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 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?