Gundam 00 — Episode 17
Wow cool, I actually found this episode to be pretty enjoyable, not because the writing suddenly took a turn for the better or anything (it didn’t), but because it’s just hilariously entertaining.
Now I may sound like I’m being sarcastic as usual, but I seriously enjoyed the sheer campiness of this episode. It’s kind of hard to describe, but at the risk of over-simplication: the episode’s so bad that it’s good. LOL.
Summary
The Trinity siblings come aboard Ptolemaios and some awkward pleasantries follow. The facade quickly disappears though, as it soon becomes clear to the crew of Ptolemaios that the three of them are a bunch of secretive jerk wads with some serious mental health issues.
I mean, they claim to be siblings related by blood. Seriously?
“We really are siblings. I’m just really tanned, that’s all.”
Nena apparently has a thing for Setsuna. This is subtlety conveyed to the audience by having her perform a mouth-to-mouth on him within five seconds of meeting him for the first time. Girls are sure liberal in the future.
“I love rebellious guys.”
Chuuuu~
Classy. This serves as a timely reminder for the audience that, yes, Setsuna is still the main character by virtue of the fact that he gets the chicks. (Even the crazy ones.)
We discover the shocking truth that evil Haro is actually Haro’s brother! This is unexpected because a father-son relationship is the industry standard for such a situation, but more so because toy spherical robots shouldn’t have siblings! Also, we learn from a scene at the start of this episode that purple Haro is actually over eighty years old! Good lord! This means that Haro’s little harem is probably more like a grandma bridge club!
Niiiisan!
That aside, evil Haro appears to have had its memories wiped when it was reprogrammed for evil because it doesn’t recognize our poor Haro, its long-lost mechanical sibling, at all. It should also be noted that big brother Haro swears like a 7th grade Halo 3 player and has eyes that blink with a glow of +3 evil. Jeez, Sunrise is sure going all out to ensure that the audience is not confused by any traces of ambiguity in the plot, huh?
Back to the main story: The trio refuses to answer any question about themselves and, every five seconds or so, Michal threatens to massacre everyone and his/her pet dog. Their real intention soon becomes clear when Nena slips off to secretly access Veda’s terminal unit, which in the eyes of Tieria is probably tantamount to having his wife raped by a stranger. The Trinitys leave after accomplishing their goal of defiling Tieria’s precioussssss, to carry out their next mission.
The rest of the episode is basically the trio spectacularly blowing up a MSWAD base and killing two recurring characters who will no doubt soon be replaced by identical personality stereotypes.
Wow, is that a Sputnik model behind him?
It is revealed that Gundam’s power generation mechanism depends on a certain mathematical theory, topological defect, and somehow this means that the devices have to be manufactured on Mars Jupiter! The logic overwhelms. So Jupiter is in some way related to 1) evil Haro, 2) GN drives and 3) Aeolia Schenberg’s real objective. Just don’t ask me how exactly.
By the way, those Haros need to talk less. A whole lot less.
Screencaps
Trinitys’ ship has four solar furnaces on board
Eviiiiiiilll
Travel in style
Posing
Many thanks to Sunrise for the helpful gender stereotyping
Sumeragi is not fooled!
Why aren’t all Gundams black considering they can only be tracked visually in space?
*wink*
Setsuna is not amused. *tsuntsun*
“Don’t piss me off! It’s that time of the month.”
Nena inside Veda
You know Howard’s going to die because he gets more dialogue lines than usual
Eins and Drei can combine, with Eins firing GN particles produced by Drei
So who said G00 wasn’t a super robot anime again?
Howard heroically charges at Throne Zwei…
…and receives multiple penetrations
Louise sets herself up for death in the near future
From episode preview: Okay not really, but close enough
This episode calls for a Futurama quotation from good old Bender: “Bender knows when to use finesse.” And so does Sunrise. (Wonder if anyone will get the reference.) Real-life would be a whole lot more straightforward if everyone behaved like a G00 character.
P.S. Mendoi-Conclave releases are getting delayed because we are having a hard time finding our preferred HD raw. I suspect it may have something to do with this…
February 3rd, 2008 at 3:52 am
“Bender knows when to use finesse.” And so does Sunrise.
LMAO. Your right you know. Soooo from the screen caps it looks like the Thrones really are overpowered. Great, I wonder if it’ll take another 15 episodes for the three world powers to come with a plan to match thm too.
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:26 am
Wow, you really are just completely incapable of enjoying any part of this series aren’t you? No matter what angle the series takes you will still find a way to bash it.
February 3rd, 2008 at 5:27 am
The show took a bad turn. Deal with it fanboy.
February 3rd, 2008 at 5:27 am
is it mars? or jupiter?
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:02 am
ok episode … but I was really pissed Eiffman died, he was cool and I hoped he’d play a bigger role later when the two gundam teams fight but meh :)
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:07 am
Well with that the Big Three have lost what little hope they had for achieving any sort of parity with CB. In one swift stroke the Thrones have made them utterly useless. One would think that since there is a Gundam detection method that the major powers would start using to provide early warning for major installations, but no…
While the series remains campy and funny for all the wrong reasons including the irrelevance of logic, I can’t help but feel that now the the Mighty 8th is useless, and the rest of the cast out side of CB have no real role left to play but to get consistently beat even by the narrowest of margins by the almighty Thrones or get ever so close to capturing a Gundam only to be shit upon in the end by some new “development”. Barring a major upgrade to the major powers’ mobile suit inventories the only way they can compete is to throw their lot in with the hateful Sumeragi and her gaggle of idiots.
It was a forgone conclusion that Nena was going to get lovey dovey with a miester, but Setsuna?! One would have hoped that the two bit bitch would have the sense to choose Lock-on instead, but alas her stupidity was sealed with a kiss.
I hope that Ali, Soma, Sergei, Aker, Daryl, Katie, and Patrick still have some role to play, but other than being Gundam fodder I simply don’t see any hope for them to win even a single engagement now…
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:18 am
Theres one thing that’s obvious. Sumeragi will find out that the new gundams killed Elfman…
February 3rd, 2008 at 7:32 am
I think the GN-drive has to be made in Jupiter not Mars…
February 3rd, 2008 at 8:41 am
And so the pimping begins. Thank the great harem gods and their protagonist laws.
Judging from Louise’s condition in the coming episodes (too much bitching?), I think that Saji and Louise are going to become eventually more important… unfortunately. I might prefer that they stay minor, useless characters for unfunny comedic relief. It’ll be amusing to watch them get their asses thrown back and forth in the middle of a battlefield though.
February 3rd, 2008 at 8:42 am
I couldnt stop laughing after I read this blog post. Hahaha keep it up!
February 3rd, 2008 at 9:15 am
o_O at LOTR/Gollum reference…
I thought that it is Jupiter that relates to the construction of Gundams and the evil Haro’s existance. Too bad he met the “Blue Screen of Death” by the time he has somehow managed to reveal some of the secrets.
February 3rd, 2008 at 11:39 am
How is it possible to review an episode that doesn’t appear to be out anywhere?
February 3rd, 2008 at 11:52 am
Please correct me if I’m wrong and plus this was a pre comment before actually seeing the ep.
Okay Neina is like those flirty cheery girls in other anime (I just guessing) and has a dark side really dark side badder than that Indian (not trying to be offensive)guy oh yah thats Johann. Michael realllly pisses me off even in that 10 minute clip show last ep. Johann is like bomber man black yay!!! I like zwei the best cause of that blade and does fangs (rawwrrr) PLEASE die louise and saji
February 3rd, 2008 at 11:54 am
DM, it’s actually jupiter not mars.
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:00 pm
go jupiter but it makes it more stupider (pun intended) cause jupiter is a gas planet right??
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Its Jupiter not Mars.
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Yeap Jupiter is a gas planet.
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Sigh… I should stop blogging at 3am in the morning. Yes it’s Jupiter not Mars. orz
And I did enjoy the episode, perhaps not for the intended reason. But if G00 expects me to take it seriously, then it needs to go back about 15 episodes and learn how to tell a story without relying on soulless stereotypes and convenient plot devices, like PLANETES… But I guess that wasn’t Sunrise’s original creation. I just rewatched PLANETES and it keeps reminding me of how awesome G00 could’ve been with its setting.
Anyway, what’s wrong with enjoying G00’s campiness? Is there some law against enjoying crappy shows because they are crappy? Must you really pretend that G00 is a good show in order to justify your enjoyment?
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:38 pm
@Guner: Said the troll to the fan. And believe me, you haven’t even seen a fanboy yet, if you want I’ll show you one, but I doubt it, so pipe down over there or offer some reasons before hurling insults. I have every right to defend a show with my own thoughts from what I perceive as unwarranted attacks without people who think they are absolutely right coming in and offering jack all in terms of good reasons why they think a show took a “bad turn”.
As for Jupiter, obviously few or none saw any U.C Gundam as that was where the Jupiter Empire assembled it’s Mobile Suits and mined H3, the key ingredient used in the Minovsky Fusion Reactor. There is absoluely nothing incredible or outrageous about it as Jupiter has been a relevant part of Gundam history since Zeta Gundam.
I also have to laugh at DM bashing away at the episode to such an extent that he forgot the planet was Jupiter and not Mars. It sort of relieves the tension from it all when there’s a glaring mistake in the article. Gotta relax a bit there man.
The articles are amusing when you are poking fun at some of the scenes with the captions, but you’re really starting to seem like your making a vendetta or agenda of it. If the show is so abysmally awful to you, I don’t know why you agree to keep subbing and blogging it.
February 3rd, 2008 at 12:40 pm
The same reason why you keep reading my blog.
And also, as I said, the campiness makes it funny. I enjoy the show as a comedy. I wish I didn’t have to, but we all live in an imperfect world.