Unless I missed something, nobody commented on Tieria crying at start. I guess the focus was on other things eh
Bit disappointed Ali didn't kick the bucket here. Given that Exia's beam sabers power down at the end, and some comments here, it looks like Exia's power up was rather brief - couldn't be sustained for long periods.
I enjoyed the action and tension etc, but was slightly disappointed at some things - like Sergei letting Trinity get away again... and Ali "the cockroach" getting away again. At least Johann went in a nice way - I guess when GN Drives (even fake ones) go boom, all the stored GN particles spill out too. In comparison, Michael was kinda dead before he knew it
Given that Johann said they (the Trinity siblings) were born (made?) to be Gundam Meisters, they didn't get trained that well.
Incidentally, Ali knew about GN Particles in this ep - it also seems to me that he deliberately selected the unit he wanted, rather than picking one at random. Maybe he was able to get access to a simulator - if Laguna was directing the Trinity, then maybe he raised and trained them too? If Ali got enough access to Veda to be able to get past the biometric security, then he must have gotten good access in general. Looks like in the next ep Ali heads to space - I imagine he must be going back to the Trinity's mothership (all the Trinity units needed to get back and couldn't go full power in the first place).
I certainly like the idea of Aeolia putting himself in cryogenic sleep and hoping he'll be able to wake up in a few hundred years - kinda thing I would do. Before he enabled Trans-Am, he said he was disappointed that someone came here (to where Veda is) with evil intentions and had hoped the world would have changed more.
Still, the downside is that the power-up rather "resets" things - the gap between CB and the world is as big as it ever was. I had hoped for more focus on pilot skill development. At least it makes it clear there's a much bigger difference between true GN Drives and the "fake" ones. Does this also mean that the GN Drive from the 0 Gundam got powered up too? In which case it suddenly became far more valuable.
Going to be interesting seeing what happens next. With Setsuna by himself (sort of) down on Earth, he could head back to his flat in Japan, where next door Saji is slipping into the dark side. I could imagine Setsuna taking Nena with him... then Nena finds out how what she did affected others and with her own loses comes to regret what she did. And then Saji finds out about them being with CB and tries to kill them - I can easily see Nena taking a bullet for Setsuna in such a situation. (Hope it's not so predictable... but would at least tie some threads together).
Haro will kill a kitten if you do 
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