Honestly, Cathy's wasn't a slap so much as a punch. And I say Noin's was better than Une's because Une's didn't seem very forceful. Noin's had a lot more "POW! Right in the kisser!" to it. Case in point:
And now...
DVD 3
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Yup, so I DID decide to jump ahead a few episodes. Once more, the phone is out, not to mention there's nothing on TV that I like. So... ::pops in the DVD::
Episode 11: The Whereabouts of Happiness
Hmm, this episode uses the audio from the alternate opening (which replaces the nice, opening-quality shots of the Gundams in action with clips from the show). I guess Bandai didn't use that version. Probably did the same for the alternate, semi-spoiler-free Rhythm Emotion OP.
Of course, it figures I'd miss the DVD with the critical early episodes like Scenario for Bloodshed and Heero Distracted by Defeat, and only get the aftermath.
I'm serious man, I wanna know where the Maganacs are hiding. That's a pretty lush stretch of desert right there.
Hey, that Maganac's sword looks a lot like Sandrock Custom's ZOMG bigass shotel.
Noin: "All the important parts have been destroyed." And here people ***** about how ineffective the self-destruct system is. If they didn't have Tallgeese, OZ would never have rebuilt Wing.
Hee hee, she said "Gundanium no katamari". ::gets mental images::
Well, OZ knows now that the Gundams were coordinating against them. That's not good.
Duo knows of the Winner family which, IMO, makes the fact that nobody recognizes Trowa's surname all the stranger.
And there's the source of Duo's "I may run and hide, but I never lie!" line.
Heh, Relena's cute when she's all upset. Then again, I think she's cute just about any time, so I'm just biased.
razz I'm sort of amazed that she'd wear a dress as showy as that. It's not a sight on what women wear in the real world, but for Relena it's rather flashy.
Heh, Weridge knew the Peacecraft family well enough to recognize Relena on sight, despite the fact that she disappeared at age 2; still, he says "Katrina-sama", I suppose the idea that he's Relena's grandfather is just made up to let her into the party.
I gotta ask, if Weridge is a supporter and friend of the Peacecrafts, why is he in Romefeller now? Trying to change things from the inside?
Jeez, that's some pretty violent talk, Miss Pacifist...
The girls in the Maganacs' village are really pretty.
Wow, Tragos are getting some use. They're like the black sheep of OZ...er, black goats...well, you know what I mean.
Bah, that one soldier talking to Sadaul seems nice enough, but there's OZ planting bombs throughout the village.
...Jeez, Rashid is huge. I know the boys are young, but they're still around 5 foot. If that's a correct scale, Rashid's gotta be 7-foot-something.
That speech was pretty stirring for something impromptu.
And here come the Oliphants. This is just the episode of neglected MS, isn't it?
The Maganacs' beam rifle seems to be more of a machinegun, or an assault rifle. Plus, we get to see the Tragos' machinegun.
Wish we had a clear shot of that bazooka Duo was using...
Gotta give Relena credit for being willing to fight even when surrounded by soldiers and MS.
Yup, Noin is badass.
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Episode 12: Bewildered Warriors
Thanks a lot, Heero. Your little self-destruct idea gave the series its own version of the Nichol scene. I hope you're happy.
I'm impressed, the news media doesn't immediately start kissing up to OZ once they gain power.
I swear, all the people who ***** about Wing just gloss over the details, don't they? They whine about Heero surviving the self-destruct, but ignore that he was badly enough injured to be comatose for a month and had a good portion of his body bandaged up. I'm pretty sure it's possible for even average humans to survive in similar fashion.
The curse of Catherine's soup begins...
Hey, that OZ guy on the TV looks a bit like what I envisioned David Dermail, the main villain of Codename Lightning, looking like. Just a hair older than I imagined. May have to ask someone to sketch him based off of that. ::screencaps::
Hee hee hee hee, "Dying hurts like hell" still makes me laugh.
Sally and her rebels fight OZ while Wu Fei birdwatches. Whee.
The way the narration talks about the Bundt Republic, I weep for the mapmakers in the AC world. Sounds like they go through as much hell as their modern counterparts.
Heh, the old model Leo's faceguard slaps down when the main camera is shot out. Seems a little useless in retrospect.
"I don't intend to fight." Apparently, Wu Fei's definition of "fight" doesn't include OHKOs.
Sally asks if "Nataku" is the Gundam's name and Woofie doesn't answer. More implication that Episode Zero was planned from the start. It also meshes with the idea that he personally refused to fight, but Mei Lan/Nataku would have helped them, so he chose to follow her path.
Ah, and here's an explanation for Wu Fei's logic: he prefers to fight strong opponents because he considers himself a coward if he can only defeat those weaker than himself. And THIS is the logic that makes people believe he's a heartless monster? Jeez.
Bundt is making a deal with M. Bison? O_o;;
Ow, I really feel sorry for Nanaki. He was actually a decent soldier, and he got stabbed in the back by a power-hungry monster.
Jeez, the poor resistance soldiers are getting shredded. Too bad that's what it takes to get Wu Fei's head out of his butt.
And as Bundt gets javelin'd, I only have one thing to say: OWNED.
I swear, Wu Fei's whole "weak" and "strong" thing is resolved in this episode, but nobody seems to notice...
And there it is. "There's nothing wrong with acting on your emotions. At least, that's what I was taught."
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Episode 13: Catherine's Tears
Yay, it's the Alex and Meuller episode. Now I get to see their worthless asses get smoked.
The Alliance seems quite impressed that one Cancer and one Aries can do so much against their defenses; this pretty well illustrates how MS are handled in all of Gundam.
Hmm, Alex and Meuller's glasses are connected to the same wire as their mouthpieces. I guess they have some kind of miniaturized HUD.
I laugh at the fact that these two dumbasses claim to follow Treize, and yet carry out executions on surrendered Alliance soldiers.
And here an OZ tech says that the self-destruct system in Wing couldn't have worked any better. So basically, the only complaint those whiners have is that it didn't kill Heero; apparently, they don't realize how absurd it is to want the main character to die about a fifth of the way through the series...
Zechs thinks Heero could realize the Tallgeese's true potential; an interesting idea. Too bad it was never explored any further.
I have to wonder, if the Noventa Cannon is so impressive, why'd the put it at the a** end of nowhere instead of somewhere that actually NEEDED defense?
These two are pretty stupid, underestimating Zechs and assuming he won't be able to stop them from slaughtering the Alliance soldiers.
::Meuller is killed:: THAT was satisfying.
::Zechs rips Alex's Cancer in half:: And that was MORE satisfying.
Hee hee, the OZ soldiers think that Heavyarms is just a prop for Trowa's performance.
Hey, they DID play "In the Returned Scent of Blood and Gunpowder" (Trowa's battle theme) in the series. Guess Duo's is the only one that they didn't use in any form (Quatre's sort of qualifies thanks to "Sandy Clock of a Sad Color").
DISCO GUN: BACK IN THE HABIT!
Still say Heavyarms' little front flip to shield Cathy there was pretty impressive.
Maybe it's just because I'm a dork for this kind of thing, but it bothers me how they inconsistantly animate Heavyarms' cockpit door. In some scenes, the orange part is a section of the shutters covering the chest Gatlings, but in others, it's separate and opens on a hinge. I'm just glad that's not a problem with Heavyarms Custom.
And just to reiterate: "The way to live a good life is to act on your emotions."
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Episode 14: The Order to Destroy 01
And this episode introduces Sylvia Noventa, a popular alternate for Heero's girlfriend by fanfic authors who don't like Relena. Though honestly, it's a pretty absurd notion, assuming that some random girl he met once would be romantic with him. It's like assuming that Random Villager #2 is going become Ed Elric's wife, or something like that.
Don't get where Relena and Noin found their Sanc Kingdom outfits. It's like, they disappear for two episodes, and the next thing you know, they're in Bremen going to ***** at Romefeller.
There's a real irony here; Noin suggests that Romefeller developed combat MS out of a desire to regress from push-button warfare to more noble times, and yet in the near future, they're going to develop a weapon about as soulless as nuclear bombs...
LOL @ Noin patting Relena down to search for a pistol.
Dermail is just a giant sack of crap, yanno? Saying that the only way to bring peace is through control and not understanding?
Man, Treize sounds really arrogant here. "God let man run freely, causing chaos. For order, we need a system over and above God." I'm sure he doesn't mean it, but that doesn't make it sound any better.
And Treize recognizes the determination in Relena's eyes as the same in Heero's.
The shot of the half-built Wing's head shows that its vulcans are five-barreled.
Man, Relena is one angry young woman...
Hee hee, gotta love how Heero and Trowa jack a downed Aries.
LEO PUNCH! (Actually, shoulder tackle THEN punch, but that doesn't sound as good.)
Wow, the explosion that destroyed the dummy Wing was pretty big...
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Episode 15: To the Battlefield, Antarctica
The car following Heero and Trowa has a dove hood ornament; was it sent by Noin, rather than OZ as everyone seems to think?
The Sanc Kingdom's newspaper (which Relena and Pagan are browsing online) seems to be modelled after the New York Times. That, and it gives the date as July 14th. There's a nice frame of reference. Plus it seems that Relena is keeping up with her school thanks to video conferencing (though the window says "Saint Micael" (sic)).
And now we get the cute little scene where Treize observes a family at a picnic (or so I'd guess) and we see the baby take his first steps. A bit more insight into his character.
XD It took Relena all of one second to debate opening someone else's letter, then do it anyway. I swear, why do people hate Relena Darlian (her early series persona) so much? She's so...human. It's really funny to see the person the series makes out to be larger than life doing things like this.
"See? Heero was alive after all!" Is she...talking to the audience? O_o;; Has this girl been talking to Deadpool or something?
Why is Acht wearing an Alliance uniform when he's loyal to Romefeller?
...Did Noin just get a Newtype flash? It had the sound effect...
And the Heavyarms Flatspin, which is of course ownage.
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End of DVD 3
I didn't get as many comments in this DVD, I guess because there wasn't as much surprising stuff as in the first. It's still interesting to catch up on all this, but I wonder if there will be as much stuff to write about on future DVDs as there was on the first.
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