Before I go into my usual hate-filled blasphemous rant, I have an announcement to make. Due to real-life circumstances unrelated to World of Warcraft, this will be my last G00 post. On a related note, I will be flying off to Japan tomorrow for about a month, so look forward to more Japan-related posts and of course some Comiket 75 coverage at the end of the month.

Now on to the hate.

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Read the rest of Gundam 00 S2 — Episode 10 (772 words)

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Ptolemaios launches itself into space propelled by the power of pure awesomeness and the anti-physics properties of GN particles. With years of experience watching spaceship launches on her belt and an inhuman sense of intuition that can only be wielded by a matured woman, Katie Mannequin immediately manages to match the distinctive trajectory of Ptolemy’s ascend with the scent of Leesa Kujo, her former lesbian lover in college. Sumeragi is busted.

That settles it for the summary. Now let’s talk about something else.

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Read the rest of Gundam 00 S2 — Episode 09 (886 words)

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Episode 8 has so much dorama and lulz, it’s like anime blogging. Maybe someday there will be a Genshiken-style anime about blogging and the blogosphere will finally have its very own Madarame. Or is that Cory Doctorow? In any case, I digress.

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Read the rest of Gundam 00 S2 — Episode 08 (568 words)

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What a sweet episode. Things seldom go so smoothly in a Gundam storyline full of misunderstandings and betrayals, at least not till the grand finale. Then again, this may just be a setup for the next emotional free fall. As one learns from experience, it’s never a good idea to invest your feelings and expectations in a fictional character. Well, except for the ones I love. They would never betray my feelings.

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Read the rest of Gundam 00 S2 — Episode 07 (522 words)

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Perhaps someday history will look back to the 21st century and cite Gundam 00 as a cinematic masterpiece of our time, a work of pure literary genius not fully appreciated in an era of barbarism and ignorance. Maybe the SQL server that hosts my blog will someday be unearthed by digital archaeology robots and I will forever be remembered as the Great Evil who sprouted weekly blasphemy, polluting the minds of an entire generation, and obstructing the legacy of the greatest creative work ever produced by humanity.

Then again, pretty much all other works of fiction must spontaneously disintegrate and memories of them erased from our collective DNAs in order for that improbable dystopia to materialize.

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Read the rest of Gundam 00 S2 — Episode 06 (561 words)

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This is hands down the most boring episode so far. Maybe next episode will be more exciting when Marina and Setsuna die in a fiery plane crash. I’m so hungry and sleepy.

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Read the rest of Gundam 00 S2 — Episode 05 (535 words)

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Meh. It’s an okay episode. Slightly less interesting than playing Macross Ace Frontier, but definitely better than watching paint dry. If I have to rank this episode on the scale of one to five, it’s a koala bear. It’s cute and all, but no one goes to the zoo just to see a bunch of tree-hugging furbags.

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Read the rest of Gundam 00 S2 — Episode 04 (576 words)

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I watched this episode last night in a semi-comatose state so I can’t remember anything about it now. Luckily, I had the foresight to save the screencaps first, so now I can simply extrapolate the episode’s plot based on 26 still images and fill in the gap with my extraordinary mastery of Gundam storytelling. It’s like reading a manga without speech bubbles.

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Read the rest of Gundam 00 S2 — Episode 03 (503 words)

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Well, that was a huge disappointment. Episode two didn’t do anything interesting at all. Looks like the spaceshipwreck is still quite far off. The character feuds are building up though, so it’s all a matter of time. Also, Gundam 00 is such an anticlimax.

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Read the rest of Gundam 00 S2 — Episode 02 (789 words)

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Why does everyone assume that I would be blogging Gundam 00 Season 2? I never said that I would. It’s not good to be overly presumptuous. I mean, it is true that the only thing keeping this blog from becoming a desolate wasteland is my weekly episode “review”, but that doesn’t mean anything! So yeah, you can take your baseless preconceived notions and stuff them up that place where you stuff things up into! (Turkey?)

So anyway, let’s get this thing going.

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Read the rest of Gundam 00 S2 — Episode 01 (831 words)

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