Gundam 00 — Episode 24
As you can imagine from this picture, episode 24 is pretty emo. If you haven’t watched it yet, maybe you want to do that first before reading my usual cynical tearing down of what many people may find the most touching episode in the series. On the bright side, we are almost done! (Until season 2 at least.)
If I had to use an analogy to describe this episode, which I don’t but I shall anyway, then I would say that it’s like the fireworks during New Year celebrations. They are pretty nice and colourful but they last only a short while, burning themselves up in the process. Also, the whole fireworks get old after a while when you see them every year.
This is a very shitty analogy, so we shall stop here and move on.
Summary
Ptolemaios and the UN forces regroup their troops after the furious fighting in the previous episode. With just 11 Jinxes left, the UN receives a mysterious reinforcement in the form of a gigantic gold space pimpmobile. The two sides then clash in a final battle for survival, though it seems clear that Setsuna and gang stand no chance against the flying bling fortress.
“That’s no moon…”
Episode 24 is what Sunrise has been saving up for all this while, baby! And by saving up, I refer to the human cast of the series. Just like soylent green, the secret of Sunrise’s patented storyline formula lies in the death of human beings, and, continuing from episode 23’s light appetizer, we are slowly moving into the main course of total annihilation.
Patrick, a long lost member of Team Rocket, finally bites the dust in this episode, courtesy of Tieria Erde. While logically speaking it’s a miracle that he even managed to make it this far, from the perspective of story-telling it makes little sense to have him die at this point of the story, especially considering he just barely escaped death in episode 23.
Dr. Moreno, the doctor who wears a pair of dark sunglasses while he treats potentially-fatal wounds, dies an attack that takes out the entire starboard side of Ptolemaios. Since he had a total of about five seconds worth of appearance in the entire series, I wonder if his meaningless existence was the remnant of an aborted subplot, or if Sunrise really, really wanted to have someone who wears sunglasses in the show?
So he does have eyes…
Halfway through the episode, Christina and Lichty start to share their life stories. This is where you start to sympathize with them before they die later on in the episode. Yes, they die. To her credit, Chris saves Feldt’s life with a white lie, thus preserving the sanity of thousands of fanboys. The world owes you one, Chris. From a storyline viewpoint, this probably paves the way for Feldt to mature into a hardened Gundam Meister with a sexy body.
A cyborg’s got to do what a cyborg’s got to do
On the bright side, Sunrise can now lower the budget and lay off a few seiyuu.
That said, I am not heartless. Though the whole thing was a blatant attempt to create an emotional moment after so many episodes of weak character development, I did fall for it (a little). Christina and that guy, may you rest in peace and not be resurrected as brainwashed cyborg killing machines by the villain in season 2.
By the way, if you are wondering about Lichty’s cyborg body, his parents were orbital elevator technicians and he lost them, along with half his body, as a child during the Solar Conflict .
Screencaps
Is she going to do something or what?
Setsuna is mentally preparing himself for the ensuing rape
Question to Europeans: What’s with the funky colours?
“What’s that weird thing you’re using?” “A pencil.”
First the gold pistol, now this. Definitely compensating for something
Pikachu suit
They need to nerf this in the next patch
“Fire ze missiles!” “But I’m le tired.”
So, has anyone figured out why space smoke is pink in Gundam?
“HULK SMASH!”
It’s amazing how the rest of the room is completely blown apart
This is like Survivors in space
:(
:O
T_T
As a bonus for finishing this review, I present to you a short story.
March 24th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Damn…the short story cracked me up
March 24th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Rofl I love the sarcasm about your blog comments
March 24th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
good stuff,
the evidence that alejandro is a pimp just keeps on mounting… did summeragi miss one of her payments or something?
March 24th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Wildarmssheero was the first I bet.
Also, I hear you got admitted into Harvard Law! Good job!!
March 24th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
That never happened… Stop making shit up. >_<
March 24th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
We are onli at the half way point in the series and so much action. So many ppl die in this ep. the CB now left 7 member
March 24th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Actually, I’m pretty sure that season 2 will pick up from a few years after the end of season 1.
You need time to build new Gundams, and you need time for Feldt, Louise/Saji and possibly Neena to “grow up” and take up more important roles after having suffered the lost of their friends/family.
Essentially the whole of the first season is probably just one huge motivational set-up for the main characters appearing in the second season.
March 24th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
The pink smoke is due to the GN particles. I’m noticing a slight trend in this. More screen time == death. All Graham and the others need to do to live is hide from the camera…
March 24th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Without having the wait for the subbed version, i felt disappointed! I think this was the episode for me which defined the whole thing… kill all humans! It seems they are hell bent on killing off as many of the main cast or as much of the story as possible before leaving things on the cliffhanger for the next series. Perhaps they are not too sure if the show will get a second series so they are pulling out all the stops at the end of this one!
I have to say i started watching this show and thought it was going to be very good, okay so the story progression was a little slow but i figured there would be 50 episodes like Gundam Wing with which to build on, though it now appears plots and story arch have been put to the wall in favour of the Gundam Seed formula of ‘if its impossible, it’ll make a cool graphic!’
Dear god i’m starting to take apart a show i should be watching for fun and break it down into chunks to see why i feel cheated!! To top it all they are going to make you wait until October before concluding the story… should they still have one!!
Someone save me!
On a side note, by the time Grahams Flag is fitted out with a GN Drive all the GN-X’s will be dust and we will be lucky if there is a Gundam left standing!!
Though i have to admit the screen rendering and the drawing does look rather nice.
March 24th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Then is the UN just gonna leave CB alone. Unless Setsuna manage to defeat them in the next ep and they go into hiding.
March 24th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Listen to uncle TJ Han and go to law school. I’m sure you’ll win all cases.
And stop making us laugh at such an emotional episode…
“HULK SMASH!! :( :O T_T”
March 25th, 2008 at 12:00 am
rebuilding the gundams is probably whats gonna happen, so long as the GN drives (and the one container left) remain in one piece they can be rebuilt, though getting out alive will be a hassle
March 25th, 2008 at 12:07 am
Short story…so funny….so true.
What will you be blogging once 00 is done?
March 25th, 2008 at 12:12 am
I love how Setsuna looks so confident in being able to eliminate the big golden pimpmobile. Seriously, I wonder why they didn’t choose to retreat or even try to run away. That golden ship dosen’t look fast enough to keep up.
After the Ptolemaios lost two pods and half the ship and an engine… wouldn’t be logical to abandon ship knowing that another big beam can arrive at any second? I really believe Sumeragi let them die by leaving them alone in a broken ship… Feldt was an “unexpected” survivor. :3
Apart from that, Its kind of obvious that the golden ship was really added late in the story structure. No one has ever seen or heard about it untill oops, its a reinforcement unit?
Who would have guessed that Sunrise could just pop out some horrendous plot device to undermine the gundam’s Trans-Am? (Anyone who watched code geass knows that Sunrise is very good at throwing everything in in one shot… Like the Orange guy in his weird mind-controlled sphere and the Sakuradite filled robot and all the useless added antagonists all jumping in at the same time.)
I knew that the Trans-AM would be a short lived false hope. And then again, nothing is surprising anymore. Death and destruction, bigger and badder weapons… Yipee! Next up Nuclear weapons! (oops… taboo…)
I don’t hate Gundam 00 I just think it could have been much better, the ideas behind it are good but the execution is very poor. I just hope it gets better in season 2… with all the stuff happening it really looks like theyre adapting the end of season 1 to fit nicely with a (hopefully) thoroughly planned season 2.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:23 am
oh make more parodies…loving those lines instead of sunrise
March 25th, 2008 at 12:47 am
I have not even seen the subbed 20-22 yet, i just dont care anymore.
Anyhow, fun review this time. More interesting and entertaining than the show.
March 25th, 2008 at 1:12 am
just ignore those comments…this is almost a free country where you can express anything you want regardless wat people might say.Hey, its ur blog anyway, rite?
ur a little 30+/- hour late to post ep 24 review….i was waiting for sumthing to come up and had a check on ur site every 2-3 hour.the exam might have stunt up ur brain a bit
alas they got rid of that joker character Patrick coleslaw(or sumthing..)he manage to survive half the story only to tell the universe how idiot he is and then meet the maker in a not so bad white,shining,bright,confusing death…
…and there are so many char being remove from this episode…STOP DYING U IDIOTS!
hehe…
March 25th, 2008 at 1:27 am
only gripe i have with the show is that the only cool looking MS (the union flag and to a lesser extent the enact mass production type) has had bugger all screen time (one pissing contest with exia, two CAPs (combat air patrols) and watching exia offload the preist guy in episode 13) i wanna see more of the standard flag in action
March 25th, 2008 at 1:34 am
Nena has to play a big part or else the Gundam got divided for no reason and that means Lockon died for no reason
March 25th, 2008 at 1:55 am
Tomino “kill-them-all” is back…just kidding. LOL.
And I LOVE IT!! See that scene when the GN-X blows the bridge apart?
That is a slap in the face for Gundam Seed and its Freedom Gundam appearance scene.
Good job for the director!
“Hey, there is NO Freedom Gundam to save your @$$ this time! So deal with it, Seed Fans!!”
March 25th, 2008 at 1:55 am
Lockon died because he was stupid. Trans-am + run up behind or next to the guy + headshot.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:03 am
To Guner: That’s because that was this annoying black guy (not to be racist here) who drives the GN-X that crashes into Lockon…
March 25th, 2008 at 2:13 am
Heh, bullshit. The gundams survived 15 hours of constant barrage in the past, and one little bump somehow messes things up now?
March 25th, 2008 at 2:36 am
@Guner: One little bump eh? I’d like to see you say that when you get into a car wreck caused by a suicidal driver barreling down on you.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:37 am
Quite intresting how they make the Gundam Meisters start of as invincible and then in the last few eps they start killing people of like crazy…
And then we still have a second season? Oh my god! Survirors with masks probability 100% or what?
Oh well. Nice post DM :)
March 25th, 2008 at 2:40 am
@ Seraphim
Code Geass 2, what else? Too bad I will be in NS and can’t watch it every week like G00 or Hayate No Gotoku.
It is a pity Christina died though. I like her character.
Well wildarmsheero is partially right about you not appreciating G00 enough, but how much appreciation one wants to give is up to the person. We are not cyborgs being controlled by some CABAL entity.
I bet the last person is Danny Choo. And yeah go study for your As already. Don’t waste time on anime xD.
P.S I thought those people who knew what Soylent Green is already died out in this world.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:42 am
damn, few years later Marina is gonna be like 30 year-old obasan…also i think it’s Sergei who blew up the bridge of Ptolemaios and got himself killed…just maybe…
March 25th, 2008 at 2:45 am
I was hit by a bus 7 years ago, does that count?
Now explain how a bump is somehow more destructive than 15 hours of being shot at by the worlds combined military.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:50 am
@Guner: Sorry to hear that. But I doubt the bus driver had the full intention of ending your existence.
15 hours of minor bombardment in a defensive position is a lot easier to handle than a full on kamikaze run in an open fighting stance. I’ve been tackled like that before in sparring matches, and it hurts a hell of a lot more than people throwing random small shit at you, which I’ve also had the unfortunate honor of experiencing.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:57 am
@Guner
that first 15 hour of barrage was literally using slingshot with limestone pebble. this one they literally upgrade the slingshot to rifle with real penetrating bullets…thats the ‘bump’ diff’ces…i think :P
March 25th, 2008 at 3:23 am
A mobile suit still only has so much mass. It doesnt come close to repeatedly being hit with guns and missiles.
These robots are not big humans. Human anatony doesnt apply in the same way.
March 25th, 2008 at 3:28 am
I totally agree with guner…
To be it seems the gundams slowly became more vulnerable to everything…
They aren’t the only ones either… The GN-X could block Lockon’s sniper shots like it was nothing, and now, anything makes em drop likes flies, Trans-am or not…
March 25th, 2008 at 3:32 am
@Guner: What’s the point of having humanoid robots for them not to be susceptible to nearly the same physics principles as a regular human? Sure there’s no biological aspect to it anymore, but back in episode 15 they were getting rocked to the extent that they should have been.
March 25th, 2008 at 3:34 am
Because it looks cool. And i question your claim that you have been pebbled by dozens of people for 15 hours straight.
March 25th, 2008 at 3:38 am
Not 15 hours, but long enough to get the point. How long have you ever been stoned by random people’s shit?
March 25th, 2008 at 3:42 am
Then you have no basis for comparing 15 hours of pebbling to being tackled.
More importantly, robots are not passively regenerating like humans do so its a pointless comparison. No matter how tough they are pieces are going to start falling off at some point. Since that point is sometime after 15 hours of bombardment, it follows that simply being hit by a same sized object should not do meaningful damage.
March 25th, 2008 at 3:43 am
The robots are humunoid for the mobility aspect, I don’t replication actual Humanoid physics was the issue, I’m pretty sure in terms of proportions, A gundam is much more resistant to outside forces and impacts of relative strength than a human would. For example, the thrones were deativated by Nadleh and survived a freefall of a thousand feet without causing any damage at all, something of the same proportion for a human would kill or severely injure him. Therefore, I truly believe that if a gundam were to be smashed into by another gundam, the damage would far less than an impact done on human at the same proportionate speed and force.
K, sry for that super geeky analysis. But Logic inst really the issue is it? If it was wed have to start arguing the fact that the human population was able to consrtuct giant space installation to provide power that would be much cheaper to get using other methods and also the feasability of GN particles…
Why don’t we just ignore the irregularities in logic since we do know its purely for cool factor.
March 25th, 2008 at 3:46 am
Right, the MST 3 K Mantra. Okay im done then.
March 25th, 2008 at 3:49 am
Since in space… the speed insn’t limited by by air friction and gravity therfore the GN-X probably ran into the gundam at a really really high speed. Since Force = Mass x Acceleration… Who cares what mass you got, if its moving really fast, it will pack a punch!
That’s the most likely explaination.
March 25th, 2008 at 3:52 am
Kinda doubt thats the case. Their weapons only have so much range, move fast enough to do that kind of damage and youd likely only have a few seconds to shoot at the other guys before you need to spend a few minutes turning back around. (and not much of a chance to hit, probably)
March 25th, 2008 at 4:09 am
Woulnd’t the GN-X accelerate to really high speed just before crashing. That’s a really big mass force were talking about. Most of the weapons used by the Gn-X if not all are energy based (therefore thermal damage) best example, when lock-on’s armor gets penetrated by a Gn-X’s saber.
The bullets and artillery shells of the previous episodes were most likely moving at a similar speed than normal tank shells today.
Each shell weighing about 100 kilos fired at a speed of about 900 m/sec
makes an impact force of 90 Mega Joules
But a Gn-X at a guessed weight of 75 tons moving at a normal relative space speed of over 3000 m/sec…
That goes for 225,000 Mega joules (heck of a difference)
That means to equal the strength of that impact the gundam would have to to get hit by 2500 shells simultaniously… and also observe the gundams werent constantly hit but more sieged and unable to move because shells would rain all over.
All this is purely speculation… numbers arent close to the actual thing but hey, its just to show the differences in impact force. And who knows… 75 tons could be lightweight, what if the GN-X weighed more in lines of 150 tons or moved twice the speed I mentionned…
Im pretty sure constant bombardment if too weak to penetrate the armor, all it does it rock the gundam pretty hard… but a head on collision at high speed just tears it apart.
Also note that a single 1cm radius particle moving at high speed in space is enough to cause explosive decompression for a space shuttle.
March 25th, 2008 at 4:12 am
Oops i think i double posted. So i erased this one.
March 25th, 2008 at 4:29 am
They are fighting in an asteroid field. Their relative speed is not going to be anywhere near that fast. They wouldnt even be able to see eachother at close ranges before they were past eachother.
But even assuming it is, 15 hours of being shot at will still add up to more damage than that. Armor or no armor, its gonna get chipped and stop being effective sooner or later.
Lets not forget that Exia almost had its head torn off in an early episode by a normal suit. They seem to be as durable as the plot demands, actually.
March 25th, 2008 at 6:12 am
Aww, people don’t appreciate Mister DarkMirage enough.
March 25th, 2008 at 6:56 am
Yea I guess I see your point.
I really think theyre isnt a good measure of durability in Gundam, or that durability often changes depending on the situation. Oh well.
March 25th, 2008 at 6:59 am
Stop applying real physics to Gundam… think of the catgirls. Anyway, it’s obvious that real physics is minimal in Gundam, or else the Virtue would get blasted backwards by the immense recoil of its GN Bazooka, especially in Trans-Am mode when it rivals Wing Zero’s Twin Buster Rifle. I suppose that on the ground the Virtue could have some sort of GN Cleat Shoes to fix it to the ground, but in space? Unless its thrusters equal the GN Bazooka in output (and they clearly don’t, or else why bother with a bazooka in the first place?), it should get sent rocketing back every time it fires.
So, yeah. No real physics in Gundam. No real engineering, either, or else they would never make “mobile suits” in the first place.
March 25th, 2008 at 7:10 am
Ha! I became a punchline.
But seriously, when is the next episode review? Ep25 is already out isn’t it?
March 25th, 2008 at 7:17 am
Omg, sunrise runs out of money. Wang Lui Ming (or similar) is wearing old costumes!
Anyway, i like it when ppl die in animes. There are so many animes out there were they find poor excuses for not killing.
March 25th, 2008 at 7:51 am
wait, what happened to that trinity girl? setsuna saved her ass, then left her in shock? what if right now, during the 24th episode, she has been having a day-long seizure or something. nobody would know, unless you know, somebody actually IS with her…
and Roy Mustang, i umm dont think its out yet
March 25th, 2008 at 7:53 am
I hope Setsuna kills stupid Alejandro in his golden elmeth/bigro/big zam knockoff, KILL EM ALL!
March 25th, 2008 at 9:04 am
though, all weird jokes aside, I feel the urge to point out that a character dies in almost every other episode, and that a good amount of the original Ptolemiaos crew has been blasted to smithereens.
I can almost imagine the board meetings at Sunrise…
Producer: LOL HAY GAIZ! Here’s this HYOOOOGE list of people that we’re gonna kill off! Take a gander!
Artists and Animators: yay! less work!
Writers: yay! more dramatic deaths!
*elsewhere*
Fans: Oh no! a chain of random plot devices!
honestly, the whole dramatic death or loss of incredibly minor character is kind of…filler-ish? can’t find a word for it. someone help me.
March 25th, 2008 at 9:18 am
Well, that really surprised me that a golden gundam that has been loaded with like 7 gn drives was made and nobody knew about it, and those side containers can just get disconnected? so why didnt they just take one each adn start shooting instead of waiting at the bridge to get shot? Sunrise is killing all the MS so they can earn more money by bringing in new suits later in the series, they had trans am and they chose not to use it but just literally get owned. And what happened to grahem(flag pilot) he hasnt shown his face, can we jsut see him kick some ass..~~
March 25th, 2008 at 9:56 am
@ leo: well, not just the mobile suits, but characters that were brought in just to die or something.
March 25th, 2008 at 10:18 am
“I run a blog and can’t get views unless I’m needlessly bitter and cynical! Pay attention to meeeeee!”
March 25th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Thank you for translating G00 o.o and… >_>
sorry about lack of politics, I think the political education process for Japanese youth HAS to be mixed with a lot of explosions =( it’s like African Americans calling each other niggers while Obama is trying to get elected =/
March 25th, 2008 at 10:58 am
It’s funny because Sunrise bashing actually went out of fashion a while ago when they started getting their act together following Gundam Seed Destiny. The new trend is Gonzo bashing. If people haven’t already seen it, give Dragonaut a try (actually don’t). It’ll give everyone a whole new perspective on what haphazard writing is.
Okay, all jokes aside, I still think Sunrise is doing fine with this series IMO and I think the majority of people agree on that one. Speaking of agree, I have to side with you on the whole Wang being a pointless character thing. Throughout all of Season 1 she didn’t do a single thing beyond act self-important. The writers will have to get on that next season to make sure she isn’t completely wasted. Even Marina the so called useless princess has had a bigger effect on the series in regard to influencing Setsuna to find his own conclusions to what makes the world tick.
Yes I came back, but only because I have an uncanny sense for when I’m being parodied. I love how I always end up being an elitist jerk who ends up telling everybody what to do all the time in parody. In reality only 25% of that is actually what I’m like. :p
By the way, about that whole bottoming out of Bear Stearns. Analysts are saying to liquidate (RRSP’s only I imagine) and apparently the EU is looking for a way to further decouple from the U.S economy. The EU as I understand it has been looking for economic independence for a while now, but is now the right time? Seriously I don’t know, I’m no economist. What I do know is the Canadian Dollar dropped an entire cent in one day last week, which strikes me as something to be alarmed about. It’s funny because old Bushy is saying the economy has never been sounder…….why he feels the need to talk about the economy I’ll never know. Last time he did that back in his first term the stock market took a nosedive if I recall. It’s times like these I wish I was still in University so that I could get an economics prof’s perspective on all of this….
Well anyways, like I suggested last time, Legend of The Galactic Heroes is a great series that also happens to have a lot of politics. You get a bit of analysis on Monarchy versus Democracy too along with the inner posturing and ladder climbing of the characters. LOGH kicks the crap out of 00 in every respect as it stands at this point, but I still think 00 is a very good show so far. I can’t really rank it overall though since it isn’t done.
….By the way, the smoke looks purple to me. Am I going even colour blinder?
….One last thing, despite our disagreeing on the overall quality of the show, I appreciate that you stuck with it and continued to translate. That’s the mark of a true fansubber. I’ve seen way to many other subbers leave viewers cold and dry when they stop being interested in a show themselves and it is pretty selfless of you to keep on trucking despite your disappointment with the show. So good job.
March 25th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Nerodon:
Woulnd’t the GN-X accelerate to really high speed just before crashing. That’s a really big mass force were talking about. Most of the weapons used by the Gn-X if not all are energy based (therefore thermal damage) best example, when lock-on’s armor gets penetrated by a Gn-X’s saber.
The bullets and artillery shells of the previous episodes were most likely moving at a similar speed than normal tank shells today.
Each shell weighing about 100 kilos fired at a speed of about 900 m/sec
makes an impact force of 90 Mega Joules
…etc
After reading your dissertation, I feel compelled to point out that force is measured in Newtons, not Joules. You have confused it with kinetic energy. Additionally, “Mega Joules” is one word; and there is no such thing as a “mass force.”
Hope that helps.
March 25th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Patrick is still alive, his cockpit unit is intact… Remember when his enact got shot in half? This is similar.
Why are the main characters dying? Well in a real war with such MS they would have all died off ages ago, end of story. Most of the other gundam series were total BS in this part.
NOTE: Sunrise still existed because of Gundam Seed and Gundam Seed Destiny… Remember how GS and GSD both had their plot modified to suit the fans…
Oh yeah Dark mirage, you going to do a code geass review?
March 25th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
There is a rumour that Nena is NOT going to make it into Season 2…and it is pretty hit right now in Japan.
Does that mean she will die too?
March 25th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
I don’t think Patrick’s done just yet, check out his GN-X after Tieria’s shot, seems like the cockpit is still intact. ^^;
http://www.marvinryan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/patrickcorlasawar2.jpg
March 25th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
@Martin: Thanks to our good friends Fukuda and Morosawa who don’t appear to work there anymore…..at least I hope not.
And you I still don’t know where along the line all of these negative traits started to get attributed directly to Sunrise, but a lot of different people work on different series when it comes to their shows. Unfortunately the entire studio get’s blamed for the mistakes of two of it’s former employees and now they have one of the worst reputations in the western anime community for no good reason and many people act like they can’t do anything right. How long is it going to be before people let the stigma of Gundam Seed Destiny go I wonder. 5, 10 more years? I mean how long ago was that anyway and how many solid shows have they done since. Xenoglossia, Code Geass, Gundam 00, Gintama, Freedom, Votoms Pailsen Files…it just goes on. I lost a bit of faith in Gundam after that Seed Destiny, I thought that it may have even killed the franchise because it was so poorly handled, but all has long since been forgiven as they got their act together not too long after.
Still I guarantee the drama continues through to Code Geass R2. We’ll get the initially “Lol Sunrise Trainwreck” internet meme and then everyone will just end up liking it anyway. Meanwhile I’m just going to skip all that and blog it straight up from the beginning.
Episode 25 should be out on Saturday March 29th by the way Roy Mustang. By that time the week after, Code Geass R2 will have begun airing. It’ll probably be hard to miss the moment it goes on air as the internet is liable to go a little haywire then. Anyway, The only thing I’m really worried about with the new Code Geass is that the character designs look like they might have taken a hit in artistic quality. I hope it turns out to just be the way they look as static images. Character designs tend to look kind of crappy when you see them on series homepages.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
@svenz
rail gun (equipped on flag and enact)is a new technology (as in now..)which propel projectile at high velocity using enormous amount of electricity resulting off-the-hook muzzle power. how powerful? it travels at mach7,can hit target 20km apart with accuracy of hitting centermost of a 3m square target.The high velocity generates kinetic power better than a conventional shells;without using gunpowder. today’s most advance tank can achieve about 2km/s muzzle power with effective range of 700m; which can still do collateral damage.
that rail gun guaranteed a hole where you can peep timbuktu through it even if u r equipped with the most advance/thickest armour in the world. my exia model’s box stated that it weighted 57.2 ton, comparable to challenger II tank. If a 15 hour of barrage of those ordnance doesnt give any splint to its form, i dunno what kind of metal they used to construct it.but hey, this is just fictional,wth rite?
March 25th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
i hate to burst some peoples bubbles but the gundams were always vulnerable, the only reasons they had survived thus far are
a)in most of the early episodes they were doing the the attacking rather than being attacked
b)in those instances they had the element of surprise
c)they used gurella warfare tatics (hence why the 15 hour bombardment plan almost worked, if the thrones hadn’t shown up, they would’ve been captured for sure)
d)they operated in hunter killer teams, one fast melee unit supported by one firepower unit (surely you people noticed that once the gundams ended up on their own they usually got owned in some fashion?) the fact dynames was permanently out of action not only took away a quarter of their firepower it completely messed up how they operated
March 25th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
i actually liked it…though im not raving about it either…it’s sort of like a necessary episode..i hope all these questions and so on would get answered in season2…anyway, thanks for the review Di!! ^_^
March 25th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
I can picture Felt piloting Dynames in season 2.
March 25th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
dude dm that pikachu suit and hulk smash made my day man LOL super funny ass shiett. keep doing yur thing man.
March 25th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
pikachu suit. oh boy that’s brillant!
March 25th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
I know how to defeat the MA. You need to flip it on its back and attack its weak point for MASSIVE DAMAGE! RIDGE RACER!!!! (thatisn’t irrelevant if you get the meme… btw i am a PS3 fan! don’t hurt me)
March 25th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Ha ha ha, I always enjoy reading your blog. It’s funny and full of sarcastic comments! Although personally I think this episode is pretty serious and touching. I somehow think that you “like” Gundam 00 a little bit, don’t you?
Waiting for your blogs for the last episode anyway. It must be very enjoyable!!! ^^
March 25th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Seriously why the fuck is smoke pink or purple in Gundam? I’ve been wondering this for like, ever…..
March 26th, 2008 at 12:32 am
saruto, gundam has always had pink/purple smoke in space, don’t ask why, it just does…(is there even smoke in space at all?)
alright peoples place your bets on whos gonna die next, strong contestants are alleujah and tiera who’s gundams are armless and are surrounded by three GNX units
however summeragi, feldt, and ian are in the running for being in a slow moving container shuttle….thingy with a limited supply of GN particles
course noboddy could die as we haven’t heard the entire backstory for any of the characters mentioned above
btw my fave quote was fire ze missiles
March 26th, 2008 at 12:40 am
@marvinryan
by the way marv…that pic shows the canopy still intact with the suit.cockpit isnt there so Patrick is toasted!
March 26th, 2008 at 1:05 am
“By the way, if you are wondering about Lichty’s cyborg body, his parents were orbital elevator technicians and he lost them, along with half his body, as a child during the Solar Conflict .”
LOL you obviously didn’t watch the Nyoron version of 24 where he says, “My body’s filled with this sensation, Am I still alive? Did I die?” which makes way more sense than Shinsen’s, “I was attacked along with my folks. Half my body’s like this. I don’t know if I’m living or dead.”
Nyoron subs remind me of YBHT for Naruto except Nyoron makes up their subtitles while trying to guess what the episode is about rather than for comedy.
EDIT: Then when she says her last words to Felt the Nyoron version says, “I can’t talk much longer, take care of yourself” and Shinsen says, “You should try to dress up a little more”
March 26th, 2008 at 1:19 am
@marvinryan and hi5speed2ron
are you even sure that is there the GNX’s cockpit is located? there is equal chance it could be in the upper torso like with the throne gundams
March 26th, 2008 at 3:57 am
Ok ok so it has been quite a while since i last posted >.> let us take a look. Well anyways i like most if not all of the reviews. This place is probrably the main reason why i keep watching G00. Though the main thing i like is how realistically people die in this series (note: not HOW they die, more like the fact that they ACTUALLY die)
On a side note, i wonder what the next gen suits will look like in this series and how they will be powered..judging from Sunrise previous encounters (GS & GSD) We can assume something so uber powered everybody will be in shock. I mean in GSD when you look at the strike freedom you can see just how everything goes boom in a split second and how taking out an entire fleet can happen in seconds rather than take any effort at all.
And here we are now waiting for the conclusion of the series. :0 Can’t wait to see what happens! -prays for more deaths-
March 26th, 2008 at 5:33 am
@Ford: You n00b. Nyoron’s is not a translation at all.
March 26th, 2008 at 6:38 am
Ford: I just have to ask, are you fluent in Japanese? Since you think you know what they are saying. Nyoron is translating like they want and what they themselves feel sounds right instead of translating the words.
If you listen to what they are saying, she doesn´t say that she can´t talk much longer…
It´s the wrong words, I´m not fluent in Japanese, but I´ve learned some words and no, no talking words in that sentance.
Considering who it is that died it makes more sense to tell Felt to dress up since we´ve witnessed her forcing Felt to go shooping twice…
but let´s stop here. If you want to watch nyoron subs then do so. I´ll keep waiting for either Menclave or Shinsens versions.
Fun for everyone.
March 26th, 2008 at 8:28 am
‘Pikachu suit’ definitely made my day. I was pissing myself laughing afterwards. DM do you actually like G00???? just wondering
March 26th, 2008 at 9:19 am
Of course DM doesn’t know Japanese! That’s why he’s making all those captions up. He can’t even pass JLPT Level 4! Bwahahaha!
He just guesses his way around all those H games. な ミラージュ殿？ >_>
March 26th, 2008 at 9:38 am
I am hoping for this series to have that f’ing moment of truth, like when Kira and Asuran fought till death. Or when Hero fought Zecs Marquees in the south pole. The battle between setsuna and that arabic hairdresser (al-fakir) or whatever his name is is going to be the highlight of this series.
I am hoping for setsuna to get his strike freedom gundam soon :)
March 26th, 2008 at 9:49 am
@ random hero’s post 70;
that assault container has Dynames inside, so we can be sure it’s ‘infinite’…and all the reason for Christina’s “white lie” (just to quote DM here)
as for the pink/purple smoke;
what DO you guy want there instead? black/grey smoke (or as I want to call it, “regular” smoke)? instant bang(aka no smoke)?
BTW, I love the pencil comment xD
March 26th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
@info600
you make a good point there, but said container is still a sitting duck….actually now that i think about it, probably not, cos there’s only a couple of those GNX thingos left, and the gold pimpmobile is focused on setsuna, and because kyrios and nadleeh are just torso’s it could swoop in, snatch them, along with exia which might share a similar fate and then go into hiding,
March 26th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
a bling-bling mobile armor! how about that!
March 26th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
well, too much blood here,
this series makes me sick now,
how`bout saji will take a revenge to CB?
March 26th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
So we’re talking about the smoke’s color. Okay. But in the first place, is “smoke” (with the shape and behavior of the smoke that you usually see) possible in an almost zero-gravity & almost vacuum space? Did you ever wonder?
March 26th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
I may be picking up a new series to blog after this, and I guess Code Geass s2 is the obvious choice. (I did own code-geass.com until not too long ago. >_>) But it all depends on how much I like the first episode.
As to whether or not I like G00… I did honestly think it was really awesome at the start of the series with its somewhat hilarious depiction of modern politics, and that it had at least the potential for greatness. But not so much now.
March 26th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
i did hope that they would feature the Pope and Dalai Lama in the series because religious leaders also have big influence in politics. but as what DM said, the politics stuff just faded before reaching halfway of the series. by the way, where is Nena Trinity?
March 26th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Too many loose threads which the show hasn’t wrapped up yet. I agree that the show has lost part of its political message in the endless slaughter. But, that’s war eh?
Many questions I have which I’m sure others have asked (and answered) already. Politely waiting for the show to answer my questions, since I am SURE they have a proper answer for my questions, right? RIGHT? (I reserve comment in view of my superior intelligence)
1) Where is Nena Trinity? rehab? Throne Drei? scrapped for spare change?
2) What happened to Marina Ismail? got married?
3) Where is Ali al Sarshes after he got pwned by Lockon?
4) Where is Graham Acre and his custom fucking Overflag?
5) Why should Alejandro Corner help the UN, since he wants to dominate them with the GN Drive technology? “shoot them all except 1, i’m gonna pwn your economies with this”
6) Why is DM so damn funny?!
lol @ pikachu suit. he likes gold so much, he sprinkled gold particles in his beam cannon! nerf!
March 27th, 2008 at 1:12 am
Is the pikachu suit comment really that funny to some people? I mean it resembles it, but I’m not killing myself laughing over it. Internet peoples sense of humour confuses me sometimes.
Whatever, apparently DarkMirage struck comedy gold with that one of the variety that would make Alejandro jealous.
March 27th, 2008 at 1:22 am
There’s one thing I just don’t get it:
How can the Gundams end warfares on Earth with warfares? At the end, should all the Gundams destroyed and all celestials perish, everyone back at home would just go back to their old ways and the good old days are back again with trigger-happy gunghos shooting in the air…
Pretty weak concepts if you asked me… OO is more like an EMO drama for younger EMO audiences.