist network had three freaking major bases. Everything realistic about terror networks went right out the door when that showed up...
Also, I realize the other countries (or at least the AEU) leaked the info about those bases so that CB could find them... but you'd think they'd have scrambled some of their own to at least show they too are trying to fight the terrorists. Or at least maybe send some observation drones to at least gather intel on CB some more...
Hallelujah's reaction to the girls' swimsuits... oh those yaoi prints are coming!
A primary love interest in a Gundam show that I don't despise? A political figure as the primary love interest in a Gundam show that I don't despise? (seriously though, I'm really liking the Azrdadwhaterstan's storyline, partly because the princess is just so genuine- and not a retard- and her subordinate seems to be pretty shrewd)
fucked up Gundam pilots isn't that strange, if you consider where CB would be recruiting them from (and that this show is almost Gundam Wing 2.0). It's strange enough, to me, that they have an ex-Union strategist (Sumeragi) with them and a HRL based intel/backer (Chinese girl)... I wouldn't really expect them to be recruiting from other countries' militaries... And you'd have to think that a child soldier, a terrorist attack orphan, and whatever exactly Tieria and Hallelujah's deals are, would make ideally motivated members. You can't expect them to be sane though.
I don't mind that the Gundams show up and wipe floor. That's why they're Gundams and every poor sap might as well be piloting a Pinto with wings. What I don't like is that each episode contains the closure of what would be impossibly complicated issues. You just don't hit three bases of a terrorist group and expect that to be the end.
Finally, I got the feeling that Felt made the Haro unit that Lockon has. How it got into his hands, I'm sure has something to do with him having no family...
Humans are different from animals. We must die for a reason. Now is the time for us to regulate ourselves and reclaim our dignity. The one who holds endless potential and displays his strength and kindness to the world. Only mankind has God, a power that allows us to go above and beyond what we are now, a God that we call "possibility".
Oh yea...I thought Setsuna was Malay, wasn't he? But I think he might be Iranian, as there was a territory in Iran with the name Azibakistan or whatever. IS he Malay, or did i miss something? Ahh...he was a Kurd, so he just might be Iranian.
Last edited by rockmanj; Tue, 11-27-2007 at 12:44 AM.
Awsome episode
I thought it was a so-so episode. I'm annoyed that the writers knowledge about terrorism is completely backwards, but what are we to expect from 30 minutes of fanservice?
Maybe in the world of Gundam, its common that terrorists work in elaborately designed bases and a big "shoot me" sign out front.
I'm just waiting for the big punchline, because it obvious that CB has something else in store. That, and hopefully some decent fight scenes.
Unless the Chinese chick intelligence service is busted in the next episode(s), this episode was as ridiculous as the previous ones. However, if the chick gets foreign agents (or HRL special forces) knocking her door, then I'll think this was a fine episode in retrospect. Because honestly she wouldn't have had that kind of access and wouldn't have received the extra intel as a "gift" unless the major intelligence services had a shadow agenda of tracking that information.
CB might have godly mechas due to Gundam traditions, that can't be helped, but if they also have a godly intelligence service compared to the agencies with hundreds of years of tradition of the major factions, then I can't help but wonder what manner of mushrooms the script writer was eating for breakfast.
Also, the princess should now be better off in her negotiations with the AEU (and the Finnish foreign minister, lol). She can give them the identity of one Gundam meister in exchange for some concretic help for her country! I guess her trip won't be a total waste of time, after all.
She didnt seem to believe him when he told her that he was a Gundam meister. But ya, she now has another card for negotiations though I doubt she'll use it.
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Yeah... I'm also afraid she won't. After all, if she did, Tieria would probably finally snap for good and place a bullet into Setsuna's skull. And that would be bad. The overly unbalanced power distribution is the only thing I don't like in this series and so far Setsuna has been the only one trying to right that wrong with his idiocy. So, it would be bad if he was gone, because the CB would be even more powerful without him.
So I guess everyone thinks that Setsuna is the greatest idiot ever for revealing that he is a gundam meister. I would have hesitated to agree, until he jhad topop his face in front of the princess inside the plane again. Granted, he might not know she is there, but if he did, it is like confirming his identity.
Does the princess really not believe him? Or is she just in denial, thinking that the conflict from before (from which she feels guilt) is a key part of the current CB fiasco (which she despises)?
Peace.
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