Rudy A Winchester, agree with you for both of your replies. It’s good that you point out that character backgrounds/history is pretty important.

Somehow I feel that the Celestial Being still have some (though not much) stuff to tell us about, for instance abilities of Tiera’s new high-mobility MS, the Nadleeh.

I loved the ending.. where the psycho kid and the big boob chick gets “Crunk”…. hahahaha, looking foward to more episodes… with more action though and less blah blah blah… “help me”, blah blah..

As counter-productive as criticizing someone’s opinion on his own blog after taking the time to read it? You are free to do (or stop doing if you prefer) that, so I don’t see why I can’t bitch about boring G00 episodes.

Also, I happen to be the translator for the fansub (“ThePaper” if anyone pays attention to opening credits at all), so I kind of have the responsibility to watch every single episode. (And many, many times over too.) Why did I volunteer for it? I guess because the first few episodes were pretty decent. I am so gullible.

Rudy A Winchester:

I agree with you and that is why I like to use quotation marks when I refer to the so-called “character development”. Episode 11 is highly redundant and ultimately just a filler.

But although it’s still too early to judge the whole series, I think it’s far to say that particular episodes are crappy. That’s all I’m doing. I haven’t given up on G00 yet. (Although I can’t really do that even if I wanted to due to the aforementioned commitment.)

Guner:

Politics and conflict are the only reason I started watching G00 and sadly they are severely lacking in recent weeks. Episode 9 made up for it with good pacing and somewhat realistic combat, but that’s about it.

However, this isn’t to say that I didn’t enjoy this episode. It gave a good back story to Allelujah, and does explain some things about the others walking around all of the time. This isn’t character development, it’s character defining. And this is something that I like in a Gundam series. I don’t like to be given seemingly interesting characters (like in Gundam W), and then no back story at all. This strategy will very quickly make people dislike these characters. Heero is a great example: he was an interesting character to begin with. “Oooh, young kid who seems to have no feelings. Wonder how he got that way.” But that is quickly squashed when we get NO background on him. So now asking most Gundam fans, they’ll say that Heero is an uninteresting character. Which is true; there’s just no way to properly relate to him, or even attempt to understand his feelings and actions.

Gundam 00 has started in a very nontraditional way for Gundam series. While we’re used to seeing the whole “Kid steals a Gundam, next forty episodes revolve around a ship” way of storytelling, we get something very different with Gundam 00. The Gundam Meisters already have their mobile suits, are already properly trained, and are already part of Celestial Being. This means that we can’t immediately see how these characters were before the series began (meaning we’re already losing character development that a regular Gundam series would have). We’ll have to give it some time before we can understand them. We also don’t have the “Ship” storyline. Normally in a Gundam series (from Mobile Suit Gundam, to Z Gundam, to Gundam X, to Gundam SEED, and so on) we have all of the characters together on a freedom ship. In Gundam 00 we don’t have this. Even though Celestial Being has a flagship, it’s very rare that all of the characters are on this ship; and when they are, very little “development” goes on. So instead of being handed character interaction on a episode-by-episode basis, we have to deal with getting tidbits here-and-there. It’s just the way the series has set itself up. Hopefully this will turn out to be a decent way to tell a story in the Gundam universe.

I think some people are jumping on this series too quickly in saying that it is bad and has very little character development. It needs to be given time. We’re only 20% through the series. Just wait it out. The series isn’t set up in such as straightforward manner as Gundam series traditionally are.

On the opposite hand, I think too many people are jumping onto this series saying it will be the best ever and has extreme characters. This can be just as false a statement. Again, we’re only 20% through the series. While there are high hopes for this series, there’s no guarantees. Again, time is needed before determining the status of this series, and whether or not the characters will see actual development or not. I think it’s just a slower series because of the initial setup: no character defining to start with, no central location for characters to interact, a good amount of characters (hopefully they will all develop eventually, but it will take time), a very detailed world, a back story that seems to go back two centuries, et cetera. There’s a lot of shit to cover. So just wait it out to give full opinions about the series. Mobile Suit Gundam was slow as shit also; but that doesn’t ruin the whole series. It all comes together in the end.

Just my two cents (plus tax); no refunds.

oh if all you going to do is bitch about how bad it is, why are you even bothering to watch the series at all? seems kinda counter-productive don’t you think?

Think about it for a moment. What kind of show is this? We have the political background, we have space elevators that harvest solar energy which is what a lot of people would consider the ideal way to fuel the world.

They are describing the world as we know it, plus space elevators and solar energy. CB is really only there so it doesnt have to appear to be an educational political show. As such, they are all the main chars.