Gundam 00
It’s Transformers 2!

Well, that was a huge disappointment. Episode two didn’t do anything interesting at all. Looks like the spaceshipwreck is still quite far off. The character feuds are building up though, so it’s all a matter of time. Also, Gundam 00 is such an anticlimax.

Summary

It all began over two hundred years ago. A brilliant bald guy by the name of Aeolia Schenberg was always getting picked on by schoolyard bullies for having a girly name. He vowed to take revenge on the world of Social Darwinism by building giant robots called Gundams that would fly around the world to blow bullies up and defend the weak and the nerdy. And so he did, using super powerful magical artefacts called “GN drives” which were forged in the centre of an intrasolar gas giant by Celestial Beings, a mysterious brotherhood of galactic space wizards founded by Schenberg.

Due to the magical properties of GN particles, (which are infinitely versatile and can be used for propulsion, offence, defence, and heating pizzas) the GN-drive-equipped Gundams achieved in no time total superiority over lesser humanoid mecha designs bounded by the laughable laws of physics and reality.

However, Aeolia was not content with mere perfection. What if he had to heat two pizzas up…at the same time? Solving this immensely difficult problem proved to be the greatest challenge he ever faced in his life, except for the time he got his ass kicked by an entire football team of jocks for being a pansy face. But his brilliance pulled through and eureka! The long list of equations and theorems all pointed to one single conclusion: he must build a Gundam with two GN drives. Not one, but two. The idea was untested, dangerous, and probably heretic, but he went ahead with it because he wanted to play god.

And thus, Gundam 00 was born.

Seriously though, this whole thing is rather lame. Double the GN drives = more powerful? Who would’ve thought?

Oh yeah. Here’s the real summary, done in captions because there’s so little to actually summarize.

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Gundam 00 refuses to work because it is an attention whore

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Lockon is back in a weird way; Grace’s panties are sort of wet

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Manekin and Peries meet at A-LOLS (that’s how I’m spelling it from now on!) headquarters

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Graham the Creepy Voyeur is stalking Ms. Kyonyuu and Ms. Petanko

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Saji is locked up in the crazies room

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Setsuna chases Billy away and forces himself onto Sumeragi

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Marina gets shot by A-LOLS and dies in the second episode. Oh snap!

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Liumei is evil and Nena is her slave

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Gundam 00 refuses to work without Setsuna’s magic touch

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A-LOLS shoots! G00 saves!

I hope Sunrise doesn’t sue me for copyright infringement because I basically reproduced the entire episode above. All of it.

Thoughts

I think G00 (the Gundam) is stupid, and Ribbons is an idiot. What? Two GN drives!? That’s unpossible! Damn you Aeolia Schenberg! *shakes fist*

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The directions of the beams don’t even make sense!

But that aside, this is an okay episode with no real surprises. I can honestly say that not one bit of it is unexpected except for the part where Marina gets shot and dies! Oh man, Sunrise is so brilliant. Who would’ve thought that the main female lead would die in the second episode? As much as I love Marina for her fan serviceability, that’s seriously the greatest single moment in Gundam history. Wait, what do you mean she’s not dead? Damn A-LOLS pansies.

I sincerely hope that Saji is not going to be wasting airtime with his emo angsting for the next ten episodes or something. He needs to get off his butt, find a Gundam, and fight Louise to the death ASAP for my amusement.

And is it just me or does Neil’s twin brother feel like a huge cop-out. It’s like Sunrise really wanted to kill a main character for good just to prove that they have the balls to do it, but wimped out at the last minute and threw in this identical twin to appease the angry mob of yaoi fangirls.

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It’s magic

Also, “twin drive” sounds a lot like “twin tail”, and Gundam 00′s capricious behaviour is right on the mark: it is a tsundere mecha whose heart can only be reached by Setsuna’s burning hot passion. How homoerotic.

Screencaps

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Twin drills

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Come on beach episode…

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“There is a mole in our organization”

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“………”

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I keep forgetting… Who is he again?

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“Hey, I’m going to bait the fans by pretending to reveal your real given name”

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“Attack to Spain! Attack to Spain! Spain, please come in!”

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Setsuna is such a playboy

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“Guys, we must go through the entire history of our organization every time we hold a meeting in case anyone is listening and needs clarification”

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Androgynous cleavage

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Haro’s diet consists primarily of portable computers

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“Once again, I have cut an unworthy object”

Everyone’s a fan of May’n all of a sudden. It’s not cool and indie any more.

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