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Episode 21: A Sign of Zeta

i know the zeta gundam is a separate thing to the mk ii, i've been to the gunpla wall at my local hobby store. is this where it gets introduced?

the opening narration is now asking me to do a book report on last episode. i refuse

oh there's a von braun city? lol. lmao.

do the titans not already control von braun? what's the deal with federation control of things, because the only way this makes sense is if they're more like the eu than an actual country

oh, so the titans are trying to set up for a coup. makes more sense, i should have just kept watching

hello mr. hymen

or is von braun an attempt at an independent colony? i really like the little bits and pieces of worldbuilding this show drops, but it's really good at making me want to know more. i won't be checking out supplementary stuff unless shared though

the still unnamed purple man has a ship that can project his image out front. i can respect it

paptimus scirocco! it's been over 10 episodes and he finally gets a name

scirocco signs contracts in his own blood. what a character

going to ignore that his name is spelt hymann here, he's hymen in my heart

what a weird contract. hymen is his boss, and the leader of a fascist organization. it kind of goes without saying that he'll kill you if you betray him. this feels like suspiciously specific denial

lmao, kamille you gotta cut the mic before you start bitching!

bright: everybody stop fighting! emma: aww, come on. let them get it out of their system bright: no! this is the bridge!!!

normally i disapprove of bright slaps, but if it's to interrupt a fight in progress i'm fine with it

yay emma! normally when people are mean to kamille it doesn't feel earned, but emma is actually talking about something that's a problem with him

paptimus scirocco looks and acts like he's buddies with akio ohtori

i like these mobile armors, they look like cool bug robots

oh hey jerid, i forgot you weren't dead. and you have a friend, mouar

also the animation got a big boost here

lmao jerid has a cravat now

scirocco wants to put a women in charge? good, we need more girlbosses in gundam

i like that there's no hard feelings, and now they just want to bum the porn they assume kamille got on earth

i like how this show goes full anime with the hair colors, when they were pretty grounded in 0079 from what i remember

having a battleship cannon was what made the gundam such a threat early on. char fled their first battle when he realized that, and could have won if he hadn't. so it's interesting that battleship cannons have apparently progressed so much along with mobile suits over the years

i was already convinced the new mobile suits were cool, you didn't need to go this far for my sake

uh oh! being ejected from the gundam probably isn't good. neither is it losing its arm, but that's fixable

oh shit, fa's helping! hell yeah, glad to see her doing things

the zeta gundam!

scirocco sucks a lot, i respect that

this episode ruled. i liked the focus on the titans and scirocco, i liked the new mobile suits, i liked that it made me somewhat interested in fa, i liked that we finally got a sense of what the argama crew was like beyond legacy characters emma and kamille. good shit!

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Episode 20: The Heated Escape

what are they escaping from? i don't see them making a decisive escape this episode, but i could be wrong

good on amuro for letting kamille speak!

good on beltorchika for asking what's wrong and not just assuming!

say what you will about the romance here, the vibes are immaculate

i love how they have to just tow the psycho gundam because it's too big to hold

i like this guy pointing out that no one is ever specific enough to give useful information when asked a question in this show

the federation factions fighting each other is always good to see

i could not be a mobile suit pilot, it takes me like 3 hours to get used to being awake every morning

the newtype resonance seems bad

well at least he's letting them know about the kamikaze attack before it happens

beltorchika: when amuro's around you he takes too many risks! kamille: what the fuck do you want me to do about that? talk to amuro about it!

come on, what's the selfishness of a woman and how does it differ from manly selfishness? you're telling me a man wouldn't say "please help my girlfriend return safely" in a dangerous situation?

kamille deciding to take on four on his own feels like maybe he was listening to beltorchika? idk

i like fours cockpit being in the head. makes the psycho gundam feel like its own thing

i thought it was green noa, not green one?

kamille spilling his guts here is a good scene. he clearly has a lot on his chest that he needed to get out, and no one else he felt he could talk to. i don't blame her for pulling a gun on him though

everyone is very confused about four crashing into her bosses ship. which makes sense, since i think four is also confused

four! you should just shoot woodard!

rip four

fridge count: 3

and with one last psychic message to help kamille get back into space-

she's not dead? just dying i guess. the ship still explodes, so she's dead, just lasted longer than i thought

rip woodard

and the insert song is playing while bright moves the argama to pick kamille up

emma's back! it's been like 9 episodes! and quattro and katz and fa are elsewhere, so maybe she'll get some focus

excited to be back in space, which has historically meant good things. i say historically like i'm not just talking about the one show, but you know

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Episode 19: Cinderella Four

i took a break, and i'm feeling a lot better about the last few episodes after some reflection. the stuff i said bugs me still does, but not as much. my knowledge of cinderella and my tendency towards pattern recognition lead me to believe something sad is going to happen to four this episode. can't wait!

i would also want you out of my city after the last 2 episodes

amuro is a shitty mentor who's trying his best, which is a good dynamic

amuro clearly trying to help kamille avoid dealing with cute enemy newtypes which has never gone well and probably never will, but he's too traumatized and awkward to explain himself

i do like beltorchika here, she seems nosy and worried for amuro, but in ways that make sense and are conducive to good drama

mirai also good here. trying to respect amuro's privacy, but kamille is close enought to him that she feels like she owes him a partial explanation

four jaywalking and forcing trucks to swerve rules

oooh, it's cinderella because they're meeting up and have to return before midnight

on the one hand you probably shouldn't steal a motorcycle, someone might need that. on the other hand they left the key in the ignition, and at that point it's kind of on you

idk, cyber newtypes have worked about as well as anything else

don't call her #4. i assume she's the 4th cyber newtype and they didn't name her, so she took it as a name?

they have until 12 midnight together :(

idk why this is working so well for me, but i think it's the fact that they're both clearly reaching past their trauma to try and make human connections. even though they just met them wanting to spend time together feels earned to me

i say all that and then the guitar kicks in and i can't take it seriously any more

ok, i support cross faction relationships for good drama, but there is definitely a difference between the fascists who gas colonies and the anti-fascists fighting the fascists who gas colonies. that being said, four isn't necessarily a titan and might not have any clue what's going on outside her bubble beyond "you need to fight these people"

frankly i'm surprised four is the first explicit war orphan we've met who wasn't orphaned on screen, unless i've missed someone. you'd think there'd be more, given that over half of all people died in the one year war

though i guess most of them were civilians and it happened when the cities were destroyed leaving no survivors because australia was turned into a crater, so probably most of the dead parents children also died

four looking for her memories is an archetype i've seen before, but this might be one of the earliest examples

i love the carpet bombing interrupting the romantic music

thank you kamille for remembering that the reason you fight the federation is because they're carpet bombing their own civilian population for sympathizing with the enemy

i really like four being super selfish. it gives her personality beyond "is sad about memories" which isn't always a guarantee

this guy piloting the psycho gundam doesn't know what the fuck he's doing

man, amuro really is a better pilot than kamille

yeah, i bet that thing blows big when it eventually goes

thank god for newtype powers, saving valuable seconds each episode by letting characters just know who it is piloting the mobile suit without any cues

dang, four's cool. this is maybe the most impressive newtype thing we've seen. lalah did some cool stuff, but that was all with stuff set up for her and the lasers weren't too big. four controlling the psycho gundam without any of that is impressive

what's up with the animation of the thing coming in? goes in then out then in again? at 14:45 on the youtube version?

yeah, why not. everyone slap kamille. mirai, i think it's your turn

kamille: a man can't go out to die just because he's been slapped

it's a good line, but i'm not sure the show agrees. 0079 definitely takes your side, but this show seems to have a different perspective on things

i like the way they move through physical space in this fight

oof, she is wrecking this city. might have the highest kill count of any character we've met outside a command role

kamille has jumping on a mobile armors back ever worked?

man :( they probably are lying, but kamille can't know that, and neither can he know the aeug could help

the combat system forces her to fight?

that hizack taking off amuros hand and tackling kamille is by far the most impressive a zaku has been since at least episode 10 of 0079

if beltorchika takes mirai's advice and chills i think i'll end up liking her just fine. she was already a lot better in this episode

i think the show has found its identity, and while i don't necessarily jive with it perfectly i do like this

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Episode 18: Mirai Captured

oh goddammit, 0079 was good about not damselling people

four is on the run, apparently they're holding her memories hostage? seems fucked up

mirai is considering going with them, which i'm on board with. except the episodes title is sort of casting a shadow here

also the fact that she'd be bringing the kids into battle, but katz turned out fine, so that's probably not too big of a concern

four picked up the toy glider the kids threw off the ship

these guys all look evil as shit

kamille sees four playing and looks happy about it. shouldn't your newtype senses be tingling?

four has heard beltorchika talking about being aeug in broad daylight

no one here has ever hear the term opsec before. i now sympathize with the supplier last episode who had the guys beat the shit out of amuro for saying his name in public

kamille you didn't need to jump in through the big window. it's your car, you could have opened the door

four says hello to kamille and he instantly decides he'll do what she says

four: so, do you know those two? kamille: i've never seen them in my life, i hate them so much four: hmm

so they're tailing four and amuro at the same time. that should probably be a 2 team job

kamille: four? that's a weird name four: it's the name i was given you are personally acquainted with one mr quattro bajeena. they're the same name!

also i assume she was named something else before being experimented on?

some very polite goons waiting for mirai to open the door to burst in and attack

four bullying kamille into doing things with her is fun

in the middle of this announcement they drop the glider on amuro. why not just get him right there?

boo, mirai deserves better

poor four. she might be the origin of this archetype

beltorchika is the least stealthy person in the world. why would you let her off the ship if she's this bad at everything?

hayato, you just told beltorchika to go to the storage base! you can't say you'll avoid dragging it into things after doing that!

amuro offering himself as a hostage is a real dumb move, but at least it makes some sense for him

yeah, this must be weird for them. taking a war hero hostage isn't that much better of a look than taking some 4 year olds

is the earth federation destroying the earth? because i don't really feel like we've seen that beyond the nuke. they're mostly interested in destroying space

boo, going back on the hostage trade sucks. hope this guy gets his shit rocked

i like kamilles little car

pretending to surrender is a tried and true war crime for main characters to pull off. though admittedly after just keeping all the hostages after a hostage swap the federation doesn't have a leg to stand on

kamille just falls in love with every women he meets. i really hate "the scent of a woman"

don't worry the gundam can always beat specialized aquatic mobile suits exactly as easily as it can the land ones

four has a headache that only goes away with her handler

amuro seizes the moment

mirai should have jumped in. does she not know how to swim? or is this a thing where only men can save the day here

weirdly animated mouth to mouth there

four drinking from the water fountain while mobile suit action is going on in the background is very good

very impressive that the gundam broke the dock just by flying over it. seems like there should be a lot more collateral damage if that's the case though

i like four a lot. not crazy about the rest of the episode, though i do really like that we seem to be focusing more on kamille

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Episode 17: Hong Kong City

what's in hong kong? guess i'll find out

the current goal is to make everyone aware that the aeug exists. i'm still fuzzy on the details here. that cop in episode 1 sure thought kamille should know what the aeug was

i almost asked what happened to new hong kong, but. i'm amazed anything in east asia is liveble after the war, especially anywhere on a coast. the fact that new hong kong is there now is really something

ignoring beltorchika for now, i really love the little bits we see of kamille working on the gundam. with his number pad computer wired in and everything

beltorchika is just super aggravating. why would you assume amuro is better at piloting the gundam mk ii? he's never tried. and you didn't even know he was an ace in the one year war, so it's not like you had some preexisting notion that he was the best around. so what gives?

jesus, this is frustrating

what's jerid up to? i miss jerid, he was fun. it's nice to have a guy around who just sucks, and the show knows it

ominous black mobile armor shows up

i've heard of four murasame before. i didn't know she was from zeta

i say let her do what she wants. what's the worst that could happen?

dude don't be a creep

this bit introducing us to new hong kong reminds me of cowboy bebop, specifically the episode where they're docked somewhere and have to look for the betamax player. makes sense, they're both sunrise

oh shit it's mirai!

i have heard things about hathaway. i will be watching his career with great interest

it really does feel like amuro's been stagnating. i do hope we see more of that, but i'd also like the show to give kamille more time in the spotlight

dang, that guy was not happy amuro cut in line

beltorchika kneeing that guy in the balls does make me respect her a little more

uh oh! don't think we've had any fights in crowded cities til now, so that's a new kind of bad

so this is another cyber newtype? i wonder what their deal is. pretty clearly artificial newtypes, but it feels like there's more to it

amuro confidently declaring he is a soldier is interesting

it's got the thing the hyaku shikki has that doesn't do anything!

oh, it's another black gundam. this ones way bigger than the last

i'm assuming the high grade gunpla is roughly comparable to a perfect grade

it seems like four just doesn't like being told what to do. have you tried asking nicely?

this really doesn't feel like a war yet, but if everyone calls it one i guess i might as well go along

the nemo she shoots manages to miss every shot. it's so big! how do you miss!

she comments on how they're only dolls. curious where that goes

the newtype flash there was pretty good

and it made her run off

きもちわるい

the psycho gundam? that's a name for a mobile suit

mirai you are absolutely a newtype, don't lie to her

this show has the same understanding of gravity as father pucci

alright, i'm beginning to think that this show is going to have some lower lows than 0079 ever did, but also maybe some higher highs if i'm lucky. very inconsistent so far

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Episode 16: Through the Haze of Darkness

the opening is still a bop

this guy whose name i still can't remember is pissed at the titans. interservice rivalry will be the death of these fascists

how do newtypes let you encrypt good? whatever, just roll with it

i do not follow this scene. beltorchika is discussing amuro's past then starts making out with him with no real build up. they don't really have chemistry, idk what's going on here

i do like quattro and amuro's talk afterwords though. that's a conversation that has dramatic tension and weight to it. they've still got it, at least part of the time

flashback's also pretty good

katz trying to make up for stealing the gundam is nice

aww, quattro's jealous

everyone worrying over katz is very sweet. he's just a kid, he really shouldn't be here

quattro is looking forward to the chance to mentor someone else, i think he liked doing it with kamille

hayato is putting a lot of trust in quattro given their history together

i'm amazed beltorchika wasn't fridged

amuro: here take this gun. i shot at the red comet char aznable with this. amuro: and now i entrust it to you, to do the same if he tries anything shifty

dang he's already pointing it at him

i really like quattro, it's a shame we'll be missing him for a time

kamille is wondering how amuro can think of women right now, but i'll give this to amuro. it's worth worrying about the one person on your side whose whereabouts are unknown

i like how all the mobile suits have beam sabers now

farewell to quattro and katz

i really want kamille to ask beltorchika what the fuck she's talking about. she doesn't need to make out with amuro if she doesn't want to

i feel bad, because there's a long history of love interests in male dominated series getting shit on unjustly, but i really dislike beltorchika. i'm hopeful amuro as mentor will be interesting, but i feel like it can only be less interesting than char. 2 steps forward, one step back i suppose

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Episode 15: Katz's Sorty

less excited to see what katz contributes

listen, i have a feeling i'm going to be feeling bad for all the cyber newtypes. just a hunch, with nothing to back it up

is rosamia australian?

amuro: did you send fraw over to me? hayato: did it annoy you? amuro: not really hayato: then yes, that was me

amuro you are 22. you do not get to feel old watching the new generation rise up

katz and kamille are very polite to each other. it's good to feel like this show finally has a relatively substantial supporting cast

it's good to see katz's perspective on what was going on back then, as well as some more on what hayato's been up to since the war ended. the reason they had kennedy so easily was because he was the director there

nice to see quattro still has a healthy respect for everyone on the white base

it's the meme! quattro wouldn't meet up with amuro just to mock him, but i bet he'd make sure to do so if he was in the area

glad to see them healthily discussing lalah. i'm sure this will end well and without any counterattacking necessary

amuro talking to kamille about their shared experiences is also very good

rosamia's paranoia about this seems legitimately delusional

what the hell is anyone doing in a biplane? it belongs in a museum

katz is very enthusiastic about helping. so far i'm on board with him being here

kamille you can't sleep in a binder, it may help your dysphoria but it's super bad for you (or so i'm told, having no personal experience with the matter)

beltorchika? i thought that was sayla for a second and got excited. i know her va was sick or on vacation or something, but i still would like to see more sayla

katz does not appreciate being treated like a child

why does amuro need to be woken up for this? that's no reason to be mean, but i don't see why he needs to be there

hmm. very weird to sniff him, even if it's just because you think you recognized the soap

quattro seeing amuro talking to someone and sort of awkwardly scooting past the door

thank you for not outing quattro

san francisco? coming up while quattro is avoiding amuro? hmmm

and amuro defends quattro? what's up with them? (holy hell no wonder this ship kept the franchise afloat)

love to see a good bridge

come on katz, no need to steal the gundam when you already have a perfectly good pilot. maybe start off in a gm or a rick dias, something replaceable if you fuck up in a suit you've never piloted before

how many times has the gundam mk ii been stolen? too many. someone put a lock on that thing

has beltorchika not heard of amuro? i feel like he must be famous

yeah obviously amuro doesn't want to fight, but if there are 15 year olds in the field of battle he knows he should probably be out there too

beltorchika also afraid of the sky falling. makes sense the colony drop would have that kind of widespread effect. i saw what it did to australia

yeah no shit it's different from a zaku! the gundam was completely different, and this is 8 years beyond that!

yeah it's real obvious you aren't as good as kamille

quattro and kamille with the save

hey, at least katz didn't completely blow it. just mostly

kamille, why are you angry about her damaging the bridge. that's not the biggest problem here

oh, she escaped. and of course kamille smells the scent of a woman or whatever the deal with matilda was

there aren't many real teamwork based kills, so it's nice to see that

stop hitting your kid :(

i mean, katz fucked up real bad, but slapping him is not the answer

after the lowpoint of episode 12 the show's still going strong. kamille's been sidelined for a few episodes, so i hope we'll see more of him soon

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Episode 14: Amuro Flies Again

genuinely excited to see what amuro contributes to this series

so the republic of zeon is starting to make moves again? and of course earth doesn't care about what the spacenoids are up to

i like rosamia's purple hair

i love how you can see the real world tech advancing even when it doesn't make much sense. they're handing around floppy disks now, when they had to use weird tapes to do things in 0079

good old quattro, not caring about the deaths of his men

nice to see amuro making sure to give them a nice sendoff

i think they're being a bit harsh, but amuro you do have powerful psychic powers. i think you could probably come up with something that worked

amuro i'd think you'd be against bringing in child soldiers. maybe not though

come on, if you're bringing any of them you should bring all of them that want to go

i get not bringing fraw because of the pregnancy, but there's no reason to make this a thing the men will take care of

this plan seems not well thought out, but if it works it works

glasses guy is me if i was a spy. i'd get too distracted reading the magazine that was a part of my disguise to watch my target

i like the hizack transports flying over the cowboys

lets not pretend quattro cares about civilians

another transforming mobile suit? this is starting to be a bit much

quattro taking out those hizacks without looking was cool

mobile suits flying on sleds always feels very risky

rosamia: who thinks about where they're fighting in the middle of the battle???? everyone should! you need to know where you're fighting! you aren't a spherical mobile armor in a frictionless vacuum, you exist in a real space with things around you that could be obstacles or assets!

the transformation to shake him off was a neat trick

quattro with the save

i like how hayato understands that there are ways of communication that don't involve hitting people. seems to be the only adult in the universal century to grasp this

would have appreciated it being more clear that kamille's newtype senses were tingling with her, but oh well

huh, rosamia has enhanced lungs. right as i was about to theorize, it turns out she's a cyber-newtype? wild

the transforming mobile suits/armors seem broken. plz nerf

quattro makes a very funny face when his gun gets shot

i like char and amuro sensing each other before they realize what's up

amuro's kamikaze attack was not too successful, but he survived and drove the mobile armor off, so good job there.

char and amuro's reunion.... gay gay homosexual gay

can't wait to see where that goes!

this show is much more successful as a drama than as a war story, which is a little weird, but when it leans into it it's really good

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Episode 13: Shuttle Launch

all the stuff i just said aside, i am generally enjoying this, and i see why a lot of people like it better than the original, so i'm hoping i start to get into the groove now

hello mr hymen. i'm going to just keep calling him that

this opening bit genuinely does a lot to alleviate a lot of my complaints about the groundedness of the show.

interesting choice of music for amuro to listen to. i didn't really see him as the jazz ballad type

nice to see fraw bow and the orphans again. admittedly none of that is accurate anymore, but fraw kobayashi sounds weird and i can't exactly just call her fraw

horribly disappointing the orphans now look llike humans drawn in the same style as the rest of the people in the show. give me the gremlins back!

fraw kobayashi is pregnant?

soldiers keeping an eye on amuro, huh. no wonder he's just hanging out in his mansion.

amuro: kid, i've seen enough bloodshed to last a lifetime katz: you're 22! you're not that much older than me!

unclear exactly what the deal is with karaba, but i appreciate the sense that this is an actual civil war. prior to this it felt kind of like the whole thing had been secret until episode 1, which made it feel way weirder

kai has to run to the bathroom during an important meeting.

so karaba is able to take over a facility like this, but not keep it

hayato passing the guncannon while worrying about kai is really nice

"captain quattro, he is A CHAR." i never would have guessed

very funny how kai starts off this spy letter with pleasantries

hayato: "it is a cowardly action on char's part to use a false name..." not what he said. i can read the letter, it did not say that

yeah bright has experience with fighting while doing other things. idk how much of that was actually his doing though

did hayato just expose kai's excellent spywork to quattro?

this shuttle looks old as shit compared to the rest of these.

quattro still denying he's char is very funny. no one buys it

hayato why would you encourage him to take power?

even kamille is bullying him now

hayato: listen, everyone knows. what's the harm in acknowledging it? quattro, through gritted teeth: my name is quattro bajeena [kamille punches him across the room somehow, despite them being on earth]

oh good, the federation is attacking

rip that guy. rip roberto too

i don't feel like that shoulder maneuver should have worked

this whole fight was decent

this episode felt really good. the show seemed like it got back on its feet to an extent, like this was what it was wanting to do the whole time. it's more of a direct sequel than it's been till now. it hasn't exactly solved my complaints, but the aim of the show feels different enough that i care less

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i'm still enjoying it, but i finally put my finger on 2 things that have been bugging me about this show. first: this is a show that does not care about logistics. it acts like it does, it has communications as plot points, and you see the ways mobile suits get around minovsky particles to communicate long distance with flares coming out of the finger, but it's so much less concerned with logistics than 0079 was. in 0079, in the first 2 episodes char loses 3 zakus. this is a big deal, and episode 3 is entirely dedicated to him restocking, while he gets chewed out for losing them and needs to prove the gundam is just that powerful. jerid's lost 5 mobile suits personally and they keep giving him new ones. it doesn't feel like the individual mobile suits represent many hours of labor, lots of expensive materials, and the cost of transporting them to the frontlines in the way it almost always did in 0079. there were a few exceptions, that one mobile armor char's crew sends out without telling him that he's just very confused by comes to mind, but mostly it stayed true to that.

in 0079 the first new mobile suit after the first episode is the gouf, which ramba ral has in episode 12. that upgrade is because he's being tasked by zeon high command with an important mission, and they know he'll need a more powerful mobile suit than the zakus that have failed so far. it's explicit that zeon is just throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks with the mobile armors introduced in seemingly every episode in the back half, because they're in a bad position and need to get out of it. on the federation side there are 3, but all 3 are prototypes where they're trying to figure out what works. so when this show is at the same point and has introduced at least 2 mass produced suits for both sides, as well as like 4 or 5 other suits that aren't even the gundam, it feels so much messier. and when jerid can just keep breaking mobile suits with no results as a new recruit who's never accomplished anything it makes it feel like they don't matter and the titans are just completely incompetent. despite aesthetically being so much more hard scifi gritty war story, it's actually worse at that than 0079.

this was kind of stream of consciousness, but i hope that made sense. and i don't want to make it sound like i hate the show or anything, i just think the show aesthetically went one direction but the actual content went another. this show feels focused a lot more on kamille than 0079 did with amuro, and i really like it. the show just seems out of sync with itself, and i think that's partially because the showrunners aren't used to the kinds of demands placed on them here by bandai, so i hope they can start to tell better stories while still introducing more mobile suits. and the mobile suits are very good, as is the action generally. this might also just be something i get used to as time goes on, we’ll see

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Episode 12: The Road to Jaburo

looking forward to this

oh yeah, they're still in reentry

this reentry attack from above is such a cool idea

oh yeah, kamille's a spacian born and raised. never seem earth before

did i miss kai and reccoa being kidnapped? they do gotta get outta there asap

fighters as the first line of defence?

jerid, shut the fuck up. you are going to get your ass handed to you

i really like the slowmo when kamille gets that one fighter. it's a cool effect

unlike the last time we saw jaburo, the animals aren't comic relief here. that monkey is very dead

jerid, do you really expect this to go well?

yeah kamille doesn't even get scratched

it's amazing that they keep missing the gundam in such a tight space

quattro, the base is abandoned!

i really don't feel like mr wong was super successful in his goal. i think kamille just wasn't as stubborn as you thought

go newtype power! find reccoa and kai! kamille, have you still not accepted you're a newtype?

jerid just dodged and made quattro shoot a different titan. great job

oh jeez. nukes are bad!

this show is good, but it somehow feels so much less grounded and substantial than 0079 did. idk, maybe i'll try to put it into words later

idk why quattro just believed them like that, but now they have to worry about getting out

what do you mean 'of course', you'd absolutely leave the prisoners behind under different circumstances

oh, they're hostages. that makes more sense

jerid sucks, but at least he helps those guys get in the truck

kai, what exactly makes that a gundam? is it the horns? it's the horns, isn't it

kai: you look young kai, how old were you in 0079?

has kai ever met quattro?

oh good, someone new for jerid to get killed

what happened to his sunglasses?

that's a big explosion.

kai: you said this man's name was quattro bajeena? interesting...

hey, it's hayato! good to see all the white base crew are being cool about the titans

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Episode 11: Entering the Atmosphere

thought my extremely legal video had decided 11 episodes in to switch over to the instrumental op, but i just had vlc on the wrong audio track

who's this asshole

in the secular world?? is this guy a monk?

is jupiter like a weird cult zone? is that what the deal was with the guy who was the newtype amuro fought before lalah?

i can't tell if they're playing wingman for him or just think he's a growing boy

kamille, be nice to fa

why's bright the captain? like, i get why he defected, but is walking up and saying you want to join enough to become captain? emma was on house arrest for like 6 episodes!

please just assume from here on out every comment on a scene where quattro and bright are seen together is preceded by a lmao

so it isn't the og haro. makes a lot of sense, haro was on the white base when it blew iirc

so bright did end up with mirai!

fa, do you really not know why kamille would be upset about mentioning families being taken hostage? oh wait, you don't. idk how, but someone should probably let her know

jerid you are one million times more confident than you should ever be about anything

kacricorn has a lover on earth. rip

glad bright has faith in mirai

quattro, i think bright might be onto you, and you repay this by saying you know about his kids?

henken very quickly saying goodbye after seeing fa walk in is alright, but it would be better if i really cared about fa

the jupiter cultist not sending out the mobile suits will hopefully prove to be a fatal mistake

this new atmospheric entry addon is very goofy looking

ok nevermind the lmao, bright trusting quattro to save his family is actually really good. he's really stepping out, and we'll see if quattro reciprocates

bright, you should have drawn the map to begin with!

fa: i hear your parents died kamille: hey, what the fuck kind of way of starting a conversation is that?

i feel bad for them, but like. come on, this is not a particularly compelling relationship

this backing track smells like rock and roll part 2, but fuck gary glitter so whatever

yeah fa, he's leaving! what did you think being a pilot meant!

ok, maybe this guy isn't all talk. i feel like he's going to be here a while

emma no! you aren't the main character, i don't see this working out for you!

oooh, it transforms. i like the color shift there lasting as long as it did

new guy retreats :(

fa! stop going into military only zones!

was worried emma would be fridged, but she made it

bright slapping people is just part of who he is i guess

yeah, rip kacricon, you died for nothing

jerid you should have gone with him

this show had better give me a better idea of the big picture soon, i have no clue what's going on there, and the argama isn't nearly imperiled enough for me to not care about that stuff. the white base was on the run the entire time, so i was focused on that. the argama doesn't have that

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Episode 10: Reunion

are we going to see more amuro in this one?

emma: you should get used to the military, or else you'll get the shit beat out of you again kamille: you understand this isn't a compelling pitch, right?

you're barely even military, you're all ex-military terrorists rn! you're casual about everything else, be chill about this as well

ah, so the zeta gundam's big thing is that it transforms. and it can do atmospheric reentry because of it. very toyetic

emma saying all the things quattro said at the meeting while he recites the party line is very funny

quattro is the most 80s looking motherfucker i've ever seen

lmao the location of the hijacked ship is "a military secret"

the marasai looks like the halfway point between char's zaku and the sazabi. i like it a lot

quattro is ice cold, as always

lot of action here, pretty good. this show is really managing to differentiate kamille from amuro while still showing him to be incredibly skilled. kamille is going up against skilled pilots from the outset, so he only has a handful of kills, but him managing to outmaneuver them shows a lot of talent, while amuro was going against people completely unprepared for the gundam, so he was slaughtering them by the truckload to start until they got used to him. minor stuff, but i think it's neat and it really shows that the world is in a different place now than during the one year war

i love the way the mobile suits are drawn in this show

when are people going to just be on board with him being a newtype?

oh, the reunion is with bright?

that is a big gun

what's the mobile armor doing?

that's fa, is bright carrying refugees from green noa?

quattro doesn't know who bright is?

bright: i seem to remember you gunning down civilians fleeing from my ship during a battle quattro: that must have been some other guy. but i'm sure that guy was cool and handsome. and was probably doing that for a good reason

and here's the reunion, because quattro and bright never met

guess her parents are out of the picture, which gives kamille a new goal? or just motivation? idk

not much to say here, episode was mostly action

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Episode 9: A New Bond

can't wait to actually see the zeta gundam

open on reccoa spying on some transports in jaburo (i assume)

quickly is caught and harassed by some soldiers, including a grope that seemed unnecessary-

holy shit it's my boy! kai's back, and he's in a snazzy white suit and he disarms the soldiers and makes them run off. god i love kai, glad to see he's cool

there's a titan officer who hasn't arrived at granada like expected

granada claims it isn't able to fully resupply the titans, the titans think granada is  full of dirty aeug sympathizers

it's nice to see kamille working on haro, he needs a pet or something

kamille is skipping meetings and getting slapped for it, business as usual

man, kai rules. jaburo has moved somewhere else i guess? these subs aren't the best

it must be really risky for kai to be doing this, he's gotta be a prominent public figure, or at least noteworthy to the titans

huh, i guess the colonies are america pre revolution according to this guy? would the one year war be a failed revolutionary war, or what?

jesus christ! you can't just beat the shit out of a kid for no reason! at least kamille is fighting back, but wow

you know what, fuck this guy

wong's his name? fuck wong

kamille is right, he didn't deserve to be abandoned there. this kind of thing is par for the course with quattro, but i expected better of emma

stop hitting him! christ, he's gonna need to be hospitalized

let me be clear, i am on your side kamille. but you are not the main reason the argama has survived this long. that's not why wong hit you, he hit you because he's a dick, but that is absolutely an arrogant thing to say

does kamille call himself autistic in the source? because he for sure is, i'm just curious

anyways, haro is working again, so i think we're done tearing kamille down

oh hell yeah, the hyaku shiki looks fucking sick. surprised the gold coloring isn't more common

they are giving jerid so many chances

kamille should not be piloting, he should probably be in the hospital

have we seen these char-like mobile suits yet?

war profiteers playing both sides is always a good wrinkle

i didn't realize they knew quattro was the leader of the mobile suits

the raid is a very efficient operation

quattro saving kamille while kamille has his eyes close is a very sad moment

oh, jerid is part of the counterraid. kamille feels a disturbance in the force, but quattro (who should know better) just calls him selfish

glad emma's getting her time to shine

kamille with the save is good, and i'm glad this doesn't undermine emma's competence too much

you should trust kamille's newtypeness on all this!

i personally wouldn't wear a white suit to a stealth mission, but kai is pulling it off

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Episode 8: The Dark Side of the Moon

i like pink floyd, but i admit to not being enough of a fan to think of any jokes here

oh, so this is just the new opening narration? it works

hey, jerid has a better suit now. can't believe he was piloting a standard zaku hizack until now

quattro showing up with emma like 'your mother and i are very concerned. you know you can tell us anything?'

glad to hear emma's free to do what she wants now

wait, does kamille not know he's a newtype?

emma met amuro on a trip with her girlfriend? good for her

i suppose amuro is living on his parents inheritance in a sense, given that he's as rich as he is because of the gundam

kamille: so do you think char aznable is on this ship? emma: yes, i think i do kamille: you've met him actually emma: huh? quattro: :/

and then he gaslights her. great going

jerid's out for revenge. somehow i don't see this working out for him

how's quattro going to manage without a custom mobile suit? this one has the factory colors, that's no good

i like how the animators clearly decided having realistic cockpits was for nerds, so now they can see things and have a million screens

jerid: you shot the girl i asked out on a date! kamille: dude, you killed my mom!!!

ok, jerid isn't completely worthless

kamille's dedication to grappling at every opportunity continues to amuse me

good guys have red beam sabers, bad guys have green

good fight

oh wow, i thought the episode was going to end with kamille saying he wouldn't die

huh, why does quatro bajeena have a photograph of a young casval and artesia zeon on his desk? what a weird thing for someone to have? totally unsuspicious though

lmao at this guy just fucking saying it. come on, don't break kayfabe!

we need to bring back anime hairstyles with volume

love his computer with the credit card reader on the side. also love him going to macdaniels, the burger place

lmao, jerid got put in the brig

macdaniels even has a clown mascot! and it's run by the terrorists!

ohh, so jaburo isn't good, it's still federation or titan headquarters, they're attacking it

going after the capitol would be a great move if it worked, but i feel like it's gotta be way riskier

quattro would never risk damaging earth! how could you think such a thing!

thought the mobile suit bullets only dinged the car and was going to call bullshit

and the episode ends with a second action sequence

this show is pretty good at tense action scenes

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Episode 7: Escape From Side One

man this is a good op

i love how much everyone hates jerid. it's good for the soul

this guy seems like a crank. how do you not believe in newtypes after seeing people psychically control the laser tentacles?

kamille is getting promoted because they can tell he's not going to stop stealing the gundam. this was what, the 4th time?

blex: well child soldiers won the one year war for the federation, so we figured we'd give it a shot

kamille: is it really ok to send children into battle? i know i'm a newtype, but this can't be ok to do quattro: i don't see why not quattro: hell, i remember fighting in the one year war against- quattro: .... quattro: funf... quattro: penis... quattro: and he was the strongest soldier i've ever met!

quattro's adherence to enigmatic philosophy remains wonderful to see

did not realize this aired in a timeslot that allowed nipples!

lila mira rira apparently loves war, but has good stratagems

also doesn't like jamaican, but is willing to go out with jerid for some reason. i have a hunch she just signed her death warrant

lila: i'll make it for sure guys, i think she's fucked

colony 30 is in a bad way

that's a very weird cut to commercial break

yeah quattro? you're gonna talk about having blood on your hands?

so why didn't emma (titan) know about the gassing if lila mira lila (not a titan) did? and what did they tell people happened?

how did the mummies stay where they were for so long?

god this is depressing

lila talking with kamille. will she come to any realizations? probably not

people seem really concerned about newtypes, i'd assumed they were just accepted at this point

lmao, i don't think quattro is being deceived by the zabis

why was shooting at her no use? quattro? answer the question!

maybe the guy who scored zero kills shouldn't be taking point?

kamille's special move remains grappling

nice headshot! but sadly that is still not a kill, the cockpit survived

lila mira rira seems not a fan of fighting a child soldier

rip lila mira rira. i'm going to start a fridging count now. no caveats, no factors considered beyond "the primary result of a womans death is a mans motivation"

fridge count: 2

jerid: why! why did he kill her!!! what's the purpose of war!!!!! henken: hey man, great job killing a human person! you're now officially part of the team

tbh i don't think amuro ever made the decision to become a soldier either, it kind of just happened to him

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Episode 6: To Earth

ok i acquired a version with the good 80s opening. hell yeah, this shit rules

now i'm a little nervous, since the original series started to drag a little once they reached earth. but on the other hand, amuro had killed many people by this time, and kamille hasn't even landed a hit, so obviously very different series

everyone is shitting on jerid. it's what he deserves

i love all the scifi tactics stuff, but i've never been able to follow these maps

kamille's trying to get quattro a new suit, how nice of him

ohh, so kamille will design the zeta gundam and that'll be what he actually ends up piloting by the end

how does kamille know he's a newtype? did he have to take a test for school?

kamille tossed that disc on purpose

the guy just jogging thru the halls of the ship is very funny

i feel like i've seen the face emma makes here before. maybe it got used as the thumbnail for a video, or someone used it as their smug anime girl avi

i like how you keep your rank even if you defect

gassing a colony is real bad stuff, but kamille listening in on the crew listening in on reccoa is hard to take seriously

god jerid sucks. i kinda love it

earthnoid is a dumb word

kamille: why was there a riot on colony 30? quattro: mans inhumanity to man is an inherent trait, one that we must constantly strive to overcome. that struggle is all that differentiates us from the beasts kamille: ....

oh, so it's only reccoa who's going down to earth?

preparing for the obligatory fight

kamille needs to stop being a creep and let reccoa do the thing

you think quattro ever thought he would pilot a gundam?

jerid tries to psych himself up. he does not succeed

the building tension as they approach is really well done

love quattro's little death star trench run

did tomino just have a really good vacation in brazil? why is that thededicated good guy zone?

is lmr a newtype?

that hizack should probably have just punched the bridge

oh shit it's the old boy! amuro seems to be living it up. he deserves it

how did jerid know it was kamille?

go kamille! kick him in the dick!

kamille's first actual victory! he cut off an arm!

i like how zeta's narrator gives the occasional poetic eulogy

i love how kamille and jerid are like a shitty bootleg version of amuro and char. neither of them have accomplished anything meaningful! this was the first episode that felt a little fight of the week, but the fights are all really good, and i know that’s the format, so i don't mind