I think Saji’s role in Gundam 00 is representing the civilians’ voice in the story. He’s a civilian who has grown up in PEACEFUL times, in an AFFLUENT city, not in troubled territories or else he will think to take up arms to protect his land and self, as portrayed by the kids in ep 6. He does not think he is part of the war and wants only to escape desperately. Others’ fate do not matter to him, only himself. Think of yourself in Saji’s shoes, would you have acted differently from him? I pity him for his wrongdoings. But it has NO EXCUSE for what he’s been doing that has caused many problems for people surrounding him.

However, I will think the massacre of Kataron base is an important turning point for Saji. He is given a hard lesson and is forced to face up to the dark reality of war and has decided to face the reality he has been escaping from. By volunteering to help means his thinking has changed – war does not have nothing to do with him.

Saji will become a better character, not what most of you will think he is. He is still undergoing change, after all. And the first thing for him to overcome is his psychology. He has a gentle personality and is not trained as a soldier so will fear taking lives. He is a character with many flaws and will be exciting to watch him change and cope with the dark reality around him.

Gundam 00 is turning out to be very good in character developments.

And seriously, what’s with all the Patrick fangirls. All that dude was get his ass handed to him and suck Katie’s cock to make it up. She probably has him somewhere at home making her a sandwich.

Also, I’m having a hard time believing Soma’s age and maturation speed. Wikipedia put her at age 18 in season 1, during which time she was short as hell and flatchested. Now she’s 23? And has BREASTS? Does the super soldier operation cause delayed puberty or something. If so, does that mean Allelujah’s voice is going to drop an octave? Personally, I just think it’s a mistake, and she’s closer to Feldt’s age if anything.

Soma xlouise is much preferable to anything with Saji and Haptism. Both Saji and Haptism are full of lose and fail Hal was fun, but he’s dead and gone now…

@Highman
Lindt will dies sooner or later, but Domon is no Saji. Domon Kasshu belongs to a hot blooded school of mecha pilots and his lines are AWESOME. At least Domon never cowered from a fight, nor did he have problems with fighting. THE EAST IS BURNING RED!

@dohrnaira
We shall see if Saji is going to get some more people killed, but i doubt even his stupidity can kill a meister most have plot armor, except maybe Lyle.

@Ominae
One can only hope…

Seriously, The Great Ace personality that i’ve seen so far in various mecha show is Kawai Alto Hime-sama..

By the way….
Well, That surprising me Gundam 00 season 2 turn into Yuri relationships all of sudden.
ShirinXMarina
SomaXLouise
WangliumeiXNena
I admit it SomaXLouise so cute when they are together… Vote for them, yes we can

@SoSo/Karin lover
I am sure there is one out there somewhere…

@Roland
Louise deserves better than some loser cry baby. Andrei is at least better than Saji…

@Myssa Rei
I prefer that Saji die now rather than watch the arduous process of having to set the bastard straight.

Excuse me for being poor…even without your sockful of heroes the combat tactics and combat squads special rules are already Godly, and the sheer amount of variety would make any other army envious. You guys get to mitigate more dice rolling than anyone else in the game, be happy you have no less than three special rules that allow you to escape unlucky rolls. And they shall no no fear, indeed.

@Square
Indeed the lack of kid kills for eh A-Laws was awesome, shows how CB and Kataron are insipid liars that cannot be trusted because they all take intel from Ms. Wang. Wild bear needs to get back into the fight to save his daughter from the predations of Hannibal Haptism. Ginin is will have much to teach Louise, badass normals 4TW!

Yes Patrick needs to come back to mitigate the amounts of suck Saji has been piling on. I am sure Katie would be happier than having deal with Lindt all by herself. Setsuna is unworthy of Gundam 00 Bushido Bob makes him look foolish every time, worse still Setsuna actually ran away from him.

@Excalibaa1!
The Board only counts named victims for the sake oof having easier counts otherwise it would be like using Setsuna numbers in going straight to over 9000 after seeing only one Gundam. Sorry but there have been no numbers given for the number of faceless dorks that have been kill. I’ll add the achievement but not the numbers.

@Roland
You forgot Ali = Yazan.

@sacchi
His crying killed all of that awesome and his resolve to protect the terrorists once again made him full of lose and fail.

@icelogue
I cannot wait to see Wild bear tear Haptism to pieces for assaulting his daughter.

@ghostlightning
Tieria is a weakling Ranka has more muscle mass due to Zentradi blood. Saji is the anchor that weighs down this show, I hope he gets killed or put on a bus so we never see him again. I think that at this point he’s just salvageable, shaking behind the trigger like that. Louise however has become more awesome from her lack of Saji in the four year time skip.

@Ominae
We have upgraded to the Katie punch and it seems that Lindt is in need of one.

@Dark messiah
Death to saji! Prince Ali will hopefully be making more of an impact, but for now since Setsuna cowered before Prince Ali and is a traitor to his people, God punished Setsuna to an eternity of having to be bested by Bushido Bob every time he sorties. SomaxLouise forever.

@xrampage
Hope it works out with your PC.

@sacchi = Good Sc.shot, But too bad shirin didnt want to do it, coz setsuna has been impure the purity of princess poverty……
@Icelogue = i think hallelujah will return with his ice cold killer instinct… but if allelujah condition is critical and goes into near death state during the battle
@Ghost lighntning = Ranka is bad at slapping, and sheryl do the right thing for slapping ranka…, and i hope saji will go to the path of manliness after 1st encounter with louise ojou-chan

Unless Sumeragi wants to do it again. XP

Screamo indeed. It was painful to endure, and I agree that given the large cast this is a great waste of screen time.

This is what kept me from liking Gundam more than I feel I should I think. As much as it’s spoken of as an essay on war, it’s as much as an essay on coming of age. And characters come of age with a lot of screaming and breaking down. It’s easy it pick on Saji because he plays the victim, but it seems to me that he’s cast in the ‘play the victim’ role until further notice. It seems like a great waste of writing to spend all that set-up in s1 just for him to play the victim.

If he’s going to be a game-changing character before the end of things, then I should deal with the disappointment right now so as to enjoy whatever of 00 that does not revolve around Saji.

The next episode, I’m looking forward to it. Allelujah is one of my favorite characters. It’s good watching to see him be all emo.