This is the last episode of the first season, something which I did not realize until halfway through the episode. The ending is rushed as expected and I think that it’s worse than Sunrise’s usual standard. Still, maybe season two will be better? At the very least it will have some funkier spacesuit designs.
Summary
Everyone dies, or at least appears to die.
Gone in 60 seconds
“Pikapi…”
He sees dead people
Alejandro is betrayed by Libonze, the real super villain. Graham and Setsuna fight to the “death”. A destroyed Exia floats in space with Earth as its backdrop while Marina cries over a letter Setsuna sent her before he sortied.
Gay harem
Three years later, the United Nations is officially renamed the Earth Federation (I kid you not). And one year after that, the Earth Federation Peacekeeping Force is formed and the various national armed forces are slowly dismantled and integrated into a joint command. Their mobile suits look suspiciously like Knightmare Frames…
Uh… All hail Britannia?
Saji is now working in space and a few other familiar characters make short appearances in the last few scenes of the episode.
The namesake of the entire series, 00 Gundam, makes a short five-second cameo right at the very end.
Critique
There are a lot of things wrong with how the ending played out, but I shall just focus on the most jarring bit: Graham.
Immediately after Setsuna defeats Alejandro’s bling machine with Exia, Graham comes flying in with his GN Flag looking for a fight. After some clichéd and completely nonsensical smack talking, the fight ends in a draw as both Exia and the Flag are destroyed.
“I am Sunrise’s bitch.”
I don’t personally like Graham much, but this rushed battle really cheapens his entire existence. Having waited for so many episodes and bore the pain of losing two of his close friends, all Graham gets is a short quickie which the scriptwriters forcefully squeezed into the last episode.
We all know that the plot calls for Exia to be destroyed so that Setsuna can embark on a journey of recovery and eventually obtain a much cooler Gundam. But it doesn’t have to be Graham. Setsuna could’ve drawn with Alejandro instead.
And what exactly is the point of getting Graham to make a short appearance in the last episode just to “die” in a spectacular explosion of GN particles?
Darth Veda
Sunrise needed a masked man. Oh for the love of…
Screencaps
Ha/Allelujah’s secret overpower move: using both eyes simultaneously
Mecha guro
“I don’t know what I should do in such situations…”
“Why don’t you try smiling?”
Plamo coming soon
Plamo coming soon
Oh Marina, you silly paedophile
Tieria MkII?
The first Gundam
This was a triumph / I’m making a note here…
I’m guessing the Earth Federation will be opposed by a group of smaller nations who do not wish to give up their sovereignty? They can even call themselves Zeon if they want…
On another note, I am so tempted to upgrade to the newly-released WordPress 2.5, but I fear for the many plugins that my template relies on…
Wow…a time skip, simply amazing XD
haha, can’t wait till August for 2nd season.
I can’t believe they make graham the masked man, and what’s up with Nena’s eyes.
oh yea DM I think it’s 4 yrs later not 3 yrs
And now we wait for the second season.
Well, Ali is alive, and i think Patrick is too somehow…the last battle seems like a joke where most of the people survive…
LMFAO @ Darth Veda
downloading the episode now. can’t wait to see it. ^^;
What? No major cliffhanger like in Code Geass?
Thanks for the hard work. You can rest from Gundam 00 now DM. ^_^;
Who else thinks that Setsuna will end up fighting on Marina’s side in season 2? At least for a little while. o_o
No more pretty face Granham……..D= They had to it didn’t they? What a disappointing fight between granham and setsuna. Whatever, no lackey, the fights in the beginning and the epilogue made it up for it. After all, this is what I was expecting from a final battle, fights, trash talking, explosions, explosions and MOAR EXPLOSIONS! =D Thank god it didn’t end off with the explosion between granham and setsuna. I was afraid that sunrise would pull a code geass cliff hanger again.
I personally thought this episode was just mindless Sunrise brain fucking but that’s just me…
Oh I call it right now Graham will try another Kamikaze attack in season 2 just like all the other Flag pilots did.
Is it me or Tieria Mk II’s hairstyle resembles that of Lockon’s? (in memory of his seme?)
“o ya” for the ‘more blood’ (dreads on how it’s going to be modded for NA release), and “WE NEED THE WHITE MASK!!!!” message have to be sent to Sunrise, at once!
…btw, nice Britannia ref. (the spikes really does it. lol xD)
and to post 12; DUH!
1st !!
kinda a rush ending … but anyway nena is back ^_^
i was expecting to see more of the mass produced flag and enact in the series, they turned out to be nothing more than a giant cocktease
btw whats with nenas tron-esque space suit?
Looks like TONS of characters will make a return…
Including Ali Al Serge who is seen drinking his wine.
BTW, Tiera is rumored to become a doctor who is treating Louise’s left arm.
Now, we wait for Season 2 in Oct.
Interesting finale. Although I wonder, what’s the name of the Gundam with the GN-00 code?
Looks like Allelujah decided to save his trump card ’til the last moment.
wow tiera looks less feminine now
Ah Earth Federation surprise surprise, I can just here the theory’s of how this series fits in the its all one big timeline theory.
first the golden pistol, then a golden pimp mobile, a gold pikachui suit and the golden MS, jesus Alejandro does love his ‘Bling’ lol cant wait till season 2! its out in october right?
i actually thought a full faced Allelujah/Hallelujah looked quite good.
Hm….yeah its quite obvous that Setsune is going to look for a new meaning, like Kira in GS when the Strike got raped. Guess its also obvious he’ll end up with Marina, but she doesn’t appear to be hiding a Freedom-like Gundam somewehere, so he’ll have to get his Gundam from elsewhere^^
Though basically, with the earth federation, Celestial being got what its wanted. So i guess first thing Setsuna has to do is to realize that peace sucks depending on how it was formed.
Ah well. I’m looking forward to Season 2, but not as much as i look forward to Code Geass R2 now =)
Can’t wait till october!!! WOW Aljendro’s mobile suit looks like a cross between the Hyaku Shiki and the Epyon also the new GN-x’s look like mass produced Gyans.
1st post :
Looks like saji gal becomes tieria liao…
Btw, the season ending with all current gundam being destroy (except 1) its time to roll out the antique that’s left…heheh
Ah yes, an Earth Federation who, on the surface at least, unite the world in one large force… provided they all agree with what the leader says. Why do i feel that there will be a few small nations side lined for the greater good and that CB will return to free them and teach us all that, while having a communist state under one rulers with peace throughout…. you must not suppress the individual and that all people have a right too choose!!
hmmm… seem to remember a few other shows like that.
Does no one realize that Code Geass’s mechas are rip offs to begin with? Watch Blue Gender if you don’t believe me. That’s just one reason why I couldn’t get into that show. It was too much of a rip off, more so than Destiny. These mechas are more of a combination of Leos from Wing and Evas.
And it’s the Earth SPHERE Federation. Remember this show is based off of Wing so they needed a name that was reminiscent. Yes, they basically combined two names to make an unoriginal name, but let’s face it, at this point in the Gundam genre it’s impossible to come up with an original name for Earth.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned anything about the apparent president of the ESF being black. I think it’s a plug and/or endorsement for Obama from Sunrise.
All in all, they needed one more episode to finish this season. They had too much to put it all into one episode.
And Graham’s mask is more like Hannibal Lector’s.
What is with Tieria’s Lockon-like hairstyle?
Seriously, the EF’s MSes look ALOT like the Knightmare Frames. They ran out of mecha design ideas?
Is Nena with Sumeragi and Ian now or was she just spying on them? @_@
and…
What’s with Louise and Tierra? =))
In one of the last few scenes, I think I saw Patrick behind Manequin during the assembly… @_@
I guess no one bothered to read my earlier posts.
Code Geass was a rip off to begin with. Don’t say “those look like Knightmares” because Knightmares are rip offs of Armored Shrikes from Blue Gender. And from the name “Shrike” you can tell that even THAT was a rip off of an older Gundam show, V I believe.
What it boils down to is that Code Geass is a rip off of Gundam. Both Code Geass and Gundam 00 may be made by Sunrise but Gundam 00 has the originality, not Code Geass. Hell after looking at some of Geass’s designs I can tell ZEON will sue after seeing the Guren Nishiki. Char would be pissed if he saw that.
Like I said before, the ESF (Earth SPHERE Federation) suits are a cross between Wing’s Leos and the Evas from NGE.
Am I the only one who was paying attention this episode? They even put up the name “Earth Sphere Federation” on the screen. Please do acknowledge the “Sphere” because this series is based off of Wing, not UC. Remember the United Earth Sphere Alliance from Wing?
Geez.
There are so many unanswered questions to S1 such as the Corner family that it seems the writers are more focused on awesome violence rather than plot cohesiveness. My predictions for S2 is that Ali lost his legs due to Lockon’s shot. Also it will start with completely new and irrelevant characters and gradually reveal the old one’s status.
simple, all you have to do is remove the lances and they won’t look like that anymore
Aw… i quite liked that ending. Lots of big bangs and meaningless deaths. Sunrise seem to go for that. And i saw the Graham getting a mask thing coming a long time ago… i just so happen to quite like masks, and Graham too. I’m also glad they finally admitted the whole ‘love’ thing he’s got going on. At the very least, this show gets 10/10 for homoerotic undertones.
I really hope they bring back the oldskool, back to basics gundams cos they are so amazing. Lets be serious, most of the appeal of Gundam really does lie in the uber stylish mechs.
If Ali is alive that is such an insult. Its bad enough Lockon dies, but if he dies for nothing then that just takes the piss.
I was satisfied with the last episode. It may not be perfect, but it was worth the wait for me. By the way, I like Tiera’s hair! LOL! But oh my, another masked character? Tsk-tsk-tsk…
I’m glad they spared Sergei and Soma Peries. We still knew and saw very little about Soma.
aww marina…. Okay I think from the masked doo dclue and the ribbons destroy earth army, this series unfortunately is going to end up like the other gundam. Paus NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It would be better if they don’t resurrect characters (except those shown to be alive after all). But fans would like to see their favorite characters (like Lockon or Setsuna) on the 2nd season. So the better deal, i guess, would be to show flashback dialogues with these characters (like the scene when Setsuna recalls Lockon talking about Exia’s sword).
i wasn’t really happy with the abrupt ending…too fast…i was going =_=;; when daybreak started playing. And Ha/Allelujah really made me laugh. To think Sunrise gave such a “thing” at the end. And i suddenly felt that i was watching a prequel to the real “gundam 00” that they are going to show in season 2. The change of the world..
the black president makes sense as they love OBAMA in japan, the guy is named after a town.
Is not Tieria, diff. VA (Regene Legetta: Romi Paku)
Tieria v.2?
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From the subtitle -> (Regene) Hmph.
The staff roll listed her as “Regene Legetta”
Seiyuu is Pak who did the role of Ed in FMA.”
That Allelujah thing was…so incredibly obvious. Like on of these days, he gets up and decides to be all lke, “Hey, maybe I’ll pretend to be substantially less emo today~!”
Lol, Knightmare Frames.
now i get it, gundam 00 is like merging the original gundam and gundam wing!? o_O i may be wrong though…but it does look like it…anyway, this series would have been great if the writers focused on good storytelling and character development instead of inserting characters then killing them off every other episode…anyway, it was a good first season (ok..barely good)…i just hope that it gets better in the next run of the series… ^_^
i’ll expect the same spunky review like this one D.I. thanks alot!
i wish they didn’t play the opening sequence, it would have given us another minute and 30 sec. more action!
Why do people say homoerotic instead of gay anyway?
that gundam was the plutone!! I think??
and that had to be Tieria, for some reason he landed on earth, and is going back to space, and he happened to board the same elevator/or some-sort as Louise.
The ending was rushed!!
and sloppy, and very unpleasant.
And it’s quite clear that Marina is gonna become a new Relena,
and that the Earth Federation is gonna have some sort of OZ, and is gonna be backed by the same aristocrats from gundam wing, they’re gonna start dressing like them too, and Graham is the new Zechs, finally a masked man!! I was waiting for him to appear!!
So, gundam is over for now. What anime are you going to do next, DM?
I don’t see why Code Geass having mecha designs inspired from other series is such an incredibly negative point against it when the whole show is pretty much a deconstruction of the mecha genre as a whole. Oh god they look like armored shrikes and have grappling hooks from tactical armors this show sucks I’ll never watch it because it has designs inspired from shows that have great mecha design! Most people don’t really care about who did it first, just who did it better.
Also Gundam 00 pretty much follows the same concept as Code Geass in that it kind of says “fuck you” to older series. Like how the storyboard for the “grunt suit shooting the bridge” scene was just copy pasted out of Seed except they drew a cloud (architecture joke for you) on top of where Freedom comes in to save the day. Or like how Marina Ismail is thrown into the peace-loving princess of a nation except she’s entirely useless since guns and money are what get things done, not meaningless ideals.
The show could’ve used more politics, less stupid episodes (oh man 15 hour bombardment but they’re still a-ok) and better treatment of the Graham fight. However, it succeeded what it set out to do: it grabbed the attention of people disillusioned with the franchise due to Seed and it also made me want to buy a lot of 1/100 gunpla.
Think of it as a replacement for Wing, then again Wing was terrible so that’s not that hard to do.
Gundam 00 will forever be a part of TV history because it is a classic example of a post-9/11 TV show. This Gundam series presented issues like religious fanaticism, conflicts on energy, suicide bombing, among others. I guess Gundam 00 is commendable for that alone.