Beware random thoughts in no particular order:
Wow. They didn't waste any time dumping the bad news on Saji. They also confirmed that his Dad was an important journalist. I am betting that he will pick up his sister's investigation and have success where the others failed since there is nobody after him to pass the baton to. 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. I am curious how the other Observers will react to Alejandro's treachery. Do they actually have any power whatsoever or were they just a MacGuffin to link Alejandro to CB that will now fade into obscurity? 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. While it is obvious that Alejandro had Laguna killed, I wonder who did the deed for him since he was on the moon when it happened. Was it Ali Al-Sarshes, and if so what is his connection to Alejandro? IMO they sure look awfully similar when Ali is clean-shaven... 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. The HRL Curse squad was on Earth fighting the Thrones. I could be wrong but given the number of GN-X participating in the space battle I thought that it was only Union and AEU forces involved in that battle. So what did deactivating the Ptolemais Gundams have to do with the HRL? From the preview I didn't see any sign of the Thrones being deactivated in the next episode. 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.
