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The episode was just another showcase of how easily one could supplant MS in scenes and how poorly things are thought out, if they are thought out at all. Bear witness, the Akatsuki, the Legend, the Providence, all the same, same shots, superimporse with Dagger, Windam, Zakus, same pictures, all dead. The main problem is laziness, for the love of God, half the shots of Justice was probably stock footage from Seed. No one could tell the difference at all. This is almost the end of the series, not all that much original animation. It gets pretty bad. One nit pick, the Messiah is supposed to have a mini Gensis, how the hell are they getting the firing element in position when the Messiah is moving? The original involved just moving the firing element, while the rest of Gensis was fixed, in this one, the Messiah is moving. Ah well, too much nitpicking. Enough for now.

Huh? Ok, what gaps are you talking about? I didn't see anything that leapt out and shouted: "I am unexplained."

geez, now we've advanced to the super warship show. All those ships, and they can't take down two ships. It's kind of pathetic. Yawn, I guess the upshot is, there is only one more episode left. How sad. I think this all has to do with the quality of the songs. Once the songs went down hill, so did the show. Ah well, what else can you say about it. Although I'm still waiting anxiously for the GSD cheerleading squad to show up and vigirously defend the show. They seem to have disappeared. Come on, this was a good MS action episode, with all those reused footage, and you guys don't like it? Now, one thing I'm disappointed by, those three DOMs should've killed Luna, they showed mercy to no one else. Talk about poor story telling.

Great episode, I guess Cain doesn't have a kid in this case. But it's a great episode, sure as heck beats the original. There are lots of similarities to be sure, but having Cain as the superior officer make things far more interesting. Glad to see the stealth viper getting some use. The interesting thing is seeing the difference in operating styles. Cain is essentially Adama unchecked, as if he just had the Galactica, but no civies to tow around. Adama essentially was stuck with a choice initially, Cain wasn't saddled with much of a choice, just picked up a few survivors, then it's back to instincts, kill the bastards where they live. Cain probably has done well by herself, but she didn't have to sheperd around a bunch of useless civie ships. Darn, have to wait till January to see resolution. Too bad we won't see Vipers vs Vipers.

Of all the Zabis, Gehrin was the most interesting one. Probably because he was the genius that had gotten the Zeons that far. His death was pretty sad, and it's easy to see why he had such a large following in the Zeon military. The real sad part was if it weren't for the Zabi family feud, the Zeons might have actually won the one year war. BTW, love the last two shots, which seem to be homage to DYRL.

Kycilia had an interesting death, she got herself decapitated. OUCH. I think in the end the only one that Char didn't kill was Minerva Zabi.

Yzak will stand down, right after he punches Athrun in the face. "Oops, sorry... mistake, I'm your friend, was that your face hitting my fist? You should really watch where you're going, Athrun. "

As I stated, Terminal is a large underground information network. This is how AA got info as they were cruising along. They were mentioned at various times during the course of the series (ep. 24, 31, 39, we're just now getting a clear picture of who they are). I won't be surprised if they had people in control of ships. Granted only a few ships, and those 250m-class look old so those might just be pieces from the scrapyard. Those ZAFT ships might also be scrapyard pieces. Eternal/AA are really the para-military faction of Terminal. Terminal appears to not take action, only pass it to those who do. 329787[/snapback] You have to note, the jab wasn't aimed at you. I don't recall ever hearing "The Terminal" on the show. So, what I'm saying is that in order to even remotely make sense of the story, we not only have to watch the series, but get background from writer interviews. Not a good way to promote a series if you ask me.

Terminal? Very late to be introducing yet another faction I'd say. But ah well, given the state of the storyline, why not.... I figure, we'll get a very one sided battle, and the story ends abruptly with Dullindal dying or some such thing. All I can say is, great, let the slaughter commence.

Athrun should end up with Cagalli, ideally they profess their undying love for each other, and 30 seconds later, a big ass meteor flattens them both. As for the big fleet, I'm sure there is some good explanation for it. Like Lacus was really the evil genius any way, she had a secret fleet all stashed up at her beck and call, at least that would track in with her factory. Gawd, a factory for military hardware that's obviously been there for a long time. Only a kid would think that's a last minute addition. This adds to the bitch explanation of course, she had all this capabilities on her side, and she decides to sit on the sidelines and do nothing while people suffered... I think I like the idea of evil Lacus, evil Lacus is sexy, where is good Lacus seem to be a bumbling incompetent boob.

I'm not awe inspired by the 3.5 minutes of opening recap. What the hell are these idiots thinking?

I wonder how effective the stealth viper really can be against Cylons. Imagine it armed with a nuke against a base star, and if it was truly invisible. Anyway, this was a good episode, it could be just me, but Tigh is really growing on me as a character. He tells Tyrol about the spare engines, and helps himself out to the booze. It's pretty obvious that he ain't the sharpest knife around, but he is the most loyal. And he far has surpassed the original Tigh in terms of just development and characterization. The episode was relly good in terms of just some nice character development, Helo, Tyrol got a good lion share of character development time. Then of course, all the other characters got pushed. No naked Six... I'm sad. Unlike a lot of people here, I like naked Six. But bondage Boomer almost made up for it. I like the idea of shoving a fiber optic cable up her arm, a ewwww moment, but nice and effective. I wonder at what scale her electronic parts become visible. Hmmm, I wonder if the original Cain had a daughter, if this one will have a son. Rival of Apollo, ha ha ha ha.

Well, now that Minerva is the "bad ship," we can safely assume that it'll be ripped to shreds shortly by Archangel and Eternal. They'll run circles around poor Minerva and then wipe out that poor ZAFT ship. Heh heh. All the other ZAFT ships supporting Minerva will just be simple cannon fodder. Eternal is as far as we can all tell is just a fast carrier for just the Justice and Freedom. Supposed to be a ZAFT battleship, but that's more Minerva, and I would equal Eternal to a WWII class fast aircraft carrier. It's about equivalent with its anti-air capabilities, the only thing it is really missing is lots and lots of MS. But it's pretty obvious that it can carry more than two. From the looks of things, at least four, probably more like seven or eight. But I'm surprised that given the rapid technological advancements in CE, that Eternal and AA are still considered modern ships.

Change Shiho's hair to silver, and what do you get? Yzak. heh, those lazy bastards.

If GSD fails for no other reason, it should be a warning for future anime writers that politics and anime storyline do not mix.

so any thoughts on what his saying? BTW found this on another forum. 328816[/snapback] Up to date? Bah, this is the primary reason why GSD as a series suck. It's Fukuda's attempt to inject politics into his little cartoon show, he is so intent on pegging evil people in his show, that he essentially screwed up the story. He actually did a great job of injecting politics, Orb for example, if that's supposed to be Japan, then the Sarans are equivalent to the current Japanese prime minister, Kozumi who is a Bush ally. Ha ha, I wonder if that would make Fukuda Cagalli, actually that's really funny. That Fukuda might be a transy in secret. EA (early on) = US bumbling Jibril is Bush ZAFT (later on) = US diabloical Dullindal is Bush or someone pulling Bush's strings and making him dance like a meat puppet. Whatever, it's stupid that he sacrified the story at the cost of a political message.

I ain't much for just posing models, I remember buying a $30 VF-1S Bandai transformable back almost twenty years ago. I started playing around with it, and a piece broke off that required me to permanently fix it into fighter mode. Sad...... 328257[/snapback] Dang sorry about your toy. Well I havent takin the Fins/Funnels of my SF. And my Chaos has gotten no love since I posed it once. So I guess there won't be any new HG 1/100 for a lil while. I hope the wait for the next 1/100 will be worth it 328404[/snapback] Should've clarified, it was a model, never meant for playing around. I was an idiot then. Heh heh. Now, I just buy the frigging toy, and leave it in the box, it's an "investment" Just wait 100 years when those things are priceless, ha ha ha ha, then I'll take over the world with the money I make off the Yamatos.

As long as it comes with the DRAGOON pack I'll be happy. 328141[/snapback] Dragoon pack = more pieces to lose. :-( 328165[/snapback] Not really a problem for me, I'm on of those guys who just poses it and doesn't touch it for a month when I get tired of it's pose and decide to repose it. 328196[/snapback] I ain't much for just posing models, I remember buying a $30 VF-1S Bandai transformable back almost twenty years ago. I started playing around with it, and a piece broke off that required me to permanently fix it into fighter mode. Sad......

As long as it comes with the DRAGOON pack I'll be happy. 328141[/snapback] Dragoon pack = more pieces to lose. :-(

The first SEED wasn't too bad. The Alliance lacking the NJC made sence why they didn't cloak nukes and ZAFT didn't have the technology long. But Destiny just went straight down the toilet after the whole Break the World incident. With the Alliance and ZAFT on roughly equal terms in technology, the Alliance should have totaly smashed all of ZAFT's major Earth bases though sheer weight of numbers. Not only that but the Alliance controls four of the seven continents meaning they'd have far more resources and manufacturing capabilites at their disposal. I don't think Minerva would survive an encounter against several Archangel and Girty Lue class ships. Super Gundams or not, Destiny and Legend aren't comming out on top if about 200 Windams jumped them. Applying any kind of reasonable logic, there is absolutly no way ZAFT could have won in the second war. 327906[/snapback] heh, but Druna, haven't you seen how Freedom and company regularly kicks ass with just one or two MS? Never mind the fact that if people continued to attack over a couple of days, Kira eventually has to take a poo, and would die while trying to do that. Heh heh, the EA is apparently incompetent militarily, and as Effect say, the technology developed in 100 years during UC has been crammed into less than 5 years in CE, plus some additional stuff. But all of this is water under the bridge. We all knew this was happening, but the end result is a big fat so what.... Have we seen MC being used again? Don't think so... just pathetic. The excuse that all the fans make for oversight like this: "it's too expensive"

Funny.... heh heh Magnus. relax, it'll be ok, you'll see something next episode that resembles a new episode, followed by Rey, epsiode 49, hopefully yet another recap from the perspective of a character who is about to die. I can see it now: "I remember the first time I met Gil" "Athrun joined us today as a part of our crew, I don't trust him" "Oh my God, oh my God, Gil is here... Gillllllllllll" *faints* "Goddamit, it's that Freedom, I hate Freedom" "heh heh, Athrun lost his MS today, Looooooser, now Gil will pay attention to me." "Oh Gilllll, how could you..... how could you call Athrun to give him another new MS? Why not me?" blah blah blah Heh heh, but it's ok, at least with Rey, they'll toss in a few Freedom scenes to please the loyal base. But fear not, for the next series, there will be new members to the staff, Fukuda's wife, his mom, his dad, his parents in law, all giving him glorious suggestions. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Given their track record? Ha ha, that's funny. I wouldn't hire them to assassinate a cow...

Good episode, the question that's not too obvious is whether or not Xena on Galactica knew she is a cylon or if she is just another plant like the first Boomer. I'm still curious to see what the cylon plan is, after all, they obviously decided that humans to some extent might be useful, otherwise, why keep the fleet alive. The story is good enough for now, as long as they put in good reasoning down the road, and the humans decide to do something aboout it after they find out. That should be good enough.

It's not that good with the recap episode, too bad, I still think an episode like this earlier on when she was still alive would've been great, not a recap episode mind you, but one with her experiences, and her motivations. As it were, when she died, I didn't really care, it was like Auel, or Sting or Sho, or those ZAFT guys that got killed in ep 1 and 2. But how wonderful, a recap episode about a dead person, may be that means they'll bring her back. Hahahahaha Hell, even this episode could've been useful if she went through details about her ordeal in getting recruited and so forth, and getting cut up to look like Clyne. Could've casted poor Gillie in a real bad light. But as it is, Destiny plan... meh.... as long as it leads to a lot of death and destruction, that's all I hope for. Hopefully, we can get a few more PLANTS blown up in the process too. Of course, Lacus et al will be expected to go into retirement once again after stopping Dullindal, thus setting up for the next series, where everything will repeat but with a slightly different villian or something like that. Ok, just curious, how many did they do in GSD again? recaps that is.... but well, as long as GSD has undemanding fans, recaps will work just fine. Just put in a few shots of Kira pwning, and the diehard fans will be satisfied.

Marie Warner? That'll be interesting to see, I wonder what role she'll play, may be the new Mandy. Although she'd probably have to undergo a little more terrorist training.