Shade

Saw it, meh. Obviously, the true way for everyone to accept peace and let go of hatred is to listen to Kira say, "Let's all be friends." It certainly did the trick on Rey and Shinn. Anyway, it wraps up Destiny better than the original final episode did, but it doesn't change my opinion that this is the worst Gundam series I've ever seen, ZZ being the only one I haven't watched. The only new thing that amused me is that Athrun and Merilyn seem to be a couple now.

Huh, that's the Astray Out Frame, all right. Looks like it comes with the gun camera, the normal backpack, the Aile pack, and possibly the manipulator pack? And what's that on the right of the Blue Frame L? Could that be Destiny Impulse?

So much for my belief that Gilbert is the only smart person. Nothing like announcing that "dreams are pointless, here's your life mapped out for you" to kill your support.

Actually, she does order the rest of the fleet to continue as is. However, then she orders Archangel to break the Zaft line, and the shots clearly show other EA ships moving with AA. Murrue was trying to use the Archangel to tear open a hole in Zaft for the rest of the fleet to escape. Of course, they're being overwhelmed by sheer numbers when Kira drops in. As for how 'extremely obvious' Destiny was going to be, I think most people here were still holding on for the possbility of good writing up until they left Orb for the first time, and Shinn wasn't getting any character development. I mean, Gilbert didn't have to be a bad guy, and it would have been a nice twist if he really wasn't. But they chose to take the lazy way out.

Just shove Athrun down the exhaust vent. He needs his self-destruct quota for the show.

I dunno, Gilbert's managed to get an entire planet of retards to dance to his tune from the start of the show. I'm sure the writers forgot by now, but I'll bet that Gilbert was the one who allowed the EA the information they needed to steal Chaos, Abyss, and Gaia; and then arranged for the Zala supporters to drop Jenius 7 on Earth.

Really, out of our entire brave cast here, Gilbert and Rey are the only people who aren't dumb. I thought it said Copernicus was a free city, and that none of the major powers ruled there. Anyhoo, even if Orb did have a moon base, it doesn't mean they're powerful. If said base only had, say, five Astrays, it's more of a footnote, and far down on Gilbert's list of "Places I Wish to Conquer."

Nope, that was a strange screwup on Tokyopop's part. Rest assured, they're not telepathic. Also, congratulations to Kira, Athrun, Cagalli and the Archangel for their fine job of stopping ZAFT from getting into Orb to capture Djibril last week - this week, Djibril killed hundreds of thousands of innocent Coordinators. Orb deserves to be bombed back into the stone age. 321756[/snapback] Considering how badly ZAFT failed at capturing him at the LOGOS HQ, they'd have bungled this operation, too. Even if Kira and friends were busy having a group orgy while this was going on, Djibril would have just left whenever ZAFT forces got close. He could have left earlier than he did in the show, he was just waiting for the Sarans. And if ZAFT really wanted him, they'd have coordinated their forces, and had a space force cheerfully waiting for his shuttle. And you do realize you just advocated killing tens of thousands of innocent Natural and Coordinators who live in Orb, right?

Ha, until Char shows up in either Legend or Justice. 319319[/snapback] Nah, it'll be Gilbert in the Comet Gundam, a bright red (pink!) mobile suit. There, he'll reveal to Amuro that he's secretly been Char all along. And then Amuro kicks his ass. Again.

They need to put Amuro in Strike Freedom. He'd end the war pretty quickly.

That's one of the many things that bugs me about Destiny. In Seed, while he disabled grunts a plenty, if there was a honest to God threat facing him, Kira would go for the kill. When he faced our favorite trio of druggies, you never heard any nonsense about him aiming for the head or arm. He was going for the center of mass shots and trying to destroy them. And of course, there was his battle against Raww. Destiny Kira would try to disable and capture him or some poo, Seed Kira ran his ass through. Even against Destroy, Kira wasn't trying to kill Stellar. He was actually saving Shinn's worthless life and disabling the cannons. In short, the writers apparently decided that Cagali's stupidity was genetic, and made Kira a fool as well. And since they also decided that character development is too hard, and Shinn should just become Anakin Skywalker, the writers should be sacked. I think the scene would have went better had Kira actually gone for the kill against Destiny, the chest cannon powering up, with Shinn realizing the danger, hits his Seed mode, drops the sword and barely manages to dodge the blast. That way, Kira is shown to be taking Shinn seriously, and Shinn still gets to show off his skills. Man, we need another recap episode now. From Arthur's point of view, where he reveals his ultra secret plans as the real villian. That kind of utter nonsense would justify the show.

So, finally watched the episode. Shinn does an excellent job of fighting here, making great use of Impulse's modular design, my favorite being when he splits Impulse in two to dodge Kira's strike. Of course, when they rematch in Destiny vs. Strike Freedom, he won't have that gimmick, so he'd better bone up on his pure skills. Yeah, I'm hoping for Kira vs. Shinn in the finals. Athrun hasn't done anything useful all season, so I'm not expecting anything from him later. Maybe he can take out Lunamaria (while screaming her name). Oh, when Chaos explodes, I don't actually remember seeing Sting's death scene. Because without one, he's bound to come back, probably in Destroy Mk II. Maybe he'll be effective if and when he returns.

Kinda amusing, really. In my opinion, Victory was nothing more than an excuse for Tomino to find new and inventive ways to kill off his characters. Uso's mom, anyone?

Decent episode. Shinn actually didn't lose any points with me, simply because his actions here are consistant with his actions in the rest of the show. Mind you, I still hate him, and I've basically given up on Shinn getting any reasonable development in the show, but I don't hate him any more than I did. Athrun on the other hand, drops some more. It was just wonderful seeing Kira tear apart Saviour within seconds. The fight would have been more even had Athrun bothered to use his Seed mode, but then, I don't recall him using it at all in this series. Chaos had just as much luck against Freedom as Abyss and Gaia did several episodes ago. I feel kinda bad for Sting and Auel. They're better characters than the first set of Extended from Seed. Pity Kira didn't decide to go after Shinn after smashing Athrun. Kira's Seed mode would decimate Shinn's, and we wouldn't have to deal with the bastard anymore.

Episode 26 was pretty good. I was fairly surprised to hear the doctor refuse to treat Stellar without orders, though. I guess ZAFT doctors don't have the Hippocratic Oath, huh? The shot of the three ZAFT Gundams is interesting. Impulse, Destiny, and Son of Providence, maybe they'll call it Fate or Judgement or some other nonsense. The ED shot of it indicates that it's got a good number of funnels, at least eight, though not quite as many as Providence itself did (13). I suppose we'll get a better count when line art is released. Kinda weird that Saviour wasn't in that lineup, but I guess since Athrun's going to self-destruct it at some point over the next 13 episodes it doesn't matter. Note to people with no sense of humor. The above wasn't a spoiler. It has not been said that Athrun is going to blow up Saviour, but I think most people here expect him to. Shinn finally gets another chance to do something besides be angry. I'm pleased with this.