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 22nd, 2008 at 11:34 pm
ah ilove it so muchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh gundam oo is very cool in this episode ihope seaoan 2 will come
February 23rd, 2008 at 4:46 am
Lawl Mr. OOOOO (sorry if i somehow spelt this wrong, please forgive me) Has been so kind as to answer all of my questions in complete detail in only one paragraph. I’m rather stunned for I didn’t quite expect somebody to blow me away in such fasion. Anyways…next topic!
Ok so let me get this straight; (i have a hard time following this series because i only watch it off and on) the gundam “Thrones” can’t last forever while technically speaking the original 4 gundam meisters have an infinite power supply? Then how the hell do they keep getting beat? Honestly, if they have the equipment then maybe it’s just the pilots. They suck, they really do. The only pilot I’ve seen so far that even remotely interests me is Graham, I think we can all agree if he were to shomehow get a gundam. The entire series would become “Jesus of Graham” =D
In other reports, Setsuna is either gay or misunderstood to not go after any of the characters. I’m hoping it’s the later because the prior scares me..to death..-homophobe on the inside- and really Saji needs to just walk his punk rear back up the hospital stairs throw his girl over his arm and just pull an elvis shot and give her the ring. >.> If he really likes her this would be no problem, then again i havn’t previewed the next few episodes yet so there is no telling.
-ahem- Sorry for the long posts, I try to keep somethings interesting while others more so. Atleast I have conversation starters.
February 23rd, 2008 at 6:29 am
Congrats on SAT and when do the next episodes air?
February 23rd, 2008 at 10:51 am
Could someone confirm what Louise lost from the Trinity attack to justify her being the way she is in this episode?
1. Her left forearm
2. Her entire family
In my opinion, that’s more than enough for anyone to show distress. But as it was not very explicitly shown, did she lose her lower limbs too?!
February 23rd, 2008 at 4:57 pm
No, she only lost left hand.
In 18 ep nurse say that she lost whole family.
Some spoilers about white mobile:
http://gunota.info/index.php/2008/02/22/spoilers-ahead-gundam-00-episode20/