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 13th, 2008 at 6:40 am
Ohhhh no. No no no no no. I’m not getting dragged into an endless debate like the relativety one you had with DM. Just read the article or not, that settles it from my end.
March 13th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
DarkMirage > Kaio
March 13th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
to juz
1. just cos one has an eyeptach, does not mean they’ve necessarily lost the eye itself, the idea is to protect it from infection so that it can heal itself
2. no one knows what tiera, libonze, and nena are
3. ian vasty probably brought the doctor in, and they got the GN arms from where-ever they had it stashed
4. alejandro probably told them, but i personally suspect that wan ryumin had a hand in it as well cos they always show up right after the thrones have finished chatting with her (btw kaio, it’s more that nena can’t use the stealth field cos the thrones were running low on GN particles)
5. many haros
6. cos they didn’t feel like showing you
7. they hid them in the cargo containers on the linear trains
8. they probably keep a huge bunch of surplus parts somewhere or fabricate more, either way it’s not going to look good on CB’s tax return, especially considering how many shields and beam daggers setsuna goes through
9. actually it hit him roughly in the chest, however, contrary to what the movies/TV shows say, you can die from a shot to the shoulder, that area has a large number of veins and arteries bunched together so if you are hit there you will die of shock/blood loss in a few minutes, if the bullet by some fluke doesn’t hit any of those arteries/veins, it will probably shatter the ball part of the shoulder joint instead, in which you’ll be crippled for life as there is no surgeon on earth that can repair that joint, period
10. it’s an add on that can be used independently
11. well he couldn’t exactly drag it with him, now could he?
March 13th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Looks promising. ^_^;
March 13th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Looks like Random Hero pointed out no 9 for me. It is true if you look carefully, Michael is hit in the chest somewhere above the nipple. And in acupuncture, there is a spot somewhere over there when hit hard enough, can cause death immediately.
And wikipedia is wrong about Alejandro’s gun, it isn’t a Colt .45. It looks more like a gold H&K VP70 (same as the one Leon holds in Resident Evil 2).
Also Alejandro’s gun had the eye emblem on it. A reference to the Illuminati?
March 14th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
considering it’s set 300 years in the future, i don’t think it’d be either gun (especially the latter as that had a plastic frame, and was discontinued in 1989), i think what meant is that it is a .45 caliber pistol (an asumption most likely based on the number of shots it could fire before running empty)
March 14th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
Maybe it was judged on the sound it produced. A Colt 45 would have made an almost similar sound.
But 9×19mm has pretty much set the standard for enforcement handgun rounds around the world and the .45 cartridge is slowly being phased out. But the latter has the advantage and still in use due to its greater stopping power.
Maybe Alejandro’s gun is chambered with 50. Action Express rounds, because to even scratch the “pressure-proofed” glass I think a .45 would be insufficient.
Maybe it is really a VP70 that the Corners handed down from generation to generation, specifically saved for Mr Schenburg.
March 15th, 2008 at 12:21 am
who knows, it isn’t really important in the grand scheme of things
(though i doubt it’d be a .50 cos the ejection port is nowhere near big enough, plus the recoil would be horrible)
March 15th, 2008 at 7:43 am
Maybe its a gun from 300 years in the future. Who cares. And why does everyone seem to know so much about guns, it gives me the freakin heebie jeebies.
March 15th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Well Guner, that’s because it’s only two people who are talking about guns, and guns are cool O.O
March 15th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
No, guns are not cool. How can you say such a thing? You think a weapon designed to kill is such a great thing? Guns encourages deaths, and if you really want to kill that badly, I suggest you smack yourself with a brick — go, just do it. You savage scum. [/sarcasm]
The episode was alright, though I can’t help but feel the quality of the animation seems low compared to the previous episodes, oh well.
March 15th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
i cant wait for ur epi 23 review!! and somehow, i personally think that Gundam 00 is getting a bit cliche…
Aeolia: “Oh..So you met someone stronger than you. Ok, hold on, I shall increase your powers ten folds…”
Gundams: “YATAH!! WE KICK ASS AGAIN!! WE NV GET OUR ASSES KICK AGAIN!! =D “
March 15th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
guns do not encourage deaths, if someone wants to kill, they will do so with whatever they can get their hands on
from an engineering standpoint i think guns are amazing, i don’t like the killing part, but once you remove the bullets from the equation a gun is about as much use as a paperweight
March 16th, 2008 at 2:20 am
More accurately, guns will only be found among people who want to kill. Its not that guns kill, its that they only exist because people want other people dead.
March 16th, 2008 at 10:26 am
I guess that you didn’t sense the sarcasm, good job.