Gundam 00 — Episode 20
Ow, god my hurt heads. I slept on cold concrete floor last night without a proper pillow last night. I should really be sleeping early tonight…
Unfortunately, it’s already too late for that. Gah. This episode is pretty decent. I realized that the shorter each scene is in an episode of G00, the more interesting I find the episode to be. This probably has to do with the fact that I find most of the mindless dialogues boring, so rapid scene transitions serve to reset my bored-o-meter before weariness kicks in.
Summary
Sunrise covers up a gaping plot hole by having a nurse explain to Saji that Louise’s left hand cannot be regenerated because her body cells were somehow affected by the beam weapons used by the Gundams. So now we know that medical technology isn’t that incompetent three centuries in the future after all.
Saji finds out that he has to pay the bills
Of course, since Louise wasn’t actually directly hit by the beam, this raises an interesting question as to just how harmful GN particles are to human beings at long distances? Are most of the military personnels in the world impotent by now? This is a question of utmost scientific significance and requires a thorough and rigorous investigation.
Meanwhile, the three world superpowers, armed with their new secret weapons, jointly declare their intention to wipe out the Celestial Being terrorist scums for good.
That European guy is totally evil
They pledge their combine military strength to form a unified army under UN authority, giving birth to the largest army humanity has ever seen.
Meanwhile, Sumeragi orders Ian the tech guy and that male crew member, whose name I cannot remember, to retrieve and deploy the GN arms system, which is basically a smaller rip-off of the Meteor system, which is in turn a smaller rip-off of the Dendrobium system.
“So uh, we finally get to do something and possibly die soon, huh?”
Supposedly, there will be GN arms systems for all the Gundams, but so far only one is ready for deployment, which is Exia’s I guess.
Each of the power blocs receive 10 out of the 30 GN drive-powered mobile suits, GN-X, that they found in Antarctica. Imagine if the traitor within Celestial Being had decided to give them 31 mobile suits instead? They probably would’ve fought a war just to decide who gets the extra one.
What I don’t understand about the future is its preference for monochrome interfaces
The Union is assigning the Overflag pilots to its share of the new mobile suits. Graham rejects the offer because he promised Howard to defeat the Gundams with his Flag, and he is a man of his words. For god’s sake, just swap the heads or something and call it a Custom Flagdam.
That guy needs to change his barber
On the other side of the blue marble, Sergei and Soma abandon their Tierens for the spanking new mobile suits without any qualms. Patrick is busy trying to get laid and doesn’t give a damn, but he probably gets a GN-X anyway.
Is he supposed to be modelled after someone?
Meanwhile, the President of the Linear Train Corporation, Ragna Harvey, meets up with Ali to discuss the secret delivery of GN-X to the various nations. I guess Ali is not only a mercenary but a smuggler too. It sort of makes sense, since he seems to have some magical ability to hide and transport his stolen Enact around. But not really.
Evil and proud of it
Ali subtlety blackmails Ragna into arranging for him to join either the Union or AEU army as one of the pilots of the new mobile suits. Showdown with Exia lies ahead.
Kinue is stalking Ragna, who refused to accept her request for an interview. She ends up making the biggest mistake of her life by trying to pry information out of Ali. This part doesn’t make a lot of sense either. She basically asks Ali, “Hey, so what’s your secret business with Ragna?” and expects a reply. The only reason she gets one is because Ali is batshit insane…
“Stop right there. This is the hairdo police!”
…and also because he kills her after that. That’s right, with no build-up whatsoever, Ali randomly decides to stab/shoot Kinue in the stomach and leave her to die. One can never be sure when it comes to Gundam, but she looks pretty dead. Maybe she’ll be back as a cyborg reporter sent back in time to do an exposé on her own death.
It always rains when this happens
Alejandro Corner reveals his true villain self. Apparently, the Corner family has planned to usurp Aeolia Schenberg’s plans for centuries and Alejandro was bidding his time because he couldn’t do anything with Veda around. Ribonze, the green-hair uke, has the same ability as Tieria and Nena, which allows him to secretly access Veda. Thanks to him, Alejandro can proceed with his evil plans and S&M yaoi fantasies.
“I’m the bad guy. Surprise!”
They manage to locate Veda’s physical system hidden on the dark side of the moon. Man, the dark side of the moon sure has a ton of top secret stuff lying around…
Wang Liu Mei throws her support behind the Trinity siblings, an extremely bad choice that, in my opinion, will probably lead to the death of either herself or Hong Long. Probably the latter. At the very least she will surely become impotent due to increased exposure to the red GN particles. Why Liu Mei, why?
Liu Mei joins the dark side :(
The Trinity gets owned by HRL’s new GN-powered Choubu Jinx Squadron, which is a terrible name, while on a mission to destroy the League’s regional base in Guangzhou. No one dies, though.
Briareos, is that you?
Well that was a pretty plot-heavy episode. I have a feeling that the next one will have a lot more static dialogues. Sigh…
Screencaps
Europe wins
Secretary General of the UN?
This Ikeda hippie is the only foreign correspondent JNN has
It’s a phallic symbol
ZOMG who is this? Hint: Not a new character
Some things are more important than the fate of the world
Kids, this is what happens when you take candies from strangers
Face-off with Liu Mei
The HRL pilot survives, but is sterilized
Now every Tom, Dick and Harry has a GN drive
New HRL anti-Gundam tactic: Chinese martial arts
“There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it’s all dark.”
GLaDOS’s secret cake factory
I feel a little hungry.
February 25th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
where can i download this latest episode of this gundam??
please tell me because i’m very love it.
February 25th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
So the GN Drive is a fake… I guess Mr Conner don’t have the technology to properly shield the GN particles XD
February 26th, 2008 at 4:04 am
The reason Kinue died is so they can set him up to be the new Shin aka “;_; Celestial Being killed all my family/friends….now I’m angry and going to join the UN Army so I can pwn them!!!” I think Season 2 will be set primarily in space also. Haha, and yea why is EVERY SINGLE SECRET WEAPON/FACILITY on the dark side of the moon. Like wtf. That shit must be getting crowded.
February 26th, 2008 at 6:28 am
Oh my Chinese princess. I will follow you to the dark side of interventions ;_;
Patrick is easily the most realistic character in the entire franchise. Also, more spoilers prove to be correct.
It appears that the red GN drive is the superior design to the “original”. They apparently can be produced much cheaper and much shorter. Mass > Quality.
February 26th, 2008 at 7:45 am
I’m thinking Ribbons is the real mastermind here, seeing how despite Alejandro’s surprise at seeing Veda, Ribbons was smiling. I’m wondering though if those GN-X units have a fixed lifespan? Or perhaps Alejandro/Ribbons have some type of black box/self-destruct/remote control hidden away, we’ll just have to see.
Still, having these Gn-X units might help in avoiding arms buildup, as everyone on Earth has seen how powerful Gundams are even on their own. Having an equal number of GN-Xs for each nation without the ability to make more (until they go to Jupiter, which might be in season 2) might prevent overt arms races-though guerrilla warfare might occur. Also, if those red GN particles destroy stem cells, they might have other side effects on the pilots (perhaps why Michael and Nena are crazy!).
And sorry Saji.
February 26th, 2008 at 8:30 am
with the way the show goes right now, season 2 could involve saji again. there is no way a 17-18 year old engineering student could learn to pilot a gundam in the time period of a few episodes, let alone get into the army. but, he could be involved in the second season. most likely, 2nd season will have some of these characters again, it’d be kinda stupid not to. i hope it doesn’t happen just because i love seeing him fail, but louise might come back to saji. please dont omg im jinxing myself aaah
February 26th, 2008 at 8:33 am
i find it sad that while graham would be out there pwning the thrones, he has to wait. mr pat corwasar gets to go out after the ladies, though. its funny and all…but i MUST see graham pwn at least throne zwei for howard. lol in that picture where you see pat’s commander with her hair down, she almost looked like billy… o~O
February 26th, 2008 at 8:34 am
i think gundam00=all the womanly men characters. ribbons kind of looks like a girl, alejandro has semi long hair, tieria looks like a woman, and this is further added onto with the whole nadleeh thing. plus, billy looks very womanly with long hair…creepy. ali has long hair, but its too wild lol. he needs to die now please :D dont fail me setsuna!
February 26th, 2008 at 8:34 am
i think gundam00=all the womanly men characters. ribbons kind of looks like a girl, alejandro has semi long hair, tieria looks like a woman, and this is further added onto with the whole nadleeh thing. plus, billy looks very womanly with long hair…creepy. ali has long hair, but its too wild lol. he needs to die now please :D dont fail me setsuna!
February 26th, 2008 at 9:01 am
sorry about that, hit the post thing twice by accident :D anyways, i saw in the ep 21 preview a meeting between Marina and Setsuna. i was pretty sure from the start there would be something between them, might this be the episode it happens? and congratz to patrick corwasar lol, for getting a date. i always laugh at his amusing faces of joy hes always like =D YES MA’AM! and sry if it seems like im spamming, i should have just done one larger post :D
February 26th, 2008 at 9:25 am
o man somthing happened dam o_0
what happened? awesome ep thats what =D
February 26th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Kinue is probably not dead, remember Waltfield from seed and how he got fried in his suit and still survived.
February 26th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
Even though saji will probably end up as a shinn, you have to remember that he is set up better. They dont all get blasted in one go, they get slowly killed off, giving more of an effect to saji.
I think however saji is there to show how an organisation that has good intentions will never be good to everyone.
February 26th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
WTF, a bunch of traitors, 30 new Gundam type mobile suits. GAWD if I found a traitor in my company I would burn the bastard at the stake. Well at least part of CB’s goal was accomplished, the UNIFICATION of the 3 world powers. Now CB just needs to pwn those guys, I have no idea how the ef they r going to do that. But either case that GN Arms thing sounds awesome! Can’t w8 to see it in action. The next episode better be kik ass awesome!
February 26th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Gundam 00 have yet to come up with miracles of someone supposedly dead coming back well and alive. But yet it’s a 50-50 chance on whether she will survive or not.
The only clue the writer left is her losing unconscious in a pool of blood, when few people walked in the rain. Even Wikipedia had said she’s “dead”.
BTW, the showing of one reporter for JNN’s overseas news does not mean JNN have only one such reporter.
February 26th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Dan, they’ve done it before. Kira learned to pilot The Strike Gundam in like 5 minutes. He killed war veterans lol. And it was Coordinator vs. Coordinator then.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
no Coordinator vs. Coordinator
just Ulitimate Coordinator vs. Coordinator
February 27th, 2008 at 12:38 am
@darkdestiny: Wikipedia saying she’s dead doesn’t mean much you know.
I prefer the spoilers in that they say she “left the stage”, only to return later when least expected. It’s not revival, because she never died in the first place. =P
And about that JNN hippie. He’s frickin’ everywhere. That’s the point, lol.
February 27th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Dude Ali is freaking scary man, sadistic, my new fav. bad guy of the series
February 27th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Ah? Back to the old blog layout?