Gundam 00 — Episode 22
Once upon a time there were three siblings (one with an unhealthy obsession with his sister) living happily in the forest. One day, a big bad mercenary appeared in front of them and shot two of them dead.
When story writers run out of ideas, character deaths are the best way to emulate plot progression, just like how lazy anime bloggers write crappy episode reviews instead of coming up with original content. *cough*
Summary
“Arrrr. Shiver me timbers! There be landlubbers about!”
Lockon is fine! He needs three weeks to heal completely, but meanwhile he is wearing this pirate eye patch that is making Feldt all hot and bothered. She is jealous of the homoerotic tensions between Lockon (seme) and Tieria (uke), who by the way isn’t even human (bestiality?).
“Aeolia Schenberg hates our freedom (to kill each other).”
The UN keeps up its attack on and Trinity siblings, driving them to the brink of exhaustion. It calls its new anti-Gundam operation Fallen Angels and is taking credit for “developing” the GN-X weaponry system. Politics: take credit for everything but do nothing.
The Old Glory getting an upgrade
Graham’s Custom Flag is getting a GN drive. I guess someone took my advice on making a Flagdam! But I still think that my idea of swapping the heads make more sense since the body of a Flag is clearly not designed to disseminate GN particles…
“Setsuna, you’re our only hope!”
Setsuna decides to go down to Earth and give the UN a piece of his mind, and to finally prove to himself that his precious Gundam is the best-est Gundam in the whole world. I am Gundam! Gundam. Also, the new GN arms’ assault container can apparently launch into space by itself, so everything’s cool even though Exia can’t use the space elevators anymore. (How convenient.)
“Hi.” *Bang*
Ali, everyone’s favourite psychotic serial-killing mercenary, is back and he kills Michel within seconds of appearing in this episode. (Must be some kind of world record.) Hurray! one less annoying siscon in this world. Ali then proceeds to hijack Zwei, which has its biometric lock disabled by the hacked Veda, and pwns Johann with it.
Exia is anorexic
Exia appears in the nick of time to save Neena from certain death. I guess this means that Neena will soon turn over a new leaf, join Celestial Being and possibly become Setsuna’s personal sex slave.
Hannibal rising
Libonze finally manages to unlock Veda completely. Aeolia Schenberg’s cryogenically frozen ass shows up and he gets shot in the face a few times by Alejandro with a solid gold handgun that fires silver anti-vampire bullets.
“Oh snap! Why didn’t I keep my body in a bulletproof glass… Or didn’t I?”
But Aeolia planned for this and a hidden contigency routine in the system causes Veda to unlock all the (real) GN drives to function at their full potential. (Begging the question as to why Aeolia crippled them in the first place.) This happens just in time to save Setsuna from making a fool of himself as usual.
Red makes you go three times as fast
And by “full potential”, I mean “flamboyant red paint scheme”.
Instead of destroying Ali and ending this whole shit once and for all, Setsuna chops off a bit of Zwei and gracefully steps back to allow Ali to escape, while he hovers motionlessly in the air trying to strut the coolest pose he can muster with a bright glowing-red Gundam.
“I AM GUNDAM!!!”
Frankly I seriously don’t understand Michel’s role in this whole story; he took up way too much airtime for a character who was just there to die. But I’m just glad that he’s dead.
Screencaps
GN arms’ assault container
Sleeping beauty
Would you trust your life with this doctor? He’s clearly blind!
Feldt stalks Lockon
“Tieria, why won’t you accept my feelings?”
Training to be a whore
This makes sense…
Please do not adjust your TV
It’s funny how Gundams always hold each other like people do
Those crazy European designers
Don’t do drugs
Oh noz
The victorious hunter poses for a shot with his prize
Alejandro loves his bling
You know it’s more powerful because it glows now
This must be some kind of futuristic radio channel
By the way, Mendoi-Conclave’s release is being delayed at episode 20 due to intensive typesetting involved in recreating Saji’s cellphone messages. Don’t kill the messenger/translator!
March 9th, 2008 at 3:28 am
What do you mean “run out of ideas”? The scriptwriters ran out of idea somewhere around episode four, now they are even running out of retarded cliches and implausible plot “twists”. Bloody Dragonaut has a way better script, IMO.
Anyway, I would love to see Saji’s face when he learns that his would be boyfriend Setsuna saved the evil girl who injured Louise so terribly. :)
March 9th, 2008 at 3:43 am
*sigh*
Anyway.
In for Kaio-ken Exia and Omnislash Version 5.
March 9th, 2008 at 3:49 am
weeh, I hope all gundams got a trans-am, now the UN is in big trouble again even with a pseudo GN drive.
March 9th, 2008 at 3:50 am
I definitely enjoyed this episode, although a part of that comes from seeing Michael and Johann dead. Only one more to go! You can do it, Ali! But, my main question is why didn’t Nena use her Gundam to wrench Ali’s head off or something? It’s not like his gun can stop a giant mech. She had plenty of time to kill him while he was talking about his evil plans Although, I’m kind of grateful for that plot hole since it led to Johann’s sparkly death.
March 9th, 2008 at 3:54 am
“But, my main question is why didn’t Nena use her Gundam to wrench Ali’s head off or something? It’s not like his gun can stop a giant mech.”
Because she is retarded, as we already knew. And so is Setsuna for saving her.
March 9th, 2008 at 3:03 am
I couldn’t stop laughing when I read the “Hannibal Rising” caption. I think Trans-Am is just a new trim line for the Gundams. (Pontiac Firebird reference.)
The scriptwriters aren’t running out of ideas they’re just saving the good stuff for season two.
March 9th, 2008 at 3:48 am
i wonder if this gundam series will be like g gundam where all of a sudden these peeps gets super powers that glow and beet evryone else. but is it just me? or i just hate it when anime series makes no sence.
March 9th, 2008 at 3:52 am
LOLOL He was frozen with his monocle.
March 9th, 2008 at 4:03 am
sick ass episode. its so exciting how they just put random scenes together and it works like magic. but the downer is that they brought back some cliches. then it works out.
March 9th, 2008 at 4:10 am
I have been reading ur reviews but this will be my 1st time to post sth here.
Gundam 00 1st season is going to an end. Honestly, although it was really bored at the middle of the story…and i almost gave up expecting anything from it. After watching these latest episodes, i’ll say it is still considered as ok as a gundam series, and a lot more better if compared to GSD (i personally think GSD is a piece of junk created to boost model sales).
i had watched quite a lot of gundam series since UC series, then Gundam W, G, X until GSD…ok well…maybe the story of 00 is not supreme, but at least so far i had only seen one “repeated scene chip” in this series. that’s when Graham’s flag flied toward Dynames for the second time in episode 12. ahhh…maybe i am the only one who care, but i felt really bored when i watched those chips were reused again n again in GSD…i mean…can Sunrise be sincere at least a little bit when they were showing GSD?
i hope that there would be a twist in the last few episodes in 00 like Code Geass, but look like it’s not going to be~oh well…let’s see how it will turn out in the 2nd season…
thx for writing these reviews, i enjoy reading them =)
March 9th, 2008 at 4:24 am
I geuss reading from this review tell this wont be a pretty dull episode, considering the past action episode
March 9th, 2008 at 5:18 am
Wow… Johann’s expression in the shot where Micheal finally kicks the bucket is pretty priceless.
And Exia looks more of a pink to me. Pretty in pink…
And does this mean that the UN’s drives will be going nuts too, or is it just going to be CB’s?