
You gonna get Raped!
Finals are finally done for me and work turned out to be a whole lot of nothing in the end since the new log in system was implemented a few months back. Well at least is still early in the fiscal year for the teething problems to show up, but as always Gundam 00 always manages to go down the slippery slope from the high point that was episode 9. So in the future the Union has finally lowered the drinking age to 20, indeed this is good news unless of course you live where the age was once lower. In that case blame the Japanese.

Yeah because I am not happy you are alive.

Oh really? I suppose wetting yourself and shitting in one’s pants with shields at 100% is acceptable in front of everyone.
I’ll be honest part of my tardiness was due to a Mass Effect binge that left me with little motivation to watch some sub par sci-fi. It surprising how much Bioware put into their universe while every damn sci-fi anime in recent was ridden with mediocrity with more emo than detail. I bring this up because if this Aeolia Schenberg of deutsche physik intended to warn man about going to space before achieving some world government to be way off the mark and horribly misguided. The only reason why space technology has advanced as far it did was because the Soviets and Americans were eager to prove their technical and scientific superiority over the other. The only reason for an all encompassing supra national entity to form would in all probability be first contact with beings from beyond the moon or the cost of colonization becomes more than what one country could afford. There is no point in uniting if there are no national benefits to each member. Unless you are some high strung idealist who believes that humans will come together out of the goodness of their hearts to make deserts bloom and ice cream flow from rivers.

Stoic Leutnant Soma is just adorable.

Nice to see Sunrise pander to the fan fic community, though can a tread head like me get a turn for some pander?
I really don’t know what that bloody white paste was so I’ll assume the master chef Saji was in fact serving ranch chip dip to Louise’s mom. Since it was Saji cooking and not Louise I assume that Louise is an incompetent cook as well, as culinary skills would require more brain cells than she actually possesses. Graham and his rock band the Flag Fighters quibble about how the HRL lost 20 units to Naughty Nadleeh and Krazy Kyrios. In fact Graham has done so little fighting I bet he was later commissioned to write a new recruiting song for the Union National Guard to replace “Citizen Soldiers” in theaters across the land. If you have seen a movie recently in the States you know precisely what I mean, if not I suggest you maintain your ignorance…if not youtube has what you seek. Truth is I think that the Marines have the best and most long lived ad campaign. I don’t think the Guard is ever going to live it down no matter how many bland tasteless recruiting jokes are made. After all “Army of One” didn’t imply team work, and I can’t even count how many Army Strong jokes I have come across.

This isn’t the boy you were looking for.

Perhaps the pedo fairy exists somewhere too…
Back at CB Tieria is blaming everyone else for the failures while Sumeragi proves herself again most unworthy of her Captaincy by not holding a mast to punish him for impudence. Instead she retreats bravely to the bottle. Still Tieria was right to mock one person in the crew Christina. She has no right to pout after cowering in fear, when danger rears its ugly head she bravely turned and fled. Yes Brave Christina turned about without and gallantly she chickened out. Tieria is apparently Veda’s lover going above and beyond the call of duty to service placate their machine god. The Haptism twins finally meet face to face sort of while Corner is trying to bring peace to the Middle East by making things ripe for CB to blow it all to hell. Good to see Shirin at her A-game to defeat the pedo-prince of the UN. Mariana has not need for some emo dolt in a Gundam to protect her, she has a minister that is the new Li Si, only better since yuri protects. It should come as no surprise that Corner is trying to get Mariana killed, no doubt under his direction the next UN scandal will be pedogate or ephebogate depending on where you prefer to draw a distinction. Corner can’t handle all woman otome, so he plans on having them all killed in a war while evacuating all the children. Besides he swears in the name of God that he will do everything in his power to help. Too bad he is a Godless infidel.

Shouta Hallelujah was also more manly than the all the Meisters combined.

See even a battle hardened veteran like Sergei can’t see why Soma and her kin are dangerous. Only some unprincipled and unscrupulous brute would want to strike that face.
Back with the HRL the super soldier guys get a shock when CB violates international law and kills a bunch of kids. Now as bad as altering is kids, how come CB gets to kill kids and still look like heroes? As usual Allelujah chickens out and Hallelujah the rapist earns another point of renown; slayer of children. Still why the hell did they use an office building for their labs? An under ground bunker some where deep in HRL territory would have made more sense. Still CB is above the law, no doubt they will soon be executing prisoners, Christina will go forth and pillage, and the Meisters will rape every man, woman, child, and computer. Now that Soma is the last of her people she is honor bound to avenge the Kinslaying at Alqualonde (Since sunrise can’t name a space station I opted to borrow from Tolkein). Soma earns a lot of points for being the last of the Calaquendi as far as I am concerned she can do no wrong for everything she will do is for the sake of the fallen. I salute her stoicism in the face of the emo Meisters of CB. I lament how far the HRL has forgotten their communist roots, for in Soviet Russia and Mao China with press such as that no one would have known that Napoleon lost at Waterloo. Better yet since CB are a bunch of terrorists why not maintain that what they leaked were lies? After all you could call it a hospital for children with currently incurable diseases. The HRL has a pile of rubble burying the bodies of thousands of kids…if they say its a hospital and those CB terrorists say it was a research facility who would you believe? Besides whatever evidence there was ended up destroyed any way…convenient no?

Ah, a toast over the burnt corpses of the children you butchered is just weird, eh? Whatever happened to wrong?
Well at least the HRL is opting for secret negotiations with the Union, so unlike Sumeragi the HRL big wigs are not stupid. Ah realpolitik, good to see that the HRL has given up campaigns and five year plans. As Spock would say, “Only Bryan could go to China.” I do hope that Soma gets a better pink MS, even better if she and Sergei are forced to work with the Flag Fighters in a marriage of convenience. Their decision to keep Sergei the correct one since Sergei did do all the right things when they last met. Like a real commander he was prepared to accept the consequences, all of them. He even tendered his resignation, unlike one busty pretender captain of a terrorist organization.

If the answer is not Billy “Goat” Katagiri then I will be more than pleasantly surprised…
Sumeragi found a new drinking partner in the Allelujah for her pale face fire water parties. As time goes on she just seems to sink lower and lower. At this point her lack of modesty seems like virtue, at least Sunrise spared us her gigantic mammary glands and opted for smaller perkier ones. Even General Grant is not Sumeragi bad; he had a legitimate reason to suffer from depression. Grant failed at just about everything and he tried a lot of things civilian. Sumeragi still drinks to drown the shame of her lack of godlike omnipotence and her loss of her billy goat. It makes me sick as Sumeragi is supposedly a commander of some years, and still in her relative commander ranking is but a pale of shadow of the even more infamously drunken quartermaster General Grant. Sunrise can’t do character flaws right any more; it ought to be more outlandish like Char with his love young girls barely into puberty and man crush for Amuro.
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Mmmmm this episode has sure fallen from the greatness that was episode 9. I had absolutely no problem with Tieria calling people out on the bridge, doing it in private wouldn’t have had the same impact. Little Christina has no room to complain about anything, she should have been flogged for deserting her post in battle.
Saji and Louise make another totally fucking useless appearance. We are 11 episodes in and they have yet to be a part of anything at all. At least it was only a minute of screentime. And Graham made an appearance to start his new emo band of man lovers the Flag Fighters. I would not be surprised to see him in future episodes develop a man crush on one of the Gundam Meisters.
And I’m waiting for the day (maybe next week by the previews) when Setsuna goes and saves his woman from the evil UN pedobear. He’s got to show his balls at some point, maybe he will get all raged seed mode in Exia and make a billion of those particles come out.
And wow Soma is really short, they showed a horizontal shot of her standing near Sergei and she looked miniature. She’s still delicious. And Sergei is now the manliest man on the show, now that Tieria has fallen. Sergei has the balls and the brains for good strategy and mans up to his mistakes.
Calawain added these pithy words on Dec 20 07 at 9:46 amAn episode of 00 isn’t complete until Crusader’s been unimpressed by it.
Yeah, the drinking age thing was odd. Seeing someone being so careful about it in a spaceship full of (for want of a better term) terrorists breaks the fourth wall in a bad way.
Maybe it’s your influence, but I’m warming to Soma. For some kind of artificial human, she’s pretty rational.
IKnight added these pithy words on Dec 20 07 at 12:17 pmsings *HALLELUJAH!!!*
rollchan added these pithy words on Dec 20 07 at 7:32 pmTruly an impressive Silmarillion reference, though would it be the Teleri or Calaquendi that were slaughtered? I never remember the distinction. And, while Shirin is doing quite a lot with the limited resources she (apparently) has, she’ll need to take it to a whole different level to match Li Si. Azadistan would be protected on all sides by a veritable wall of bodies, were Shirin to be like Li Si. Hell, given how much Li Si liked burning books, Shirin would probably solve Azadistan’s energy crisis too.
Eirias added these pithy words on Dec 20 07 at 9:19 pm@Calawain Tieria can put all he wants on the bridge, it just annoys me that Sumeragi did not rap his knuckles for doing it on her bridge. As far as Graham goes has there ever been a Gundam in recent memory where there was no man crush?
I bet Setsuan is going to do his wings of light thing to reaffirm that he is Gundam Jesus, seeing how its Christmas and all. Also who is this “Setsuan’s woman” you speak of the boy is obviously hardo gei for Exia and Mariana is clearly Shirin’s woman.
I must say that the HRL boasts the best characters thus far seeing as how the AEU like Europe gets ignored routinely and having the Billy goat as a Union man. As for Soma’s delightfully short stature in comparison the the Great Bear, judge her by her size do you? Well you should not for her ally is the Force and a powerful ally it is.
Once again Saji and Louise stole Ms. Wang’s screen time, I am hoping that their demise will be messy.
@IKnight
The drinking thing was not only odd it broke the fourth wall as a “don’t drink if your underage public service announcement.”
Indeed Soma the greatest otome thus far in Gundam 00 she is not dumb as Wang, whorish as Sumeragi, cowardly as Christina, retarded as Louise, nor as teary sad girl in space like Felt. Glad to see that my praise for Soma has helped others see the light regarding who the true female protagonist is.
@rollchan
So will you be the next Numa Numa guy?
@Eirias
There were many Kinslayings, but in this cas the most recent one was of the Calaquendi by the Moriquedi. Unlike that brute Haptism, Soma and her folk went to Aman and saw the light of the Two Trees of Valinor. In fact the Teleri were also Calaquendi along with the Noldor and Vanyar.
While Shirin has a long way to go in becoming the next Li Si she works tirelessly to keep her beloved Princess safe through subtler means. Unlike CB who leaves a swathe of destruction without paying for it Shirin is far more accountable and uses her intelligence to over come the stupid. After all is not a knife in the dark worth a thousand swords at dawn? Regardless of policies hopefully Shrirn will prove to be just as ruthless regarding pedobear Corner as Li Si was with the Confucians. I for one would like to see Corner buried alive.
Crusader added these pithy words on Dec 21 07 at 2:07 pmYou’re right about catering to the fanfics. Look at Lockon here… bi? No! Unfathomable! Now that he’s hooked up with that soulless Felt-tipped readhead there, he can do no wrong, see. …Wait, but why was he so keen on defending himself in front of Setsuna? It’s not like he cares for him, right? Darn you sunrise for keeping the door open. Mirai utsu.
Is it just me or does SirGay’s scar grow and shrink depending on how angry he is? Let’s hope to Old Glory its the only thing he has with these disturbing properties. Otherwise, he could start to grow on you and all.
And let’s face it, Sumeragi left Billy because he wasn’t quite up to par with the proverbial Billy Goats Gruff. But Soma is, speaking of gruff. I’m waiting for her to go nice and emo over Setsuna’s death. I was almost positive there’d be some sort of Setsoma pairing, just because it seems most random at the moment. Maybe he can make his entrance into her life by stepping out of his speeding marriage limo to shoot at a passing armored Soviet tank.
Saji is getting cut because of the infamous Old Glory incident. Apparently he can’t take the heat, so he stays in the kitchen for Louise. Pretty feisty, that bugger, ain’t he? Too bad he won’t be able to get cooking with Setsuna, since he’s gunna be off with our friends at the UN trying to negotiate the price of the pr0n Saji will no doubt not give him.
The moral here is, Lockon has a 42.1% chance of not being bi, and that means there’s hope for the EU.
See? Now the whole show makes sense. Case closed!
LockOffStratus added these pithy words on Dec 21 07 at 6:56 pm@Crusader:
numa numa? LOL!
can’t wait for episode 12! dang it, i’ll be spending christmas in Hong Kong! warrr, I should be in Singapore, LOL!
thanks for the review!
rollchan added these pithy words on Dec 22 07 at 5:22 amNow i really have a problem with this:
“Back with the HRL the super soldier guys get a shock when CB violates international law and kills a bunch of kids. Now as bad as altering is kids, how come CB gets to kill kids and still look like heroes?”
Since when DID the CB looked like heroes while doing it? I thought that the all point of allelujah doubts, was because that was NOT an heroic thing to do. And allelujah didnt chicken out, he was having a conscience trip after thinking if it was really necesary to do it. And considering how mess up he is is pretty obvious that the kids are screwed anyway.
Is funny have always some people(ehm *bloggers*) forgive HRL just to make CB look like assholes. Who the hell started the all thing and messed allelujah’s mind in the first place?. I dont care how the hell you try to put it down, HRL is a bunch of assholes that deserve to get a lesson or 2 taught.
Oh yes am sure the coronel will manage to change their asshole ways from the inside, is not like he is just a subordinate that does as he is told.
And trust me this is not the last time we have heard of HRL human experiments, i bet they have other labs just like that one.
Well the rest of your blog seems to be nitpicking on useless things but fair enough.
BTW Is it just me or people complain about allelujah dont wanting to kill people and they label him as a chicken, BUT the minute psycho hallelujah appears he is just a rapist murderer.
Make up your bloody minds, which one do you prefer?. Me i take killer hallelujah any day, makes things a lot more interesting.
Oh come now, “Is funny have always some people(ehm *bloggers*) forgive HRL just to make CB look like assholes…I dont care how the hell you try to put it down, HRL is a bunch of assholes that deserve to get a lesson or 2 taught.”
Maybe if Gundam 00 was real. The whole point of this particular blog is to make [hilarious] fun of how it isn’t, and for good reason. So really, the HRL is aiding our cruise through the show by threatening the most ridiculously annoying characters. And so is our blogger, for that matter; no wonder he’s called CruiseAider. (Hoho, I made a FUN PUN, SON. Happi holadayz!)
LockOffStratus added these pithy words on Dec 26 07 at 3:46 pm
