The Great Gundam Wing Rewatch: Episodes 5, 6, 7, and 8

[nanslice]

First, a recap of the episodes watched last week!


Episode Six - Relena's Secret
When Relena accompanies her father to the colonies where he is expected at an important meeting, he is severely injured in an explosion set off by OZ's Colonel Lady Une; father and daughter are soon spirited away by Doctor J, the engineer who designed the Wing Gundam and trained Heero. Before Vice Foreign Minister Darlian dies, he reveals to Relena her true identity, and Relena soon learns from Doctor J the extent of Heero's mission and his past.

Episode Seven - Party Night
Relena returns to school in time for a dance, but discovers Heero is going to transfer. After she challenges him to kill her after she reveals she knows all about him, Lady Une sends mobile suits at the school to kill Relena. Heero uses the Wing Gundam to fight back (believing the enemy suits have come to get him) and ends up saving Relena, much to his own disbelief.


And a recap for the episodes watched for this week!


Episode Seven - Scenario of Bloodshed
The five Gundams all gather at the New Edwards Base in an attempt to kill the higher echelon members of OZ, but they discover too late they have been tricked; Heero has already eliminated the pacifist leaders of the Alliance while Lady Une and the leader of OZ, Colonel Treize Khushrenada, manipulate the only survivor, General Septum, into declaring war on the colonies (before they kill him too). The Alliance is overturned from within and OZ takes over as the new ruling power.

Episode Eight - The Treize Assassination
Trowa and Wufei go after Treize while Heero, Duo and Quatre attempt to stop the detonation of the New Edwards Base. Wufei and Treize duel in a battle for honor and justice, but Treize decides to spare Wufei when the young man loses and allows him to escape.


A lot happens in these four episodes! Remember, spoilers are welcome as long as you use whiteout text or Rot13. :3

Comments

[redsixwing]

The whole bit at the school just confuses me enormously.

On the other hand, we get to see Relena having some serious guts (and even more so, reading Taichara's GoL notes, wow). Does she do some really ineffective, dangerous, scatterbrained things? Oh yes. Does she still haul off and do 'em? Ohhh yes.

Not really sure how all that got past the Alliance without detection, tho. I mean, Gundams, yeah. But there was a plan to kill all the Alliance leaders/pacifists/whatnot BEFORE they showed up. I'm now curious what it was.

Stupid shouty Septum nearly got me banned from watching GW, back when I was a teen buying VHS tapes of it with my minimal paychecks, because he was loud and obnoxious and apparently a bad example? And then he got thrown out of a plane and shot, and I got to keep buying VHS, muhahaha.

[taichara]

Removing the school batshittery (and assassination batshittery) is one of the best elements from Glory so far, imo. It really tightens things up.

My best thought at the moment for the planned Alliance deaths? That shuttle was never going to get off the ground without exploding -- Heero destroys it while it's still taxi'ing, so we never see it fly. Such a shame, machine failure ...