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 5:24 am
Thus did Ali reclaim his crown as the best pilot in Gundam 00 he has killed 2 meisters while Patrick has only wounded one. I agree that the writers are kind of scraping the bottom of barrel when it comes to idea. Their solution to every ass kicking the Gundams get it so give them more upgrades and we get GN-Arms and Trans-am in two episodes. KITT is going to be inevitable at this rate. They could just try and let the meisters become better pilots but no Setsuna is special he gets upgrades to he can beat Ali while not really changing as a character.
It is rather ironic that Patrick is still the guy who has changed the most since the series started. All Tieria has done is go Boku, Lockon has yet to embrace his new pirate career, and the twit Setsuna is still going I am Gundamu.
March 9th, 2008 at 5:44 am
I think Saji will be the person to crack the Trans-Am problem and join Ali
March 9th, 2008 at 5:48 am
Kaio-ken Exia did it for me. Now I wait for SSJ Exia.
Admit it, you’re all giddy and excited and waiting for new episodes like there’s no tomorrow. zomgggg!!@#
and yea, about effing time those dudes died but what’s going to happen to that VEDA moon base?
March 9th, 2008 at 6:11 am
Alejandro has a golden gun? Is he from James Bond or what?
I wonder how Marina is feeling after Setsuna cheated on her……
March 9th, 2008 at 6:33 am
Are Conclave-Mendoi translating episodes anymore? their new site hasn’t had anything since episode 19 :(
March 9th, 2008 at 6:44 am
Ali and Michael need to get off the fucking drugs now. The screenshots are funnier to me because I just saw Across the Universe last night.
Oh wait, I take that back. Michael’s dead on the 5th episode of his useless existence in Gundam 00, so I guess the drug comment just applies to Ali now.
Srsly, Exia Rouge now? His last Gundam in this series is probably going to have GN Fang wings, given to him by the peace loving celebrity Marina, who will enable her own red battleship to take down the giant weapon of mass-destruction in the sky.
Or perhaps it’ll take the Gundam Wing turn? Throw a chunk of a conveniently placed battle station to the earth, have Exia Freedom jack Infinite Virtue’s mega beam cannon buster rifle to blow it up in the middle of its descent?
This series seems like they’re just making shit up as they go. I’m not complaining though. The sadder Saji gets, the more I laugh at his plight (wonder what they’re going to do next. re-kill his parents?), and I’m betting Marina is just about 10-30 episodes away from getting blown up so that Setsuna can activate his ultimate Veda GT series Trans-am KISS-FM berserking SEED mode in anger at his fallen potential elderly sex slave.
@ZeeTwentyFour: Read the last lines in DM’s review.
March 9th, 2008 at 7:11 am
My bad. I try not reading the reviews cus I don’t wanna ruin the episode for myself. Thank you
March 9th, 2008 at 7:35 am
It seems that Ali is working for Alejandro, or else he won’t be able to unlock the biometric lock on Zwei; also i think Ali admits he killed Lagua, make me wonder if he would turnon Alejandro sometime soon
March 9th, 2008 at 8:44 am
(never mind… should reload the page before replying)
March 9th, 2008 at 8:46 am
What I’m wondering was that scene after the announcement of the fallen angels operation at the HRL base, were they siphoning GN particles off the GN-X’s or were they charging the GN-X’s?
March 9th, 2008 at 8:51 am
brilliant! i really “love” this storyline =]
March 9th, 2008 at 9:01 am
until i saw ali kill johann did i not realize how beautiful death can be (jk)
March 9th, 2008 at 9:03 am
With Aeolia dead, i wonder how the plan was suppose to go. Maybe he predicted all of this ala Foundation style. Also Dynames is in the preview so they must have fixed it by the next episode.
March 9th, 2008 at 10:39 am
At the rate the discussion here is going, I won’t be surprised if The Meister shows up here sooner or later. :p
March 9th, 2008 at 10:58 am
@ Crusader: isn’t Veda = KITT? :-P
btw, notice Exia was NOT emitting (as much) GN particles…
March 9th, 2008 at 11:08 am
@crusader:
The best pilot in the series is still Graham Aker :)
March 9th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Yeah…confound those bloggers with their laziness.
March 9th, 2008 at 11:51 am
OK, guess I was half right the last time. Only one of the Thrones survived, the one being Nena. (Or was I fully right? And who leaked the information of the last few episodes into the rumours?)
Yeah, I was wondering about Menclave too. Been 3 weeks and they haven’t released the last few episodes, with all their status of each episode stuck at one point.
March 9th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
It just came to me. <__< Can you imagine what a casual day at the Gundam storyboard meetings when they run out of fresh content?
“Hey, Joe.”
“Hey man.”
“I’m all out of ideas.”
“Who are we going to kill off this episode then?”
“I say we kill off a couple Gundam pilots and we’ll say that Aeolia is alive so that we can kill him off too. That’s gonna leave a mark.”
Seriously though, sometimes I wonder if these plot twists are just spurs of the mind during the weekly storyboard process or whether it was all planned. I mean, hell, the first OP didn’t have the Gundams with their newer gear, and Louise still has a left hand in the second OP and ED. The twists can be nice though. I love how Saji is getting rocked back and forth and would probably eventually do something that seriously fucks Setsuna up. Like killing Marina or making him lose a left hand. (ironic, yet misplaced punishment FTW!)
x___x;; rant over. -runs off-
@darkdestiny: The typesetter is having problems with Saji’s damn text messages, so it’ll be a while. I don’t think there are any real problems, just that the subbing is being a bitch for episode 20, and you can’t really TS 21 and 22 while the typesetter is busy getting fucked over by Sunrise, and you can’t exactly do the work for subbing that requires the finished typesetting either.
March 9th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
I guess the only reason that Aeolia didn’t want to release the full potential of the GN Drive until now is that he wanted to make sure that his decision to see if any of the generations are in fact ready to be dedicated as Gundam Meisters.
Another possible reason: he have been waiting for anyone in the Corner family to attack his body so he can use this opportunity to stop anyone from thinking that they had foiled his plans.
But with the death of his body, I feel Veda will be destroyed or, ta least, locked so no one can access the data anymore.