You can always go to the Random Curiosity site for brief summary of the episode - he is usually pretty quick on providing the summary once the episode has aired.
I think we have to go back to the missing TD Blanket - with it missing, the drive probably needs to be extracted for "recharge" and put back in once it's done. It wasn't a fair fight for Setsuna vs Ali compared to Johann vs Ali because Ali know all of Setsuna's melee moves, and with Exia being a melee type MS, it's hard for Setsuna to surprised Ali, so unless you have Exia outperform Zwei, like we see when TRANSAM is on, Setsuna has very low chance of winning. Until Setsuna "unlearn" what he learn with Ali, it will remain a fight that Ali has advantage in. The last Throne Gundam is almost useless in combat because it just have the basic weapons (beam saber and beam gun), so against GN-X or other Gundams, it really cannot do anything. I won't speculate on the Veda to Gundam connection too much, since currently, it doesn't make too much sense - if they know Veda is compromised, I doubt they would let Veda has "write" access of any kind to Gundam. Wang didn't send the warning - she just mention it when Johann ask for help to get back to space - that seems to suggest that she is not against them, but definitely not with them. My personal speculation on the whole Trial system failure is that Laguna/Ragna is working with Corner, so the Trinity's siblings visit's main point was to gain access to a VEDA terminal - probably placing some sort of back door entrance. I think the sibling just thought that will let them access information, when in reality, Ribbons is using it to get access to Veda and reprogram stuff. Judging from Ali's easy access to Throne Zwei, we can assume Corner is probably working with Ali in some way, as there is no other way Ali can get access to Zwei. Remember, level 7 seems to be the lowest level access for VEDA, so if Veda is supposed to be the ultimate storage, I would imagine the founder's body information would be on there as well. Besides, I assume Veda's location is pretty well protected against outsiders. The casket seems to serve its purpose well - it's supposed to piss off the "traitors" and trigger the "anti traitor" sequences, which in turn unlock TRANSAM for the original Meisters. That depends on whether the Gundam type designs factor that in - when TRANSAM mode is on, I don't see Setsuna suffering from much G force (not as bad as Graham did, for sure), and he is moving way faster than Graham did. If that is the case, then Graham would do extremely well, since he can go fast and his body can stand it. -------------- Original message from "Joseph Riggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -------------- I saw this episode raw, so I can't comment on the dialogue (which I largely didn't understand). Not only do the Thrones have an operational limit, but there's also a scene with the HRL's GN Drives being loaded into the Jinx mobile suits. I've never seen that take place with the Ptolemais's Gundams (which, so far as I can recall, have always had the drives installed in the mobile suits even while they're in the bays). The inference would be that the drives are "recharged" while not attached to the mobile suits, and the Ptolemais's Gundams don't need to recharge their drives. Setsuna wasn't losing as bad as Johann it seemed, although he was clearly losing. Also worth noting, Setsuna versus Micheal in the earlier episode seemed to have Setsuna with a very slight edge over Micheal. And the Gundam that Ali stole was Micheal's. Nene's currently the only surviving Trinity, and her Gundam is damaged (Soma chopped off part of one of the limbs). Speculation on the connection between the Gundams and Veda - I don't think that the Gundams are completely cut off from Veda. Instead, the new OS has over-ridden the parts of the Gundams' software that Veda is able to shut down. This would allow Veda to continue to communicate with the Gundams in some fashion, but keep it from doing anything potentially fatal to the mobile suit (such as shutting its drive down). It appears that Wang sent a warning to the Trinities when the HRL team was heading their way. So she was interested in attempting to maintain the alliance she'd formed with them - not that it appears to be worth much anymore... Given the revelation of what was hidden within "Level 7" of Veda, I suspect that the block that Tieria encountered was not actually placed there by Nene. Instead, I'm guessing that Nene extracted some information from Veda that Ribbons was then able to use to track Veda to its physical location. I'm also guessing that Nene will provide information to the Ptolemais gorup now that it's clear that the Trinities were being used. I'm also wondering if what was in that casket was really what it seemed to be. That casket seemed awfully easy for Corner and Ribbons to find given how important it must have been. If Billy does manage to hook up the drive to Graham's Overflag, then you're looking at a potentially VERY fast and maneuverable mobile suit, with the drive presumeably taking care of the g-force problems that Graham encountered earlier on. junior -------------------------------------------------- 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
