Gundam 00 — Episode 19
I’m dead tired. I spent the whole of Friday and Saturday directing traffic for this silly parade thing and reached home at 1am for two consecutive nights, and I didn’t even get to see the parade. Sigh.
Episode 19 is pretty damn boring and the only high point is the new insert song LOVE TODAY by Taja. But meh, I guess at least the Trinitys didn’t talk too much.
Summary
Setsuna almost gets pwned by the Fangs. Tieria and Lockon comes to aid Setsuna against the Thrones.
The Trinity siblings realized the fatal flaw in their docking system
Tieria unleashes Nadleeh’s secret power: the ability to control any mobile suit that is linked to Veda. I don’t understand why the Thrones are linked to Veda and I don’t understand what good is such a hidden ability except to fight against other Gundams, but whatever. He knocks Eins and Drei out, but the system fails before he gets to deliver the final blow. Apparently the hacking done on Veda somehow affected Nadleeh.
RaaaaaahXephon!
It’s not that Nadleeh’s secret system is particularly effective…
They are just momentarily shocked by the crimson long hair, that’s all
The battle ends in a boring draw. Before retreating, Johann tells Lockon that Setsuna’s real name is Soran Ibrahim and he was once a member of the KPSA, a Kurdish anti-government guerilla group that was responsible for the suicide bombing that killed Lockon’s family.
Setsuna lost his left eye during the battle
Louise tells Saji to go back to Japan because she knows that their relationship cannot last, and she wants Saji to achieve his dream of working in space. *Cues emo insert song*
“Goodbye Saji… I’ll miss you.”
“My ring… :(”
Frankly I think this plot development is way too extreme considering she only lost her left hand. It’s not like she’s paralysed waist-down and horribly disfigured or something…
Kinue traces the name Ragna to Ragna Harvey, the president of the Linear Train Enterprise. Apparently he is also a major stockholder of JNN. Unconcerned about the prospects of losing her job, she presses on with the investigation.
In face of the overwhelming power of seven Gundams, the various world leaders are on the brink of giving in to Celestial Being’s demands of disarmament, that is until they are secretly contacted by an unknown entity from within Celestial Being, a rat if you will.
“So you’re Kurdish? WTF I thought you were Japanese!”
Lockon and Setsuna have a small one-on-one emo talk with Tieria acting as the third party. Lockon takes out a gun and melodramatically waves it around in front of Setsuna, while delivering some of the most clichéd and uninspired dialogue lines ever. I find Lockon’s reaction to his discovery of Setsuna’s real identity to be pretty illogical.
“I am Gundam. There is no God. I can’t believe I just summed up my entire life story in two sentences.”
Also, why was Ireland attacked by a Kurdish terrorist group? I thought the whole point of Lockon’s Irish heritage was to link him to Ireland’s centuries-long religious conflict between Protestants and Catholics, which has nothing to do with any disputes between Shiites and Kurds. It’s almost as if Sunrise decided to treat all terrorists as one monolithic plot device to be used whenever it is convenient.
Down the rabbit hole
Anyway the episode ends with a bunch of Union, HRL and AEU military personals entering a secret facility in Antartica, to be greeted with what appears to be a crap load of solar furnaces. Gasp! Gundams for everyone!
The mother load
Screencaps
Ready! Fight!
Tieria misses his target
Preparing for a colonoscopy. “Nurse, get me my gloves.”
Liu Mei is one of the bad guys now :(
“Maybe I should have asked for a necklace instead.”
Chuuu~
“Nice to meet you, Saji. Please make babies with me!”
“Stupid humans.”
“No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to die.”
Relativity at work
They don’t look like Gundams to me
The fine art of stereotyping perfected
I scored 2310 for my first SAT! Woot!
February 17th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
I don’t get the caption for that last one.
February 17th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Right, because I used the wrong picture. It’s fixed.
February 17th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
We already have good and evil gundams fighting eachother. Where did Kaio go anyway?
How the hell is CB going to eradicate war if the world powers get their very own furnaces and presumably accompanying armor and weapon tech. Its just going to go back to the way it was after they eradicate CB, only with shinier toys.
February 17th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
First!!!???
It’s weird your site doesn’t show the new post, but your feed does. Good luck for me that I was going to add you to my reader. ^__^
February 17th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
I was wondering why Middle Eastern Terrorists would bother attacking Ireland when Ireland has not been actively interfering with their affairs or making promises to them. It seems that who ever wrote the script is wither ignorant about the motivations of terrorism because contemporary groups did not become powerful if they did not understand economy of force. That or they once again mailed it in. In either case it was one artificial and slightly misplaced time to generate some miester conflict. Well let’s see how the Big Three will mis use thier brand spank’in new GN Copy Drives, I hope that Patrick, Soma, Ali, and Aker get some upgrades form this bonanza but I have my doubts that this strategic resource will be used efficiently to equip the elite units of the Big Three.
Well here is to a better 20.
Grats on getting 2310 on your SAT, glad I finished doing those ages ago, I feel old…
February 17th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
The SajixLouise montage is way too freaking long…U_U
February 17th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Louise lost her left hand, both of her legs, not to mention the emotional trauma of losing 99% of her entire family tree mom, dad, aunts, uncles, grandpas, grandmas, cousins, etcetera… Of course the relationship is going down hill
February 17th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
^ Louise is seen standing so that’s not really that bad at all, afterall what she lost is her offhand so I believe she can still live on pretty well.
February 17th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Hmm, I sense the next few episodes are going to have the Gundams getting their asses kicked by the new AEU, HRL and Union Gundams (Or similar units). Culminated by Exia being destroyed in Episode 25 and it being a cliffhanger for the end of Season 1. Then Season 2 starts in October with Setsuna getting a new shiny Gundam from somewhere and the real villains showing up and saying “All is proceeding as we foreseen”.
February 17th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
She’s not standing, either leaning against the window on her bed or something else, it is clearly illustrated in episode 18 that she lost her legs when there was only a pair of shortened limbs under the blankets. Even Wikipedia says she lost her legs :P
February 17th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Crap, my bad, I didn’t watch the episode, so now I change my opinion….. WTF is wrong with Louis, it’s just a hand!! You can still make babies Jesus, Sunrise is just getting retarded now with emotional breakdowns.
February 17th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
The ‘motherload’ of Solar Furnaces (or whatever they’re called) was a bit sudden after all the buildup of making those scientist-people explain that it takes a very long time to make one and they could only be made in Jupiter. @_@
It’s almost like finding a cache of +5 Vorpal Long Swords in a D&D campaign. O_o;
Anyway, I’ll go watch it. Maybe they explain. @_@
February 17th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
@ Keiichi : I think some of her relatives didn’t attend the wedding. She could get lucky.
I don’t think she is leaning against her bed, the bed seems to be a distance from the window. Either that she is on prostheses/cybernetics. Maybe a GN drive equipped hover wheelchair?
Darky are you a volunteer at the Chingay?
February 17th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Is it thanks to Graham for taking away Throne Ein’s GN Beam Saber the solar furnaces can be built and new units using GN particles are constructed?
February 17th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Louise didn’t seem to have lost her legs in the previous episode…
BTW what’s SAT? =X