Quick Noe! Grab your bottle, it’s a rare opportunity to get both tears and blood at once! QQ

The Sumeragislap: 300 times less effective than the Brightslap.

@Calawain
Thanks comrade, I expected this post to go live this evening so I failed to do a proper check before hand. Thanks.

@rieuzedx
Noe has no need for these bad tears of emo terrorists they are not beautiful enough.

@Versus
Yeah all we can hope for is the second coming of Ali to but that brat back in his place.

@IKnight
Sumeragi Slap - Over 9000 times less powerful that the Katie Punch.

@Kabitzin
Thanks. Ali shall return.

It was a tactical failure IMO. She kept the life boat docked to the carrier thus limiting her arcs of fire and did not even use the full spread of GN Missiles. One has to wonder what Lichty and Chris could have done on an unarmed cap ship that had almost no engine power…still if her goal was to save Sumeragi, Mission Accomplished. In fact she deserves a banner for that too…

So…Sumeragi’s a “sexist whore” for slapping Tieria because he was indispensable to the defense of Ptolemy and getting him out of his immature behaviour at that time? I see~

And you call that poor attempt at development? Geez, can’t the crew act like humans for once instead of tools being used by CB and manipulated by VEDA? So everyone’s going to just clam up or mutter ‘we’re going to die, oh sh**’, get all tensed up, create a depressing atmosphere and not make their own past known to at least a few people, since they realise they might not be able to make it out alive?

If you still can’t understand, use something called ‘Common Sense’.

Anyway, just to prove I’m not here to bash, I’d say your gripes about the scene for Lichty and Christina are valid, because it was a little too drawn out, and Moreno’s death was…a little WTF, I guess. we don’t see him around for even a minute, and you have Ian sprouting some shounen-ish line. Bad move, Mr. Director.

Aside from that, I see you love indulging in making yourself look like someone obssessed with sexual references AGAIN, not that I’m one to advise you to stop, since it looks like a addiction to me right now. Huzzah for tasteless jokes.

Anyway, for some senseless humor, I’d most definitely recommend your blog posts, but frankly, it fails as a blog meant to describe the episodes themselves, because they are all filled up with your own personal opinions and jibes at the series and the characters. I don’t believe we need anymore of that, thank you. How about making some intelligent posts for a change?

If you’re wondering why some people continue to criticise your posts, get this: It’s the same reason as why you’re watching Gundam 00, or at least the impression that you ‘watch to bash/make fun of/criticise’.

Good day.

@O.D
Sumeragi slapped one guy for crying but gave Feldt free reign to cry, this tome is bad leadership because Sumeragi is only selectively punishing certain members of her crew while giving others a free pass. I think it was totally unfair of her not to slap Feldt and take command of her crew as a real captain ought to. Instead she just slaps Tieria for making the correct assessment. After all what did Setsuna accomplish while he was down there? Nena got away and Ali escaped to kill Lockon. Tell me how Setsuna was fucking vindicated in going off to dick around. What tactical benefit was there in his going off to find himself? If there was a significant tactical benefit in his going I certainly do not see it, care to enlighten me since you seem to have all the answers? I have seen how favoritism can ruin unit cohesion and that right there was a prime example of how COs fuck up their own units by playing favorites.

Perhaps the Sumeragi Slap was not sexist but it certainly was favoritism on her part to only punish one guy, and forgive Setsuna’s contemptible little foray for nothing on Earth.

You would have me believe that in all that time since they have been together that they only decided now to talk to one another? Even if there is a code of secrecy in force it has not been respected given how Feldt told Lockon about her parents and how Lockon went on about his family. I found that their little bonding ceremony was rushed and in all honesty more than a little late. They gave Lichty and Christina a LONG death scene and they wanted us to sympathize. I think that had we gotten to know them better there would be more sympathy for the characters rather than the lost melonpan. I doubt much of the audience actually really knew the bastards, but it hardly matters now that they are dead and their blood and purple fluid now stain the stars as befits such arrogant terrorists.

We hardly see Ian bond with anyone, but then all of a sudden he has a special relationship with Lichty that never really came into play before. I never set myself up as one to not voice my displeasure at the turn of events but sure you want an intelligent post on how tactically inept these bastards are sure. Though please bring your own superb tactician hat to the party.

They did not have to make Lichty a cyborg, and because he was I cannot help but wonder if he could have been more useful as a free agent who broke into bases to blow them up. Since he was a cyborg it stands to reason they could have made him stronger and more durable than the average man. Now that he is not fully organic I am sure there were a spate of mechanical dildo fan arts starring the recently deceased. What they did was basically spawn a good number of robo raped Chris doujins. They I hardly felt sorry for his need to become part machine, I am sure we were supposed to feel sorry. However according to Rule 34 this is going to be more fap fodder than tear jerker.

The thing I do not get on your part for all your “Intelligence” touting is how you can buy into Sumeragi as a good captain. I have served under good officers and bad officers and judging by what she does Sumeragi is captain in name only. She does not give orders, she is merely a glorified babysitter for the meisters given how many times Tieria and Setsuna have forced operations that netted no tangible benefits I can hardly see how Sumeragi has any sense at all.

I remember when Gundam actually had a smattering of tactics and grand strategy. Bright Noa, Char, and General Revil. I cannot help but think that Gundam 00 is less than what it could be and that these terrorists are not the heirs to that legacy. What became of the political intrigue? What happened to having useful mass production suits? You claim I need common sense like some accomplished war hero, but tell me then how was remaining docked to the crippled carrier to fire the assault container’s gun a good example of common sense? The way I see it they should have taken off immediately so that they could use maneuver to bring firepower to bear if they had done that the chance of a blind spot would have been significantly lessened. However you seem to think that it was a brilliant strategy, so tell me how precisely was it brilliant?

I think I have every right to voice an opinion if you don’t want to read then don’t I have never supported the terrorists and unlike you I do not wish to give them aid or comfort like you deign to do. Given that this was a CB centric ep you certainly came to the wrong place if sympathy for terrorists is what you are looking for. Just like how you are entitled to your opinion I am entitled to mine. You seem to presume that your opinion is some how right, and mine is wrong. However comrade there is no right or wrong oinion its just that personal and you do not have to agree with me. You like the terrorist in this show I hate them. they fight not a reasonable goal they fight for a dystopia where they are the military junta that enforces the peace. They are not going for grassroots. They are going for self flattery, that is why I can never like them. You have every right to be sympathetic to their cause, but I remain opposed and that will never change.

@Amuro1X

Lichty’s interest in Chris was plain, however her acknowledgment of him seems less than genuine since it required a dying Lichty. Throughout the show no one has dithered in love as much as Chris. She was vain and cowardly, she chose men based on looks. Remember how she was rather interested in Al, now where is that affection? I think Chris is just another manipulative and scheming bitch who just says nice tings without really meaning them. Maybe she did turn a new leaf when she was killed by shrapnel, but I still believe she is burning in anime hell for the sin of lust. If Christina was just some ordinary douche bag, why the long death scene? Heck Patrick showed more development than they did and all he got was “eh?” we at least know what was important in his life.

So Lichty died knowing that Chris was sorry, if that is how much he values his life then so be it. I still think th e price of acknowledgment was ridiculously high.

@Amuro1X
I think you grossly underestimate the depravity of the internet and Rule 34. The Internet is scarier than you realize. Besides once is already more than enough, and I honestly believe that since Lichty was so forgettable that he will be known for having a bionic member rather than being a good helmsman or anything else. It was so unexpected and not even hinted at that it felt disingenuous as they could have but never did hint at his need to maintain his bionics.

I have no love for cowards, and Christina was a coward. I will never sympathize with a coward and will always celebrate the death of one a a glorious occasion. I found it uproariously entertaining to hear her dying words. So many wonderful words that would make for a great epitaph…

If they were on high alert Feldt and the crew seemed awfully relaxed enough to banter and for Christina to abandon her console while Feldt wrote her letter. That is not “high alert” in my book. I had hopped that the Sumeragi slap would mean that she had turned a new leaf, she failed and moments later gives in to another ill conceived operation. There was no need to force a battle, the correct decision would have been to disengage. Both sides were heavily mauled and fighting with less than 100% combat strength is never an ideal situation.

Patrick is the kind of guy who is brash and young and joined the military during peace time because he liked big guns. Yes he is less than skilled, but honestly most veterans rather be lucky than good. Luck is still a part of war, and being lucky can sometimes make all the difference in the world. After all the Germans were the most skilled soldiers in the world at the time of WWII, but they were most unlucky to have a corporal telling their generals what to do.

This is a series where I strongly support the antagonists. Thank you Crusader for your posts, you echo my exact sentiments except with more eloquence. Cheers

Damn. Looks like my first comment got stomped by the spam filter sometime yesterday afternoon.

The pure naivete required to devise and implement such a breath-takingly stupid “intervention” plan precludes me from ever sympathizing with CB.