Gundam Show Thread - MSG thru GQuuuuuuX

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3 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Caught today's episode of GQuuuuuuX.

It's... actually not bad.  The series is getting off the dime and deciding to actually do something.

I get that feeling as well. I didn’t mind the old school fight of the week plot device, but it did start feeling a little same old same old after the last episode. It was nice to get a break here and I get the feeling that after next episode the show is gonna be on a new course 

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This week had an entertaining episode. Things will probably be very different from this point on. Really looking forward to how things might end up

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Had an interesting Gyan type suit that I kinda want to see a bit more of to really get a feel for the design and a pretty cool Hambrabi, which might finally be a mobile suit that I really like. Also interesting to see that those mobile armors had some hidden tricks.

not sure how a gigantic hole in the colony didn’t suck everyone out, but maybe there was a cover or something 

also might be something really dragging in some major conflicts that may be fun to see play out. 
And it was cool to hear some Zeta music in the soundtrack.

Looks like the next episode will be another flashback type of episode 

 

[Seto Kaiba]

Caught today's episode of GQuuuuuuX over lunch... it was pretty disappointing.

Last episode sold us the idea that there was going to be a big, climactic confrontation between the Twelve Olympians and Pomeranians for first place in Clan Battle and a possible double assassination attempt on Kycilia Zabi.  We get none of that.  The Gundams don't even fight.

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The entire "fight" is just the Psycho Gundam Mk.II going on an unchecked rampage across the interior of Izuma colony from the interior gate of the loading dock all the way up to the helipad of the government building's helipad where Kycilia is trying to escape, where it finally gets intercepted.  But not by the Gundams or even the Side 6 MPs in their Zaku II's.  Challia Bull intercepts both the Psycho Gundam Mk.II and the Hambrabi and effortlessly wipes the floor with both of them in literally a single minute without taking any damage himself.  He then effortlessly chases down the Gundam QuuuuuuX and captures that with a single shot.

The rest of the episode is just more of Machu and Nyan getting hysterial and even violent over their weird and seemingly sourceless obsession with protecting Shuji.  Machu tries to rob the Pomeranians to help Shuji escape to Earth, and Nyan tries to convince him to run away.  Ironically they're BOTH wasting their time because the Red Gundam's psycommu seemingly runs out of patience with their bullsh*t and raptures his *ss away in a "zeknova" (an Axis shock that seems to work more like a space fold given that it teleports him, his Gundam, and a spherical chunk of space around it to parts unknown).  

By the end, the Titans attack has been mistaken for an act of terrorism and the Pomeranians are being branded as terrorists themselves with the team members going on the run and Machu being outed on the news.  Shuji's gone to the rapture, and everyone else is on their way to Zeon.  Machu's rotting in the Sodon's brig after getting captured by Challia Bull and Nyan has seemingly let herself be recruited by Ensign Xavier out of despair after Shuji vanished and is accompanying Kycilia to Granada.

Out of nowhere at the end, Challia Bull is now seemingly planning double regicide.  Apparently the rumors are at least partly true, as he reveals to his aide-de-camp that he is actually planning to assassinate Kycilia.  He's not doing it on Gihren's behalf, though.  He wants to assassinate Gihren too.  His goal is to preserve the post-war stability that Zeon and the Earth Sphere have by assassinating the two Zabi leaders at the same time.

 

The writing in this episode is back to being a hot mess... particularly when it comes to the two main girls weird obsession with Shuji, a personality-less character they've spent almost no onscreen time with.  Their sudden devotion to him and willingness to both fight over him and kill for him comes off as downright psychotic.

The new designs being introduced are getting progressively less fugly.  However, that appears to be a function of Studio Khara's ham-handed designer having to divide their limited time across multiple machines and therefore not having enough time to ruin each classic machine to the same extent as the Gundam and Zaku.  The Psycho Gundam Mark II looks fine and almost UC-like until it starts dropping its armor and becomes an off-brand Evangelion in a maroon banana hammock for some reason, but the Gyan and Hambrabi made it past Khara's designer seemingly without more than a very minor aesthetic overhaul.