Gundam 00 — Episode 5
I don’t really like episode 5. It has zero politics and way too much Louise. Oh my god, what an annoying girl.
“I have no fashion sense.”
The episode does reveal a few things which I will talk about… But mostly it’s predictable fluff. And the next episode looks like Exia-pwnage galore… Sigh, where’s my politics? :(
America’s President visits Taribia and shakes hands with the Prime Minister. Taribia is promised material aid and an increased portion of the solar energy. See, Taribia would’ve benefited either way.
“You jump, I jump.”
Saji and Louise visits the Low Orbital Station Shinchuu (真柱) for a study trip. The name 真柱 can refer to the central pillar of a pagoda, but in this case it probably does not because that meaning has a different reading. It may mean “Pillar of Truth” in this case, or maybe not.
By the way, it seems that Saji’s sister, Kinue, does not approve of Louise. Kinue, you have my fullest support!… Wait actually I hate your brother’s face too. Never mind.
Interesting fact: The company which operates the elevator’s transport system is called “International Space Railway Transportation Public Corporation” or I.S.R.T. for short.
Also, the power generated by the solar panels is transmitted to the elevator via microwave. Why? I guess they were too lazy to lay copper wires.
Soma’s custom mobile suit, MSJ-06II-SP Tieren Tao2, makes its appearance. Why the hell is it pink? I don’t know. But since pink is closer to red than black, it should move faster than Graham’s Flag Custom.
And don’t quote me on the “Tao2″ part. The katakana says タオツー and I seriously have no idea what else it might mean.
EDIT: Apparently it might be “taozi” (written as 桃子 in Chinese), which means “peach”. I guess that makes a lot more sense than my random guess.
Allelujah gets headshot by a railgun!
Allelujah and Soma both have the Newtype flash. Oh great. I guess they will end up mating and giving birth to super Newtype Coordinator Enchanced Soldier babies or something. And Allelujah also suffers from schizophrenia, apparently…
That’s not supposed to happen…
The episode is basically about HRL’s crappy construction that can’t even take a few hits from a regular mobile suit rifle. A sector of the Pillar of Heaven’s low orbital station comes loose and starts to drift towards Earth, gradually descending to its doom! We can be sure that heads will roll in their engineering department after this.
As all physics students should know, the gravitational field strength at a certain point in space is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between that point and the centre of mass of a nearby planet. In order to stay in stable orbit, a satellite’s tangential velocity has to compensate for the centripetal force (i.e. the gravity) which it experiences.
Because the drifting block is getting closer to earth, strength of Earth’s gravity acting on it increases and it needs to accelerate to stay in orbit. Which it can’t. Oh noz! It’s hopeless! If only we were in a Japanese anime series where there is at least one dues ex machina every episode! Oh wait a minute…
Kyrios is doing push-ups
We are! Oh, how convenient.
What a big…gun
Do not try this at home
It seems that Dynames can hit things that are in orbit from the ground. That’s goddamn insane because the power of laser beams dissipates over distance due to the air and dust particles in the atmosphere.
According to the instructor assigned to Saji and Louise, the so-called “low orbital” station is actually more like medium orbital. It is 10,000km above ground, way higher than any modern day definition of “low orbit”.
So anyway, even if GN particles can somehow not decrease in intensity over huuuuge distances, it’s hard to imagine how the hell can someone aim at a target area that is a few metres wide from literally ten thousand kilometres away on the ground. Especially since you can’t adjust the trajectory after firing, unlike guided missiles and maybe even bullets.
The episode ends in tragedy as Louise, along with Saji, fails to die in a fiery unshielded atmospheric re-entry. Oh, cruel fate! T_T
The next episode is “Seven Swords” and it is about Exia showing off its…ummm…seven swords that it has hidden all over its body.
P.S. This episode has not enough of Liuming’s wardrobe changes.
Liuming’s costume of the episode
P.P.S. This episode took a lot longer to translate than I had expected, no thanks to this name list.
Half of the names there are Russian and I could barely make out the katakana… -_- The stupid thing is that the rest of the windows are in English.
November 4th, 2007 at 3:45 am
Getting nitpicky on the science in Gundam? If you’re watching any Gundam series for accurate science, you’re in the wrong place. (: For example, as another thing you could pick on if you wanted, the movement behavior in the zero-G environments in previous episodes has been laughably wrong, with no regard for Newton’s laws of motion… just like in every other Gundam series I’ve ever seen. But bad science is part of what makes Gundam fun!
In other news, I’m looking forward to this episode, as I don’t need politics to keep me happy (though I like them too), and thanks for continuing to help sub this awesome, awesome series!
November 4th, 2007 at 5:37 am
Just curious, but are you helping nyoron or some other group do the subs?
November 4th, 2007 at 5:41 am
Since the MS ist pink, it’s more like Mwu La Flagas or Neo’s unit. Those were always pink. And he wasn’t even gay. What e despicable man (though he was cool).
I didn’t find any mocking of Nyoro’S subs form you. Their transaltion of episode 4 features some good stuff….I couldn’t remember everything, but in one scene the pigtail-dude who helped to pimp the black flag said something like “With the anti G-System you can withstand even 12 Gs without Problems” while in Menclave translation it was something like “even with the anti G system fully functional you will experience 12Gs at top speed”
Isn’t that knda…differen?^^
I mean great, there “anti G” and “12 G” in both, but one is a little too optimistic?
November 4th, 2007 at 7:17 am
Actually nyoro’s subs tend to say the exact opposite:
“With the anti G-System you can withstand even 12 Gs without Problems” while in Menclave translation it was something like “even with the anti G system fully functional you will experience 12Gs at top speed”
Isn’t that knda…differen?^^
I mean great, there “anti G” and “12 G” in both, but one is a little too optimistic?
Thats not optimistic, nyoro change the meaning to the opposite of what was said.
Also, nyoro’s translation makes Marina’s advisor say that Taribia got the most out of the little “confilct” when menclave says that the usa won the most. Another case of nyoro’s translation saying the exact opposite of what was said.
November 4th, 2007 at 9:23 am
I’m starting to find these episode reviews biased. I admit I haven’t seen Gundam 00 Episode 5 yet, but a lot of emotional and personal response have been put into this commentary, and I feel strongly about it.
So the next episode will reveal all weapons of Exia, eh? So far we only seen 2 (unless there’s another sword that is revealed in episode 4. Haven’t got a chance to watch it).
November 4th, 2007 at 9:27 am
And not to forget, it’s the 23rd century. Who says microwaves aren’t allowed when wireless should own copper wires at that time?
November 4th, 2007 at 9:59 am
You guys realise that he was being sarcastic through out this review, right? He might dislike some things about the eppy but I get the impression that overall he enjoy it and looks forward for the next eppy.
November 4th, 2007 at 10:16 am
That’s what it means to be a true Gundam fan. We complain about every minor detail but we still can’t wait for the next episode. :P
andreas: I did make a small mistake for that line, but Nyoro~n’s version is totally wrong.
その代わり、耐Gシステムを稼働させても全速旋回時には12Gもかかるけどね
It should actually say “Even with the anti-G system fully functional, you will experience 12Gs when turning at top speed.”
And I am quite annoyed by the other mistranslation that was mentioned by bigdeath. Now everyone on the internet who watched Nyoro~n thinks that Marina is anti-American. It’s hard to convince them otherwise.
November 4th, 2007 at 10:28 am
I’m with you, DarkMirage. I’m still waiting for the masked warrior to appear. :)
November 4th, 2007 at 11:31 am
Entertaining review as always. I should note that Chinese subbers are translating タオツー as Taozi, or Chinese for “peach”. Appropriate…
November 4th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
Speaking of the name list on JNN screen, Saji is Saudi Arabian and Louise is Jamaican??? What’s up with that? @_@
November 4th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
blip: Ah yes that makes a lot more sense. But I was thinking that the katakana for taozi should be タオジー or something.
Tiv: Only the producers know…
November 4th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Well, since Lockon has great eye vision along with Haro helping him I think he could hit a small coin up there in space :p
His whole gundam is about aiming and firing one single great precision shoot. If he can´t use his sniper skills he just misses…
But with all this, I kinda want to watch ep 6 like now :)
November 4th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
THEY SERIOUSLY HAVE TO GIVE MARINA SOME BETTER CLOTHES! AHHHH
November 4th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Yeah, I got that too^^ My english isn’t as bad as it seems when reading my posts^^
It was more little ironic and i thouth everybody could see what I meant (and well, you did^^)
@DarkMirage: Well, since Nyoro is always faster than you, I tend to watch their subs first and then Menclave. It’s like watching two Gundam Series. Great stuff.
And I didn’t really ask myself wether Menclaves transaltion or Nyoros was correct for that line….
Didn’t you say something about..not going to be the translator for Gundam 00 a few weeks ago?^^
November 4th, 2007 at 6:38 pm
I agree with manga, Lockon`s definitely given his sniper gundam for a reason; hence his ability to hit that orbital object[with Haro`s help of course!]. Just like how you zero with a rifle, he can probably zero his shot, albeit over very long distances.
And in First Gundam, the beam rifle doesn`t fire laser beams, it fires super heated particle, so I`m guessing that it doesn`t refract or dissapate over very long distances[and the background has what seems to be extra gizmos to give his gun the extra juice needed to power such a shot].
November 4th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
Yeah, I was supposed to be transchecking…but due to unforeseen circumstances, I am now the main translator. I guess I can afford to do it for now because it’s my school holidays, but we’ll see what happens when that’s over in about 8 episodes’ time.
November 5th, 2007 at 12:19 am
I didn’t know that Dynames had such a big gun.
But judging from it, I think the GN Drive is supposed to be a perpetual motion machine with unlimited power input and output.
And the Gundams don’t really fire laser weapons, they fire something called mega particle beams made up of “Minovsky particles”. I guess you can read up the rest in wiki here….
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Universal_Century_technology
But I guess DM has a point there, even if it is a particle cannon, being able to blast the heck of a metal piece out of space would require alot of power, or else it would breaking every single law of thermodynamics. But I guess maybe this gun has got something to do with special relativity.
Well there is some bit of politics in here. This might be a jab that China made products are of low quality, with the recent spate of lead paints on toys and quality negligence cases on those MIC products.
I didn’t know that Singapore has a part to play in this anime. We have the MRT (Mass Rapid Transit), LRT (Light Rapid Transit), and in the future, we have ISRT (International Space Rapid Transit)?
November 5th, 2007 at 12:27 am
i really want conclave to have their vids for this anime so that it can be played by Divx….
November 5th, 2007 at 1:59 am
Well, peach is pink, hence the ms colour.