gundam 00 season 2 episode 11

[mayoraasei]

So this week, after a whopping 36 episodes, we finally learn what the heck's up with Double O.


Yes. Observe the O rings

Nostradamus that he might be, Aeolia has weird taste in human DNA templates. He's also a lazy ass:











- After we I got all excited about Hallelujah's return, as soon as Gundam 00 was switched off, all the brainwave-sensitive people went back to normal. Allelujah didn't even notice he turned Hallelujah?!
- Sergei didn't die, duh.
- Ali and the Innovators are excited about Memento Mori. Wang Liumei isn't. She looks like she's getting cold feet. Meanwhile Nena is harbouring anger at Wang working with the Innovators (who killed her brothers), yet at the same time she's gleeful about Memento Mori.
- Tieria comes out of the closet...About the Innovator business. The Ptolemis crew doesn't have time to think about it though Sumeragi reassures Tieria that he's part of the team.
- Mannequin sets up a neat little plan to attack CB's base, and Ptolemis nearly goes under.
- Revive helps Mannequin pinpoint CB's base by using brainwave interference, which Soma sense - I swear, that girl is super-brainwave-sensing. At the same time, Anew zones out in the middle of a conversation with Lockon, who is so obviously keen on "her" =P
- Random explosions later, in which the Meisters don't actually seem to do anything except spin around in various directions going "S***! There's another wave!" Saji sorties in O-Riser after Ian was injured in an explosion. I know Saji's a nice normal kid, but something about him still rubs me in the wrong way.
- Double O and O-Riser docks onto each other in a way that are certain to sprout sexual innuendos =__=+++
- Setsuna goes Trans-Am and we get the full effect of what happened last episode - Setsuna and Saji become aware of the consciousness of everyone within their vicinity. Saji manages to communicate with Louise, and the two of them scream "WTH ARE YOU DOING THERE [IN A-LAWS/CB]?!"


It ended the episode of me screaming "WTF JUST HAPPENED?!?!" at the screen, although obviously not out loud since it was nearly 3am in the morning =0=;

There are a few ways Aeolia's Twin Drive system could work - maybe by heightening the pilot's perception it acts like a mechanical "Newtype" system, allowing the pilot to predict the moves of other people.

But the other way it could work in realising Aeolia's ultimate goal is that it does what it did here - connects the consciousness of everyone within its vicinity. War is based on misunderstanding and incomprehension, isn't it? So theoretically if you built a system whereby everyone could communicate in unbridled ways, it would boost understanding and solve conflicts. It would be idealistic and romantic way to end wars - as opposed to the Innovators interpretation, which is to establish a global dictatorship.

I doubt it'll go this way because the Gundam franchise is not given to metaphysical musings and cleverness like this. This is the sort of creepy consciousness network that you'll find in cult hits like Serial Experiment Lain.

I'm probably reading too much into this, but where "Aeolia's plan" is concerned, there seems to be references to organised religion in this, with the different interpretations leading to different sorts of ideals and violence, and the Innovators' unquestioning loyalty to the plan itself. Sure, they don't agree on the ways to do it, but none of them question their own existence as beings to realise his plan.

The scene with Anew is typically ambiguous. Either Revive communicated with her to find CB's nest, or Anew sensed Revive like Soma/Marie did. Soma/Marie did remark that "the brainwave was not directed at me...who was it?" Ribonze seems to be able to use his brainwave just to observe people, so it might not mean there was any communication.

Okay, I admit, I want Anew to be a "good" Innovator. Otherwise our Tieria-kun is going to be so lonely LOL!!!

I wonder if Lockon being especially nice to Anew might suggest Anew is the person behind the curtain the ending sequence holding Lockon's hand.

At any rate, Saji and Marina are so going down as the most annoying characters in this series =__=+

Comments

[bludger1985.livejournal.com]

this is disturbing,

I can not shake the image of set/saji sitting bak to bak

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

That was part of the WTF too ==; I was going to make screencaps of it and then thought I'd have nightmares =__=

It started with the docking mechanism and just went downhill from there =__=|||||||

What's with the creepy fleshy tones of the two of them. And it was hardly the most...flattering of nekkid positions =__=;;;;;