Gundam 00 — Episode 21
This entry is behind schedule due to various real-life circumstances and is in no way related to the recently-released ToHeart2 AnotherDays game.
This episode has dead corpses, people getting blown up and other awesome bits of content that are not suitable for children below the age of retirement. For maximum enjoyment, please disconnect cerebral cortex and temporarily suspend high-level cognitive functions. Also, put your phone on silent mode, you inconsiderate sob!
Summary
This is mainly an action episode. HRL launches an attack against Trinity’s mountain lair in northwestern Africa, while AEU and Union cooperate to take down Ptolemaios.
No one left to pay the bills
Saji finds out that his sister was investigating on Aeolia Schenberg and goes into emo mode. Like an internet child predator patiently grooming his potential victim, Sunrise is setting Saji up to become the ultimate emo protagonist of pure hatred. Next episode: Saji finds out that Celestial Being agents infiltrated his school and gave him a failing grade for his history module.
“Look at this lone conveniently-located flower in the middle of this rocky wasteland.”
Setsuna is having (wet) dreams of Marina, which is weird considering they have only met like four times, but I guess that’s teenage infatuation for you. (Especially since Marina has the older sister thing going.) This is timely reminder to the audience that Marina still exists. I wonder how Azadistan is doing now…
Cutthroat business
Alejandro leaves no loose ends. Ragnar Harvey is dead and the Trinity siblings are betrayed.
“Madam, something’s wrong! The monochrome display is showing red!”
During the battle with the Jinxes, the Gundams get deactivated by a hacked Veda. Fortunately, Sumeragi predicted this and had Feldt and Christina prepare a “stand-alone operating system” (lol) that bypasses Veda.
“Life without love is meaningless…”
Unfortunately, it seems to work for everyone except Virtue. Tieria emos after he realizes that he’s just been dumped by Veda, his one true love.
Dynames gets forcefully penetrated
Surprisingly, Mr. Patrick Coleslawguy gets to do more than get owned in this episode. He manages to shoot through Virtue’s GN field, destroy Dynames’ rifle, and then cut through Dynames’ frontal armour while Lockon is trying to shield the deactivated Tieria from certain death. The reason for his sudden jump in performance? Apparently, Colonel Manekin promised him a kiss. (Or maybe that’s just his own delusion too.)
GN arms — Where are the arms?
The guy whose name I can’t ever remember appears at the critical moment with GN arms to save the day. AEU and Union Jinxes retreat.
Interestingly, during the two missions, exactly three Jinxes get destroyed. (At least by my count.) I’m guessing it’s one from each power bloc. I say it’s interesting because what happens if the three superpowers do manage to destroy Celestial Being, but do so at the cost of a few more Jinxes? Wouldn’t the one with the most left “win”? And shouldn’t they then be more concerned about preserving those Jinxes for the inevitable world war that is going to come next? Oh forget it, I’m sure Alejandro will deactivate them as soon as Celestial Being is gone anyway.
Screencaps
Just for the record: Yeah she’s totally dead, not counting possible zombies/clones
Those crazy Europeans and their customary greetings
Feldt uses blush! It’s super effective!
“O Soran, Soran, wherefore art thou Soran?”
“STFU.”
Sumeragi reveals her true evil plan to silence the whole Ptolemy crew with beer
“Saji, I’m sorry. I can’t issue her last paycheck because she died one day too early.”
Isn’t this from that new Appleseed movie?
Red trumps green
Sitting duck
“Noooooooooo!”
Lockon getting microwaved
“I was so blinded by my love for Veda that I didn’t realize Lockon’s feelings for me.”
Five seconds of fame
Greek gods didn’t die from a lack of believers. They died due to natural selection favouring genetic diversity over systematic incest.
March 2nd, 2008 at 11:18 pm
i think he gn x might becoe like the gm from the original series, which ws completel mass produced.
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:02 am
“Greek gods didn’t die from a lack of believers. They died due to natural selection favouring genetic diversity over systematic incest.”
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
This is going in my signature on a forum somewheres.
Oh yeah…..Saji seems to be emoing like Kamille, hopefully Sunrise will not fail as hard as they did when they tried to make Shinn into the Kamille of the Cosmic Era
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:13 am
I found out about the GN arms: not all that cool but still does the trick. I wonder if Lockon is dead PLEASE be. your the perfect one out of G00 team : Winged has cerebrul whatevevs, Exia is angst badly, and Virtue is stuck in space for all I care.yay second coment!! oh and something is wrong with the date or is it just me??
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:44 am
why isn’t anyone posting >(
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:59 am
Who would have ever thought those ridiculous spoilers about Transam to be true…
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:00 am
i would hate to be saji, eveyone around him seems get get into trouble one way or the other…
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:18 am
at least Lockon’s not COMPLETELY out from s1 like some idiot photoshopped a few days ago (it spead to seed-forums, oddly enough)
btw, did tieria activated the GN field in time 2 the beginning of the battle or did Patrick got a shot on him before it’s up?
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:22 am
Lockon getting sabered protecting tieria? Like Nicol taking Strike’s sword to save Athuran in Seed? Hmmm
Edit: Wouldn’t the GN-X be more like the Ashtrays of Gundam Seed? To me those suits are closest to performance and power of a gundam, lacking only the armor.
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:43 am
ha. honestly wow. how can saji’s life get ne worse eh?
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:05 am
Wow wow I cant wait for Menclave to release the last 2 episodes! And this blog post was one of the funniest I think you wrote on Gundam 00 darkmirage!
Anyone think that new Celestial Being Gundams are going to be coming in to the picture in the second season? Or is it just me?
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:55 am
Saji is kind of like a Key character. He get’s punished for trying to live a happy and content life.
Also don’t disconnect your cerebral cortex from the rest of your brain kids, it’s really bad for your health. I think we can better enjoy any episode of this series by paying more attention to it rather than ignoring or writing off what is going on.
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:32 am
Finally, Mr. Patrick manage to land some decent shots on the Gundam. After 21 episode, that is… Haha. Countdown to the end of season 1: 3/5?
Will Lockon be fine? The GN particle is harmful to human, right?
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:11 am
Well for the sake of keeping Louise a stumpy gal Lockon has to be severely injured, dead, or other wise maimed for life. Unless of course they find a way to reverse the GN radiation…
I am saddened that freaking Lassie was able to do something in a new prototype GN Arms that he never even used before and managed to see them all off. Still Patrick is awesome, and I think that Katie was right when she said that she would make him a man, the power of love is a curious thing.
I cannot help but feel unrestrained joy at seeing Saji’s life being destroyed, a fitting revenge given all those hateful Saji x Louise moments we had to endure.
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:45 am
Wah, Kinue ;_;
Alright, I was kinda expecting that but still. Rawr, sunrise!
March 3rd, 2008 at 6:45 am
@Crusader:
- I’d expect Lockon to be blinded after an experience like that. The irony of a sniper losing his vision…
- Lasse is the Ptolemaios’s gunner after all. Just that the ship never came with guns. So the logical thing is to get him a ship that does.
- Did you really hate the scenes with Saji and Louise that much?
March 3rd, 2008 at 6:52 am
Sunrise may put up new members of CB for the second season in October, just like what they did for Code Geass.
Fortunately they didn’t got rid of Lockon at this time of the season. But he may not be able to pilot his Gundam after this. (he should have used a beam deflecting shield when he knew times have changed with less cannons and rockets).
RmX: They say he was seriously injured. Most likely he’ll lose a limb when he was hit by the beam than he lost his sight. That is, if the beam is strong enough to penetrate through his helmet.
March 3rd, 2008 at 7:21 am
@darkdestiny: I have other reasons to believe why Lockon was blinded.
*coughhackgaglolspoilerscoughcoughhack*
March 3rd, 2008 at 7:38 am
I love the random picture comment.
March 3rd, 2008 at 8:38 am
LOL…Lockon’s jump-in scene looks like MU LA FRAGA from Gundam Seed!!
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:28 am
Poor lockon…lol I was thinking the same thing that Setsuna was having wet dreams about Marina. She’s gonna re-appear, maybe like that whole ghost of Stellar/Shinn thing. Either way, Patrick makes me laugh every time! The faces, the tumbling, he’s freakin hilarious. The GN arms disappointed me, big time. I thought it was gonna be some freakin huge system you can attach to Exia or something that gives it a giant ass sword or something like that (sort of like those attachments they gave to Kira and Athrun for Freedom and w/e suit it was Justice or something). xD I still can’t remember that guy’s name…the one who’s all muscly and stuff…Alejandro, go die, I freakin hate you now. He’s just like lol livonze, I’m so greedy, aren’t I? Hehe, I’m greedy, woohoo for me, it’s so wrong…yeah…He can go die, right now! WTF is up with Graham not being allowed to fight just because he’s still in the flag? He could have certainly done better than all of those GN-X pilots.
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:16 am
Flags don’t work so well in space or water.
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:24 am
I wonder which nation will come up with own new GN mobile suit or mobile armor?
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:51 am
WOW Saji is so gonna go SUPER EMO on every1 and start beating the shit out of CB in season 2. GAWD this is true suspense w8ing 4 each episode each week!
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Lmao heres whats rlly happening Lockon just lost all his sperm cells i mean rlly gn radiation what could it possibly do** rolls eyes**exia sucks virtue is all sad because he lost his true love and hallelujah dosent do much but misss this series rlly sucks >_> exias gonna get blown up and have a paranoid sex dream and come back in a machine with super duper luper canon>>> the rest of the characters wil all die off and we’ll probobly seee that guy dying before he gets his first kiss
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:45 pm
“Well for the sake of keeping Louise a stumpy gal Lockon has to be severely injured, dead, or other wise maimed for life. Unless of course they find a way to reverse the GN radiation”
Lockon has a twin right? I wouldnt rule out harvesting stem cells from him to ‘repair’ his damaged organs
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:35 pm
boo. lockon got locked on. ha.. ha. RIP
March 3rd, 2008 at 3:28 pm
I think Haro is going to be destroyed in the end and his twin is going to be his co-pilot in season 2.
Or his twin is going to replace him in season 2 along with Saji?
Thank goodness the last episode is going to be up before I enlist.
P.S Can’t wait for Code Geass 2!
March 3rd, 2008 at 3:33 pm
yay comments!! FUNNY comments and FUNNY blog
March 3rd, 2008 at 3:55 pm
@bevan:
ya man! you’re so right! And thanks for the reminder! He does have a twin!! maybe he’ll get repaired from his twin, or his twin replaces him and fights for him in his place eh~?
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:17 pm
the G.N. arms does attach to Exia. the model was revealed few days ago.
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Hes blind!!! oh noes now CB will make him a mask that implants to his brain with visual receptors! Nice way of making a masked character sunrise!
March 3rd, 2008 at 6:55 pm
I actually feel sorry for saji
March 3rd, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Does anybody else worry that Saji may get a Gundam and then pull a Wufei on us and name it after his Girlfriend? I don’t think I can buy a Gundam Louise… the rest of my models would die of embarrassment.
March 3rd, 2008 at 8:17 pm
I doubt Lockon’s twin will even be willing to pilot a Gundam, let alone learn how to pilot one.
March 3rd, 2008 at 9:55 pm
Saji gonna replace lockon and bacome the super smo pilot
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Ok, then we have how to create the ultimate emo-kid V2.
Injured CB member and a new unit just being “easily” introduced and saving Tieria´s ass?
I just don´t know what to think anymore, but atleast Setsuna got some new stuff into his head instead of just thinking “gundam, I´m the gundam”…
Oh well, hope they make this show worth watching later on as well. Or are they going to do a cliffhanger like they did in CG?
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Howcome when the throne gundams take a shot at virtue’s gn field it gets blocked and when the gn’x’s shoot it penetrates the field ?
I thought they had the same kind of (fake) solar furnace
March 3rd, 2008 at 11:20 pm
people sure like to retreat in these series btw,
March 4th, 2008 at 1:51 am
@Glitch: I said it before and I’ll say it again. You withdraw your troops if you have lost all tactical advantage before you start losing units left and right.
And the Thrones’ beam weapon is classified as a handgun, whereas the Jinx weapons are heavy rifles and submachine guns. I’d expect them to have more punch than the Thrones’ pea shooters.
March 4th, 2008 at 4:06 am
thanx,
smartass , I know about the retreat ,just makes it kinda borring
March 4th, 2008 at 8:26 am
I dont think any of the gundam meisters are going to die. Simply cause the ending of the episodes I mean the ED or OP whatever its called…they show all of the gundam meisters in various poses of angst and melancholy…so they will all be fine…traumatized (if not already) but fine…
March 4th, 2008 at 9:57 am
can u guys guess who triggered the withdrawal flare before the end of AEU and Union assault? there is no capital ship around and the highest ranking officer was busy trying to slice the gundams….conundrum…conundrum…conundrum
March 4th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Just so you all know that isn’t a GN arm. Based on what the guy says or what I think he says it is a Gundam that hasn’t been used for a while.
Also, this is a old thought but it still is making me wonder. You have 30 GN drives in one place I don’t care if they are fake. But you don’t have any alarms that would go off and the same with Veda’s main core. Nothing? What were you thinking!?! Nothing for just in case!
March 4th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
@hi
I’m sure that Libbons or whatever his name is deactivated any sensors or alarms considering they didn’t just WALTZ in there, but they hacked Veda and it “let” them in. Also, what are you talking about alarms and 30 GN Drives?
March 4th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
It’s not like they stole the 30 GN Drives. Ragna sold de GN Drives and the mobile suits that use them to the Union, HRL and AEU.
March 4th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
The GN Arm is NOT an untransformed old Gundam. Its an attachment like the G-defensor was for the Gundam MK. II. Just take a look.
http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/00/gnarms.htm
But I’m still wondering why they havent talked about the first Gundam ( O Gundam) or its pilot.
March 4th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
@hi
“Just so you all know that isn’t a GN arm. Based on what the guy says or what I think he says it is a Gundam that hasn’t been used for a while.”
Model kits and official info says otherwise. That it the GN Arms in action.
March 5th, 2008 at 12:14 am
Just to note: the GN-Arms are just not transformable Gundams as some have said. It has limited power (with no GN Drives).
March 5th, 2008 at 3:34 am
Ok, so i reaaaaaly wanna know why the hell is Teiria so in with Veda!!?? i wanna know if his broken heart from Veda’s repulcion was worth of our loved lockon to get microwaved???!!! i like Teria and i kind wanted to c him get to show more emotions, but this was strictly emoish. I was kind of relieved when the rest of the meisters shouted out lockon name when he was fried ( as if that’ll save him) but it shows atleast that there is a great sense of team and friendship which is kid of rare to see in other gundam series were everyone is so self -centered ( too much capitalism in their background). I just hope that someone in celestial being is more powerful than veda…..its kind of lame if the whole celestial being is just run by a weird evil computer program ( so lame , as if we didn’t c that in I,Robot and Thorn ).
I wish that ALi guy gets killed in a fist-fight or something and Setsuna shwing his Chakra hidden form!
March 5th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Anybody other than me get the feeling Tieria is a bio-android type thing?
March 5th, 2008 at 10:22 am
I think Lockon’s twin will have a part in this from here on. I don’t think it would be safe to assume that he wouldn’t. He made one, 5 second, speechless appearance, after all. We’re not even sure what he is, apart from the fact that he looks exactly like Lockon, Lockon is aware of his existence, and he has a relation to Lockon’s family. Hell, it wouldn’t even be safe to call him a biological brother. They might pull a SEED and he’d just be an adopted clone.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Setsuna foster mom… You also forgot about the greatest evil computer of all time Terminator’s Skynet or HAL 9000 from 2001 a Space Odyssey.
As for Lockons brother… Its weird. We dont even know which one went to the grave and which one was behind the tree. I though Lockon was behind the tree.
March 5th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Tiera and that guy who hacked Veda are probably clones of someone or something. Theres always bound to be some clone in a gundam series. Meh.
March 5th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Funny how Saji was trapped in a floating gravity pod due to a mishap caused by a super soldier (that was influence by a gundam Meister).
Nearly gets fried in a terrorist bombing (that happend as response against the celestial being), that was eventually crushed by the gundams.
His girlfriend loses a hand after being shot at by a throne gundam (Twice) and becomes the only survivor.
His sister (who is investigating the Celestial Being) dies, killed by one the meister’s old nemesis…
We all know he will eventually become involved in the whole gundam buisness…
Too many coincidences… Saji is litteraly the most unlucky man to have ever lived so that the gundams explicitely destroy his life with all the little things they did which oddly enough always found their way to have on impact on his existence…
March 5th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
It is going to be quite interesting in the upcoming episodes. Ali is shown to have stolen a Throne unit and I doubt he will die in this season.
I’m also quite confused. Sometimes before piloting Exia, Setsuna does an eye scan, which was only shown once, to confirm the pilot. So, does it mean if let’s say, other people scan their eyes in Exia, they will not be able to pilot it. If that is the case, I was just wondering how is Ali able to move the Throne unit as shown in the episode preview, believing that Throne does have the scanning system too.
I’m also hating Alejandro and Libbons or Livonze or even Ribbons, whatever his name is and hoped that both of them will die badly.
March 5th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
toSyndrome…yah sorry man must have slipped ma mind from frustration over Ribbons(uke) and Aljendro (rapest)
March 5th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
can people stop with the saji/lockon’s twin/etc gets a gundam thinking? thats completely impalusible, for a start, i doubt they would be willing to set foot within the cockpit of one (espicially saji considering all the truma he has suffered at the hands of anything with the label gundam), and even if they did, they would have to undergo at least a year or two of training to pilot the damn thing, time which CB does not have the luxury of at the moment, plus i doubt someone of saji’s physique would be able to withstand the g-forces involved with flying large machines at high speed
syndrome, they probably haven’t talked about the O gundam cos it is an obsolete prototype, which has served its purpose as a plot device behind setsunas motivations behind being a gundam meister, there are 3 other gundams beisde the CB ones and the thrones which haven’t got a mention in the anime either (the astrea, sadalsuud(sp?) and plutone for those who wish to know), cos they aren’t relevant to the anime’s plot
i don’t know whether to agree with the asumption that lockon is blind, it’s palusible, but the helmets have those tinted visors for a reason besides looking cool and thats to prevent that from happening (being blinded that is)
March 5th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
to random hero
hope ur right man about the lockon assumption, thought the blood floating around against gravity in the cockpit did make me wonder from where did it get there as i asumed Haro IS SITLL TALKING and he is, well, robot . and there isn’t a single shred in lockon’s suit …just the helmet is broken…in space….oneside…., so i guess him being blind from ‘one’ eye might be understandabel
March 6th, 2008 at 8:21 am
Well the thing is I’m not so much Interested in O Gundam as I am in the pilot. If Lockon is indeed dead it would seem more plausible to have them step in rather than Saji or Lockons twin.
Plus this pilot, whomever they may be, Is somewhat idolized by Setsuna . One would assume this pilot probably helped train Setsuna and was his connection to CB. I mean, Its not like he can walk into a CB recruitment office.
March 6th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
interesting idea, however there is also the chance that the pilot is long since dead, but that doesn’t mean they can’t do a flashback, it’s also possible that one of the second generation meisters had a hand in his training as well (we haven’t much about felts past and late parents either, apart from the fact that they were meisters)
i think he’s more idolized by proxy, cos from i’ve seen so far, the object of setsunas idolization has been the gundam itself, mind you what self respecting teenage boy would not idolize a giant robot, especially when they’re given one?
btw on the subject of gundams, does anyone know what those steel belts that grace their limbs are for? namely the ones covering exias shoulders and the elbows on dynmaes, kyrios and virtue?
March 6th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
I guess we are leaving marina and setsuna’s relationship is setsuna having a crush or not???
……why the hell doesn’t she tell anyone that setsuna is a gundam meister..guess she’s developing a crush on the fellow too, even though she’s like 6 yrs older than him ( check the japanese site to c that im right about the age difference …man i was shocked to know that Aljendro is in his 30’s!!!!! Man ,plastic surgery is sure c0ol in 300 yrs time.
, maybe Marina will end up like Relena Peacecraft from gundam wings with a secret brother( like Zechs Merquise ) who might be Aljendro or someone involved in the whole celestial being business.
Anyway, is it me ,or does the female HRL captain look like Teria? it would be c0o0ol if he was like the biological- mutant- android -clone of one of her long lost family members cauz she seems to be rich and coming from an elite family . ( just a thought ppl don’t go flaming me or something , im not a sunrise screenplay writer !! i wish i was i would have putten myself into the plot )
March 7th, 2008 at 5:41 am
Don’t you mean Vista? ;)
March 7th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Hahaha, nice. I love reading your captions for the screenshots. Really funny!
March 8th, 2008 at 2:42 pm
So what happened to menclave ep 20 and 21? Still not done? -_-*
March 10th, 2008 at 1:09 am
“Saji, I’m sorry. I can’t issue her last paycheck because she died one day too early.” <— lol
“Funny how Saji was trapped in a floating gravity pod due to a mishap caused by a super soldier (that was influence by a gundam Meister).
Nearly gets fried in a terrorist bombing (that happend as response against the celestial being), that was eventually crushed by the gundams.
His girlfriend loses a hand after being shot at by a throne gundam (Twice) and becomes the only survivor.
His sister (who is investigating the Celestial Being) dies, killed by one the meister’s old nemesis…
We all know he will eventually become involved in the whole gundam buisness…
Too many coincidences… Saji is litteraly the most unlucky man to have ever lived so that the gundams explicitely destroy his life with all the little things they did which oddly enough always found their way to have on impact on his existence…”
that is because he is the show’s hero
March 10th, 2008 at 11:45 am
He was never really meant to be the main hero… he’s simply an innocent bystander unlucky enough to be set up as the super protangonist of hatred of season 2.
March 15th, 2008 at 10:05 am
OH GAWD YOUR RIGHT
eeeeewww. Saji.