Gundam 00 – 03

Three episodes in, is Gundam 00 any better yet?

Setsuna sucks ass as a Gundam pilot. Fire him now. He was about to get beaten by a simple mobile suit by the end of this episode. Never have I seen a Gundam be so weak. Exia’s head was so close to being crushed, as evident by the red warnings on its panels. Clearly Setsuna’s skills aren’t as great as he makes it out to be, letting the Gundam itself do all the hard work. He probably wouldn’t last one minute in a regular mobile suit. He should really lay off the “I am the best pilot” attitude because clearly in this episode he is terrible. You keep telling yourself you’re the Gundam Meister because no one’s impressed. On the other hand, it does show that these Gundams aren’t that powerful, well under the control of a crappy pilot, we’ll see how the others do later.

Well I wanted to get that off my chest. The episode continues right where it left off. The battle between Exia and the Flag mobile suit doesn’t last long at all, since in this Gundam Universe the existence of a beam saber out of all things is a complete surprise to our wannabe bad-ass pilot Graham Achre. His mobile suit loses its battle rifle so thus he runs away like a little girl. Later in the episode he and his assistant Billy Kataragi are assigned to an Anti-Gundam unit. Hoping for some interesting things from them, ala Gundams of their own.

Mission three begins also, three simultaneous attacks by three different Gundams on various locations. Everyone but Setsuna has it easy. The sniping Gundam, I forget its name is literally playing whack-a-mole on his monitor, that’s how bored he is. As already ranted above, while Setsuna finally defeated that pesky mobile suit, he sure did have hell of a hard time doing it. By the end of the episode we see that change is happening in the world as clashing factions in Ireland after 400 years have agreed to a peace treaty. So score one for the Celestial Beings yes?

Related posts:

1. Gundam 00 – 02
2. Gundam 00 – 01