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10: Amazing... | 17 | 41.46% | |
9 out of 10: Excellent... | 12 | 29.27% | |
8 out of 10: Very Good... | 8 | 19.51% | |
7 out of 10: Good... | 1 | 2.44% | |
6 out of 10: Average... | 1 | 2.44% | |
5 out of 10: Below Average... | 0 | 0% | |
4 out of 10: Poor... | 1 | 2.44% | |
3 out of 10: Bad... | 0 | 0% | |
2 out of 10: Very Bad... | 0 | 0% | |
1 out of 10: Torturous... | 1 | 2.44% | |
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2012-04-09, 06:53 | Link #62 | |
Deploying Funnel Cakes
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BUT... The government screwed them over and cut them off before the colony could be stabilized. They government claimed they all died and basically banished them to die. Martians had to stabilize their colony on their own and life sucked. They got through it but a ton of people died. But during all of this necessity became the mother of invention and their technology started to kick ass. They were really pissed off and decided to go back to Earth with all the new gadgets they invented to survive Mars. As for super pilot... anti-newtype. He can't read other pilots or magically foretell their movements but no one can read his. His power is forcing x-rounders to rely on their pure skills. It's already established Asemu is a naturally gifted mecha pilot. Whoa... Woolf bit it. I knew someone was going to bite it...when Remi accepted the marriage proposal. |
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2012-04-09, 08:25 | Link #67 | |
A Contradiction Beneath
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2012-04-09, 09:08 | Link #70 | |
A Proud Lolicon
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: In front of my computer
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Someone has quite good insight about how Asemu kicking Desil's ass in this ep, and could put in better words than me, so I guess I should borrow his post for what I want to say.
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2012-04-09, 09:37 | Link #72 |
One-Eyed Dragon
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Location: NJ, USA
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Why did they have to kill my favorite character. Nice finally seeing Desil get taken out. Interesting that he could control other ms though. Obright might be the next one to go too bad if he does since he finally got the answer he was waiting for.
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2012-04-09, 14:00 | Link #73 | ||||
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: From the deepest abyss in the world, where you think?
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That still doesn't mean that the Earth belong to them since it's the Earth Federation. And it still doesn't excuse them for attacking and massacring civilians at will. This was the point that both Flint and Grodeck brought up when they found out the truth about the Vagans. The Vagan simply pointed out that all of them were responsible regardless anyways. Quote:
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And so far all of the Federation's strategy has been to defend itself simply because they cannot send an expedition to Mars. This is why as Flint pointed out the EF has been trying to resolve the situation diplomatically. That's the only way the Federation can survive. Weather enough assaults and beat the Vagans in a decisive battle to bring them to the table. Quote:
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2012-04-09, 14:01 | Link #74 | |
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Asemu fullify the role i always think for him... being the Anti-Kamille. How? Simple, he start as the completed opposite of Kamille(Having a Happy Family and Positive background plus a perfect regular life until the change with the gundam) and unlike Kamille who finnaly find his reason to live & fight in the gundam and them his potential as newtype(aka Jedi), Asemu was the opposite, he start with some fixec goals but become more frustrated how he faced the world and them he fell is past was like a lie(that happen a lot, Zehart Betrayal only add salt to the injure), but now besides being with a special super human skill(aka the Force or Newtype powers), he finally catch by himself the new way to fight & life. Thus was a Homage and a critique of how was the history of Z gundam... the so Called 'magnum Opus' of the franchise... that was trully interesting, How that Kio time comes and the threath of a Colony Drop is near... the thing will be interesting for Gundam AGE... at lest have the 52 or 42 episodes to wrap all perfectly. |
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2012-04-09, 15:18 | Link #75 | |
Licensed Hunter-a-holic
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 35
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In some way, I can see shades of episode 14 in here, and it's not the death of a loved secondary character that makes me see the similarities, or even Desil's involvement in both events, though that plays a part I guess. No, this episode resembles 14 in how both out protagonists ended up facing an event that blew through all doubts in their mind and set them through for the rest of their life, for better or for worse, how the audio quality in general was upped to higher levels, and how the tone of the conflict had gotten much serious than ever before.
Starting off with how history keeps on repeating itself. Before losing Yurin, Flit had enough evidence to figure out that the UE might in fact be piloted by other human beings, and even with the loss of those close to him (Bruzer, his mother) and who fought beside him (Don Boyag) his mind was still in doubt over whether or not he was fighting monsters. It didn't matter, since he had already decided to fight the faction that had killed his friends and family and had no plans of stopping, but the moment Yurin died, Flit justification that the UE were monsters went from being a shaky reasoning into a hard fact in his mind. Like wise, Asem's doubt's, low self esteem and good nature that makes him unfit to be a soldier ended up taking a back seat once Wolf based on him his last request to become the best pilot in the universe (which is something I forgot about, Wolf used to be a pro-MS racer) which again, isn't really the best thing that Asem could do (as we had seen before, he's the sort of man who would help his enemy) but it's the task he's been entrusted with, and he's going to do it. He had lost one of the people who had stood by him and supported him in thick and thin (the other being Arisa) and he's going to make sure he's going to live up to what Wolf expected of him. Yurin and Wolf's deaths ended up cementing the road that Flit had taken and now Asem will have to take. There can be no going back now, even if it's not the healthiest road to be taken, it's the only one that can quench their grief. (In any case, I ended up feeling like Asem was getting back to the same kid I had grown to like back in episodes 16 to 18. The same good kid with a heart of gold that would stand up for anyone no matter what. Guess all that positive reinforcement had payed off in the end) The audio has again risen a few notch, with us getting more great music when the DB slices apart Desil, and Wolf's death scene was well composed as well. Though of course the main thing is that Daisuke Ono (who I now grief we will no longer get to her his awesome voice any longer ) has managed to do the same Saori-san had done, make the death of the character emotionally moving, even if we had all seen it coming. Tip of my hat to Kazuhiko Inoue, who while might be criticized as making Flit sound too emotionless, I have never felt personally, but on the contrary had always given him a voice of authority and managed to get across the feeling of a caring but strict father, and in this episode, a man who had a suffered a deep loss but was still keeping himself together. Also, Takuya Eguchi as Asem is official my favorite role he had done. Hard work pays off in more than one level in this show. The final thing is of course the tone of the conflict. This is no longer like the battles before in this generation, where things were more flexible for both sides. This is a complete zero sum game, where Zeheart is going to put aside his own feelings for his friend in order to realize what he vowed to do, even at the expense of his own life. He isn't about to allow anyone or anything get in his way, and insubordination is no longer acceptable. Things might have seemed grim early on with this generation, but now they are officially cut throat. Seems like the blood feud between the Galette and the Asuno's is going to come to a close soon. Quote:
Other things:- - Rita is dying? Poor Lord Metal Zedd -Wow, Max is finally getting in touch with his inner Uso and kicking some serious ass on the battle field. -I don't like how Arisa doesn't seem to be getting that much screen time any longer :T -The hint that the Saber-Bridge Bunny might be the spy might have been just a read hearing, since the person now suspect of being the mole is again Flit's assistant. -Sorry, but the staff aren't even trying to show Millies design as 50 years old. She looks the same as she was 27 years ago. Pure laziness :/ (That, or the medical benefits for fleet commanders are so good, they even include plastic surgery for women) -In a lot of ways, the contrast between how the Asuno and the Galette treat each other can be really revealing. Zeheart sent his brother to his death for disobeying his orders, though he didn't seem to be out of hate, but out of the realization that Desil was simply a loose canon. That is something Flit will never do to his son, no matter how much he had went against military procedure before. Hell, in a lot of ways, Desil is what Asem might have become had he allowed himself to be taken in with the all the self loathing. -Guess at the end of the day, even if the two weren't related, Wolf and Zeheart ended up with the same realization about Asem. He really is one amazing kid. As a side not, I can't help but wonder if the point of making Romary and Asem relationship get to the point where they are no longer talking to each other was in order to make the timeline fit with Kio being 13 at AG 165 (so he would've been conceived when they were 28, ten years after the end of the 2nd Generation, so they needed to make sure they wouldn't get together as early as Flit and Emily did at 21) because I'm honestly scratching my head at why else would this decided to show it being this damaged and bad at the finale stretch of the second chapter I mean, I get that we had Emily not being the fan favorite back with the first generation, but say what you will about the chemistry between her and Flit, at the end of it, they never got to the point where the last we seen of them was Flit ignoring and avoiding eye contact with her. It never got that bad on screen. This could be premature worrying, but now that we have confirmation that we only have two more episodes till the end of the second generation, I'm left wondering how exactly they can sell the idea that Romary will get together with Asem without making it feel forced.
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2012-04-09, 17:06 | Link #78 |
Licensed Hunter-a-holic
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 35
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I don't know man, Max had been leveling up and Obright is going to get married. I think that they will all pull through.
The whole hard work trumps over super powered N-types had been pretty awesome, to be quite frank, though I wasn't that concerned about the powerlevels in Gundam to start with.
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2012-04-09, 17:11 | Link #79 | |
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As for power levels in Gundam, you'd be surprised just how much some fans care about this sort of thing. For some I know firsthand it's pretty much the be all end all deciding factor on whether a Gundam series is good or not. |
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