-------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Joseph Riggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > 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
One of the popular rumor is that Corner will bite the dust either the next episode or the episode after that - it is the usual bad guy got used by another bad guy plot. > But I doubt it'll happen that way. It does appear that Corner's after > something > hidden in Veda, though. Probably the technology behind the GN Drive - remember, only the current Meister and the one for the other team has the 5 working GN Drive - rest are knockoffs that has running limit. If the GN Drive can do what the solar elevator can do, imagine how many small countries will pay? How about the big power countries? > > > > I can't comment on the Observers' reactions since we know pretty much nothing > about them. It's hard to since they only appear in like 2 scenes. > 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. And hope no one can reverse engineer it - he would have the only one, since he has access to Veda. > > > > I didn't see Corner or Ribbon mention the HRL. He is mentioning something that resemble HRL in Japanese - something United or what not. > 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. >From the rumor/speculation is that he is not your typical human, otherwise he >cannot directly access Veda. Whether that means he is a cyborg or whatever >remains to be seen. I believe it's an understandable reaction if you are >thinking like a machine... > 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). I don't think so in this episode at least - seems like at the end, right before the power went back on, he just want the power of Exia so he can continue to do what he needs to do to stop fighting. Remember, someone like him has no way of really changing the world, but Exia give him that chance, so give him a little slack on that - he seems to be getting better in terms of his "fixation" with Gundam. > 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. Someone has to be sane and thinking for that team, as his siblings have no other really good quality to be a team member or what not. > > > 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. >From the rumor/speculation, they tried to contact Wang when they were >ambushed. Supposedly the two brothers were killed, two Throne went down and >the last one went to Ali (think the cockpit you see is probably the Throne >cockpit, as they both have the 360 view, unlike the original Gundams. > 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? They were able to detect the Throne's ship when they approach - you can only deeply mask your approach if you speadout the GN particles. Besides, in space, unless they hide in a junk filled space, they are probably relying on visual alerts :) From the looks of it, only the Thrones and the 4 Gundams have the ability to spread the GN particles to hide themselves. > > > > 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? Supposedly, it was left with Graham in case he decide to pilot it. Now each side only have 9 "Active" GN-X, as HRL and AEU has one destroyed each. The rumor/spoiler was that Billy kind of retrofit the GN Drive or what not from the GN-X into the Flag (most likely fake rumor). > 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. Marina represent a view that he never has even think about before - a regular life. He view himself as a soldier "god" to wipe out the war, and he doesn't think of anything else. Marina represent the "other stuff". He was thinking of the dream during the Exia's powerdown, as he could've just cry or despair like Tieria, but decide to try everything instead. > > > > 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. Think she saw the flash - when the screen switch view, we saw the beam coming, so she probably saw the flash of red, as in the anime, the beam of the GN launcher seems to be kind of slow... -------------------------------------------------- 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
