Gundam 00 — Episode 7
This whole episode was bullshit. HD bullshit with pretty beam weapons and better animation than episode 6, but still bullshit. Anyway, the final line by Amuro Ray the narrator did manage to catch my attention for about five seconds. Which is amazing because the line doesn’t even last that long.
「刹那、運命の人と出会う。」
“Setsuna meets the person of his destiny.”
Oh Amuro, how you have fallen… But that aside.
Marina is finally going to do something beyond her current sad-girl-in-snow-desert role! Oh wow! Shokku desu! Also, Setsuna looks like he’s about to plant a knife into her abdomen.
Okay, you got me. I am just lazy to make a full post on an episode that’s pretty much one part well-budgeted fighting scenes and one part teenage angst. Also, it’s 3:50am in the morning and I need to get some sleep.
P.S. Season 2 of G00 is confirmed for October 2008, leaving the half-year slot from April free for a still-unconfirmed Code Geass season 2.
November 18th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Gravmech:
Does that mean we will get a chance to see dominatrix Marina?
November 18th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
This review is a bit short and centralized to one certain topic. There’s still the sense of bias.
Anyway, look forward to see the episode.
November 18th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Anyway I haven’t really seen Code Geass yet, so maybe I’ll look it up sometime.
November 18th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
I’m darkdestiny, can you sense sarcasm and jokes? This wasn’t a review of the eppy. If you had watched the RAW you would know that the pic was from the preview of the next eppy. Darkmirage even wrote that this was a joke because he was too tired to write a full review. Come on, can’t you take a joke. I’m sure we’ll get a proper review soon.
November 18th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
darkdestiny, I’m frankly sick of your nonsense.
You come to my personal blog asking for objectivity? I can’t state my opinions on my own blog now? Obviously it’s bias! What the hell is wrong with you?
I have never seen a single comment from you that offers any intelligible insight or coherent argument. I seriously question the intrinsic value of your comments thus far. “This review is a bit short”? No shit Mr. Sherlock Holmes!
Also, no, there will not be a review for this episode. It can be summed up as:
1. Gundams pwned Moralia thoroughly.
2. Teenage angst.
3. Terrorists attack civilians and blackmail Celestial Being.
4. ?????
5. Profit! (for Sunrise)
So there.
November 18th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
@Bigdeath
I don’t think Marina has the personality for that but her assistant however…
November 18th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
NO, GUNDAM IS SERIOUS BUSINESS AND MUST BE TREATED AS SUCH. HOW DARE YOU NOT PERFORM THE SACRED TASK OF REVIEWING IT WITH 1000PERCENT SERIOUS? is what Darkdestiny says, translated from trollspeak.
Anyway, Marina is quite a nice lady. But G00 is good in that 16 year olds actually look like kids. Most anime 16 year olds are rather mature looking (guys, not the girls). Setsuna looks like a kid, which is how 16 year olds look like. Compare that with Bleach, whose 16 year old looks 25.
November 18th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
Calm down DM, not worth picking a fight over puritans. But I think you are right, I could still very much understand the episode despite not knowing any Japanese, which means that this episode could be considered as a HD filler.
But I think Setsuna looks really emo in that picture.
@ Beowulf : Older f*** buddy. ROFL.
November 18th, 2007 at 11:39 pm
Marina is quite a nice lady only if you assume that everyone is nice by default until proven to be a tool.
She really hasn’t done anything.
November 19th, 2007 at 12:15 am
hey guys, where can you download the episodes? i’ve got episodes 1-6.. but i’m yet to find episode 7. episode 7 has already aired.. please tell me where i can find it.. i download my gundam episodes in torrentman.com. but the earliest that i can download them are two days after beeing aired.. please do tell.. thanks!!
November 19th, 2007 at 4:52 am
Kinda intresting episode. Giving me more reason to feel that Setsuna is the emo-kid of G00 and what´s worse, he´s even more emo than Shinn was in Destiny :(
Boring episode even though it consisted of fighting. And terrorist? Nah, if my guess is right then it´s more likely mercenary acts…
Hopefully the next ep will bring back something that makes the show worth watching.
November 19th, 2007 at 4:55 am
Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnn
November 19th, 2007 at 10:31 am
Well, te comparisons between Gundam 00 and Full Metal Panic continue, Setsuna and Sagara were both child terrorists in the middle east, and later fight their previous mentors. Also that blue light emitting from Exia is comparable to the Lambda Driver. Personally, Mithril seems like a much better private military organization than Celestial Being.
November 19th, 2007 at 11:20 am
I have yet to see a GOOD private military organisation.
November 19th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
So far we’ve only seen some background of Setsuna, and Allelujah.
How about some Lockon and that annoying manwoman (maybe we’ll figure out what made him such a 24/7 bitch) ^^
November 19th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
I would like to go on the record and say that Nyoro~n Fansub had been copying my translations for episodes 5 and 6. They finally did episode 7 on their own, but the results are reminiscent of episode 3.
November 19th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
I think Setsuna is starting to get on my nerves a bit. He appears to be apathetic to everyone around him, but lacks the maturity that he’s pretending to have. Teenage angst indeed.
November 19th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
Darkmirage has been copied! Marina is good because she hasn’t exhibited any bad traits. That is how life works.
November 19th, 2007 at 6:17 pm
At least we’re beginning to see the agendas of each individual Gundam Meister a bit more clearly.
November 19th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
I thought episode 7 was okay. I mean, yeah, Setsuna’s an emo…uh, psycho? but it’s not as if Sunrise is making that out to be a good thing. I’ll find myself suitably amused seeing Setsuna do his emo thang as long as it remains congruent.
Like, it takes a certain kind of perspective to take an organization like Celestial Being seriously. Emo people are one group who might hold such a perspective. But then, the fact that the people who make up Celestial Being are all kinda nutty will certainly factor into the outcomes their actions generate.
I find it interesting that the only characterization of the meisters we have seen thus far has focused on their negative traits–as in, their unsympathetic traits. Nobody’s watching this show going “Celestial Being Whoo!”, ’cause we don’t know who to root for yet. That’s not by accident.
Anyway, I did find this episode amusing at the end. The idea that the show is basically saying “next week, we’ll show you how to deal with terrorism!” what with Setsuna’s determined way of saying it and the serious looks on all the Gundam Meisters faces is hilarious. I dunno how to word it, I just get the feeling that a lot of internet peoplez are gonna look like morons and a lot of other internet peoplez are gonna get amazingly pissed off.