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Rating: 6/10 (it’s a recap, can’t help it…)

Impressions:

I really don’t like the idea of the three world superpowers actually defeating Celestial Being in any way. It would be much more entertaining if the Thrones or something defected to their side and ended up being the main retaliating force. I find Graham, Ali and that super soldier girl annoying (I think I got their names right), though I really love Patrick’s character, as he’s so bad it’s just a joke now. Speaking of annoying characters, surprisingly, I didn’t find the Throne members that bad. I was expecting a lot of cockiness from them after saving the original Meisters, but only one of them really says the nasty things.

By the way things turn out, it seems like Sumeragi really never knew about the Thrones. Or at least never knew they were going to intervene. But was she really expecting the Meisters to simply die? I mean, everyone was only being captured, so there’s no reason they would die unless they decided to self-destruct (if they had that capability), but obviously no one did. This could just be a minor script slip up, but there’s too much that we don’t know (or not supposed to know anyway) for me to say anything at the moment. Hmm, maybe Sumeragi received some kind of order from above or something…

The second half of the episode is a recap, but nicely altered to become a discussion by what seems like a SEELE-type group, which at the moment doesn’t appear to be involved in anything significant. While SEELE basically controlled everything from behind the scenes in NGE, this group that Alejandro’s in may prove in the end to be an imposing third party. I can see them taking hold of these new Gundams somehow with their political influences or something, but right now, they’re too far out to be seen as a threat. In any case, next episode seems to be about the meeting between all the Gundam Meisters, which should prove to be quite interesting.

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