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

[yoshitsune]

Yeah, so much stuff happens and I keep getting distracted by the nice cell animation uvu

EP 5 & 6:

Just as well Wufei wasn't up to much besides a little stealthy throat chopping, because Uhn had the explosions and looking cool with complete disregard for safety quota well covered.

Heero as that weird kid with murder laugh and sick humour is starting to grow on me. My whole memories of his characterization were influenced too much by late series and EW, as well as his expys Sousuke and Setsuna, who're both much more in the truly earnest camp (and wouldn't really pretend they're going to kill an ally and then laugh creepily about it).

All I can really think about Quatre is boy you've got it baaad. Wowww.

OK the thing that annoys me about Relena is that her reckless actions at every opportunity are only matched by her total plot armor.

Also the animation was looking really fine, especially for the fights, like mmmmm Shenlong and Wing.

At this point Wufei is still flawlessly ruining lives, but it looks like he's about ready for his own moment of angst and doubting his life choices and existence.


EP 7 & 8:

[whisper] I love Wufei so much... I love how his intro to the other pilots was basically 'Stop your damn in-fighting. Also, you really fucked up. Bye.'

Though I was also ugly laughing at Alliance for thinking it would be fine and dandy to send all their top people out in an undefended space shuttle while there are 4 Gundams in the vicinity trying to murder them all (or was that machinated that way by Une?). And then Une's crowning moment of awesome when she shoots the guy in the head after he's already been dropped out of the plane. Damn, girl.

Heero's little mission successful smirk was so cute, but so was his next bsod moment. Poor kid just does the extremes. And fell on his head again (or Wing did). It's like he literally can't comprehend living unless he's winning and has a mission. Good old Sally for stepping in. I would almost ship some Sally/Heero if I weren't so lazy about het.

I also liked how well Trowa and Wufei worked together without really working together simply by being the ones who just get on with it. The Treize/Wufei fight was delightful, as was Wufei's fit of emotion! I hope Trowa fishes Wufei out of the sea before he wastes away from angst though.