gundam 32-36
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lizardjayMore Gundam! We actually finished yesterday but I'm pretty behind on my episode writeups. Should be two more batches!
EPISODE 32: BREAKTHROUGH
I think we met Dren way back? In the original space section? RIP.
I began the episode in great hope that Sleggar would die. Alas, he was fine. (I don't actually hate him, but if anyone HAD to die...)
Char has insubordinate people on his ship even though they're all actual military, because he has a guy go out in a mobile suit to avenge 'Tokwan', who is presumably someone we killed last episode. Also, starting recently we see a whole lot more of Mulligan, who is his... second in command? Maybe?
Btw the White Base's two radar/detection techs are named Oscar and Marker, making me say "Oscar Marker Weiner" pretty much any time they're relevant.
Rick Doms have become the new Zakus I guess, because they're now the default mobile suit in every conflict. At some point the White Base decided to just call them 'skirts'.
The sequence of Amuro killing a Rick Dom by shooting its camera out and stepping on its head, while moving past it because it's not his goal, was sick.
EPISODE 33: FAREWELL IN SIDE 6
Sayla and Amuro have a conversation about Fraw Bow and the show immediately introduces a mobile armor called the Braw Bro. Why do they basically have the same name... maybe Fraw Bow is secretly a mobile armor herself :D This little scene of discovering the in-development mobile armor, destroying it, and going back to the White Base doesn't really seem to be very relevant to anything but maybe those people will come back.
I love that Side 6 ensures neutrality by... putting red duct tape over their weapons.
Cameron is a prosecutor according to our subs and a district attorney according to the wiki. In either case... if you're a lawyer, are you the right person to be interfacing with military ships? Is that what lawyers do?
Lol Char just dismisses himself from talking to Conscon. He has incredible audacity in a military where everyone's backstabbing each other.
Amuro's dad... T_T ughhh the pain of seeing your parents weak and fallible and unable to be anything that you want or need...
It's probably this episode where they start really hammering the 'something is strange and.... wrong? with Amuro' angle. Of course they've always treated him as gifted and a fast learner but this is something else. Such as when the enemy sends out twelve mobile suits and Amuro kills nine of them in like two minutes. One kill was from a backwards shot or something iirc. He's barely taking time to aim and he's doing it in a single kill shot. Genuinely freaky. When will they talk about psychic people....
Mirai why is it wrong for Cameron to want to escape the war... we've seen enough 'war is hell' fodder in the last few months to last a lifetime.
EPISODE 34: A FATEFUL ENCOUNTER
FINALLY WE GET LALAH, AKA PROTO ANTHY. I have been WAITING.
Why did that bird suddenly die over the lake? Surely Lalah didn't psychically kill it...? After experiencing Anthy I will put nothing past this woman. But she talks about valuing beauty so I don't think she'd do that. Later it seems like she might have predictive powers of some kind so maybe she just knew it was the bird's time. In any case it's an unsettling omen especially when she says Amuro has beautiful eyes: will he die too?
The wiki synopsis at this moment says "Char tells Mulligan that they will be using Lalah in battle soon". I have NO memory of this. At this time we had no idea Lalah and Char had any connection at all (and I still don't know what that connection might be). The Crunchyroll subs (not what we were watching) say "We're going to use her in battle soon" which I guess must refer to Lalah. The IA subs (ALSO not what we're using) say "It'll be entering battle soon". Tragically he talks too fast for me to successfully transcribe and translate myself. In any case he doesn't SEEM to have any specific subject of his sentence so I think Crunchyroll saying 'she' is kind of spoiling it.
I could never have expected Char and Amuro to meet face to face for the first time because Amuro got stuck in the mud and needed to be towed out. Amuro starts wondering about his presumable psychic powers, because how else could he have known it was Char? .... dude, he's wearing a conspicuous bright red outfit that the standard military doesn't wear. Of course it's Char. You don't need magic intuition for this.
Slapping Mirai wasn't necessary, Sleggar.... then again this seems to be his established conflict resolution method since he punched Cameron last episode.
Amuro continues to prove his psychic powers by magically knowing the weak points of a completely unfamiliar ship.
Cameron and Mirai wave to each other from the windows of their respective ships. Due to the small resolution I swear it looked like Mirai was flipping him off.
EPISODE 35: THE GLORY OF SOLOMON
Why did Amuro hallucinate Job John was Fraw Bow. Other things happened this episode but compared to this they are unimportant. I also find it fascinating that the food on the tray Job John/Fraw Bow was carrying also changed. I don't THINK they were reusing a shot of Fraw Bow from another episode; and even if they were, why not keep the food the same?
Anyway, we meet up with some officer that we last saw in episode five or something at Luna II. Meanwhile Lalah is apparently coming with Char.
Wow their solar mirror panel array just vaporizes stuff. YIKES.
Dozle just had his wife and infant child on his warship? Okay. At least he gets everyone to evacuate early.
Zeon's eternal problem: lack of cooperation. Dozle refuses to ask for reinforcements because it will make him look weak.
Hayato feels ashamed for being the worst of the mobile suit pilots. I think he should feel no shame, because it's not his fault they assigned him to the worst of the mobile suits. He does a good job for what he's working with.
EPISODE 36: BIG ZAM'S LAST STAND
M'QUVE CONTEMPLATES IGNORING THE ESCAPE PODS. ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE. You can always count on M'Quve to at least think about doing the worst possible thing.
Anyway this episode has a mysterious Mirai/Sleggar romance, just in time for him to finally die. Not sure why that happened but okay. I'd been rooting for him to die but it's still sad.
Amuro (psychically?) sees a demon or something behind Dozle; his internal evil? The evil of Zeon?
Side note: ever since we returned to space I am loving all the zero-G stuff they do on the White Base. They have seatbelts for their chairs! (Or you can just float around, like Kai seems to do a lot). People move from place to place by just kicking off! They have little handles you can hold to be propelled down the hallway! It had been so long since the beginning when we were in space that I forgot about these things.
I think we met Dren way back? In the original space section? RIP.
I began the episode in great hope that Sleggar would die. Alas, he was fine. (I don't actually hate him, but if anyone HAD to die...)
Char has insubordinate people on his ship even though they're all actual military, because he has a guy go out in a mobile suit to avenge 'Tokwan', who is presumably someone we killed last episode. Also, starting recently we see a whole lot more of Mulligan, who is his... second in command? Maybe?
Btw the White Base's two radar/detection techs are named Oscar and Marker, making me say "Oscar Marker Weiner" pretty much any time they're relevant.
Rick Doms have become the new Zakus I guess, because they're now the default mobile suit in every conflict. At some point the White Base decided to just call them 'skirts'.
The sequence of Amuro killing a Rick Dom by shooting its camera out and stepping on its head, while moving past it because it's not his goal, was sick.
EPISODE 33: FAREWELL IN SIDE 6
Sayla and Amuro have a conversation about Fraw Bow and the show immediately introduces a mobile armor called the Braw Bro. Why do they basically have the same name... maybe Fraw Bow is secretly a mobile armor herself :D This little scene of discovering the in-development mobile armor, destroying it, and going back to the White Base doesn't really seem to be very relevant to anything but maybe those people will come back.
I love that Side 6 ensures neutrality by... putting red duct tape over their weapons.
Cameron is a prosecutor according to our subs and a district attorney according to the wiki. In either case... if you're a lawyer, are you the right person to be interfacing with military ships? Is that what lawyers do?
Lol Char just dismisses himself from talking to Conscon. He has incredible audacity in a military where everyone's backstabbing each other.
Amuro's dad... T_T ughhh the pain of seeing your parents weak and fallible and unable to be anything that you want or need...
It's probably this episode where they start really hammering the 'something is strange and.... wrong? with Amuro' angle. Of course they've always treated him as gifted and a fast learner but this is something else. Such as when the enemy sends out twelve mobile suits and Amuro kills nine of them in like two minutes. One kill was from a backwards shot or something iirc. He's barely taking time to aim and he's doing it in a single kill shot. Genuinely freaky. When will they talk about psychic people....
Mirai why is it wrong for Cameron to want to escape the war... we've seen enough 'war is hell' fodder in the last few months to last a lifetime.
EPISODE 34: A FATEFUL ENCOUNTER
FINALLY WE GET LALAH, AKA PROTO ANTHY. I have been WAITING.
Why did that bird suddenly die over the lake? Surely Lalah didn't psychically kill it...? After experiencing Anthy I will put nothing past this woman. But she talks about valuing beauty so I don't think she'd do that. Later it seems like she might have predictive powers of some kind so maybe she just knew it was the bird's time. In any case it's an unsettling omen especially when she says Amuro has beautiful eyes: will he die too?
The wiki synopsis at this moment says "Char tells Mulligan that they will be using Lalah in battle soon". I have NO memory of this. At this time we had no idea Lalah and Char had any connection at all (and I still don't know what that connection might be). The Crunchyroll subs (not what we were watching) say "We're going to use her in battle soon" which I guess must refer to Lalah. The IA subs (ALSO not what we're using) say "It'll be entering battle soon". Tragically he talks too fast for me to successfully transcribe and translate myself. In any case he doesn't SEEM to have any specific subject of his sentence so I think Crunchyroll saying 'she' is kind of spoiling it.
I could never have expected Char and Amuro to meet face to face for the first time because Amuro got stuck in the mud and needed to be towed out. Amuro starts wondering about his presumable psychic powers, because how else could he have known it was Char? .... dude, he's wearing a conspicuous bright red outfit that the standard military doesn't wear. Of course it's Char. You don't need magic intuition for this.
Slapping Mirai wasn't necessary, Sleggar.... then again this seems to be his established conflict resolution method since he punched Cameron last episode.
Amuro continues to prove his psychic powers by magically knowing the weak points of a completely unfamiliar ship.
Cameron and Mirai wave to each other from the windows of their respective ships. Due to the small resolution I swear it looked like Mirai was flipping him off.
EPISODE 35: THE GLORY OF SOLOMON
Why did Amuro hallucinate Job John was Fraw Bow. Other things happened this episode but compared to this they are unimportant. I also find it fascinating that the food on the tray Job John/Fraw Bow was carrying also changed. I don't THINK they were reusing a shot of Fraw Bow from another episode; and even if they were, why not keep the food the same?
Anyway, we meet up with some officer that we last saw in episode five or something at Luna II. Meanwhile Lalah is apparently coming with Char.
Wow their solar mirror panel array just vaporizes stuff. YIKES.
Dozle just had his wife and infant child on his warship? Okay. At least he gets everyone to evacuate early.
Zeon's eternal problem: lack of cooperation. Dozle refuses to ask for reinforcements because it will make him look weak.
Hayato feels ashamed for being the worst of the mobile suit pilots. I think he should feel no shame, because it's not his fault they assigned him to the worst of the mobile suits. He does a good job for what he's working with.
EPISODE 36: BIG ZAM'S LAST STAND
M'QUVE CONTEMPLATES IGNORING THE ESCAPE PODS. ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE. You can always count on M'Quve to at least think about doing the worst possible thing.
Anyway this episode has a mysterious Mirai/Sleggar romance, just in time for him to finally die. Not sure why that happened but okay. I'd been rooting for him to die but it's still sad.
Amuro (psychically?) sees a demon or something behind Dozle; his internal evil? The evil of Zeon?
Side note: ever since we returned to space I am loving all the zero-G stuff they do on the White Base. They have seatbelts for their chairs! (Or you can just float around, like Kai seems to do a lot). People move from place to place by just kicking off! They have little handles you can hold to be propelled down the hallway! It had been so long since the beginning when we were in space that I forgot about these things.
