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Originally Posted by Colossa

When building a superweapon, layering it with one backup after another seems as a more likely plan than popping out a new Gundam mid-season.

The main problem is that it's kept as a secret from the pilots and other leaders as well.

Originally Posted by Colossa

If the suit falls into enemy hands, having a very good security system in the first place is a better idea than obliterating the suit. Thus the biometrics + retina scan + voice activation process of recognition in 00; the problem lies only within how the operation and security systems are all entrusted to Veda.

The problem here is that the danger doesn't come from an intruder using a Gundam, it's that the danger is the technology of a Gundam falls into the hands of a power bloc. No amount of pilot verification is going to help with that.

Originally Posted by Colossa

Perhaps what bugs viewers is how the Meisters are relying constantly on superior technology to obtain victory. However, take into account the experience the pilots are gaining while the ace pilots catch up in technology;

I can't speak for anyone else, but my issue is that I want to see heroes win through their cleverness. So far in Gundam 00, all of the cleverness has been on the part of the their enemies, so it's hard to be sold on the show.

Originally Posted by Colossa

That's the problem with how many viewers are watching Gundam; their eyes are glued to the scenes for plotholes, and consequently they fail to see the actual themes and symbols, lose their objectivity, and complain about the story and characters when they haven't 'read' either properly. Yes, presentation is important—but how can a person pick so terribly at the slightest detail in one series and act ignorant in another?

We all have the ability to suspend disbelief. We all also have the ability to watch indiscriminately and for the sake of entertainment and not argument. Or is it impossible for the next three episodes?

Different shows call for different responses. If this were something like Rosario to Vampire, then it'd truely be pointless to criticize certain elements of the show, but Gundam 00 is purposefully open in these areas because of what the creators are trying to portray.

This is a discussion forum, not an appreciation thread where unpopular opinions are considered unwelcome, so it's unrealistic to expect any episode to go uncriticized. Besides, it'd be awfully boring to see a discussion thread where everyone expresses a uniform opinion.

Originally Posted by Kaioshin_Sama

Anyway, Trans-Am doesn't seem like an upgrade so much as a Limiter Off mode. The Exia probably had a limiter placed on the full potential of it's real GN Drive so that if Setsuna didn't turn out to be the type of pilot Aeolia was looking for then Exia wouldn't be as difficult to take down with Nadleeh's Trial System. Now that Aeolia thinks Setsuna is trustworthy he has removed the limiter to save his life. Whether it's permenantly off I'm not sure.

Aeolia probably never even knew that Setsuna existed. All that the program he had in place would register is that something untoward had happened, and that Celestial Being was compromised. And so, he simply entrusted that the current users of the Gundams would use them the way Aeolia intended they be used. It's likely that all the failsafe does is to set off all GN drives to Trans Am mode.