In her first scene in the ep, Marina thanks CB for rescuing her just now and also for 5 years ago when they intervened in Azadistan's civil war. She says it was wonderful how they managed to stop the war without fighting. (Ahh, polite and thoughful. She's a good person).
Setsuna's reaction - "never mind that, what are you going to do now?"
She says that because Azadistan didn't sign up to join the Feds things have gone from bad to worse. She mentions something about the conservative faction. IIRC they were always causing her problems and most certainly prevented joining up with the Feds - not sure if Marina supported joining or not. Anyway, she wants to go back, even if it means Azadistan might get intervened against.
On a side note, if Azadistan never joined the Feds then they just kidnapped and imprisoned a foreign head of state they have no legal jurisdiction over. That's seriously arrogant.
I like how flatly both Setsuna and Marina respond to Mileina's "'scuse me but are you in love!?" (and no Marina looking hurt at how Setsuna responds either). Mileina wonders if her "mainden's intuition" (rather than woman's intuition) was off. Kinda feels like the screen-writers trying to say to Marina x Setsuna shippers - "full steam ahead!"
Later, Marina is wondering what she can do when Setsuna finds her. She asks him if he'll return with her to Azadistan to help re-build the country but he refuses and says he can only fight, to which Marina thinks that fighting can't create anything. Setsuna says he used to agree but changed his mind after joining CB - that with Gundam he can do something good through fighting.
The thing I find about their discussion is that Marina never strongly pushes back against CB's methods. She certainly doesn't act like she thinks they'd bad people for example. Feels more like she is trying to understand their (well, mostly Setsuna's) viewpoint and is willing to offer them/him an alternative.
Basically, it really doesn't feel like they're at opposite ends of the spectrum or something like that. In fact, their views are almost aligning.
If, as seems quite possible, Ali razes the capital of Azadistan, then (a) Marina's going to be furious (don't make a "mother" angry!) and (b) effectively going to have more freedom than ever to push her side since Ali might have just killed most of her conservative opposition. The way Klaus talks of Marina and the way Shirin views Marina, I really think Marina could become the political head of Kataron quite easily. Would she be willing to put Azadistan itself against A-LAWS though?
Anyway, while I normally don't like them, will we see Gundam's traditional "broadcast to the world that changes the world" with Marina? To be honest, I'm starting to look forwards to it.
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