Episode 3 notes, as per the usual delay:
- What the hell. Tieria's nice this season. He gives Setsuna the go ahead to rescue Marina, encourages him to do
so, and then welcomes Allelujah "home" in a non sarcastic manner. After being a cold bitch almost all of season 1, this is shocking. I like the
change, but it's still shocking. Did someone start lacing his food with Prozac?
- Soma Peries/Whatever is apparently Marie Parfacy. Time for the brainwashing-breaking flashbacks! That said, an interesting concept someone noted elsewhere is
that Allelujah has one golden eye, and had split personalities to deal with the trauma of the Super Soldier program. Soma has two golden eyes and her alternate
personality seems stable and completely overwritten over "Marie". A connection?
- Lyle proves he ain't Lockon. He's pretending to be an amateur at MS combat, while being as able a sniper as Lockon was. He's also feeding under
the table info to Kataron, who uses the CB raid's confusion and the focus on the Gundams to escape with hundreds of former prisoners.
- Allelujah seems to have gotten over his "I don't want to fight" angst from Season 1. The Arios, meanwhile, gets to show off that, yes, it is
indeed the fastest and most mobile of the season 2 Gundams. And that's all without transforming. I can't wait to see Al really open up with it. After
seeing the Gimped Kyrios rip Soma and Sergei apart in their GN-Xs in Season 1, I wanna see Al show that level of skill again with something not half broken.
- Though they, obviously, didn't get the GN drive, the HRL's had the Kyrios since the final battle of S1. A possible source of future upgrades and
reverse-engineering?
- Nena has a little shuttle thing that reminds me of Throne Drei. Core fighter? Themed vehicle? Red herring? I dunno, but as one of the few people that
actually likes her, I wanna see her get in a new MS. She's on the waiting list of People Who Want Ali Dead
- Poor Saji. Every time he tries to make a point, his points get shot down. "Nobody wants to be the unfortunate one" is pretty accurate, though.
Someone needs to find out Ali killed his sister, so he can join the waiting list of People Who Want Ali Dead.
- "I'm really getting tired of that reaction." At least Lyle's got a sense of humor about his creepily identical resemblance to his brother.
- Sumeragi's tactics in this episode just made it a wonderful thrill ride. As opposed to the more sedate "annihilate everything that moves because
nothing's there that can stand up to the Gundams", we get a beautiful use of Ptolemy II. The tidal wave was brilliant.
---
"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."
- What the hell. Tieria's nice this season. He gives Setsuna the go ahead to rescue Marina, encourages him to do
so, and then welcomes Allelujah "home" in a non sarcastic manner. After being a cold bitch almost all of season 1, this is shocking. I like the
change, but it's still shocking. Did someone start lacing his food with Prozac?
- Soma Peries/Whatever is apparently Marie Parfacy. Time for the brainwashing-breaking flashbacks! That said, an interesting concept someone noted elsewhere is
that Allelujah has one golden eye, and had split personalities to deal with the trauma of the Super Soldier program. Soma has two golden eyes and her alternate
personality seems stable and completely overwritten over "Marie". A connection?
- Lyle proves he ain't Lockon. He's pretending to be an amateur at MS combat, while being as able a sniper as Lockon was. He's also feeding under
the table info to Kataron, who uses the CB raid's confusion and the focus on the Gundams to escape with hundreds of former prisoners.
- Allelujah seems to have gotten over his "I don't want to fight" angst from Season 1. The Arios, meanwhile, gets to show off that, yes, it is
indeed the fastest and most mobile of the season 2 Gundams. And that's all without transforming. I can't wait to see Al really open up with it. After
seeing the Gimped Kyrios rip Soma and Sergei apart in their GN-Xs in Season 1, I wanna see Al show that level of skill again with something not half broken.
- Though they, obviously, didn't get the GN drive, the HRL's had the Kyrios since the final battle of S1. A possible source of future upgrades and
reverse-engineering?
- Nena has a little shuttle thing that reminds me of Throne Drei. Core fighter? Themed vehicle? Red herring? I dunno, but as one of the few people that
actually likes her, I wanna see her get in a new MS. She's on the waiting list of People Who Want Ali Dead
- Poor Saji. Every time he tries to make a point, his points get shot down. "Nobody wants to be the unfortunate one" is pretty accurate, though.
Someone needs to find out Ali killed his sister, so he can join the waiting list of People Who Want Ali Dead.
- "I'm really getting tired of that reaction." At least Lyle's got a sense of humor about his creepily identical resemblance to his brother.
- Sumeragi's tactics in this episode just made it a wonderful thrill ride. As opposed to the more sedate "annihilate everything that moves because
nothing's there that can stand up to the Gundams", we get a beautiful use of Ptolemy II. The tidal wave was brilliant.
---
"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."