Gundam 00 — Episode 22
Once upon a time there were three siblings (one with an unhealthy obsession with his sister) living happily in the forest. One day, a big bad mercenary appeared in front of them and shot two of them dead.
When story writers run out of ideas, character deaths are the best way to emulate plot progression, just like how lazy anime bloggers write crappy episode reviews instead of coming up with original content. *cough*
Summary
“Arrrr. Shiver me timbers! There be landlubbers about!”
Lockon is fine! He needs three weeks to heal completely, but meanwhile he is wearing this pirate eye patch that is making Feldt all hot and bothered. She is jealous of the homoerotic tensions between Lockon (seme) and Tieria (uke), who by the way isn’t even human (bestiality?).
“Aeolia Schenberg hates our freedom (to kill each other).”
The UN keeps up its attack on and Trinity siblings, driving them to the brink of exhaustion. It calls its new anti-Gundam operation Fallen Angels and is taking credit for “developing” the GN-X weaponry system. Politics: take credit for everything but do nothing.
The Old Glory getting an upgrade
Graham’s Custom Flag is getting a GN drive. I guess someone took my advice on making a Flagdam! But I still think that my idea of swapping the heads make more sense since the body of a Flag is clearly not designed to disseminate GN particles…
“Setsuna, you’re our only hope!”
Setsuna decides to go down to Earth and give the UN a piece of his mind, and to finally prove to himself that his precious Gundam is the best-est Gundam in the whole world. I am Gundam! Gundam. Also, the new GN arms’ assault container can apparently launch into space by itself, so everything’s cool even though Exia can’t use the space elevators anymore. (How convenient.)
“Hi.” *Bang*
Ali, everyone’s favourite psychotic serial-killing mercenary, is back and he kills Michel within seconds of appearing in this episode. (Must be some kind of world record.) Hurray! one less annoying siscon in this world. Ali then proceeds to hijack Zwei, which has its biometric lock disabled by the hacked Veda, and pwns Johann with it.
Exia is anorexic
Exia appears in the nick of time to save Neena from certain death. I guess this means that Neena will soon turn over a new leaf, join Celestial Being and possibly become Setsuna’s personal sex slave.
Hannibal rising
Libonze finally manages to unlock Veda completely. Aeolia Schenberg’s cryogenically frozen ass shows up and he gets shot in the face a few times by Alejandro with a solid gold handgun that fires silver anti-vampire bullets.
“Oh snap! Why didn’t I keep my body in a bulletproof glass… Or didn’t I?”
But Aeolia planned for this and a hidden contigency routine in the system causes Veda to unlock all the (real) GN drives to function at their full potential. (Begging the question as to why Aeolia crippled them in the first place.) This happens just in time to save Setsuna from making a fool of himself as usual.
Red makes you go three times as fast
And by “full potential”, I mean “flamboyant red paint scheme”.
Instead of destroying Ali and ending this whole shit once and for all, Setsuna chops off a bit of Zwei and gracefully steps back to allow Ali to escape, while he hovers motionlessly in the air trying to strut the coolest pose he can muster with a bright glowing-red Gundam.
“I AM GUNDAM!!!”
Frankly I seriously don’t understand Michel’s role in this whole story; he took up way too much airtime for a character who was just there to die. But I’m just glad that he’s dead.
Screencaps
GN arms’ assault container
Sleeping beauty
Would you trust your life with this doctor? He’s clearly blind!
Feldt stalks Lockon
“Tieria, why won’t you accept my feelings?”
Training to be a whore
This makes sense…
Please do not adjust your TV
It’s funny how Gundams always hold each other like people do
Those crazy European designers
Don’t do drugs
Oh noz
The victorious hunter poses for a shot with his prize
Alejandro loves his bling
You know it’s more powerful because it glows now
This must be some kind of futuristic radio channel
By the way, Mendoi-Conclave’s release is being delayed at episode 20 due to intensive typesetting involved in recreating Saji’s cellphone messages. Don’t kill the messenger/translator!
March 15th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
No, guns are not cool. How can you say such a thing? You think a weapon designed to kill is such a great thing? Guns encourages deaths, and if you really want to kill that badly, I suggest you smack yourself with a brick — go, just do it. You savage scum. [/sarcasm]
The episode was alright, though I can’t help but feel the quality of the animation seems low compared to the previous episodes, oh well.
March 15th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
i cant wait for ur epi 23 review!! and somehow, i personally think that Gundam 00 is getting a bit cliche…
Aeolia: “Oh..So you met someone stronger than you. Ok, hold on, I shall increase your powers ten folds…”
Gundams: “YATAH!! WE KICK ASS AGAIN!! WE NV GET OUR ASSES KICK AGAIN!! =D “
March 15th, 2008 at 11:32 pm
guns do not encourage deaths, if someone wants to kill, they will do so with whatever they can get their hands on
from an engineering standpoint i think guns are amazing, i don’t like the killing part, but once you remove the bullets from the equation a gun is about as much use as a paperweight
March 16th, 2008 at 2:20 am
More accurately, guns will only be found among people who want to kill. Its not that guns kill, its that they only exist because people want other people dead.
March 16th, 2008 at 10:26 am
I guess that you didn’t sense the sarcasm, good job.
March 16th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Lol, it’s better this way I guess.
March 16th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
I love this episode! Of course Tieria should go down, he’s too emo.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:05 am
@juz @Kaioshin Sama
4. Alejandro leaked their hideout location. That’s also why Ali Al was able to find them and killed most of them.
March 18th, 2008 at 12:21 am
@Zecks i mostly agree with reply 80
March 18th, 2008 at 4:52 am
some one at sunrise/bandai likes American cars eh? GNX and Trans am…
March 18th, 2008 at 10:34 am
yes, Trans Am is a car!
March 26th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Yes, cluster the GNX Jinxes so that they make a bigger target for the large rifle on Throne Eins
Operation Enduring Clusterfuck