Opening segment: Good to see that Louise's still sending him phone-calls/text-messages, but he's really taking it harder than he should. He's simply useless without her, and probably doesn't deserve her. Practically fell into his lap and liked him for whatever reason. Story of your average Japanese anime protagonist.
3:50: "History's largest military force"? Perhaps, but I'm curious as to how they qualify that statement. And Marina sucks the fun out of any scene. She's even worse than Sumeragi in that regard. Moving along...
4:45: I had to laugh when they all went for their cells at the same time.
5:17: I heard "GM Arms" and Mr. Middle Aged Engineer is excited, along with Muscle-Head. Yet another Ace-In-The-Hole for Celestial Being.
5:45: They're leaving the ship? They're keeping the GN arms somewhere else?
6:30: Graham refuses to fly the new suit. I'm rather disappointed that the OverFlags had a short lived and unspectacular existence. Ultimately they were just another group of incompetent grunts that let Graham do all the work. And I wanted some serious teamwork too...
7:10: Not sure I like the complete abandonment of Faction specific MSes. A GN Weapons phase would have been welcome. I suppose it's meant to symbolize "world unity."
7:35: Soma wants to pilot them, but Sergei has misgivens? Is that what was just said?
7:50: Katie might not be as gorgeous as the girls in Celestial Being, but I know who I'd sooner go on a date with.
8:28: Mission accomplished Patrick! Let's hope he doesn't crash and burn.
8:33: Who is Ali currently working for again?
9:22: I watch the raws without knowing a word that is said, but I can't say character dialogue has ever been paritcularly informative about what's going on. Maybe this time...
10:00: Look! There's Kinue!
10:25: So why's she stopped Ali for? I think she said the word "brother." Is she simply looking for a ride?
11:00: One of the first things you learn as a child is to not go places with strangers.
11:45: Ali's telling her quite a bit. Even that he knows the identity of one of the Gundam's pilots!? Though I doubt he's telling her anything we didn't already know, so what's the point...?
13:18: Took her to some alley and dropped her off when he shot her. From the contents of her purse, it doesn't look like she even had any mace. A Taser probably would have helped her alot, but she was totally unarmed and unprepared, which is just silly considering how much they emphasised the "danger" of what she was doing.
Of course we can't have a stereo-typical reporter putting up a fight for her life that may potentionally endanger the life of the #1 antagonist to the Meisters.
What's worse she was like a deer in head-lights the entire time.
13:56: That's a nice looking ship. Even has a steering wheel?
14:50: Meanwhile at the Throne Cave...
15:10: Animation's taken a hit for these guys.
15:30: Look who's shown up, and she brought the animation budget with her!
15:55: Introductions. Nena has a thing for Hong Wong. Michael's pissed off.
16:20: I'm just glad she's finally doing something. I hope she's explaining herself.
16:37: I hope a tornado drops a house on her.
17:50: DAMMIT! They're back in space again without getting caught!
18:12: Allejuah's feeling left out.
18:50: This is probably one of the better action sequences we've seen in awhile. More clear misses, glancing hits, the Thrones are taking actual hits and not simply dodging them all. This how a battle should be...
19:00: The rate of fire on those tanks is ridiculious!
19:20: We were going to finally see what happens when they all link up too!
19:30: Is this a new song playing or is it the same one that accompanies the HRL whenever it's doing stuff?
20:40: Sergei and Soma certainly impressed, and it's cute how she doesn't understand why they're cheering for them. It's a mixed blessing though, since being actually able to hurt the Gundams means they'll probably never score any hits on them again.
I can't help but think the GN-X are somehow rigged. A Trojan Horse.
21:37: I take it back. She's not actually doing anything new. She's simply even more annoying and useless.
22:00: So VEDA is on the Moon? That's good news since it's within strking distance, but how does it deal with line of sight issues?
Preview: More GN-X in action, more running away, more no one destroying Gundams. Although it looks like Setsuna will have one of those "floating fantasies" like Shinn had about Stellar at the end of Destiny.
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