Gundam Wing Episode 14 Summary
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xyzzysqrlSo lately I've been playing a lot of SD Gundam G Generation World, which is a game about taking a group of pilots and putting them in low-quality giant robots and grinding and grinding and grinding and upgrading their giant robots into Gundams and grinding and grinding and grinding and upgrading their skills and stats and robots and grinding and then presumably at some point you win, although the RACE FOR GIANT ROBOT SUPERIORITY will never end until maybe when you get to the Turn A Gundam "Moonlight Butterfly" edition. (Don't ask.)
Anyway, one of the best stages for the grindings on is stage A10, which is a Gundam Wing stage where you storm through six thousand Leos and five shuttles. (And then because this is a crossover game a bunch of Gundam 00 enemies show up and then a girl imitating a pop singer riding a bright pink Zaku shows up and everyone goes WHAT WHAT WHAT at it.)
But ANYWAY. Gundam Wing stage! This reminds me of something. What could that thing be? Oh yes.
Did you realize, readership, that today is the 11th anniversary of the day Gundam Wing started airing on Toonami?
I want to stop and talk about that for a second. When Gundam Wing started airing, I'd never really seen anything like it on television. Sure, I'd seen some anime before. Dominion Tank Police. Project A-Ko. Lodoss War. I'd seen Robotech and Voltron, so I knew anime had giant robots in it. But... Gundam Wing was interesting to me because it was on the Cartoon Network and yet it wasn't like "a cartoon" the way I thought of them at the time.
Non-comedic, kind of violent (even with their "destroyed" instead of "killed" and "I see his parachute", I could tell Duo was killin' dudes up in there), and actually almost philosophical. Sure, it was presenting its point through a thick haze of editing (they tried SO HARD for some reason to hide the fact that it was a Japanese show) and sure it was a little bit dumb and irritating if you came at it from, say, the Mechwarrior fan POV ("Don't these fucking robots ever take a hit?!"), but it was NEW. Different. Kind of cool.
I still salute and respect that. But that doesn't mean I'm not gonna make fun of it. Just know that I mock it with a certain amount of reverence, particularly today.
I bring you, my dwindling readership -
New Mobile Report Gundam Wing Episode 14: The Order To Destroy 01
Incidentally, if you need to look back and refresh your memory, and you might because the last episode was written up in August, click the "Summary" tag on this post.
This episode does start with a slight refresher, however. It is pointed out that self-destructing is a stupid thing to do, and that Heero believes the way to live a good life is to act on your emotions. Wise words from noted emotional hothead Heero Yuuii. (Someday I will learn to spell his last name properly before the subs mention it.)
Speaking of Heero, the episode proper kicks off with him and Trowa in a library.
Heero: "Hacking my way to victory in three, two... ah. Here, take this floppy OW."
Heero drops the floppy disk on the floor, thanks to a painful muscle spasm.
Trowa: "Sigh. You need to take better care."
Heero: "Mmh. Right."
Trowa: "I mean, you need to take better care of your body."
Heero stares blankly at him, as if wondering what the hell else he could "take care" of.
Heero returns his attention to the PC screen to point out a database entry on a girl named Sylvia, who is currently in France. The two decide that's probably the best place to start.
We instantly cut to a boating trip on a lake! Obviously this is Fran... oh. No, there's Noin on the boat! This is Moscow I guess.
Noin is dressed in a gorgeous purple longcoat with silver embroidery and gold epaulets about the shoulders. We quickly pan over to see Relena, who is dressed identically but in a white version. Aw yeah, it is FANCY PANTS time now. Relena, however, is bothered.
Noin: "What's troubling you?"
Relena: "The Leos. Why use something like that in war?"
There are, in fact, rows of purple Leos posed along the edge of the lake.
Noin: "Humanoid-looking robots scare people, but they're also fascinating to a certain section of the population. We're trying to earn otaku cred."
Relena: "Hrmf. Does it matter whether buttons and switches kill people, or robots do? Either way they're dead."
The narrator kicks in to tell us a few things about the Romefeller Foundation. Founded by European royalty, they spearhead the drive to get mobile suits into the Earth Alliance military. This clearly backfired when the Romefeller Foundation mobile suits totally killed the hell out of everyone, because I guess... the pilots came packed with the suits, and they were loyal to the RF and not the Alliance? Anyway there was more Coup-d-teating. We saw all that a while back.
Also we are apparently in Bremen, not Moscow, so ... that's Germany I guess. I thought Noin's orders had her in Russia, but fuck it, let's just roll.
Relena: "Excuse me, we seem to have stopped walking."
Noin: "Yes, the narrator stopped talking. Ah. Pardon me a moment, I must check something."
Noin drops to her knees in front of Relana and slides her arms around Relena's body, feeling vigorously along her sides.
Ah yes, the other thing Gundam Wing introduced into the American lexicon: Hardcore shipping.
Relena: "Hmm. I can't blame you for the weapon check, considering what I did last time."
Oh. Right. Nevermind.
Noin: "Through this door are people who are responsible for the deaths of a lot of other people. Including your father. However..."
Relena: "I know. I'm the Princess Peacecraft of Sanc Kingdom. I do promise to try very hard not to shoot anyone."
The doors they're in front of open to reveal OLD BEARDED PEOPLE MAKING SPEECHES ABOUT MONEY, commonly known to be the source of all war everywhere.
This dude seriously goes on for several minutes about how the Alliance used to give out money and talk about peace, but eventually they only talked about peace, so they had to be CONTROLLED, and controlling people is what it's all about yo, and how now that the Alliance is out of the way Things Will Be Different because their traditions are the best traditions because their traditions don't include dumb ideas like equality or freedom, and seriously I half expect his pants just to come busting off from the bullshit contents thereof.
Relena, leaning on a wall in the back: "This is the biggest load of horse crap I have EVER heard."
Noin: "These are what the Romefeller Foundation declared as their principles. OZ used them to get mobile suits into the Alliance."
Relena: "So what's the plan now? More war?"
Noin: "OZ must keep fighting in order to keep winning. OZ has to keep winning in order to rule."
Relena: "And the Romefellers?"
Noin: "They will, again, only support OZ if OZ keeps winning. And we need their troops."
Relena: "What about the Gundams? They can beat OZ and the Foundation."
Noin: "Thus why OZ threatened the colonies directly, taking the Gundams out of the tactical picture."
Relena: "...so this is a whole game of who's willing to kill who and why, is it? Heero at least gave his life to save others."
Noin: "How do you know about that, anyway?"
Relena: "Main Character News Network."
Old Dude With Pants Full of Shit: "I'd like to introduce the man who endlessly fights for everlasting world peace: Treize Khushrenada!"
Treize gives a speech which basically boils down to "We should establish ourselves as a rule above God to keep people from having ambitions, which are bad."
Noin: "...let's get out of here. It's getting thick fast."
Relena:
Relena says nothing because she, suddenly, is not there against the wall. She is in fact on stage. With a microphone in her hand.
Relena: "Ahem. I'd like to make an announcement. You're all stupid. And Gundams are going to come and kill you all."
Noin, after facepalming viciously, leaps on stage and drags Relena away from the microphone hurriedly.
Treize: "Well. Thank you, Lt. Noin..."
Treize gazes into Relena's eyes and has a flashback to Heero self-destructing his Gundam. Which is interesting because HE WASN'T THERE. I assume he caught a re-run on the Main Character News Network. Anyway, Treize explains Relena away to the rich white people as someone's little sister, so nobody has to think too hard about what the not-as-rich female person said.
Old Dude With Pants Full of Shit: "By the way. About Zechs. Is it true he's rebuilding the self-destructed Gundam?"
Treize: "Indeed."
ODWPFS: "Don't you think that's too much FREEDOM to be giving him? We should destroy it! It's a menace, I say, a menace!"
Treize: "What you say is exactly what I think. If it is desired, I will tell him to destroy it at once."
Noin, overhearing this, stalks off.
This time we have a cut that actually -makes sense-, back to the destroyed Gundam Zechs is rebuilding.
Zechs: "I'm surprised that so many people know about the Gundams."
Noin: "I guess it means they're significant threats. Are you going to destroy the one you captured?"
Zechs: "I'm going to ambiguously not answer that question. How's Relena doing?"
Noin: "Overly energetic. I told her you were in Sanc Kingdom in the past, by the way. And that you were there when Unit 01 was destroyed. And that you're rebuilding it. Also she theorizes that the pilot, "Heero Yuy", lived somehow."
Zechs: "Heero Yuy. Hmm. How do you spell that?"
Noin: "I couldn't tell you, sir. Maybe you should talk to her yourself, sometime? Noin, over and out."
Zechs reflects on how he could never talk to Relena. After all, he's a murdering son of a bitch! ...which may be true, but he's also got a functioning moral compass. I hear Princesses of Peace dig those.
Actually, let's see how Relena's doing right now.
Relena: "I could set this place on fire and burn it down and no one would ever realize it was me."
Yep. Functioning moral compass, all right.
Anyway, Relena muses on God, so does Treize, except Treize decides that if God attempts to punish him, he'll punish God right back because God is only an abstract figure invented by man. Then he spills a single drop of wine. I'm pretty sure that's somehow symbolic, but I don't care.
EPISODE HALFWAY MARK HERE.
We recap a little more. The narrator explains that one of the fellows on the shuttle that Heero was tricked into shooting down was the man who was working on an arms reduction treaty that would've affected OZ and the colonies. Because of the death of that man, the arms reduction and attached peace treaty was lost.
Post-exposition, Heero and Trowa drive a big truck across France to meet with Sylvia. Oh, cool, we're actually following up on that plot point. Sylvia's guards are busy attempting to evacuate her for fear of OZ attacks, but she kind of blows them off. It is revealed via a photograph that Sylvia is the granddaughter of the man Heero killed on that shuttle. Oops. She sadly observes that he'll always live on, in her heart.
Then OZ attacks with a load of Aries mobile suits. Everyone runs off to defend the place, and we get some explosion-filled Leo VS Aries action. Unfortunately, Leos are still made of Explodium Alloy and the defended base starts losing soldiers like crazy. One of those poor doomed bastards shoots down an Aries, however. The pilot climbs out of the wreckage... and Trowa is right there waiting to deck him in the kidney so he and Heero can climb into the downed Aries and listen in on how the battle's going.
Trowa: "Into the underground channels? How obvious can you get?"
Heero: "I know, right? You go, have fun."
Trowa: "We can't let OZ find out we've got a Gundam in town, after all."
While Heero and Trowa are kibitzing and musing over the battle, everyone else on the defending team pretty much dies. This nearly includes Sylvia, who comes running out the front door just in time to catch an exploding Leo in the face. Heero appears in a huge truck, driving right at her! He screams her name! Then he swerves so hard it rolls the truck several times and crunches it up against the wall.
Sylvia has the most appropriate "WTF?" look on her face of the whole series so far.
Sylvia: "...who ARE you?"
Meanwhile, down in the channels:
Grunt 1: "This is hopeless. We're all going to die."
Grunt 2: "Aries incoming. One block away."
Grunt 3: "...Wait, what's ... there's a truck here. There... There's a GUNDAM on this truck!"
Grunt 1: "You're shitting me. What's a Gundam doing here?"
Grunt 2: "Let's... I have a plan guys..."
Grunt 1: "Yeah?"
Grunt 2: "Let's stand in front of the Gundam and wait for the pilot to come back. When the Aries come, we'll shoot them down and hope the Gundam will back us up."
Grunt 3, 1: "BRILLIANT."
They do exactly this. They even rush one of the Aries down and punch it to death. Then they all die. Eventually, Trowa backflips out of the truck and blows up all the other Aries. ...so... uh... That was something like a plan, I guess. What the hell was the point of that? Trowa elaborates:
Trowa: "I'm not fighting to help the Alliance, or to help OZ. I just can't afford to let anyone see the Gundam."
This, I guess, is how Trowa spends his day. He hides his Gundam somewhere, and then if people find it, he pops out and yells "TAG!" and kills them.
Anyway, back in a more secluded area, Heero has rescued Sylvia and driven her out in his magical flippotruck.
Sylvia: "Heero Yuy? Heero. Can you spell that for me?"
Heero: "No."
Sylvia: "Hm. Well. This is my grandfather's grave..."
Heero puts flowers on it.
Sylvia: "...And you wanted to talk to me about something?"
Heero: "Yes."
He pulls out a pistol.
Heero: "My name is Heero Yuy. I killed your grandfather. I am prepared to die."
Sylvia: "What...? What is WRONG with you?!"
She snatches the gun away from him.
Heero: "I made a horrible mistake. I am prepared to pay for it. I hope this eases your pain and..."
Sylvia: "Oh, shut UP. You're being a coward! I refuse to make this easy for you! I'm not doin' it!"
Heero: "...your grandmother's in Sicily, yes? I'll ask her to shoot me next."
Trowa muses over what a well-reasoned and thoughtful plan this is. Meanwhile, I'm not even going to bump up another notch on the Heero Yuy Suicide Watch. It doesn't count if it's ASSISTED suicide. The courts would probably rule it as murder anyway.
SPEAKING of well reasoned and thoughtful plans, the Romefeller Foundation has hooked up enormous amounts of explosives to Heero's old Gundam and have blown it enormously sky high. Like, seriously, this is Mythbusters-level exploding here.
Zechs: "Gundam 01 destroyed as requested."
Inspector Acht of the Romefeller Foundation: "I'm going to go confirm that visually."
Zechs: "Did we not blow it up ENOUGH for you?"
Acht: "We'd just all feel a little better if we were really really sure."
Acht, on the way to make that inspection, confesses he's pretty sure Zechs didn't actually blow up the -real- suit, but he trusts Zechs to make the details look good anyway. Ah, genre-savvyness.
Zechs and Zechs' mechanic, meanwhile, confirm that yeah, their "Gundam" was a model made out of spare parts for the Tallgeese.
Zechs also yearns a bit to encounter the "one man" who could make him NEED all those spare parts, as we...
END EPISODE.
Anyway, one of the best stages for the grindings on is stage A10, which is a Gundam Wing stage where you storm through six thousand Leos and five shuttles. (And then because this is a crossover game a bunch of Gundam 00 enemies show up and then a girl imitating a pop singer riding a bright pink Zaku shows up and everyone goes WHAT WHAT WHAT at it.)
But ANYWAY. Gundam Wing stage! This reminds me of something. What could that thing be? Oh yes.
Did you realize, readership, that today is the 11th anniversary of the day Gundam Wing started airing on Toonami?
I want to stop and talk about that for a second. When Gundam Wing started airing, I'd never really seen anything like it on television. Sure, I'd seen some anime before. Dominion Tank Police. Project A-Ko. Lodoss War. I'd seen Robotech and Voltron, so I knew anime had giant robots in it. But... Gundam Wing was interesting to me because it was on the Cartoon Network and yet it wasn't like "a cartoon" the way I thought of them at the time.
Non-comedic, kind of violent (even with their "destroyed" instead of "killed" and "I see his parachute", I could tell Duo was killin' dudes up in there), and actually almost philosophical. Sure, it was presenting its point through a thick haze of editing (they tried SO HARD for some reason to hide the fact that it was a Japanese show) and sure it was a little bit dumb and irritating if you came at it from, say, the Mechwarrior fan POV ("Don't these fucking robots ever take a hit?!"), but it was NEW. Different. Kind of cool.
I still salute and respect that. But that doesn't mean I'm not gonna make fun of it. Just know that I mock it with a certain amount of reverence, particularly today.
I bring you, my dwindling readership -
New Mobile Report Gundam Wing Episode 14: The Order To Destroy 01
Incidentally, if you need to look back and refresh your memory, and you might because the last episode was written up in August, click the "Summary" tag on this post.
This episode does start with a slight refresher, however. It is pointed out that self-destructing is a stupid thing to do, and that Heero believes the way to live a good life is to act on your emotions. Wise words from noted emotional hothead Heero Yuuii. (Someday I will learn to spell his last name properly before the subs mention it.)
Speaking of Heero, the episode proper kicks off with him and Trowa in a library.
Heero: "Hacking my way to victory in three, two... ah. Here, take this floppy OW."
Heero drops the floppy disk on the floor, thanks to a painful muscle spasm.
Trowa: "Sigh. You need to take better care."
Heero: "Mmh. Right."
Trowa: "I mean, you need to take better care of your body."
Heero stares blankly at him, as if wondering what the hell else he could "take care" of.
Heero returns his attention to the PC screen to point out a database entry on a girl named Sylvia, who is currently in France. The two decide that's probably the best place to start.
We instantly cut to a boating trip on a lake! Obviously this is Fran... oh. No, there's Noin on the boat! This is Moscow I guess.
Noin is dressed in a gorgeous purple longcoat with silver embroidery and gold epaulets about the shoulders. We quickly pan over to see Relena, who is dressed identically but in a white version. Aw yeah, it is FANCY PANTS time now. Relena, however, is bothered.
Noin: "What's troubling you?"
Relena: "The Leos. Why use something like that in war?"
There are, in fact, rows of purple Leos posed along the edge of the lake.
Noin: "Humanoid-looking robots scare people, but they're also fascinating to a certain section of the population. We're trying to earn otaku cred."
Relena: "Hrmf. Does it matter whether buttons and switches kill people, or robots do? Either way they're dead."
The narrator kicks in to tell us a few things about the Romefeller Foundation. Founded by European royalty, they spearhead the drive to get mobile suits into the Earth Alliance military. This clearly backfired when the Romefeller Foundation mobile suits totally killed the hell out of everyone, because I guess... the pilots came packed with the suits, and they were loyal to the RF and not the Alliance? Anyway there was more Coup-d-teating. We saw all that a while back.
Also we are apparently in Bremen, not Moscow, so ... that's Germany I guess. I thought Noin's orders had her in Russia, but fuck it, let's just roll.
Relena: "Excuse me, we seem to have stopped walking."
Noin: "Yes, the narrator stopped talking. Ah. Pardon me a moment, I must check something."
Noin drops to her knees in front of Relana and slides her arms around Relena's body, feeling vigorously along her sides.
Ah yes, the other thing Gundam Wing introduced into the American lexicon: Hardcore shipping.
Relena: "Hmm. I can't blame you for the weapon check, considering what I did last time."
Oh. Right. Nevermind.
Noin: "Through this door are people who are responsible for the deaths of a lot of other people. Including your father. However..."
Relena: "I know. I'm the Princess Peacecraft of Sanc Kingdom. I do promise to try very hard not to shoot anyone."
The doors they're in front of open to reveal OLD BEARDED PEOPLE MAKING SPEECHES ABOUT MONEY, commonly known to be the source of all war everywhere.
This dude seriously goes on for several minutes about how the Alliance used to give out money and talk about peace, but eventually they only talked about peace, so they had to be CONTROLLED, and controlling people is what it's all about yo, and how now that the Alliance is out of the way Things Will Be Different because their traditions are the best traditions because their traditions don't include dumb ideas like equality or freedom, and seriously I half expect his pants just to come busting off from the bullshit contents thereof.
Relena, leaning on a wall in the back: "This is the biggest load of horse crap I have EVER heard."
Noin: "These are what the Romefeller Foundation declared as their principles. OZ used them to get mobile suits into the Alliance."
Relena: "So what's the plan now? More war?"
Noin: "OZ must keep fighting in order to keep winning. OZ has to keep winning in order to rule."
Relena: "And the Romefellers?"
Noin: "They will, again, only support OZ if OZ keeps winning. And we need their troops."
Relena: "What about the Gundams? They can beat OZ and the Foundation."
Noin: "Thus why OZ threatened the colonies directly, taking the Gundams out of the tactical picture."
Relena: "...so this is a whole game of who's willing to kill who and why, is it? Heero at least gave his life to save others."
Noin: "How do you know about that, anyway?"
Relena: "Main Character News Network."
Old Dude With Pants Full of Shit: "I'd like to introduce the man who endlessly fights for everlasting world peace: Treize Khushrenada!"
Treize gives a speech which basically boils down to "We should establish ourselves as a rule above God to keep people from having ambitions, which are bad."
Noin: "...let's get out of here. It's getting thick fast."
Relena:
Relena says nothing because she, suddenly, is not there against the wall. She is in fact on stage. With a microphone in her hand.
Relena: "Ahem. I'd like to make an announcement. You're all stupid. And Gundams are going to come and kill you all."
Noin, after facepalming viciously, leaps on stage and drags Relena away from the microphone hurriedly.
Treize: "Well. Thank you, Lt. Noin..."
Treize gazes into Relena's eyes and has a flashback to Heero self-destructing his Gundam. Which is interesting because HE WASN'T THERE. I assume he caught a re-run on the Main Character News Network. Anyway, Treize explains Relena away to the rich white people as someone's little sister, so nobody has to think too hard about what the not-as-rich female person said.
Old Dude With Pants Full of Shit: "By the way. About Zechs. Is it true he's rebuilding the self-destructed Gundam?"
Treize: "Indeed."
ODWPFS: "Don't you think that's too much FREEDOM to be giving him? We should destroy it! It's a menace, I say, a menace!"
Treize: "What you say is exactly what I think. If it is desired, I will tell him to destroy it at once."
Noin, overhearing this, stalks off.
This time we have a cut that actually -makes sense-, back to the destroyed Gundam Zechs is rebuilding.
Zechs: "I'm surprised that so many people know about the Gundams."
Noin: "I guess it means they're significant threats. Are you going to destroy the one you captured?"
Zechs: "I'm going to ambiguously not answer that question. How's Relena doing?"
Noin: "Overly energetic. I told her you were in Sanc Kingdom in the past, by the way. And that you were there when Unit 01 was destroyed. And that you're rebuilding it. Also she theorizes that the pilot, "Heero Yuy", lived somehow."
Zechs: "Heero Yuy. Hmm. How do you spell that?"
Noin: "I couldn't tell you, sir. Maybe you should talk to her yourself, sometime? Noin, over and out."
Zechs reflects on how he could never talk to Relena. After all, he's a murdering son of a bitch! ...which may be true, but he's also got a functioning moral compass. I hear Princesses of Peace dig those.
Actually, let's see how Relena's doing right now.
Relena: "I could set this place on fire and burn it down and no one would ever realize it was me."
Yep. Functioning moral compass, all right.
Anyway, Relena muses on God, so does Treize, except Treize decides that if God attempts to punish him, he'll punish God right back because God is only an abstract figure invented by man. Then he spills a single drop of wine. I'm pretty sure that's somehow symbolic, but I don't care.
EPISODE HALFWAY MARK HERE.
We recap a little more. The narrator explains that one of the fellows on the shuttle that Heero was tricked into shooting down was the man who was working on an arms reduction treaty that would've affected OZ and the colonies. Because of the death of that man, the arms reduction and attached peace treaty was lost.
Post-exposition, Heero and Trowa drive a big truck across France to meet with Sylvia. Oh, cool, we're actually following up on that plot point. Sylvia's guards are busy attempting to evacuate her for fear of OZ attacks, but she kind of blows them off. It is revealed via a photograph that Sylvia is the granddaughter of the man Heero killed on that shuttle. Oops. She sadly observes that he'll always live on, in her heart.
Then OZ attacks with a load of Aries mobile suits. Everyone runs off to defend the place, and we get some explosion-filled Leo VS Aries action. Unfortunately, Leos are still made of Explodium Alloy and the defended base starts losing soldiers like crazy. One of those poor doomed bastards shoots down an Aries, however. The pilot climbs out of the wreckage... and Trowa is right there waiting to deck him in the kidney so he and Heero can climb into the downed Aries and listen in on how the battle's going.
Trowa: "Into the underground channels? How obvious can you get?"
Heero: "I know, right? You go, have fun."
Trowa: "We can't let OZ find out we've got a Gundam in town, after all."
While Heero and Trowa are kibitzing and musing over the battle, everyone else on the defending team pretty much dies. This nearly includes Sylvia, who comes running out the front door just in time to catch an exploding Leo in the face. Heero appears in a huge truck, driving right at her! He screams her name! Then he swerves so hard it rolls the truck several times and crunches it up against the wall.
Sylvia has the most appropriate "WTF?" look on her face of the whole series so far.
Sylvia: "...who ARE you?"
Meanwhile, down in the channels:
Grunt 1: "This is hopeless. We're all going to die."
Grunt 2: "Aries incoming. One block away."
Grunt 3: "...Wait, what's ... there's a truck here. There... There's a GUNDAM on this truck!"
Grunt 1: "You're shitting me. What's a Gundam doing here?"
Grunt 2: "Let's... I have a plan guys..."
Grunt 1: "Yeah?"
Grunt 2: "Let's stand in front of the Gundam and wait for the pilot to come back. When the Aries come, we'll shoot them down and hope the Gundam will back us up."
Grunt 3, 1: "BRILLIANT."
They do exactly this. They even rush one of the Aries down and punch it to death. Then they all die. Eventually, Trowa backflips out of the truck and blows up all the other Aries. ...so... uh... That was something like a plan, I guess. What the hell was the point of that? Trowa elaborates:
Trowa: "I'm not fighting to help the Alliance, or to help OZ. I just can't afford to let anyone see the Gundam."
This, I guess, is how Trowa spends his day. He hides his Gundam somewhere, and then if people find it, he pops out and yells "TAG!" and kills them.
Anyway, back in a more secluded area, Heero has rescued Sylvia and driven her out in his magical flippotruck.
Sylvia: "Heero Yuy? Heero. Can you spell that for me?"
Heero: "No."
Sylvia: "Hm. Well. This is my grandfather's grave..."
Heero puts flowers on it.
Sylvia: "...And you wanted to talk to me about something?"
Heero: "Yes."
He pulls out a pistol.
Heero: "My name is Heero Yuy. I killed your grandfather. I am prepared to die."
Sylvia: "What...? What is WRONG with you?!"
She snatches the gun away from him.
Heero: "I made a horrible mistake. I am prepared to pay for it. I hope this eases your pain and..."
Sylvia: "Oh, shut UP. You're being a coward! I refuse to make this easy for you! I'm not doin' it!"
Heero: "...your grandmother's in Sicily, yes? I'll ask her to shoot me next."
Trowa muses over what a well-reasoned and thoughtful plan this is. Meanwhile, I'm not even going to bump up another notch on the Heero Yuy Suicide Watch. It doesn't count if it's ASSISTED suicide. The courts would probably rule it as murder anyway.
SPEAKING of well reasoned and thoughtful plans, the Romefeller Foundation has hooked up enormous amounts of explosives to Heero's old Gundam and have blown it enormously sky high. Like, seriously, this is Mythbusters-level exploding here.
Zechs: "Gundam 01 destroyed as requested."
Inspector Acht of the Romefeller Foundation: "I'm going to go confirm that visually."
Zechs: "Did we not blow it up ENOUGH for you?"
Acht: "We'd just all feel a little better if we were really really sure."
Acht, on the way to make that inspection, confesses he's pretty sure Zechs didn't actually blow up the -real- suit, but he trusts Zechs to make the details look good anyway. Ah, genre-savvyness.
Zechs and Zechs' mechanic, meanwhile, confirm that yeah, their "Gundam" was a model made out of spare parts for the Tallgeese.
Zechs also yearns a bit to encounter the "one man" who could make him NEED all those spare parts, as we...
END EPISODE.
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Date: 2011-03-07 02:40 am (UTC)..............Christ, we're so fucking OLD. *curls up and cries*
Anyway, yeah. I tried to tape the whole thing from Toonami on VHS cassettes back when it first started airing. I still have those...and all the other anime we bought on VHS, back when you had to pick the dub or the sub, and the sub was so much more expensive...TTT_TTT
--D/R.
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Date: 2011-03-07 03:45 am (UTC)I missed you, Gordy's awesome version of things.
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Date: 2011-03-07 07:40 pm (UTC)Sorry. Been waiting for an excuse to say that for a while.