#louise halevy

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[tieria-erde]

mobile suit gundam 00 - the second birthday [pg. 18-20]

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ThiMking of 00 again together and separately and jsyk any guy who disrespects Saji and/or Louise has a whole entire Setsuna to go through ☝

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[sparrowsabre7]

The Gundam 00 Special Edition movies 2 and 3 are pretty good. As someone who enjoyed s1 more than s2, SE does a great job of truncating s2 into two 100 minute films, cutting a lot of the filler and excessive number of Innovators and makes the whole thing overall a bit more cohesive.

Sadly SE1, though great for watching some action scenes, cuts a lot of the smaller character moments , particularly Saji and Louise and their families' stories, as it's trying to fit 25 episodes into a single movie instead of two.

We don't get to see any of Kinue's investigations, nor spend time with Louise's mother, both of which add to the tragedy which comes later. While that moment remains in the film, it loses a lot of pact from having barely spent time with these people.

I loved their storyline because it reflected the lives of two people essentially so far removed from the central conflict and yet through tragic happenstance became embroiled in it nonetheless. You need that romcom dynamic of theirs to start with, otherwise there's no contrast.

Similarly, some of the big deaths don't get time to breathe, and I think especially that one big death towards the end loses something by not going almost immediately into the ED song Friends by Stephanie.

So for me, the ideal watch order is Season 1 in full, Special Edition films 2 and 3, and then A Wakening of The Trailblazer.

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[image id: a pencil sketch of Louise Halevy from the anime Gundam 00 working on a partially completed cross-stitch project /id]

Happy Birthday @ninthfeather!!!

While an extended version of this post didn't come together in time, I can offer art for / inspired by your fic The Unofficial First Meeting of the Gundam-Pilot-Adjacent Stitch & B*tch

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[scarletlotus182]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

THAT ENDING WAS SOOOO GOOD

I LOVE LOVE LOVE THAT SETSUNA AND RIBBONS DOWNGRADE FOR THE FINAL BATTLE

It felt so much like '79 Gundam in that sense. Coming out of this series I absolutely get the hype around Setsuna and see why he's such a beloved protagonist. His character growth is honestly A+++

I feel like with him, they really managed to capture the vibe of inexpressive autistic person without feeling like a bad stereotype.

I like how they wrapped up everyone's stories, save for a few. Andrei still sucks, and I'd prefer to Soma to be the dominant person over Marie. Billy still sucks, from the beginning of s2 you could tell his entire arc was gonna be him on some incel shit.

I also came into S2 as a Marina-enjoyer but I can kiiiinda understand some criticisms with her in this season. She really felt... tacked on. Which is a shame because I was so excited to see where she'd go at the start of the season but then as it went on I was kinda over it every time her and the kids were on screen.

That said, every other character was fantastic and felt like they had great payoff. I'm actually so happy that Kati and Patrick got married and that Graham was able to move past his whole... thing. I think Louise Halevy is really one of the MVPs of this fucking series though. I love the shit out of any character that can make me feel the same way I felt about Sochie Heim. I was expecting to be more upset with her just killing Nena (I had that spoiled for me) but I think it was v well done, 00 manages to never feel like it's just tossing characters aside, deaths in this series felt a lot more meaningful than most of the deaths in UC, imo.

With 00 done now, I'm probably gonna watch the movie tomorrow- and I think after that I'm gonna write up my Gundam series tierlist.

Had to do away with numbered rankings because there's a few series I don't think I could physically place above one another lol

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I find it both hilarious and ironic that while the Innovades under Ribbons' control were supposedly built for combat and supposed to be "expert" mobile suit pilots, they were some of the most incompetent *named* mobile suit pilots in Gundam 00. Hell you can argue that Louise Halevy was a better pilot than Hiling, Revive, Bring and Divine were. Hiling and Revive don't score a "victory" over any of the Meisters until AFTER they get access to Trans-am. And they only score that "victory" after double-teaming Tieria in the third to last episode of the series in a fight I'm convinced Tieria lost on purpose (but that's another headcanon for another day). Granted very few enemy pilots manage to score a victory over Celestial Being but with like one exception most of the named enemy pilots retreat from battle with their mobile suits in damaged but repairable condition unlike Hiling and Revive who end up needing new mobile suits after every other battle. It's just hilarious how incompetent and out-classed Hiling and Revive are in battle.

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[darthveda]

Day 3 of the VEDA BOWL First Round is Underway!!

Today's Matchups Are:

Louise Halevy vs. Ian Vashti

Anew Returner vs. Revive Revival

Descartes Shaman vs. Tieria Erde

Ribbons Almark vs. Arthur Goodman

Head on over to StrawPoll and vote for your favorites!

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Gundam 00, Season 2, Episode 11, “00’s Voice,” 23:58 or so during the post-credits, first Louise Halevy, then Saji Crossroad

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[ninthfeather]

ALSO, Louise's struggle with soldierhood is great. Seeing her interact with Saji, and seeing her turn him down?? Because she's CHANGED in the past 5 years. She's very intentionally put herself in this situation, and it's so HARD to go back on that? She's put so much weight on revenge, and even though she loves him, he can't expect her to just.... change back on a dime for him? And it's terrible and heartbreaking but also it makes so much sense and UGH I hope they end up happy

This is why Saji/Louise is an OTP for me in this series. Like, S1 Saji/Louise is a hard pass--Louise just pushes him around and Saji isn't able to stand up for himself. But as time moves forward both of them become kind of obsessed with what might've otherwise been an unremembered first relationship, because to both of them, it represents when things weren't terrible. And when they meet again, and Saji realizes Louise has changed, he actually grapples with that and makes the conscious decision to try and be there for her, even if she's pushing everyone away. While Louise insists that she's no longer the person Saji loved and can't be that person, all the while blowing off Andrei's efforts to flirt because on some level, she's still in love with Saji, or at least the idea of him (and also because Andrei is a jerk about flirting with her, but it's clear that isn't her only reason).

We see them together in the hospital in the Awakening of the Trailblazer movie, and Saji is very clear about being in this for the long haul despite Louise's worries about being too much of a burden. Over the course of the series, Saji's unwillingness to assert himself and his puppydog crush on the foreign exchange student turn into a sure, steady loyalty that he's willing to fight for, while Louise's self-assured facade breaks down and shows a very insecure woman who nonetheless has a core of steel. And they both are very aware of how the other changed and they both embrace those changes, and it's just...good.

Anyhow in my headcanon they live in the same apartment building as Allelujah and Marie post-series and Louise's hobby is making cross-stitch of increasingly rude sayings.

Thank you for coming to my impromptu mini ship manifesto.