Gundam 00 — Episode 23
My exams are next week, so I don’t have time to say too much. Not that I have much to say anyway since episode 23 consists of twenty minutes of pretty explosions and ambiguous character deaths.
Pseudo Summary
Remember in the previous entry where I joked that Exia moves three times as fast with TRANS-AM because it turns red? Well, it turns out that it DOES move three times as fast. TRANS-AM boosts performance by releasing all GN particles stored on the Gundam at once, faster than the solar furnace can replenish them. Once TRANS-AM runs out of juice, the Gundam becomes underpowered until its GN drive can restore the particle count to normal level.
And GN-X has officially been downgraded to the cannon fodder units. They drop like flies in this episode.
Patrick’s cool streak is put to an end when he gets owned by a piece of flying space rock and spins off into the distance Team Rocket style. A few characters may or may not have died in this episode, but if they really do die, you can be sure that they will be resurrected in season two.
Also, lasers! Explosions! Green missile trails! Big guns! Non-stop action! And that’s about all I have to say about this episode.
Screencaps
Just so you know he’s dead
“I AM GUNDAM!”
Virginia class moving practice targets
“I will protect Lockon! *wub*”
Obsolete technology
Why does AEU let him keep the Gundam?
He received too much airtime for his own good
This formation is also called the cam whore formation
The director found a new plaything
Three times as fast!
The Gundam is sort of just standing there
It all returns to nothing / It just keeps tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down
This sequence seriously reminded me of Evangelion
She has nothing on Lafiel
“RAAAAWR!”
We can rebuild him. We have the technology
Déjà vu happens when they sudo gedit /usr/conf/matrix
Apparently that oversize futuristic Wiimote is detachable
Basically it’s a hollow tube with a piece of cellophane paper taped over the front lens
Right: a live alien speciment
Tieria mourns the loss of his seme
Geometric isomerism is a form of stereoisomerism caused by the restriction of rotation about a double bond or a cyclo-compound and the presence of different functional groups bonded to each of the two carbon atoms involved. I hate chemistry.
March 18th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
Dark Mirage,
You really hate this series so much do you?
Thanks for the trouble for getting the screen-caps anyway!
March 18th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Great episode. But they better not bring back Lockon like the Fukuda and Morosawa did with Mu La Flaga in Destiny. The question is who will pilot the Dyanmes now? Lasse perhaps?
March 18th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
i love these blogs!
March 19th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
I enjoy reading this stuff every week, I especially get a kick out of the captions. Anyways one thing that bothered me (besides stuff that everyone else has already mentioned) is that 300 years into the future, people are still wearing suits and ties. Something I’ve also noticed is that Aeolia looks A LOT like Lenin. He even gets his own icebox to boot, and like ol’ comrade is a revolutionary.
March 19th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Actually I find your entries quite true to an extent. It is pretty much written in the same way a stand-up comedian lampooning on Bushisms.
And yeah, blogging is a waste of time for A level students!
March 19th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
at least we found out his (lockons) brothers name, i think…..
i don’t think zwei and by proxy ali was killed because, zwei didn’t go off like a little firework spreading GN particles all over the place, like eins did when it went boom (come to think of it, neither do the GN-X suits, which is odd cos in theory they should due to their drives being blown up in the process)
the question is, will lockons apparent death cause the CB team to eventually fall apart or will the opposite happen?
March 19th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
I think since the particle beam hit the lower torso, Ali should have just lost his legs. Maybe we will see him flying a Zeong-like MS in the second season, or become anti-CB leader on a wheelchair.
Just a question, is his brother’s name Lyle/Ryle or Kyle?
March 19th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
I believe that Ali really died with that shot. They just made the canon hit the lower part of Zwei just so it can fire back at Lockon right before it exploded. And possibly, the reason why they did that is maybe not to create an ambiguous death but to create a maybe-awesome draw scene between Lockon and Ali. The Zwie could have never fired back if they made the canon directly hit it, right???
March 20th, 2008 at 10:20 am
according to the sub it’s lyle
March 20th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Oddly, the thing that struck me the most here was the fact that Lockon left his cockpit to go into space WITH A CRACKED VISOR. You seriously have to be really stupid to do that.
Oh yea, and Lockon’s death (the only worthwhile character in the series, damn you Sunrise!) is entirely Setsuna’s fault. Because he let Ali go. And I hope he realizes that fact and then kills himself.
March 20th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
^ Maybe Exia’s particle drop after the fight with Ali and unable to pursue him? As stated, after using TRANS-AM, the GN particles drop faster then the GN Drive can replenish.
I don’t Ali will be dead after that shot, and what happen to that nigger from Union??
March 21st, 2008 at 8:50 am
bleh…so many comments…read a few…same idea…either agrees w/ the comedian or tries to make him look shallow, or just talking about their own stuff….aren’t i the same though
too lazy to predict and analyze, i will put all the fate into the writer’s hand…it is in his hand anywyz….whatever happen happens…who cares if Lockon’s dead or not…in the end the series will end and after i m pretti sure that after 5 years, all of us is goin to forget about it anywyz..until another Gundam comes out and every starts comparing it to the previous series….
but i do take this series serious enough to at least post a comment to defend it …..i really think its quite a good series, and i thought this episode was good, shrugs, at least this series kills off people w/ no mercy…= = ..kind of ..although i m pretti sure they wont kill setsunna no matter wat…(or maybe they do ..then that would be real emo)…..i like the characters, and actually i dun feel how the character are drawn so badly….i really don’t care…..and yah i like the old man who really makes himself look like god …lol …i like how he sort of outsmarts that “weird random guy” with his green hair boy that jsut randomely pops out and say they want to take over the world…muahahahhaha.
bleh…its good, dun screw it up in the 2nd season….
March 21st, 2008 at 8:52 am
lol wats with people trying to figure out if Ali died or not…who carez….we will see when the episodes come out..i dun even get how people can get so much from a 2 second scene of beams hitting the Throne..
faint`
March 22nd, 2008 at 9:28 pm
that was awesome. reading your blog really lifted a few heartaches after watching the episode. though i do believe that ali died after getting the shot. i repeated the sequence over and over and saw it blow up. like gundam wing style, his gun’s fire was cut-off shortly after the bottowm started exploding, then after the cut-off, the rest explodes.
March 23rd, 2008 at 2:45 am
I can’t believe they killed HALF the crew in Ep 24!!
Season 2 must be all new cast. (GN-Arms driver WILL DIE.)
March 23rd, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Kenapa kamu lama banget ngeluarin review episode 24-nya?
March 24th, 2008 at 9:43 am
I couldnt believe that they actually let lockon die but the right after that they let half of the ptolemaeus crew die this series is some heavy stuff im really looking forward to the second season now
March 24th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
well they did have a meaningful talk about their pasts before the fighting started
(phil ken sebben: HA HA!!foreshadowing)
gundam cast rule #37: under no circumstances should you reveal large portions of your backstory all at once, it’ll only ensure a firey demise
and the dr guy fulfilled the role of sacrifical ensign redshirt quite nicely
in short all the gundam standard foreshadowing was there
March 24th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
I’m back again. This episodes got dam alot of fighting, but there are many things that dont seem right…
1) Did Exia Pang Sei Nena?
2) If I’m not wrong Dynames needed a few months to be repaired?
3) How did e UN get spare parts for Zwei? And if limbs were cut off how do they replace them?
4) The GN container looked like it was cruising when it was obvious the ship was goin to get owned by e GN-X
5) In e last episode Virtue’s GN field got crapped up by TWO shots. Now it can withstand the GN-X continuos fire. Maybe they changed the particle density?
6) After Zwei’s attack Virtue’s GN field got penetrated, and the damages were gone at the next scene?
7) How the hell did Lockon break out of e room?
8) Why didnt Hallelujah block out the quantam brainwaves
9) Virtue’s beam was dam inba, and it was like say 7-8 times larger than him? If u notice the TRANS-AM display he used 60% +-. He destroyed 1 GN-X (the retard guy from AEU not counted). And he’s gun wont over-heat?
10) The GN arms is a rip-off from e METEOR system.
11) The G’s in the gundam wont kill them? I presume the normal ones would be from 9-10. 3 times as fast = ?
12) How long does it take to charge TRANS-AM? Cause Setsuna was using it like say 12 hrs after the fight?
13) Lockon din use his TRANS-AM >>> I’m sure u noticed tt.
14) Was Lockon’s helmet CRACKED when he went into space?
15) I wonder how long he took to conect e cables to his funny thingy
16) Take note that Zwei was blasted, and after a lag time it shot DIRECTLY into the middle of the GN arms.
17) The sniper thingy was DIRECTLY on the GN arms… I tot it was supposed to float or sumthing?
18) I presume from the preview that Nadleeh can use TRANS-AM
This is bout it. The storyline is great, but they should make it more realistic. I mean this is wat separates it from SEED and DESTINY. Where Zaku’s can fly anywhere and gundams are not so ownage.
I dont know whether michael gundam was called Zwei but…
I wondered wat would happen if a person kept on crying and he din take off his helmet?
Ready 4 ep 25
March 29th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Lockon died for a good reason and with a good scene (i like that scene when he tried to hold the earth… T-T). No need to resurrect him.