@Salyu
I don’t think cutting back on Sumeragi’s planning time was in any way a good idea, it could have added something, but instead we got Saji and Louise in the first half, and now we got, Desu-Yellow, Haptism, and Marie, and still Saji. Time could be better spent else where, but for now let’s hope that Prince Ali will deal with these problems in a manner most spectacular.

Katie at least is thinking over every step, as was Sergei remember the glorious slaughter of last season at the end Sumeragi abandoned the bridge…yeah. Sumeragi just isn’t up to snuff yet, she spends more time crying about her past than thinking, bear in mind Gadessa knocked her off her beer butt, but nothing was ever said about where the hell Gadessa came from…

Jihad-kun will never bring out the full potential in Gundam 00, only real Aces like Bushido bob and Prince Ali can bring out the best in their machines. After all both went toe to toe with the supposedly inferior GN-Tau drive, versus the two real GN Drives that Gundam 00 has…Clearly jihad-kun is not up to par.

@Square
Sumeragi does indeed make military intelligence an oxymoron. She could have found out, as to why she never did, I bet she was relying on Ms. Wang to do all of that for her. Besides Sumeragi has other things to worry about like her awful awful past that makes her the saddest person in the world…

Tactically, decent. Strategically, lazy. Operationally flawed. When Rommel said that use could be made of the dumb and the lazy, he meant for tasks other than command…

@Dark Messiah
May Prince Ali exact an even greater toll in the next ep. Even better if he almost kills Nena (doubly better if he succeeds while dragging Louise along) only for CB to save her under some false sens of justice or some other sorry excuse…

@blind_dead_mcjones
I think that as part of the spear the A-Laws are its defenders, and even if it is not a perfect paradise it certainly is better than the hell hole CB and Kataron rather have in its stead. If they don’t go the Titans route it will at least be a significant sign that they will not be following Zeta too closely if at all. That way at least it will be different rather than a “remake” like SEED was. Since it looks like Ribbons is doing everything behind the scenes with the Feddies and no one else taking notice, for now they have acted as any state would have, opportunistically. Besides they haven’t overtly coerced anyone just yet. Azadistan was already a failed state and leaving it be would have caused problems just like we are experiencing now in Somalia. It may not be morally right, but it’s not exactly evil or malicious either. Better that there be in Azadistan a semblance of Feddie order than anarchy. Given how the Feddies take governing seriously and spreading the wealth to member states to please the electorate, I’d sooner believe that things are better now there than they were when Mariana ruled from the couch in front of a TV…

I await this invasion, but unless the ones being invaded have done nothing wrong it might end up gray anyway. Supposing that the spoilers were somewhat true and the nation of (insert proxy name here) becomes wedded to Kataron through Princess Poverty… Well it cannot be said the Feddies would be completely in the wrong for attacking a nation that harbors known terrorists that have attacked the Federation.

I don’t want to see Marie pilot anything as that would invalidate all the BS they shoved down our throats when Soma died. Besides I want to see Tieria suffer a whole lot more for his insolence.

I still don’t know how that Sumeragi plot line is possible Billy was Union and Graham was Union but how did Sumeragi of the AEU get involved later? Moreover how come Katie and Billy have not spoken ever given how they had some contact before. It be interesting to see how Katie, Leesa, and Billy went to school together and how it was they even spoke then but not now.

@Highman
We shall see if Linda is up to par, but may Desu-Yellow and Ian die at the hands of Prince Ali, so that Linda might be freed up from the shackles of family…

you make a good point regarding zinin.

i wouldn’t neccessarily call them the defenders of paradise, thats the federation army’s role, the A-LAWS to me seem more like the SAS, who are to deal with situations quckly and quietly (by proxy preventing the army’s resources from being stretched), and yeah sometimes that role calls upon them to do what the naive idealist would consider morally questionable, but hey alls fair in love and war, btw that titans-solidifying massacre might be comming up soon (hopefully, i wouldn’t hold my breath though) in the next few eps as the A-LAWs are supposedly going toe to toe with one of the nations who doesn’t want to be integrated into the federation.

from what i gather most of the beef people outside the federation have with the federation is that they seem to be forcing nations to join them rather than being given a choice in the matter(kind of like when moral guardians try to force their beliefs on everyone else ‘for their own good’) course that still does nothing to justify katarons actions

on a different note, tsunderia should just surrender the seravee over to soma/marie now, as she would be far more capable pilot than what he could ever hope to be

i find it amusing how bushido bob trusts billy implicitly despite the fact that he might be a bit mentally unstable (this enters wild speculation, but one of the drama CD’s implies that billy was responsible for the incident that killed grahams CO as he had supposedly loaded grahams flag with live ammo, the reason, cos said CO was allegedly dating sumeragi, and considering how quickly billy joined A-LAWS upon finding she was CB…) then again bushido bob is possibly insane in his own right.

@Schneider

indeed the foot sabers are a nice add-on, now he can jack bitches up, with his feet

kind of like the retractable boot knife but mobile suit scale

Well that’s it, Now i back to work….

However, leading a huge coalition of the world’s 3 major military powers is probably big news and something that is easily found out. I mean even the average grunt of this massive undertaking would know the names of Katie and Sergei. So even if Wang never provided this info, it would only take a look at the normal newspapers to figure this out. That right there shows that Beer Butt is actually a pretty horrible strategist who was relying on only 1 source of information to do her planning which continues even now. Sure her “tactical” choices are decent cause she’s getting real time data, but her strategic plans are based on nothing other than her guessing and the occasional Wang tip (hoho i kill myself).

After showing her planning once though, Sunrise hasn’t done so again, and it’s somewhat fitting because this is GUNDAM, a mecha anime about robots bashing into each other; not DEATHNOTE and there isn’t a need to delve deep into Sumeragi’s every thought of every episode for 5 minutes. Just ask yourself, do you want to hear Sumeragi talk to herself for 5 minutes every episode? Also, you only see Mannequin actually “planning” a strategy once thus far. And this time, the planning was only shown to show the dissent between Mannequin and Lindt. Sumeragi on the other hand, really has no one to talk to to go over her plans with (the only one she had before was VEDA). I guess the difference is Mannequin makes battle strategies while Sumeragi seems to be able to predict the future.

About the Gundams themselves, I think the Throne has a huge advantage technology-wise now with its Fangs plus its superior pilot. Tieria’s fatty Gundam was never meant for 1on1 combat, unless it has a Nadleeh Jr. mode (and I bet it does). Fatty Gundams have always been meant for blowing up ships and large numbers of grunts from afar. Trans-AM also reminds me of a fuse between the pilot seeding and the lambda drive from Full Metal Panic, especially 00’s twin GN drive. I’ll laugh if Setsuna is only able to get the 00 to operate at full capacity when he “becomes Gundam” again.

Talia Gladys sure deserves a ‘Mom of the Year’ award too for choosing to die with Dulindal and Rau’s clone and telling someone else to keep an eye on her kid, without talking to him. The plot was rather incoherent at that point, and like many people I lay the blame on his wife’s doorstep along with the choices he made in shifting the show’s focus to the original crew.

@Haesslich: Wait, who did Fukuda claim were the good guys in Seed Destiny? By the end of it I didn’t know what the heck was supposed to be going on or what point he was trying to make so any confirmation would be nice as to just what he was trying (and arguably failed) to show with that series.

At least I don’t think they soldered on the battery for the 3G so battery replacement might not be so bad…

But memory is going to be the main problem with your iPhone, along with battery life – the RAM is the limiter, especially when it comes to displaying websites with a lot of images… like this one.