{"id":942,"date":"2007-11-04T03:01:27","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T19:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2007\/11\/04\/gundam-00-episode-5\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T12:35:45","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T04:35:45","slug":"gundam-00-episode-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2007\/11\/04\/gundam-00-episode-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Gundam 00 — Episode 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t really like episode 5. It has zero politics and way too much Louise. Oh my god, what an annoying girl.<\/p>\n

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\n“I have no fashion sense.”<\/p>\n

The episode does reveal a few things which I will talk about… But mostly it’s predictable fluff. And the next episode looks like Exia-pwnage galore… Sigh, where’s my politics? :(<\/p>\n

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America’s President visits Taribia and shakes hands with the Prime Minister. Taribia is promised material aid and an increased portion of the solar energy. See, Taribia would’ve benefited either way.<\/p>\n

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\n“You jump, I jump.”<\/p>\n

Saji and Louise visits the Low Orbital Station Shinchuu<\/em> (\u00e7\u0153\u0178\u00e6\u0178\u00b1) for a study trip. The name \u00e7\u0153\u0178\u00e6\u0178\u00b1 can refer to the central pillar of a pagoda, but in this case it probably does not because that meaning has a different reading. It may mean “Pillar of Truth” in this case, or maybe not.<\/p>\n

By the way, it seems that Saji’s sister, Kinue, does not approve of Louise. Kinue, you have my fullest support!… Wait actually I hate your brother’s face too. Never mind.<\/p>\n

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Interesting fact: The company which operates the elevator’s transport system is called “International Space Railway Transportation Public Corporation” or I.S.R.T. for short.<\/p>\n

Also, the power generated by the solar panels is transmitted to the elevator via microwave. Why? I guess they were too lazy to lay copper wires.<\/p>\n

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Soma’s custom mobile suit, MSJ-06II-SP Tieren Tao2, makes its appearance. Why the hell is it pink? I don’t know. But since pink is closer to red than black, it should move faster than Graham’s Flag Custom.<\/p>\n

And don’t quote me on the “Tao2” part. The katakana says \u00e3\u201a\u00bf\u00e3\u201a\u00aa\u00e3\u0192\u201e\u00e3\u0192\u00bc and I seriously have no idea what else it might mean.<\/p>\n

EDIT<\/strong>: Apparently it might be “taozi<\/em>” (written as \u00e6\u00a1\u0192\u00e5\u00ad\u0090 in Chinese), which means “peach”. I guess that makes a lot more sense than my random guess.<\/p>\n

\"Gundam
\nAllelujah gets headshot by a railgun!<\/p>\n

Allelujah and Soma both have the Newtype flash. Oh great. I guess they will end up mating and giving birth to super Newtype Coordinator Enchanced Soldier babies or something. And Allelujah also suffers from schizophrenia, apparently…<\/p>\n

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\nThat’s not supposed to happen…<\/p>\n

The episode is basically about HRL’s crappy construction that can’t even take a few hits from a regular mobile suit rifle. A sector of the Pillar of Heaven’s low orbital station comes loose and starts to drift towards Earth, gradually descending to its doom! We can be sure that heads will roll in their engineering department after this.<\/p>\n

As all physics students should know, the gravitational field strength at a certain point in space is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between that point and the centre of mass of a nearby planet. In order to stay in stable orbit, a satellite’s tangential velocity has to compensate for the centripetal force (i.e. the gravity) which it experiences.<\/p>\n

Because the drifting block is getting closer to earth, strength of Earth’s gravity acting on it increases and it needs to accelerate to stay in orbit. Which it can’t. Oh noz! It’s hopeless! If only we were in a Japanese anime series where there is at least one dues ex machina<\/em> every episode! Oh wait a minute…<\/p>\n

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\nKyrios is doing push-ups<\/p>\n

We are! Oh, how convenient.<\/p>\n

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\nWhat a big…gun<\/p>\n

\"Gundam
\nDo not try this at home<\/p>\n

It seems that Dynames<\/strong> can hit things that are in orbit from the ground. That’s goddamn insane because the power of laser beams dissipates over distance due to the air and dust particles in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

According to the instructor assigned to Saji and Louise, the so-called “low orbital” station is actually more like medium orbital. It is 10,000km above ground, way higher than any modern day definition of “low orbit”.<\/p>\n

So anyway, even if GN particles can somehow not decrease in intensity over huuuuge distances, it’s hard to imagine how the hell can someone aim at a target area that is a few metres wide from literally ten thousand kilometres away on the ground. Especially since you can’t adjust the trajectory after firing, unlike guided missiles and maybe even bullets.<\/p>\n

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The episode ends in tragedy as Louise, along with Saji, fails to die in a fiery unshielded atmospheric re-entry. Oh, cruel fate! T_T<\/p>\n

The next episode is “Seven Swords” and it is about Exia<\/strong> showing off its…ummm…seven swords that it has hidden all over its body.<\/p>\n

P.S. This episode has not enough of Liuming’s wardrobe changes.<\/p>\n

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\nLiuming’s costume of the episode<\/p>\n

P.P.S. This episode took a lot longer to translate than I had expected, no thanks to this name list.<\/p>\n

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Half of the names there are Russian and I could barely make out the katakana… -_- The stupid thing is that the rest of the windows are in English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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