I am also saddened by Commissar Tieria failing to shoot emo-boy in the back.

@chupacabra/link455
I selection of fansub group aside I hope that is not the case because that means that only the next 24 will be worth watching, after Code Geass season 2.

@Avisch
Soma is love, I like the HRL guys since they have acted like asses. Union was soiled by Billy goat…

@Soulshard
I motion that the all factions opposing CB shout Cobra! when firing wildly into the air. If Ms. Wang was Cobra commander that your be awesome, a crossover is waht this series needs. No more pretense and just a reeking stinking cheese parade would be more enjoyable. Upgrade Hong to Destro, Graham to Snake-eyes, and Soma to Storm Shadow and we’ll be set.

I am not willing to write of Mariana yet, she just needs to realize what is important in life and reciprocate Shirin’s otome love. Even if Mariana is a fan of strapless, at least she did not adopt the abomination that was Sumeragi’s desperate 30 plus years barfly top…

@korosora
Its not shit its Sunrise!

@YanLan
It is clear that Sunrise is really trying to set up the most awkward older woman emo-boy relationship…

@ZeusIrae
I am against torture, I am for pouring sugar into their gas tanks.

@Hinano and neko79
Thanks!

If you don’t give a damm then gtfo you attention whores.

@crusader:

will you ever say what group you’re watching?

I am also curious why Setsuna will reveal his identity to Miriana. He even told her his real name (which I thought was his alias - apparently NOT -.-::)! I especially like the last scene where Setsuna in Exia looked at the plane where Miriam was in… is there a reason for that? But she definitely did not like to see the Gundam close up >> So much for a happy ending…

I also agree with Soulshard - the SetsunaxMiriana pairing just looks downright wrong. One thing interesting about this would-be couple… They are supposed to be enemies (makes me think of CagallixAthrun in Gundam SEED n.n)

Now, it seems to me Gundam 00 is still building up its plot. The real story should start in space. chupacabra/link455 is right too - “mostly they get good around episode 15 or 20″ - but seriously, it bores ppl this way u.u .

second’d

G00 started out so well… and it’s degenerated to this shit.

Since Setsuna is supposedly the lead male role in this godawful series, lets start with him. Clearly he’s no Jason Bourne - but he doesn’t have to be since the series’ writers are bound to get Setsuna out of any bloody jam he’s in through circumstances I can only describe as stupid. Speaking of which, lets talk about Mariana, Relena Peacecraft’s long lost retard sister.

The only sane reason I could have thought of, at that point in the episode, when Mariana saved Setsuna’s ass after taking a glance at him was ’she must have been pretty damn horny’. But no, I’m not even given the benefit of logical scriptwriting. “Stop the car, I want to talk to this complete stranger that’s being held up by the police at gunpoint because I want someone to talk to.” She’s a world leader with a set of boobs, ass, and a hooker’s wardrobe. This must be one of those ’she’s really 12 but we rendered her as an older person’ kind of deals.

Even compared to the Heero x Relena relationship, this encounter was just downright wrong. At least Relena was a sane schoolgirl with teenage ambitions. At least Heero didn’t tell people he was a Gundam pilot. Heck, at least Heero doesn’t miss with his gunshots. Relena would just give you an invitation to her birthday party and start at the ‘we’re just friends’ level, while Mariana will take you into her limo and force a conversation on you about international diplomacy in her escort attire. The only thing that could salvage Mariana’s sanity is if she confessed how horny she was overseas to her lesbian lover/foreign policy advisor when she gets back to Azadistan or whatever the heck its called.

Given the ‘plot progression’ this episode had to offer, I was surprised (somewhat at least) by how much filler there is in this episode. Seriously, most of the cast in this episode had at least one thing to bitch about. Perhaps the ‘fan service’ scene, where Sumeragi’s entourage goes for a swim, was supposed to offset the previous 15 minutes of complete boredom - but even that was very oddly placed. Despite Gurren Lagann’s (yes Gurren Lagann I went there) fanservice episode (#13?) being obvious filler, at least it had half of the episode devoted to fanservice and beach fun, and the episode was content with being a filler episode.

And that is exactly one of Gundam00’s many many problems - it tries to stuff too much into a single episode. In this one episode, there’s a car chase, Gundam fights (if you can even call them that), a mobile armor (did anyone catch it’s name?), terrorist bombings, a ‘tense moment’ with the police (lol), a brewing romance between Setsuna and Mariana (you know Sunrise will just force this into being), that white dude doing an air patrol… somewhere, the old guy technician, AND Sumeragi’s BOUNCING breasts. At least previous Gundams devoted whole episodes to one thing - the mobile armor, the romance, the make-peace-not-war rhetoric. I didn’t think this series could do it worse than Tomino’s Gundam F-91 movie, but lo and behold here’s Gundam00.

And terrorists, oh boy that’s a whole blog entry right there. It’s as if the scriptwriting team researched G.I.Joe and Cobra for how terrorist organizations operate. This is downright terrible. And what the heck are biometrics and all those initials Ms. Wang’s pet servant dude kept blabbering on about? What is wrong with a Gundam series that explains terminology before using it - does Sunrise have something against Tomino? At least I was told what the hell a ‘funnel’ was in an episode/movie.

But at least there was a glimmer of hope in Ms. Wang concerning my theory that the Big Three governments are the real backers of the “terrorist attacks”, if only in part. Actually, Ms. Wang was the only good I found in this episode. I really like how she casts herself as a petite James Bond villain from the 70s, complete with a secret base, a secret island resort, and a pink private jet. Her pet slave dude is probably there as the mandatory ’strong-man-that-fights-James-Bond-in-the-last-action-scene’ villain. It would have been completely awesome if Celestial Being was a typical villainous organization in a James Bond flick, with all the current Gundam pilots fighting James Bond the Gundam Meister.

But something must have went wrong along the way, behind closed doors at the Sunrise corporate building.

Something must have went terribly wrong.

Calawain: Damn f***ing right. Why the hell would you go enjoy the beach when your job is to OPERATE THE MISSION. “Oh we have to go to space later” that’s not something to say when people’s lives is on the line.

On 00 in general. So far people have been comparing this to Gundam Wing. Though I actually prefer 00 than Wing (and not just because animation is better than it was in the 90’s)

2) What kind of shitty terrorist network has three easily discoverable bases as their only bases of operation? You’d think after 300 more years of terrorism they would have grasped the function of having cells. And besides, why the hell would environmental hippies give a crap about CB? Enviro crazies would want to bomb people cutting down the rainforest, not a group that kills soldiers.

3) The whole beach thing was pretty pathetic- hey our soldiers are out there fighting on our orders, lets get a tan! Pathetic, be a commander and lead them instead of having them commanded by the worst spymaster ever.

4) They need to hire some internal security folks because their meisters keep revealing information to people. I mean that scene with desert queen was just bad. Pink shirt man needs to start beating the shit out of folks.

Man, I think this show needs to be categorized as a comedy, because I end up laughing through most of it.