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 16th, 2008 at 6:18 am
Guner: That honestly sounds like a setup from Space Battleship Yamato, the ‘twin brother takes over’ thing…
March 16th, 2008 at 7:11 am
Was Throne Zwei destroyed? http://haro00.livejournal.com/1128.html
Unanswered questions… http://haro00.livejournal.com/910.html
March 16th, 2008 at 8:20 am
guner: yeah..i agree that it’s one of those ‘twin brother takes up the mantle’ plot devices…
btw…i don’t think that Ali got finished off that easily…maybe Lockon did hit him but only the lower part of the MS…missing the cockpit and so on…and since it doesn’t appear to be a direct hit, anyway…i guess it’s safe to bet that Ali would be back next season…
i found this episode disappointing…i mean…it had alot of plot holes and inconsistencies..anyway, i hope the season ender would put some sense to this..but based on the short ‘preview’ after the episode..i think it would only be 20 something minutes of mourning a lost comrad…
for all it’s worth… Lockon Stratos’ cool disposition would be missed…(the other three Gundam Meisters are totally boring without their mobile suits…)
March 16th, 2008 at 8:26 am
I loved it. Sure, they didn’t have to scream that loud considering that they didn’t get to bond together too much, but I loved this ep. The Cowboy Bebop reference make it even better, don’t know where you got the Eva one.
Also, nano > vi > emacs > gedit.
March 16th, 2008 at 8:34 am
shouldn’t it be “the Gundam becomes underpowered..” and not “the Gundam because underpowered”..
March 16th, 2008 at 8:36 am
Nuts I guess that Trans-Am does bring us back to square one again… grunts in Gundam never get a break and Patrick gets kicked around again. Kamen Lockon confirmed.
As for Lafiel, sorry Darkmirage but we both know that any one who stands on the other side of the “good” Gundams is bound to lose and fail no matter how smart or tactically adept they are. Leave Kaite alone you evil man, just because she’s only one of two non idiot women doesn’t mean she sucks just cause Abh aren’t around…
Gundams pwn all in the end not even Spoor could prevail against the Gundams since they always win in end. Heck even Treize could not beat the Gundams and Zeon often ended up on the losing side. In the event of a tie in Gundam power it is the side that comes up with the three-ship alliance that wins. Even then its a freaking armsitice hardly worth the paper it was written on. The best Char ever got was a tie too…though IIRC Char’s escape ball gets caught and it ends in a double suicide.
March 16th, 2008 at 8:41 am
lockon can us the trans-am system to why he diddnt i dont know i think they just like to kill people off which is great most other gundam series get more into drama then killing
March 16th, 2008 at 9:31 am
i forgot which episode that was. but man that twin looks evil. oh no waht if it was ali al sarshes doing creepy shit that day. im pretty sure he’s dead or will become a butt pirate. i am still uncertain about who that person. i have a strong feeling that he is not his twin, but ali. during the flashback in this episode they showed his sister not. not his brother. and he never mentioned that he has a brother. i am just speculating
March 16th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Shock!! Lockon die… Well, probably his twin brother is gonna pilot dynames in season 2.
March 16th, 2008 at 9:52 am
A total of 12 GN-Xes were destroyed, mahing a total of 15.
this could still mean 5 left for each powers(4 left for union cause they modded the flag).
Also the hole in Lockon’s suit repaired itself later.
March 16th, 2008 at 11:03 am
In episode 21, why didn’t Lockon use the two beam sabers that were equipped with Dynames to block the attack from Patrick’s GN-X beam saber?
Why didn’t Setuna go all the way to get rid of Ali Al Sarshes once and for all when Exia’s Trans-Am system was activated at the end of the last episode?
Why was Ali Al Sarshes able to find some spare parts of the Zwei’s Fangs when he was onboard with Sergei in the UN transport ship?
Why were Setuna and Lasse so far behind to reach to Ptolemaios, whereas Ali Al Sarshes could get there to do the attack sooner? Wasn’t the GN Arms equipped with another “green” GN Drive which is “Trans-Am system capable”?
Why wasn’t Dynames’ Trans-Am system activated at all in this entire episode?
Why didn’t Lockon take the shot at Ali Al Sarshes when he could shoot him from behind?
March 16th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Great my computer keeps having pagefaults that I am so annoyed. Can’t even watch this episode in peace.
I think Lockon did really die. Otherwise why would Sunrise give him a twin?
March 16th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Wow…so many questions popping up in one episode…
but all I want to know is…WHEN IS DYNAMES’ GN-ARMS GOING TO COME OUT?!?
Seriously, only the model kits’ going to benefit from this episode.
March 16th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Not Explosions! In an Action Series?! The Horror, how unthinkable!
March 16th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Lockon dead, I never saw that one coming *not*. but will his twim become a Gundam Meister.
March 16th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Lockon is dead but what about Ali? Also what is that huge thing tha Aleajandro is piloting? And if Ali is dead does that mean Saji becomes Setsunas rival in the 2nd part?
March 16th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
I wouldn’t want to confirm that Lockon is dead. Remember Mwu from Gundam SEED, he protected Murrue from Dominion’s Lohengrin cannon and the whole Strike blasted into pieces. Well, he did make a come back in SEED Destiny though.
I’m not saying that the SEED errors will come back but there is a possibility that Lockon might survive since he wasn’t standing on the GN Arms when it exploded. So is Ali. I hate him a lot, but I won’t admit that he’s dead because the GN Arms only destroyed the lower body of the gundam, not where the pilot sits.
About Lockon’s twin… maybe he doesn’t even have one. When they showed his past, it looks like his family only consists of his mother, father, sister and himself. Maybe Veda created another clone of him. I was just guessing. Who knows? Even the vedabots like Tieria, Livonze and Gundam Meister 874 were all created by Veda.
I am curious to know where would Nena go after she flew off in her Drei.
March 16th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Kaioshin, your next comment will determine whether you get banned.
I didn’t say that I have anything against explosions. I said that that’s about all this episode has. Stop being so over-zealous. It’s only anime.
March 16th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
The GN arms/ container doesnt have its own GN drive, back in episode 22 feldt confirmed the attachment of Exias GN drive to the container so no trans-am for them. There are only 6 “real GN drives” in existence as told in episode 18 or 19. 4 are in the Gundams and two are attached to the butt of the ptolemaios. But maybe theres a trans-am for Ptolemaios… Wordd…
March 16th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
I just watched Mai Hime/Otome and … OMG Soma looks EXACTLY like Natsuki!
Natsuki is cuter though.