Originally posted by: splash
seriously, i dont see stellar dying in the next episode. first of all episodes were named kira and athrun in seed andthat didn mean that they were gonna die in that episode. The fact that the episode has been named after her seems to suggest her importance to the series even more meaning that she will probably stay around till the end at least before she dies(if she does). Secondly, it dusn make sense to show the destiny and the strike freedom charging towards the destroy, with stellar and shinn going against each other, unless she will stick around to for shinn to fight her in the destiny
So much for that theory. She sure looks dead at the end of 32 and in the preview for 33.

Also on your second point, I know you know this but you made a mistake in typing, it is Destiny charging Destroy in the opening, not Strike Freedom. Who knows. Maybe it will be a clone of Stellar piloting Destroy Gundam Mk.II.