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 10th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
too the ppl who read the above comment , i had mistaken ’series ‘ with serious ….excuz the fast typiiiing nut-case
I thought this plot was actully going somewhere….hate to c the same idea of a gundam series since 1993 (ninja robots and his mates of robotnic animes)
I love CodeGeass now! i thought this would make me forget that emo-clamp gudam anime …but i think ( as long as the plot is getting dusty in 00) i’ll become Lelouch’s pizzaHut Delivery slave.
March 10th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
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March 11th, 2008 at 1:53 am
I’ve seen all the Gundam series, with the exeption of the horrid Gundam G, and now i’m sure that Gundam 00 is trying to surpass G
In this episode Lockon could heal completely after 3 weeks of cryogenic sleep, but instead keeps to walk around saying he is needed, 10 seconds later you see that his Gundam is Irreparable and need months to be replaced…
Ali kills 2 trinity brothers with a cowboy style shooting, and Neena, who was seeing it from his Gundam, instead of making a step and crush him like an ant, choose to run like a scared schoolgirl!!
A second later Ali was inside the orange Gundam, and was piloting it better than any meister ever
Setsuna arrive and Ali (who had less than 33% energy left) kicks his ass
A cosmic coincidence boosts the Exia powers one second before the defeating and Setsuna kicks the ass back
As Epic ending of the episodes, Setsuna:
- that hates Ali like hell
- that have lost his parents and firends because of him
- that have declared 2 episodes ago that became a meister to kill him
- that have full energy and almost no damage
- that have destroyed all the weapon sistems of the Ali’s Gundam
- that could simply wait 5 minutes for the Ali’s Gundam to run out of energy
instead of finish him,
instead of capturing him and take back the orange Gundam
LET HIM GO!
and stops in mid air to watch the sunset
No problem! I know why Setsuna did this: He is sure to kill him in the last episode of Gundam 00, he will kill him with a new version of Gundam Exia that is going to come out before the 30° episode, and Ali will have an upgraded Red Devil like Gundam with Fangs and Claws
I think Gundam 00 will be the second Gundam series i’ll don’t watch, with the exception of the last episode, cause i really whant to see the death of Ali and i hope it will be slow and painful
March 11th, 2008 at 2:05 am
Ali is my hero. He steals a Gundam, actually manages to destroy a Gundam, and now has the biggest main character kill count out of anybody (Kinue, Laguna, Michel, and Johann).
ROCK ON!
March 11th, 2008 at 3:12 am
Zecks_75 you missed a little point which was made way back at the start of the series…. Seetsuna relies too much on the abilities of the Gundam rather than is own abilities, like pretty much all the Gundam pilots. Here you technically have a group to teenagers using super advanced Mobile Suits with little or no practical combat experience. Place them up against adults with years of military training and your bound to hit a wall.
Look at it this way, nearly all the main military commanders or mercs can equal or in some cases best a Gundam when they go all out in standard or slightly tweaked suits. Place those same pilots in a Gundamish suits and you have someone whose abilities exceed those of the regular Gundams!
But i’m reading too much into this, the main point is that they lack the experience to qualify as exceptional pilots.
March 11th, 2008 at 3:58 am
A rookie on a F-22 (the most modern stealth fighter) can easily win dozen of Mig 21 (Vietnam War version) i agree with that, but i’m soo tired of all this nonsense retreats, only because the authors are too lazy to introduce new villians.
For sure, the pilots lacks experience, if not you can’t justify the battles when tierens and flags can stand minutes against a Gundam. Mmaybe setsuna and the others were choosen cause they are celestial fanatics. But still there is no reason, experienced or not:
- for Setsuna to let Ali go
- for Neena to not kill Ali when he was unarmed
- for Lockon to not heal himself
- for the veteran fighters on GNX to flee from a winned battle cause one smokescreen.
They can trace GN particles from the orbit, but a Smokescreen with a radius of 50m is able to hide the retreat of 3 giants 18 meters high that move at more than 100m/sec???
If you watch the first 30 years old Gundam Series you see many retreats of Char from Amuro, but they were all more realistics. Amuro was a real Rookie, was out of ammo many times and Char had many “kamikaze” comrade who charged the Gundam when he was retreating.
The reality is that the 30 years old Gundam series was more realistic of Gundam 00, and was able to introduce new active characters till the end.
Gundam 00 is simply a commercial anime made to sell toys, and peoples (me too) watch it instead of other series cause is titled “Gundam”
All the anime must be commercial, if not we couldn’t even see them, but there is a limit to this, and Gundam 00 have destroyed this limits too many times for me
March 11th, 2008 at 4:16 am
LOL… fair enough i’ll give you that however as a series it would be really poor if most of the action was over in the first few episodes. Its purely commerical, as with any modern tv series, they are there to make money first and entertain second. Thing is people would continue to watch them if something ‘good’ or unexpected didn’t happened.
The people watching the shows have changed and most want an instant ‘wham, bham’ rather than something worth while, thats why so many good anime shows are hard to find… not to mention we are getting older so what we expect from a show such as this is no longer there as the makers cater for a younger audience.
Gundam Wing worked better than 00 at providing some action while holding back on actually telling you everything that was going on or making pointless ‘attention’ grabs. I agree that the show should stand up on its story alone but sadly its the modern audience thats growing up too quickly so the shows struggle to hold an audience.
Dear lord i’m reading too much into this, i’m a Mecha Anime whore and enjoy watching them in whatever form they take, though i’ll be honest i like alot of the shows which came out in the mid 90s! Its enjoyable as it is and while i sit watching it and seeing a host of other Gundam shows influences i’ll try and reserve fully judgement until i have seen it all!
Though i agree, they should watch those plot holes and you have to wander that if they can track the location of CB’s base ship… why do they only attack every few shows? LOL
Edit: The GN-X pilot didn’t flee, they stopped as the Gundams are running out of special GN particles, i guess they want the units in one piece given that the technology within them differs from the GN-X a little… they probably want the pilots too!! heh
March 11th, 2008 at 4:50 am
I agree with you about the commercialization, and i think that Gundam was ruined by the sponsors and his own name.
I’m 32 years old, i’ve watched mecha anime series since Mazinger Z and i love em. But as an adult, to watch again Mazinger (or Gundam 00) is boring, cause the plot rely only on fights (at least in Mazinger the enemy robots never comes back a second time)
Recently is difficult to find a well made mecha anime series, the computer graphic can do miracles compared to the past, but the plot is frequently recycled (Gundam W & 00)
Edit: You are right about the smokescreen, maybe was better to wait and take em when out of energy, but then, there was no reason to call the media and trasmit the fight on the BBC
March 11th, 2008 at 9:38 am
i love this series far more than Wing or Seed…hehehe…the story is well written (aside from a few quirky instances like michael and so on…but at least he’s already dead and done with…) i hope losing her two brothers would stop nena from being the brat she is…(no more older bros to serve her every whim…thanks alot Ali!!) i can’t wait for the next ep…
anyway, i heard this series would stop at ep25 and then the second season would begin in October…if that’s the case, then that means the writers finally learned not to stretch the plotline too thin(like what they did in previous franchises like Seed and S:Destiny)…maybe this series would do justice to the Gundam series’ reputation of being “asian space soap opera”…hehehe… :D
i like…(^_^)
March 11th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
QUESTION TO YOU GUYZ!PLEAZE ANSWER PLEASE!!!
wt did they mean when they referred to Feldt as “going through ‘that’ age?” do they mean that she has a serious crush on John ‘Lockon’ Silver ? if that is the case then I p0o0or girl, i feel this series is gettin’ a yaoi tide. soon you’ll c t-shirts flyin’ with smooches of 2 people of the same sex ( and i mean male!).
Seriously, if they had killed of Johann and Nina it would be way better to have that Michael as an extra hubby on celestial being.
Another question…..do u guyz rembr the girl who was supposedly handing over the shining-glowing GN drive -like ball round thingy to Setsuna at the first op theme of the series ? At first i thought she was Marina , but after much consideration and micro-zooming the tests show clearly that that woman is no Marina!!! THEN WHO THE HELL IS SHE !??
i do hope they get more peopled involved with celestial being as this organization is running ‘apparently’ out of sponsors , 1st Aljendro then chinese girl then the corpse of Alioe shehenperg0o ( sorry about mispelling his name) exactly how much money does these ppl have !?
March 11th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Very true, Dragoon. All of us are growing constantly, including our mentality and maturity. Time waits for no man, and we can’t stop ourselves from growing just to remain interested in anime for as many decades as we want. Although I would say, Gundam 00 is not for kids, it’s for young adults and teenagers, as it appears.
How many of you people actually like the way writers in this series letting you have a good view of what is going on from all angles, including away from battles? Rather than have a series with mostly action and little else?
P.S. The reason why I feel that kids ain’t the type who like this show is because, most kids prefer action, and couldn’t take heavy plots. Not to mention the blood violence and violence involved in the series as well.
March 11th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
you’d think that after spending lots of time and money to build those things, that they’d also put in an ejector seat of some kind
call me crazy but i suspect that wan ryumin was the one that sold out the trinity team to the HRL and hired ali to get rid of them this is mainly to do with after she finishes talking to them they come under attack from those GN-X suits, and while they’re waiting for her to show up, ali drops by, who ‘just happens’ to be in the neighbourhood and so on and so forth
March 11th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
regardless of BS commercials or suck ideas the story writer wants to put in, there’s only one thing i like about all gundam series…somebody is goin to DIE!!SEED was the best though when almost 3/4 of the characters was sent to its maker…ehhe…
the twin-trinity’s death was unfortunate but necessary and just like ali mentioned, its suck to be scapegoat.but i prefer the death to be a bit more tragic,like intestine spilling out,brain squashed,limb spattering here and there…things like that.its just stereotype that girls have the priviledge to stay alive longer than men(wtf?are we cheap to produced?)
You’ve watch exia turns red and lethal and i hope yall saw how Dynames combines with GN arms becoming some sort of another weapon(next episode previews)….its like watching goku from dragon ball annihilating half of the world with kamehameha and saying its just 1/4 of its real power…and about to use another 1/4 to turn earth and mars into dust (again,wtf…)
…and aeolia out from cryo?why didnt anybody tried to freeze chickens and then reviving it again?what was he thinking?
story writer just have to come out with something original….i’ll be watching more
March 11th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
i love watch this anime series. Sometime i just watch it without have any subtitle. Btw thanks for the summary.
March 11th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Perhaps he just want to keep his body intact so he can be the master of Veda for a few centuries!
Talk about cryopreservation, the longest time I’ve ever seen something preserved without it being damaged or dying in this method is only a couple of years. Technology sure push the limits of many things.
And I see you’ve been doing your homework, hi5peed2ron.
random hero: Even with the ejector seat, the Johann could also be affected by the GN particles radiating out of the explosion. But yeah, all mobile suits in this series DO NOT have an ejector seat, although some have other means to escape.
March 12th, 2008 at 2:01 am
I almost cried when I watched the last episodes of Gundam 00. But after reading your “review” I was laughing crazily… whether there is or there’s no pun intended, it’s perfectly funny!
March 12th, 2008 at 2:23 am
hi5peed2ron: if you like deaths you should see Code Geass, or Death Note, not Gundam 00
To me a Death is good in a story if it is logical, it can be unfortunate, but must have a sense
Ali killed the 2 twins? he was idiotic and suicidal, he did it when Neena was inside her mobile suit, but since he is needed in the story he wasn’t killed, he wasn’t even attacked, he pointed the gun to Neena’s Gundam that choosed to run, very logical…
To not mention how Ali escaped the 10 times faster Exia, when Setsuna knew perfectly he was inside, since he was so idiotic to bully him at the radio
In that moment Gundam 00 stopped to be an anime and became commercial shit
Probably Ali is popular and the authors choosed to not kill him cause he raise the audience of the show, even if his surviving was phisically impossible
You remember Hein? the pilot of the orange Gouf in Gundam Seed Destiny?
Many criticized how his death was too easy and “commercial” To me his death was unfortunate, but logical: it happened during a fight cause he was distracted, it can happens. I liked him, was not happy cause he died, but i think that his death raised the quality of Seed Destiny.
The survive of Muu la Flaga, was idiotic, you see in the last episode of Gundam Seed his helmet smashed in the open space, but he was resurrected in Seed Destiny cause he was popular among the fans
That is commercial…
Do you know the live action soap opera? The story is written day by day according to the fans appreciation. When an actress is pregnant in real life, she became pregnant in the show too, even if that have no sense. So if you try to see the whole series, from the beginning to the end, it will have no sense too.
That is commercial and i Hate it, even if i love Gundam and i like realistic series when people dies
March 12th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
A few things:
One, generally most original stories that are created by a studio are made up as they go so Gundam 00 isn’t unique in that regard.
Two, Code Geass had fewer character deaths in one season than 00 had in 22 episodes, and there are still 3 to go.
Three, While Gundam 00 may have a model kit toyline tied to it, they have not advertised directly in the show so I’m not bothered. If we approach Lucky Star and Setsuna starts advocating Bandai Ware then we are in trouble. Lucky Star was the limit.
Four, As Darkdestiny mentioned I like the multiple angle storytelling and frequent updates. You get to hear almost everybody’s side of the story and none of them seem particularly right or wrong, just different.
Five, Gundam 00 is very little like Gundam Wing at all, which was aimed at a younger audience. Go look at the progression of Gundam Wings plot and tell me that where we are now that it is anywhere remotely similiar.
Six, Gundam 00 is not any other Gundam Series, it is it’s own series. It’s folly to compare it to others as a standard at the moment because it is creating it’s own. Only once it’s over will we best be able to decide how it compares to other series.
March 12th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Code Geass had fewer character deaths in one season than 00 had in 22 episodes???
Have You see it?
March 12th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
remember ep.14? they reveal celestial being’s base, and it’s in a place ful of asteroids. in ep.23 preview, they are fighting at a place full of asteroids. did the UN traced Pltomaios since they need to get dynames fixed at the dock (which im very positive is in their base)?