Gundam 00 — Episode 18
This post was delayed because I was at three separate Chinese New Year-related social functions over the 24-hour span of period between 8am Saturday and 8am Sunday. I only reached home this morning. But fret not, for this sudden spontaneous generation of what is common known as a “life” is an extremely rare occurrence that will probably not happen again for quite some time.
Anyway this episode was pretty good except for the fact that my brain was functioning like a half-dead zombie’s as I watched it. Or perhaps that was the reason. Either way, it’s a nice evasion from what had seemed like an inevitable descend into Destiny-ville.
Summary
The Trinity trio begins its campaign of merciless annihilation as it wipes out one military base after another without provocation. The Ptolemaios crew, along with almost everyone else, is confused as to whether these violent interventions are supposed to be part of the original plan.
Tax payers’ money
Apparently the creator(s), Aeolia Schenberg or whoever he turns out to be, of this gigantic secret organization didn’t think it through very well when he/they divided the organization into so many secret cells operating independently of one another, without providing any means for them to confirm each others’ identities.
Why must technical briefings always be done in the dark?
Ian, Celestial Being’s chief technician, discovers that the solar furnaces used by the Thrones are actually knock-offs. They lack some kind of implementation which results in them having limited operating time, unlike Exia and the rest which can operate indefinitely. This is pretty damning evidence that the Trinity siblings are evil and their Gundams are probably based on technology stolen from Celestial Being by a spy within the organization.
“Farewell Howard. We barely knew you. For real.”
With the lost of Howard Mason, a previously insignificant character, Senior Captain Graham has gained a renewed determination to beat the Gundams with his Flag and avenge his fallen comrade. Howard should be glad that he is achieving far greater good in his death.
These meetings always take place in bars
Kinue meets up with the Union soldier who claims to have seen a Gundam up close during the Taklamakan exercise. Apparently he was hidding behind some rocks when Nena exited her cockpit in enemy territory so as to give evil Haro instructions at a volume loud enough for everyone in a 100-metre radius around her to eavesdrop.
It’s good practice to stretch regularly if your job involves sitting in front of a monitor all day
The convenient plot hole aside, we learn from this conversation, and a later one, that the Trinity siblings report to an entity called “Ragna”, which sounds like a pirated copy of Veda. (Without Windows Genuine Advantage™) But it could really just be some grumpy old man with a mustache. There’s not enough information to make the call either way.
Weddings are…
On the way to one of their AEU targets, the trio passes through Spanish airspace and happens to fly over a wedding ceremony attended by the Halevy extended family, which includes Louise. Nena, being a psychotic bitch, is unhappy that some people get to have fun while she has to work her tight ass off (massacring people), so she decides to have some fun (massacring people) and fire on the ceremony. Twice.
…dangerous
This wipes out the whole Halevy lineage, except for Louise. Just think of all that inheritance…
My preciousssss
Okay, so I shouldn’t be mean. Louise is completely traumatized by the incident and she also lost her left hand, leaving her unable to accept the ring which Saji spent weeks saving up for.
Guro
Emo emo emo. I am somewhat reminded of Code Geass, in a good way.
Aim for the cockpit dammit!
Finally, Johann Trinity launches an attack against the Iris Corporation’s weapon factory, which is manned by civilians, and gets pwned by Graham in a one-on-one fight over Iowa airspace. Graham is smart because he steals Johann’s GN beam saber and uses it against the Gundam Throne. But he only manages to cut off an arm.
“Exia, exterminating targets.”
And uh, Setsuna decides to take on the Thrones. I’m guessing he’s going to get pwned, so that Exia can get upgraded into Ultra Hyper Exia Excellion Infinity, maybe?
Comments
All in all, it’s an enjoyable episode with nice pacing. It is heavily plot-based, which is a good thing because G00 is really weak when it comes to character substance.
Anyway, Louise lost part of her arm. Gundam Throne lost one of its arms. Am I the only one who thinks that something may come out of this coincidence? (Gundam Louise!)
Okay, that’s probably going too far. (I hope.) But seriously, I can just imagine Louise being abducted by some top secret joint Union-AEU-HRL black project to manufacture cyborg pilots for whatever super weapon they plan to build to counter the Gundams. Maybe some really, really huge mobile armour that shoots missiles from its fingertips and add some giant lasers for good measure. And name it something that invokes a sense of doom and destruction, like “Break”, “Kill”, “Annihilate”, or even “Destroy”. Yeah.
Also, it seems that the parent organization of Celestial Being is being set up by the story for a split-up into two factions, and the worst part: Wang Liu Mei sounds like she’s tempted to join the dark side! Oh no! :O
Screencaps
“Noooooooooo…”
My, what a huge head you have
Colin Powell’s descendant?
Tieria gets cock-blocked by Veda
“Maybe those mass murderers aren’t so bad after all…”
“Why did I volunteer to pilot the cannon fodder unit?”
The purple orb at the front looks like evil Haro
RIP
WTF? Wait… Wait… WTF!?
Graham lost a few internal organs from the acceleration
This is not the “Vader” you are looking for. *Waves hands*
Isn’t that bulge on the bed a little too big?
EMO
omg no guro pls kthxbye
“That ring was frigging expensive.”
I like to play Mahjong.
February 10th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
- Nena… *sigh* How can she be so damn cute and yet so damn demented?
- About the bar scene. I swear I saw some Coca Cola and Budweiser knockoffs.
February 10th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
First!
February 10th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
damn..no 2nd =(
i cant believe nena is THAT evil, someone mention that she is against ppl dying…ummm nm =p
February 10th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
I say Saji will endup joining the Union and help Graham find a way to counter the gundams and the AEU will make Louise their poster girl in a anti CB crusade and the four gundam meister will be divide in to how to handle the trinty sibilings.
February 10th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Poor Saji he lost the receipt. If only Billy were dead and replaced by a very angry Saji ala Nathan’s proposal. I hope Nathan is right about the AEU touting Louise as the poster child for the struggle. Louise might make a few stump speechs along her propaganda tour as well.
Still it seems like a good pullout from a nose dive into disaster. Strange how Aeolia never figured out how to use “flash” and “thunder” for his dispersed forces.
February 10th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
…”I like to play Mahjong.”
Now that was random.
O ya, I can also say “WTF???” with the injured billy pic, he looks like a girl there (matchup w/teria?…j/k). And that’s a nice SS with Graham’s flag pwning Throne Eins (Though why just the FORE-arm when you can get the whole arm WITH the shoulder!?!?!?!?)
February 10th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
We can all expect some kind of technology, that reattaches peoples’ body parts, to come up, later in the series.
February 10th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Is this a sign of the apocalypse I am witnessing?
February 10th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
I think its too early for Exia to get upgraded/replaced to/with something invincible…that normaly happens somewehere in the 30th.
And I think its great that CB is so oranized that just anyone can join them, say they are part of some wing of they parental organization and they just have to believe that.Awesome security.
I’d just waltz in there and overwrite Veda with Windows Vista. They’d be so pissed.
February 10th, 2008 at 7:32 pm
this was a good episode
February 10th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Graham rocks. Totally. He just pwned Johann with his own beam saber.
@ andrea :
Maybe you should just rewrite Veda to sing Elvis Presley songs for six hours.
February 10th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Where in the rule of the Celestial Being said that they can attack civilians, especially when a happy occasion is taking place?
Anyway, it’s good to know that it doesn’t take too long for the 4 main protagonists to attack the Thrones (seriously, just about 50 mins?)
February 10th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
BTW, when I said 50 minutes, I mean the combined run time of 2 episodes.
February 10th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
There I go again, 3 postings in a role (but I’m only double-posting. The first one’s written a couple of hours before).
To Blake’s reply in the Episode 17 thread: perhaps finding the best suited atom for infinite energy generation time will most probably take a century or 2.
It’s a good thing the “overpowered” Thrones (I wouldn’t really call them Gundams) can only run for a limited period. Otherwise the entire world of military bases are a goner in a day.
February 10th, 2008 at 11:29 pm
Ultra Hyper Exia Excellion Infinity will probably be called Avalanche Exia.
It doesn`t seem to be more powerful to Exia as Strike Freedom was in his time. It got some should protectors, 6275262 swords, including a buster sword like thing.
February 10th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
@ Nathan
Or Louise and Saji make up their mind to destroy CB. Sunrise reveals the Halevy family has some crazy mobile suit industries and Louise provides Saji with a leet suit.
Setsuna either gets owned by the thrones and Exia gets upgraded to be invincible or he simply gets help from the other Meisters and the CB we know.
February 10th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Seeing how this series is 300 years into the future, wouldn’t there be advances in prosthetics or tissue regrowth here-though cost or growth replacements might be a problem?
February 11th, 2008 at 12:08 am
Well by looking at the upcoming merchandise Exia will get something like UC’s Dendrobium or CE’s METEOR, called the GN Arms (though it looks more like a smaller version of Dendrobium). Maybe he’ll get that soon after this upcoming fight in episode 19, but I have a feeling that the fight may be very short instead.
On the other hand, since Graham has managed to chop off Throne Ein’s arm and snatch a weapon from it, would that mean Gundam’s technology would be partially exposed to Union (but their systems are a bit different to the original 4 we know of)?
February 11th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Fascinating Episode.
I can definetly see Saji joining the Union military and ending up in a fight with Setsuna.
As Graham now has a GN weapon, we might actually see GN particles in use by the Union soon.
Will this be the end of Darth Vader? We will never know
February 11th, 2008 at 2:16 am
I guess its about time for Exia to become Exia Strike Freedom
February 11th, 2008 at 2:20 am
Who would let Saji pilot a freaking suit?
What’s up with sunrise and kids? Why would anyone in there right mind let a highschooler pilot a mobile suit?
February 11th, 2008 at 3:35 am
@Raphael: Avalanche Exia is only normal Exia with a bunch of boosters on it. It only has seven swords, which are oh so conveniently stuffed into its backpack. It’s likely that it won’t make an appearance in the anime.
February 11th, 2008 at 3:57 am
Exia & upgrade..
Hmmm. Arent you thinking far ahead yet?
what about the hidden special capabilities
of the Mobile Suits like the one that Tiera had.
February 11th, 2008 at 4:03 am
Well, I think it’s a bit early to assume that Saji will pilot anything. He would prolly get pwned by that w/e first name corlasawar guy. Unlike Setsuna, Saji’s got no experience in mobile suits. So unless the 2nd season is a time skip, there will be little to no chance that he’s going to participate in combat.
Personally, i think his sis is going next, seeing as how she just barely escaped death at alley, unlike that whats-his-name soldier that gave her the info. She’s stooped too far into Trinity’s space and since Nena is psychotic, i would guess she really loves that space…
My guess is Saji will somehow meet up with Celestial Being after it is witnessed that the two gundam sides actually appose each other. Afterall, there has got to be some significance to his meeting with Setsuna. If you remember correctly that one time Louise’s mom left for Spain louise was crying “I will never see Mama again” and Saji asked Setsuna to help him with her. If my guess is correct, then that was a miniaturization/foreshadowing that she would (literally)never see her mom again, and that Saji would have to ask Setsuna for help again.
February 11th, 2008 at 4:22 am
Weddings are…
a blast!
lol xD
Well, I’m curious to see what happens with the ‘real’ Celestial Being attacking the Thrones. I could see CB hooking up with the nations, at least for the time being.
Cock Block lol.
Also what will Union do now that they have a fake GN Drive (the GN saber)?
I wasn’t aware that DarkMirage was Chinese =O
And it seems that one assistant guy to the observer (green-haired young guy with the white robe thing xD) is the spy?
February 11th, 2008 at 4:29 am
I don’t think the Union can do much with the saber. Afterall, it only emits and uses the GN particles. Furthermore, it isn’t the GN drive, as far as i believe, it simply “borrows” it. And with such little information on the imperfect GN particles I would say that they could not even identify it seeing as how the closest one to do so was reduced to the atomic level.
February 11th, 2008 at 5:22 am
I don’t think that all gundams have hidden ablities like virtues. with virtues it was because exia was Gn-001, dynames was 002 kyrios was 003
virtues was 005, they are missing a 004- which turned out to be Nadeleeh.
February 11th, 2008 at 5:23 am
Raphael: The Avalanche is only an added on system that allows short burts of incredibly high speed. After it is used it has to recharge. Its not much of an upgrade, especially against other gundams. I’m willing to think that there will be some sort of upgrade to Exia though, even if it is just the Avalanche. They are gonna need it if they want to defeat the Thrones. The Thrones are powerful even if their GN drives are just knockoffs.
WebN00b: Exia does have hidden systems, but they aren’t buit in like Virtue’s is. Exia’s are things like the Avalanche.
Lastly there is only one reason I want to see Saji in a mobile suit, I want him dead. That whiny little sissy boy pisses me off. There is no reason to let him live, he has no role in this anime other than to take up free screen time. As of now he always complained but done nothing to change anything, He just tries to appease others and suck up to them. The only change I see happening is him becoming a pissed off boy who wants revenge. With his level of absolutely no experience and skill in a mobile suit, even if he manages to get in one he will get killed. And a person like that would never be allowed into a suit by any military, he’d be considered mentally unstable. As for the time skip theory where he can get some training in I don’t see that happening. The Thrones are movving to fast for that, and forcing everyone around them to move at that speed too. The fact is in the amount of time it would take a completely new pilot to get the sufficient amount of training it would all be over. I simply don’t see Saji piloting a mobile suit.
February 11th, 2008 at 6:09 am
looks like saji is going to be the next shin from gsd
February 11th, 2008 at 6:40 am
Shadow: I agree wholeheartedly that the timeskip is a bit of a bizarre idea, but no one can say it is impossible. Afterall, somehow in GSD, Shin went from n00b to Kira lvl in a span of 10 episode equivalent to about a week or so. But of course that is GSD and he did have the SEED.
As for the upgrades, i don’t think they are absolutely necessary against the Thrones. We have to admit that their weapons are, indeed, powerful. But as far as i can see they only have one advantage to the original monsters: less screentime ;). The only reason for them being able to save the gundams in ep 16 was because of a surprise attack, and the militaries lack of information. Also like in this ep we saw that Graham was able to take out an arm off because of a surprise attack, and a little bit of inspiration from a dead man, of course.
As for the Saji in suit thing, you cannot say it is impossible. Those with inspiration can sometimes exceed those in talent. If he obtains the ambition of death to gundams because of Louise, and if he has natural talent, it is quite possible. Though of course, i am defending him, and we have yet to see how he reacts to the experience. Based on his personality he would sulk, but everyone with screen-time has a purpose. If the producers were planning on killing him off they would’ve when he and louise were about to get pulled in by earth’s gravity. But i still stick to my original idea that he will probably run into Setsuna sometime or another.
February 11th, 2008 at 7:16 am
I remember recalling when Exia was fighting the uprated Enact that was piloted by Ali al Serges and he was being pwned and then at the climax Setsuna got angry and the suit used the anger and it’s blades sharpness increased and it cut the Enact’s blade in two…maybe Setsuna will figure out how to control that at will…sort of like the SEED mode…who knows…I just want my HD downloads :)
February 11th, 2008 at 7:17 am
PS: Graham is a badass.
February 11th, 2008 at 7:44 am
NENA IS SUCH A FUCK NUT. I really hope she gets her vagina ripped out and then fed to her. This episode is good for the fact that it makes me mad.
Anywho, who wants the new trio dead?
February 11th, 2008 at 8:06 am
What are you people thinking? Saji is not a fighter. He is a wimp.
The ability to fight is something that is settled for good in early childhood. He doesnt have the drive.
February 11th, 2008 at 9:00 am
Man… I guess Nena wasn’t kidding when she told Setsuna not to piss her off…she sure is crzay
February 11th, 2008 at 9:38 am
Way to be mature about this lol. Though, I would not say fighters spirit is born as much as it is developed. And Saji does have a drive, though i’m sure he might not follow it.
February 11th, 2008 at 9:58 am
Theoretically an old dog can learn new tricks. But fighting is less of a formal art and more of a basic instinct. A wimp like Saji is going to hesitate at exactly the wrong moment.
February 11th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Or alternatively, charge in blindly and get himself killed anyway. (WTB edit button)
February 11th, 2008 at 10:58 am
i just can’t imagine that custom flag of graham could eventually give even a scratch to the gundams…my opinion,at the end of this series the Union and the other factions would have probably come out with some advance suit to challenge the miesters
February 11th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Saji may have the motivation now but he doesn’t have the personality. If he does fight hes either going to be pissed or hesitant, both lead to disaster in one way or another. Most people can’t think clearly if at all when they are pissed, that isn’t something you want when in combat like that. Equally bad and more likely for him is that he’ll hesitate at the wrong moment, any of the other gundam pilots, or the Thrones, would see that and take advantage of that in an instant. Lastly even if he does have some natural talent, it still takes time and experience to develop that. Tama even in GSD don’t forget that Shin did have previous military training in addition to the SEED. A week also isn’t as implausible as the amount of time it would take to have Saji trained and liscensed to be a pilot. That would take months at best, more likely a couple years. Even Setsuna had a good deal of training with CB, he joined when he was 14, hes 16 at the beginning of the series. And the only people that would let him join are CB, the people he’s least likely to be willing to join. The military in all of the nations in this show have an age limit, at 17 I don’t think Saji will meet it. Also like I said before in his current state he’d probably be considered mentally unfit. It’s possible that he could become a pilot, I just think it’s unlikely. Personally if he does have an important role it will be something other than a mobile suit pilot. But who knows, this is Gundam we are talking about here.
February 11th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
How I just love it when sunrise cuts us off at the climax. Exia ftw! Sure hope he cuts at least one of the three into bits Dx
February 11th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Thanks to the wonders of Google, I can now say for sure that Ragna is a ripoff of Veda.
Vedas = knowledge or a fourfold entity rooted in Hinduism
Ragna = advice/counsel or gods/ruling powers; Old Norse etymology, Ragnarok is the best known usage (fate of the gods/gods’ fate)
February 11th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
is it only me or am i the only person who thinks howard graham is the best character so far? Gundams r way too overpowered, but this guy is unbelievable!!! That scene with the flag blew my mind away!! i hope he destroys all of those cocky gundam bastards.
(somehow this is the only gundam series up to date that i really dislike. especially all of those overpowered gundams and emolicious / sadistic gundam pilots @_@.) i believe in u graham!!!
February 11th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
oops i dont know how ‘howard’ got in there
February 11th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
I’m definitely getting that Graham Acre Custom Flag 1/100 Gunpla when it comes out and it’s going to be the centerpiece of my 00 collection.
Graham Acre you are now officially the coolest character in the series.
February 11th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
God, neena’s action disgusted me. I’m in the hate trinity fanclub.
anyway……
[s]CHAR[/s]GRAHAM FTW. I’m only looking forward to his gundam pwnage
February 11th, 2008 at 7:14 pm
to darkdestiny on the GN Drive: just letting u know, they dont use GN particles to produce the energy, it uses a topological defect to power it, or the decay of baryonic matter or something like that.
February 11th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Saji (real name is saji lol):
Wow cool. You can access my blog from 300 years in the future!
February 11th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Graham sure is smart to be able to take Throne Ein’s GN Beam Saber away. I’m pretty sure he will take it back for Union to do research on it.
February 11th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
The Spy in CB is definitely the observer’s assistant! The green hair bastard is Lagna!
Either Graham or Setsuna, make sure you get Nena’s head!!
Also, it would be interesting if Saji finally did a major role. Piloting a Gundam would be very surprising for a person as soft as him though.
February 11th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
I support the fact that Saji will NOT be involved in the war. It will take a couple of years to train him to be a useful mobile suit pilot. As some of you people said (or implied) his too immature to be a pilot, yet.
And there’s a difference between a Coordinator and a real human. (In this case, Shinn and Saji.)
Again, Blake, in case my information on Gundam 00 as of yet is marred by my not seeing the latest 2 episodes, please forgive me. But up to now 2 things are not certain of: where is the last solar furnace, and are the Gundam Throne units really belong to CB.
And Howard is just like Heine Westenfluss from GSD: just comes and goes.
February 11th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
“DarkMirage
February 11th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Saji (real name is saji lol):
Wow cool. You can access my blog from 300 years in the future!”
Haha, unfortunately, I’m not from the future :(. The name is Sajith, and when I was little in Japan (kyoto) they called me Saji-kun in school. And so, when I started watching Gundam 00 and saw a kid named “saji” pop up on the subtitles I almost fell off my chair. haha
-end lame story-
February 11th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
@drastikhate
More like make sure you get head from Nena.
I highly doubt Saji is going to pilot a mobile suit, all the CB pilots SO far seem to have some sort of experience with war I could be wrong and have completely missed something but whatever. I doubt an engineering student can just pilot a gundam. But id see it happening with a time skip.
But if it time skips i am TOTALLY dropping this show.
February 12th, 2008 at 12:27 am
A time skip of the appropriate length is pretty much imposible now. Before the throines it was viable. CB was maving things at a much slower pace. The Thrones have drastcially increased the pace from that though and now things are just moving to fast for any kind of pluasible time skip.
February 12th, 2008 at 1:10 am
DM, I know you’re busy, but can I request Nena and Haro’s spoken lines in the eavesdropping scene where she first cites Ragna (somewhere in the ballpark of 8:30-8:40 I’d guess)? It’d be much appreciated, and it’s only two lines long, if that makes it any better.
February 12th, 2008 at 2:02 am
i like the way you put it but since the thrones gens or knock offs then exia is going to outlast then and pwned them into the ground…..and that girl has issues kill her whole family because she has to kill other people i think she needs a pimp slap
February 12th, 2008 at 3:13 am
Louise gets abducted? Are you out of your mind?
She is DIS-ABLED for crying out loud.
My reasonable guess is Saji is going to find Setsuna for help.
In fact, Saji might upgrade Exia with GN Arms. Remember, Saji is an ENGINEER student.
(Spoiler weapon)http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/2607/79972048kp9.jpg
Saji’s Dad must have something to do with CB. In fact, his dad might even be MURDERED by CB for finding out its true intention.
Exia, Virtue, Kyrios, Virtue…they are destined to fight the 3 thrones…I heard it is all over Gundam Ace monthly already.
February 12th, 2008 at 6:03 am
Good guess on the Louise there, hope she gets gang-green.
Guess this show finally released it has a plot, about time too; comical plot holes and one dimensional characters can’t keep em going for two seasons.
February 12th, 2008 at 7:26 am
lolzzzz. I gotta be honest, I absolutely love reading your blogs, DarkMirage. Freakin hilarious. I think I look forward to what you have to say about the new gundam episodes more than watching the episodes themselves. It’s kinda confusing how Graham accelerating his flag somehow shredded some internal organs. Geez, people can go 3x the speed of light with no scratches, how could a guy in a flag get hurt like that? Unless that thing goes faster than 3x the speed of light, in which case I’d still be confused…Oh yea, ever see how the Meisters don’t have seatbelts? While they go flying forward, and smash their heads into monitors, the flag pilots are nice and safe :3
February 12th, 2008 at 9:15 am
I think GN Particles on the Gundam helped to reduce the G-effect on the Gundam Meisters, while Flag didnt have it, hence Graham have to suffer from the G-effect. Compare when you ride a bike with driving a car. At the same speed, people who ride a bike will receive higher resistance compared to people who drive a car.
Just OT: In Gundam Wing, the boys are trained to withstand the high G’s from piloting Gundams, meaning ordinary pilot who didnt receive the training will find it very difficult to pilot a Gundam (even Zechs suffer from the G-effect at the early time he pilot he Tallgeese;he piloted the slower Leo before). Different case with Gundam00 though, where GN Particles help reduce the G-effect n the pilot
February 12th, 2008 at 9:34 am
@Exiled_G: “The effects of GN Particles on physical ergonomics.” Tell me when we’ve got that figured out. =D
According to the Wiki (and I hope that it was written by someone with the proper authority), it’s the superior engineering of the Gundams themselves that reduce the excessive shock to the pilots.
February 12th, 2008 at 11:21 am
I think Louise will mature in this series so does Saji.. looking forward for their relationship, I like Gundam series because they let characters grow with the story, well the story is getting better anyway, i want more setsuna lol
February 12th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
Can we get one anime where the female teenage pilot isn’t a homicidal psycho with a bubbly personality? I don’t think you have 3 dimensions of personality if you add up all the Trinity’s together.
Your post was spot on, as usual.
February 12th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Oh my God. I think I’m developing a crush on Nena. There’s a certain dangerous thrill to that bubbly murdering slut.
February 12th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
graham sure did a job well done for a flag pilot.
too bad he cant handle the g’s though.
anyway, ill also be looking forward for him to pwn a throne unit.
February 12th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
@RmX
Well, the GN Particles did provide flight capabilities to the Gundam (like some sort of anti-gravity property), so it can be used to counter the G-effect on the Meister
February 12th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
why doesnt louise just put that frigging ring on her other hand? i hope setsuna beats a least one if the thrones!!! i love ur lil comments for the pictures on each blog there so bloody funny!! nice job darkmirage
February 13th, 2008 at 12:32 am
@GBABH
it’s because she can’t use her other hand to put it on her right hand. I think that’s what she meant.
February 13th, 2008 at 12:40 am
Or more like wedding rings are supposed to be worn on the left hand, at least going by Western and Japanese customs.
February 13th, 2008 at 10:27 am
well for the record, every gundam pilot has some type of weird traumatizing experience, and it seems that saji has just faced his, but what will he do???
I honestly think that setsuna will get his behind beaten and get kicked off as a pilot, but when he sees what happened to louise he’ll try to get back exia and kill them again. maybe.. idk..either that or saji will be chosen to pilot exia.
February 13th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Jason if you honestly think that CB would choose Saji as a pilot to replace Setsuna then no offense but you are a complete moron. Setsuna could be kicked off CB but he would never leave without the Exia. That suit is his whole life. Remember the episode when Virtue’s pilot put a gun to his head for opening his cockpit? That whole scene where Setsuna threatened that guy/girl about taking him away from Exia? He could be kicked outta CB but he’ll take Exia with him.
Also, Saji unlike Setsuna does not have any training to pilot a suit at all, nor, like i said before, does he have the personality to be a soldir of any sort for anyone. With this traumitizing experience he could get the attitude and motivation. I doubt it but the matter of training and experiece is still an issue. The amount of time it would take to train him is jsut to time the way things are moving now.
February 13th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
that’s not true! E pilot of gundam sandrock in wing didnt have any
February 13th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Post number 57, its pretty much inevitable that Exia will get an upgrade, and the fact that Saji will be involved.
February 13th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
to exiled_g: GN Particles dont create an anti-gravity effect, its just a particle thruster, like ion thruster or MPD thruster
February 14th, 2008 at 12:40 am
It may not creat an anti gravity effect, but its not impoosible that it could create a buffereing affect. We don’t know enough to say one way or the other. All we know is that they are used for thrust, as well as for weaponry and powering the suit. Thats a main point in the series. However, becuase it hasn’t really mattered as far as the plot is concerned, we don’t know what other possible uses the particles have.
February 14th, 2008 at 1:27 am
Post 59
No, people do not go 3x the speed of light in either gundam 00 or real life. Nothing except light can go the speed of light (in a vacuum) and nothing at all can go faster than it. If someone managed to go 3x the speed of light they wouldn’t just get scratches, they’d break the whole universe.
February 14th, 2008 at 3:01 am
Oh joy, fun topic ahead!
Why, specifically, can nothing to faster than the speed of light? In space you can accelerate infinitely as long as your fuel lasts, which will eventually mean you break lightspeed. Well, once we develop a very efficient kind of fuel anyway.
February 14th, 2008 at 6:58 am
Huh. No you can’t. Einstein said so.
There’s something called special relativity at work. Time slows down, length contracts and your perceived mass increases as you approach light speed. The amount of energy you need to accelerate increases exponentially as you move close to c (due to your close to infinite mass). It will literally take an infinite amount of energy to accelerate something that has mass to the speed of light. And if you do somehow travel faster than light, time will effectively flow in reverse for you.
Specifically, the Lorentz factor quantifies the degree of time dilation that occurs at different velocities, and it can be seen that traveling at the speed of light will give a divide by zero. While the equations don’t technically prohibit faster-than-light travel, light-speed traveling appears to be impossible, so no one has any idea how to jump pass that barrier.
Humans cannot currently travel at any appreciable fraction of the speed of light and at most experience a few milliseconds of time dilation over long periods. If we can travel at, say, half the speed of light, we will effectively be able to travel forward in time by leaving and returning to Earth on a spaceship.
February 14th, 2008 at 7:02 am
that is some physics! I CANT WAIT FOR EPISODE 19!
February 14th, 2008 at 7:49 am
From the perspective of the crew, you, and everyone on the planet earth, are traveling close to the speed of light.
Thats why the idea that lightspeed is the limit fails. Either both sides are right or they are both wrong, in which case we cant use time dilation, or there is some absolute measurement of speed which we have yet to discover.
You only need extre power for increased speed if there is some kind of resistance, say friction from a surrounding atmosphere. In space, there is nothing that performs this function, so every increment in speed requires exactly the same amount of power. If this was not true solar sails would not work.
Also, “Einstein said so” stopped being a cute/funny quip a long time ago.
February 14th, 2008 at 7:50 am
if they ever manage to make something that will travel the speed of light you wouldnt break the whole universe just when you come back to earth youll be in the future and everyone you know will be dead i forgot where i heard this but the math equation made perfect sense
February 14th, 2008 at 7:57 am
Honestly I don’s see us breaking reaching the speed of light as things stand. In the physical unerverse no matter what we do the laws of physics still apply I don’t care how good you technology is moving a near infinite mass at to that speed requires near infinite energy which noone can create. Now this only applies in the universe as it is. Faster than light travel is possible, but you have to bend the laws of the universe to do so. I can’t say I completely understand it but if you could cause and control a space-time alteration you could have the desired effect. Basicilly it would amount to you moving faster than light relative to the rest of the universe, but you wouldn’t actually be moving that fast in relative to whats inside the space-time alteration. This would require some extreme technology but its a better idea than trying to move an object to light speed by conventional means. And just in case somone tries to say I’m talkin about wormholes, and no offense to those who would’t but there are those out there who would, I am not talkin about a wormhole. A wormhole is basicilly just a shotcut, a tunnel of sorts. Simple example they put a tunnel in a mountain so we can just drive through it instead around it reducing travelling time. That is all a wormhole really boils down to being, a glorified tunnel.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:03 am
Guner what he said was reaching light speed is the problem. As you get closer to light speed the mass of an object increases near infinitely. Now I understand what you are saying, in a perfect vacuum the mass would not be a problem. The problem is that a perfect vacuum only exists in labarotory situations, never naturally in space. So there will be resistance making even getting to light speed, letting alone faster, impossible by conventional means in all but the laboratory circumstances.
dman the theory is that time is relative, as you speed up so does time. But only you are speeding up and not the people on earth. Now as I remember it if you travel for so long at the speed of light only that amount of time would have passed for you while a great deal more time passes for those not moving at that speed.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:03 am
What im saying, shadow, is that the Lorentz factor is probably wrong. Or more accurately, that it doesnt apply in all situations.
If so, moving at the speed of light, and faster, suddenly becomes possible. It would also mean the doors to time travel are closed.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:17 am
No Guner space is not a perfect vacuum. The definition of a perfect vacuum is that there is no matter what so ever in it. No particles no molecules, nothing. Space does have particles of matter everywhere and these particles would provide reistance to any oving object with mass. The only reason photons are an exception to this is that they have no mass.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:23 am
A perfect vacuum is a meaningless concept. It describes nothingness, which is an abstract philosophical concept with no meaning. Its something that can not exist. (which is why i edited my above comment, it was pointless)
Space is as close to that definition as we come in our universe, it just happens to be a vacuum that has things in it. A vacuum is only a meaningful concept if it describes lack of atmospheric pressure, which is the definition scientists necessarily have to work with.
Photons, to my understanding, exist on the brink between energy and matter. Supposedly they are both at the same time. Their uniqueness is what makes me doubt the accuracy of the Lorentz factor, since it is based on the fact that light always moves at c in any frame of reference. The Lorentz factor could very well be accurate for light, but that does not necessarily have to mean it applies to anything else.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:41 am
I understand what you mean now and about the edit it happened after I had posted or while I was doing so, sorry about that. My point is simply this: yes space is the closest thing to a vacuum in natural circumstances. However since there are particles in space everywhere, there is gravity everywhere. However slight the gravity is it will have an effect on everthing moving through it making light speed travel near impossible by conventional means. Not as difficult as it would be here on Earth but still it would be impossible. No matter what photons are they are the only known excpetion to this rule. The last thing that I need to say is that the objects as they get closer to the speed of light do gain mass. This has actually been proven in experiments. As the amount of mass an object has is unaffected by gravity it will gain mass at a constant rate in zero gravity as long as it moves that fast. So thats why I say that its impossible to move normal objects to the speed of light through conventional means. But yes I do understand what you are saying.
February 14th, 2008 at 8:48 am
Im not sure that the gravity of microscopic particles will have any effect. Even if it does, those tiny particles are both in front, back, and all around the ship so they should cancel eachother out.
And again, speed as measured by what? Speed is relative.
February 14th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Relative velocity “paradox”
General relativity has long since resolved your so-called relative velocity dilemma. In fact, it’s a standard question asked in introductory courses to special relativity. It has also been experimentally proven that there is mass gain and time dilation for an object travelling at high speeds away from Earth, even if you can arguably say that it is Earth which is moving away from the object.
The reason why it appears to be a paradox is because special relativity doesn’t take into account acceleration, which is covered by general relativity.
And on a unrelated note, there’s a shift back towards the idea of some kind of absolute reference frame, because measurements of Doppler effects in background universal radiation, and comparing values taken from different facings, can allow us to determine our velocity with respect to the universe. But it’s clearly not the same concept as the Newtonian idea of absolute frames, because relativistic transformations still apply.
Mass is energy
It is generally accepted that mass is a state of energy, which is part of what special relativity is about when it says that an object’s mass will approach infinite as it approaches the speed of light. Ever heard of E=mc^2?
And none of that matters anyway, since nothing mentioned so far changes the fact that your whole “if you can accelerate infinitely you will eventually hit light speed” is factually wrong. Graphs can have y-values that are always increasing but yet never ever reach their asymptotes.
Lorentz factor
The Lorentz factor, which you claim may not apply to some fantasy construct which you speculate to exist, is one of the foundations of modern particle physics, and not just about light. Even if you were to discover some new physical entities that do not experience relativistic effects when accelerating, it doesn