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 11:37 pm
congratulations on yor SAT.
February 17th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Keiichi: “Even Wikipedia says she lost her legs :P”
That, in itself, wouldn’t really matter though…Wikipedia says many things, some true but many which are just BS edits.
Still, even if she did, they should be able to give her some prosthetics limbs further down the line…if the plot demands it.
February 18th, 2008 at 1:00 am
wow, well done on the SAT, for those who don’t know its a standardized exam in the US that highschoolers must pass. The highest possible score on an SAT is 2400, To put in in context:
* Harvard - 2200
* Williams - 2125
* University of Virginia - 2000
* UCLA - 1900
* Iowa State - 1825
* Ohio State - 1800
* DePaul - 1750
* Arizona - 1700
* Indiana University- 1650
February 18th, 2008 at 1:12 am
Congrats on pwning the shit out of the SAT……you’ll probably be able to get into any college you want…..
February 18th, 2008 at 3:17 am
HAHAHA!!! Those solar furnaces are fake! They are just like those Throne Gundams’!
New MS for every party…Bandai sure likes to make money of Plastic Kits!!
February 18th, 2008 at 3:28 am
wouldn’t the world leaders get their solar furnaces from the “rat” in Celestial Being?
February 18th, 2008 at 3:38 am
They left it a bit late for the 3 nations to get their hands on how to make overpowered mobile suits. They should have had it in like episode 8/9.
Some spoilers for the next few episodes.
http://gunota.info/index.php/2008/02/12/gundam-00-episode-19-22-episode-synopsis/
February 18th, 2008 at 4:53 am
I scored 2310 for my first SAT! Woot!
NICE. I’m guessing you aced the Math section buy screwed up on CR and/or Writing. Are you planning to attend college in the US then? Come to Cornell! (People over there have it of it, I hope…?)
The highest possible score on an SAT is 2400, To put in in context:
I don’t think that list applies to DM, as he’s an international student. But whatever the case, he’s still in the 99.4 percentile. Congratulations again, DM!
February 18th, 2008 at 5:34 am
Well, I think it’s clear that those 2 observers have been hiding for quite a while. They have something white up their sleeves :D Another gundam, just what we need. That whole Louise/Saji thing was so annoying. I think that in itself was half of the episode. All answers to secrets seem to lie in Antarctica. Evangelion had some roots there, and now Gundam does too. Sadly, no penguins :( That’s exactly what Gundam 00 needs lol, a pet penguin. That whole terrorist thing was, with no doubt, stupid. Ireland/Kurdistan that makes no sense whatsoever having any conflict between them. Maybe Sunrise needed something to try and make a Meister conflict. 00 needs more Graham airtime, he’s my favorite. It’s probably because he seems to be the only normal, sensible person left in the show.
February 18th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
I second the more Graham air time. I also dont like it how the fights are soooooo short! SEED on the other hand had some awesome fights as did Gundam Wing…
February 18th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
The terrorist part is cliche. But I guess it’s just a plot device to show how the bond among the Meisters has grown, now they have better teamwork, etc etc.
Nonetheles, the fight is awesome! I’m so satisfied to see Exia destroyed the Fangs, good one to keep Michael’s arrogance down. And it’s good to see the teamwork combo and that Virtue can be swift and do stuffs other than shooting the hugeass cannon.
February 18th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
It’s quite funny that there are 30 extra solar furnaces. Just enough for eash of the major government factions to have 10! >.> Isn’t that just amazing…And here Celestial Being is acting like solar furnaces are rare. Ptolemaios doesn’t even have one. Sounds very Dues X to me.
February 18th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
@Joshou7, they are not real GN Drives, they are fake, manufactured; therefore, specifically 30 was made, it was not a coincidence, and Ptolemaios has a GN Drive, it was made obvious during the space battle with the HRL and Celestial Being, Ptolemaois had a GN barrier and they said that only 5 GN Drives should exist, 1 for each gundam + Ptolemaois.
February 18th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
Actually Ptolemaios doesn’t have a GN drive. It had a GN barrier because Dynames was docked to it. We still don’t know where the fifth GN drive is, but it’s definitely not on Ptolemy else the whole thing about Virtue having to return to space to recharge the ship’s cell would not make any sense.
And it’s entirely possible for there to be more GN drives, since it’s painfully obvious that no one in Celestial Being knows anything beyond their own operating cell.
February 18th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Err dark mirage, didnt you see allerando conner smirk when tieria was about to completely rape eins and drei in the trial mode? (cant be bothered with spelling his name properly). I highly doubt it was related to the hacking which neena did. Tieria probably mistook it.
EDIT: Fifth GN drive should be on the GN arms that setsuna will get in ep 21. One more thing CB, and not even the thrones know that those GN drives were distributed to the three superpowers.