Alt. title: why do I even care? And why am I so quick to watch it this week? Perhaps I am looking for that last nail in the coffin?
First the bad: too much talking, too much personalities (esp. Michael Trinity), too much philosophic gogoodeegoop (from Corners this week, thank Kami for skipping Marina/Shirin diatribe for once). Also too much Graham this week. Yes sure we know he's due for some serious heroism soon. The WTF-of-the-week: the Trinities are already well on their way to kill Eifman even before he himself figured out something /dangerous/ so the Trinities (really it's the purple Haro) have pre-cog now? Also a dark Haro with red upward-slanted eyes? Hmm a Evil Haro! Such subtle design methodology? Ok, now the good(?): I said I know they (writers) are going somewhere only I had absolutely no idea where? Now I am starting to smell something, well really not I, but Eifman. He's sniffing the right tree, and I am only guessing where things are going. It would explain some of the baka things Setsuna and co. have been doing; why the writers spent so much time to humanize the cannon fodders (Ming, Joshua and Howard), and finally why there hasn't been any _Evil_ villain so far. Oh also why the Trinity's didn't show up in the 2nd OP. So ready or not: Eifman realized Aeolia Schenberg's real motive and then he was executed. So that pretty much leave no doubt Schenberg or his successor is the _Evil_ mastermind of this series. The seed of discontent/rebellion is already sow in the Ptolemaios crew/GM4. (may I propose to use "GM4" to represent Setsuna, Lockon, Allejulah and Tiera, and "GM3" to cover the Trinity siblings?) And now the choice of the ship's name also is a hint. What's Ptolemy best known for? In a simplistic way, Ptolemy represented the old, traditional paradigm to describe or explain the behaviors of (wait for it) celestial beings (meaning the Sun, Moon, the 4 (or 5?) planets and all the "fixed" stars as a whole). So with the new OP, a clumsily executed segueway (Takalaman arc) we are being prep for the new paradigm. Are we transitioning from a geocentric (Ptolemic) story in which Earthbound war is the focus to a heliocentric (Copernican) story in which Solar Power (not the boring space elevator kind, but something to do with G.N. particle) is the focus? So where is the story going? Perhaps GM4 will figure out Schenberg's true motive as well* and rebel, they probably won't join force per se with Sergei, Soma and Graham but some level of cooperation is reasonable. Where's Ali in this scheme? Perhaps he will detach from AEU and sell his soul to Schenberg? Or he just pursue his greed and get in Setsuna's face at all the wrong times and in all the wrong places? * - and why have we been suffering this Louise/Saji shit for so long? It must be that Kinue picks up Schenberg's trail after Eifman and leads GM4 to figure out Schenberg's scheme. The only thing left is Marina and Corners. They can fit in so many different ways, I hesitate to take a guess. -- Dr. Core -------------------------------------------------- The Gundam Mailing List MK-II [email protected] Archives: http://www.gundam.com/gml Help: Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this in the BODY: help list
