Oh noooooooooes the subbed ep aired yesterday!!! So that means I'm 20 days late in forum time
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Well this episode wasn’t without its problems, but at the end of the day it still was extremely entertaining and visually stunning…The Sumeragi
“Operation Splashdown” (which it should have been called) was worth the price of admission alone…I almost wanted to see an AC-Guy peek his oversized head outta the water and start blasting away^^…The sheer volume and epic nature of it all coincided a fast and furious battle-engagement which found the Gundams (in which seemed like the first time in forever) fighting in an earth environment…This gave the picture such a crisp coat of vibrant colors my iris’ were on melt-alert…Hell they even had a backdrop of the Gundams leaving to a rainbow so visually incredible, one would be sure that Gundam Seed Desinty’s Akatsuki (aka. .//hackatsuki) and Zeta’s Hyaku Shiki were dry humping one another at the bottom of it…But the whole of that notwithstanding the execution of the fight sequences are awesome…They are almost always multi-layered and intimate at the same time (which is difficult when you’re talking about so many MS’s it would be kinda easy just to make it a cool spamfest, but 00 is capable of making long-winded, complex battles have a sense of continuity and real-time)…It isn’t just 1000 MS’s fighting indiscriminate battles with just the heroes suits being centered…It’s more like organized chaos and it worked well yet again in this episode…
I also very much like the fact that Ribbons’ air of superiority is really just a ruse…I think it’s very refreshing to see that Ribbons indeed wants to follow Schenburg’s plan (Whatever delusion of it he may have), but he can’t just will it to happen with his Innovator powers or whatever…He has to actually become a lobbyist and influencer with intel he gets from various sources (Including $hit he downloads from the World Wide Wang—who’s not giving him all the info she has, so he’s limited)…President 00bama greedily accepts any help Ribbons can give him to protect his political status, and it seems to be a very rational give and take relationship with only Ribbons’ grand AURA giving him that evil boss feel ( BTW, Shame on you 00bama for going the McCain route in the future…Maybe $hit has changed so much 00bama is a republican!
)…Ever since he gave the WTF face regarding the twin drives, I think to this point it’s apparent that Ribbons façade as this boss character is merely an information network that he utilizes to the best of his ability…I’m glad that 3 eps in the staff has kept his abilities grounded and not all
“hax0r x264 colored-eyes dude can do anything “…
I also thought this episode had a nice pace and development that gives me a strong indication that 00 will have faith in it’s audiences’ analytical abilities and just keep the content rolling without having to flashback us or reset us to death to rebuild the story…Taking 4 episodes to transition the story could have easily taken 7 or 8 based on what they had to do…Glad to see Mizushima did this, even if it may have been to a false claim that S1 started too slow…As a product of being a part 2 it’s good part2 is starting as a part 2 (Unlike Lelouch of the Reboot 2)…
Now there were a couple of probs that caught my eyes (and a lot of others)…One obviously was Al jumping into his cockpit with A-LAW members who definitely won’t be mistaken for Coordinators anytime soon…It was almost like they had those dreaded Cartoon Network edited SEED guns, but atleast those things still killed Patrick Zala’s a$$...Nevertheless I’ll give them a mulligan on the horrible shooting,
but what I can’t get over is IGNORING A GUNDAM!! Unless your mom//dad, or sibling, or GF (and I mean really in love with GF and not some chick that you just use for sex, cooking, cleaning); if not any of those people are dying in-front of your eyes you can’t ever IGNORE A NEW GUNDAM with it’s cockpit open…Sergei Jr. needs to get over his Taboo Sex SoMAMA syndrome and put a new Gundam with it’s cockpit open as priority…Tuff to get over that, maybe if they would just shot Hal a couple of times and he flew Arios injured it would have played better, but as is it was kinda idiotic….
I also am becoming a bit annoyed with Lie-con Stratos’ heavy-handed character so far…At the current pace he’s dangerously getting close to becoming a caricature rather than his own character, and I hope we’ll see him at 35mph soon as opposed to the 60 speed-limit version of himself he’s shown so far…I also wanna temper my opinion on Setsuna x Marina…I really think the writers had a golden opportunity to expand Setsuna’s relationship with her and they tugged back a bit and tried to rely on a more subtle dynamic… Setsuna blushing or just strongly hugging her out of context would have done far more than the soopaficial fanbait that comes next week at the expense of Feldt’s lip-gloss…After the whole letter and 4 year separation I thought it would have been very
progressive if Setsuna would have had one of those
“Gundam moments” that finds the main character doing something unexpected in the relationship area…A kiss or more romantic reaction could have done more in this case…
Anyways I still give this ep a pretty strong 8.33 outta 10…The action, the pace, the production values, the slight character development all a plus here and pretty much overshadows 1 crappy scene of Hal jumping into his Gundam…Damn still no Masked Man or Prince Ali yet eh? I so want to get back to listing my weekly power ranking…Oh well, til they jump in the action my lips are sealed like Hannibal Hal…
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