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 18th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
I’ve dumped Gundam 00 so far for Rosario + Vampire. Shock Horror. rofl
Tell me when it actually starts making sense/being interesting ^^
February 18th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Forget reading the episode overview, that SAT score is amazing. O.O
February 18th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
“Also, why was Ireland attacked by a Kurdish terrorist group”
I dont understand how people think that angry Middle Eastern terrorists attacking a Western city is somehow a plot hole, or unrealistic. 9/11 anyone?
February 18th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Way to stereotype the Middle East.
All I’m saying is that Sunrise went through all that trouble to create 1) an Irish heritage for Lockon and 2) a version of world events that led to the continuation of the Catholic-Protestant conflict. Seems like it was trying to lead up to something, don’t you think?
But suddenly we now learn that Lockon hates terrorism not because of all the hundreds of bombs set off by the Real IRA in his homeland (the logical assumption given Sunrise’s painstaking set-up), but because some random Kurdish group, for no apparent reason, decides to bomb Ireland, a place of no significance. And this happened right smack in the middle of a civil war within the Kurdish Republic itself.
Why didn’t Sunrise just make Lockon English then? London getting bombed by jihadists would’ve made a hell lot more sense, and we could’ve done away with the link to Ireland, now rendered useless by the new revelation.
February 18th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Maybe they didn’t make him English because they want to point out that the Meisters all had a hard time in their life because they are part of a minority. The Kurdish have a serious conflict with the Turkish, the Irish have a conflict between Protestants and Catholics, people with different ideas of sexuality are despised by an awful percentage of humanity. Not to mention the mentally ill.
However, I still don’t get the reason for a bunch of weird kids to get chosen to save the world. Whatever.
PS: I hold no grudge against any of the minorities above.
February 19th, 2008 at 12:15 am
Well making Lockon Irish was also somewhat of a deliberate red herring, so we would suspect otherwise. Who knows what the terrorists attacked in Ireland, might have been a summit there or maybe Ireland is a bit more powerful in the future :)
At least the plot is going somewhere, I also found it hilarious that the Throne Meisters did not expect CB to go after them after they kill innocent civilians..
February 19th, 2008 at 1:02 am
rofl, wow i love whoever did this website. I mean that’s creativity for you. But sadly yes, i haven’t even seen this episode yet and it makes me just want to take a gun and shoot myself at the stupidity. Somehow the horror that i actually liked this series is upon me. I mean it had a pretty smooth beginning but i seem some GS destiny thing going on here. One hell of a beginning but the story just…kind…of…um….yeah :
And damn nice, i scored a 2300 on my first SAT o.o. -claps and passes out the cakes- I’m not alone! There are other smart people out there!
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February 19th, 2008 at 3:06 am
Sorry to nitpick but I feel it necessary to defend my post.
“Way to stereotype the Middle East”
Well, although I do also feel that the idea of a Middle Eastern terrorist is a stereotype, I feel that Sunrise obviously wanted to include modern day issues in a show set in the future. E.g Protestant-Catholic stress in Ireland.
“But suddenly we now learn that Lockon hates terrorism not because of all the hundreds of bombs set off by the Real IRA in his homeland (the logical assumption given Sunrise’s painstaking set-up)”
I definatly wouldn’t call making 1 character Irish, and a short part in a episode about the Real IRA “painstaking”. I must say it definately isn’t Sunrise’s fault you assumed something to be what it wasnt, although I do admit it wasn’t made clear.
“Why didn’t Sunrise just make Lockon English then? London getting bombed by jihadists would’ve made a hell lot more sense, and we could’ve done away with the link to Ireland, now rendered useless by the new revelation”
Why do you think that? I havent seen anything in 00 which shows England to be of any more significance than Ireland. I think you are confusing real life with Gundam.
“but because some random Kurdish group, for no apparent reason,”
The reason was given. I thought it was reasonable as poverty is a huge motivation for anger, and a turning to God, both when combined are easily used to convince people to commit acts of violence and terrorism. However I do find it inexcusable that such a major event hasn’t been mentioned in the show before now.
February 19th, 2008 at 4:58 am
Actually Darkmirage, the Ptolemaios has a GN drive; the GN barrier wasn’t formed because Dynames was docked into it. If you rewatch episode 9, the Dynames locked its foot in place on the mobile suit launcher so it wouldn’t drift. Its other foot was that temporary replacement. And if you watch that entire part, that girl working at that computer engages the GN barrier when Sumeragi orders her to do so.
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February 19th, 2008 at 6:49 am
The Ptolemaios’ GN Drive has to be regularly charged by the Gundams otherwise it will cease to function. Therefore It isnt a GN Drive, but its a bit like the GN powered Weaponry, It requires GN particles but cannot create them itself. Therefore that is why it was able to use the GN Barrier, not because Dynames was on it but because it had been charged by the Gundams.
February 19th, 2008 at 10:45 am
The whole terrorism plotline has been one of the weaker parts of the series, but I don’t see how it’s Sunrises writers fault for the culprit in Lockon’s backstory not being the obvious one. I mean just because something is unexpected doesn’t automatically make it a terrible writing choice.
Again no surprise at DM hating this episode as he has pretty much all of them. I sort of got the impression he didn’t like Episode 18 either, which would make him one of the few. As it stands I don’t imagine how anything the show can do will ever satisfy him. At least he continues to try and temper it with some constructive commentary.
February 19th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
The fifth GN drive is being used by another Celestial Being cell, as told in the comic book Gundam 00F, the group working in the shadows to help Celestial Being. It was shown in the first chapter that they have four gundams.
I got that info after reading a subbed gundam comic book from http://www.zeonic-corps.net/
February 19th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
well… Tieria gets props for trying to own the throne and pretty much would’ve if the dude with the random grin didn’t f*** ** Vader
and you know what would’ve been fun for us? if they gave them 3 REAL GN Drives one for each nation so they’d make there own gundam type mobile suits so it’d be like
Meister VS Throne VS NATIONS~~
the custom flags look friggen hawt btw