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First, a recap of the episodes watched this week!
Episode One - The Shooting Star She Saw
In the year After Colony 195, after decades of oppression from the United Earth Sphere Alliance and its secret weapons organization, OZ, a group of rebels in the space colonies send down five mobile suits known as "Gundams" to overthrow the militaristic regime. Four of the Gundams successfully make it to Earth, but the fifth, Wing Gundam, is intercepted during its descent by OZ's Lieutenant Zechs Merquise and it crashes into the Pacific Ocean. The Gundam's pilot, Heero Yuy, later washes up on shore and is discovered by Relena Darlian, the daughter of the Alliance's vice foreign minister.
Episode Two - The Gundam Deathscythe
Zechs locates the sunken Wing Gundam in the Pacific Ocean and seeks to claim it for OZ, while Heero attempts to destroy his Gundam with stolen torpedoes in order to prevent OZ from getting their hands on it. However, both of their plans are thwarted by Duo Maxwell, pilot of the Gundam Deathscythe.
To kick us off, I thought I'd pose some discussion questions. These aren't required; you guys are welcome to answer them or ignore them and talk about whatever you want (as long as it's not ship/character bashing; disliking a character is fine, bashing them is not), or even just liveblog in the comments, that's fine too. Just about anything goes. :3
We were introduced to a lot of characters in these two episodes, some more briefly than others. I know that most of us are watching this for the second or third time, but what were your first opinions on these characters? What did you think about Heero's actions and Relena's decisions? The standoff between Heero, Relena, and Duo? What were your impressions of the other pilots we were given brief glimpses of?
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Date: 2015-05-30 10:51 pm (UTC)Yesssss, so true. I was quite obsessed with that OP and I still like it, but probably more for nostalgia. GW had quite a distinct soundtrack by having all the vocal tracks performed by TWO-MIX (except the ED?).
When Heero wiped Relena's tears away, that was suave as hell.
lmao "suave" was my exact thought too (too suave compared to later Heero tbh).
Heero knows how to ride a horse and for some reason this is hilarious to me. Like, in his training to become a perfect soldier to learn horseback riding.
In my mind he never actually had formal training in horseback riding, or fencing either, but that anything he learned about piloting a Gundam and driving various vehicles he applies to other situations. Also making sure that Heero could learn quickly by observing seems like something Dr. J would do. I also like the thought that despite never being near a horse before, Heero doesn't give af and stays on with sheer will and badassery even when it's rearing and galloping around haha.
Though that he used the horse just to ride under a window he was going to break into cracks me up. Like, that's not conspicuous at all.
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Date: 2015-05-30 11:37 pm (UTC)Yeah, he didn't do a good job hiding his tracks at all. XD
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Date: 2015-05-31 02:32 pm (UTC)My theory is that there's an established riding trail under that window, so using the horse to go past it was largely a cover in case anyone wondered what he was doing there later.
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Date: 2015-06-01 03:13 am (UTC)