Corner upsetting the plan - maybe, maybe not. It wouldn't completely surprise me if when Ribbon gets to the final layer of Veda, a personalized message to the Corner family from Aeolia Schoenberg pops up and mocks Alejandro for making sure that the plan continued on as expected. :P
But I doubt it'll happen that way. It does appear that Corner's after something hidden in Veda, though. I can't comment on the Observers' reactions since we know pretty much nothing about them. In the dialogue I had, Alejandro told Ribbon that the Solar Furnaces really did need to be destroyed, because with them CB would eventually rise again. Shutting the Gundams down appears to have been Corner's way of ensuring that the Gundams didn't pull off a miracle or make a run for it at the last second, saving their precious furnaces for CB. I didn't see Corner or Ribbon mention the HRL. I think a lot of the problem with Tieria was just him choosing the wrong time to have a crisis of confidence. We saw something similar earlier on when he unveiled Gundam Nadleeh prematurely to the HRL, and then started crying in his cockpit because he'd "failed Veda by screwing up the plan". When Lock-on gave him the quick pep talk just before the alert, Tieria was about to say something important about his background. I have a sneaking suspicion that knowing Tieria's background would answer a lot of questions. Remember that Setsuna went into his mystical "Gundam has rejected me!" hysteria when Exia went dead. Both Setsuna and Tieria have emotional issues that are linked to elements of CB (Exia for Setsuna, and Veda for Tieria). Regarding the Trinities - two of them appear to be rather impulsive and emotional, but it also seems clear that one of them (the tall dark-skinned one - Johann?) is a pretty good strategist and realized quite quickly that they'd been setup. I'm guessing that the team as a whole wasn't recruited for its long-range tactical thinking (that sort of thing might interfere with the eventual betrayal of the team), but the team leader ended up with those traits anyway as a result of the basic skills that he'd need to lead the team. The episode preview also seemed to suggest to me that he's going to die in the next episode (due to a scene showing only the other two Trinities out in the desert, a scene showing him facing down an HRL attack, and Nene looking upset about something outside her cockpit), and that the Trinities will be attempting to hook up with Wang. I have my doubts about Corner being directly related to Ali. If the two were extended family of some sort, then presumeably Ali wouldn't have had to ask Ragna in the previous episode to get him hooked up with one of the militaries so that he could get a GN-X (and ensure that he still had a job in the future). A few items... The mysterious GN Particles render sensors inoperative. That's how the GN-X mobile suit team got so close to Ptolemais without being detected. But Ptolemais did detect them eventually (and it detected the individual mobile suits, not merely that there were GN Particles interfering with the sensors). How did it do this? We were told that 19 mobile suits attacked the Ptolemais. Presumeably each superpower got 10 each, and the mission was a joint operation between the AEU and Union. Where was the 20th? Setsuna had an unusual dream in which he's back in the razed city with his assault rifle, and Marina Ismail arrives to show him a growing flower and tell him that he can stop fighting (she also calls him by his real name). Given that it was more than Marina merely showing up and saying, "Setsuna, you're my hero," I'm guessing that there's a deeper import to this. If I had to, I'd hazard a guess that it's to show that Setsuna is beginning to realize that there are things of value in this life. Up until now, the only thing that he's attached any value to is his Gundam, Exia. Soma appeared to have the rough equivalent of a Newtype flash. There were no special effects associated with it, but she clearly registered that something was wrong BEFORE the beam from the Thrones pierced through the hanger wall. junior Subject : [gundam] Gundam Episode 21 **Spoilers** Date : Mon, 3 Mar 2008 17:01:53 -0600 >From : "Reynolds, Jason M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To : <[email protected]> Beware random thoughts in no particular order: Before this episode I wondered if the Corners were originally loyal to CB's cause but later had a falling out that led them to become traitors. Alejandro's comment about his family waiting 200 years for access to Veda makes me think that they were always using CB for their own agenda. The Corners probably wanted to use CB to destabilize the world so they could rule it all. In some senses they almost seem like the "Lucifer" to Aeolia Schenberg's/Celestial Being's "God". This turn of events actually disappointed me because I was really curious to see if CB ever had a feasible plan. Now we'll never know because the Corners family have manipulated so much that I wonder how much, if any, of the original plan is still intact. The episode confirmed that the Trinity Team was working for the newly deceased Laguna Harvey. I wonder if the Trinity siblings really believed they were working for Celestial Being or were they lying to the Ptolemais Meisters? They had to realize something is up when they are betraying their own supposed team members. The big space fight was interesting but I wonder why Corners needed to shut down the Ptolemais Gundams when he did since they were losing at that point anyway. It seemed like a clumsily plotted/manufactured situation to cut the Ptolemais crew off from Veda and force them to cut over to the standalone system. What I found odd was that Alejandro said that they needed to shut down the Gundams to ensure an HRL victory. I wonder if the problem with restarting the Virtue was a mechanical issue related to the Trial System role of the Nadleeh, a technological problem with the connection between Tieria and Veda, or was it merely because Tieria was depressed and spaced out because he lost connectivity to Veda.
