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Episode 9 - The Secret Mobile Suit
Should be a quick one this week as not a whole lot happens. We start off on the Diva with Woolf and the kids marveling at the new Gundam and the G-exes. Woolf then gets a call (they still have cell phones in the future?) from Madorna, the mecha guy who built the G-Exes, and says he wants Woolf to come by and check things out and we hit the opening credits.
We’re back and Woolf arrives via shuttle at the Mecha shop with Flit, Emily and Dique. After the usual comical stuff Madorna as he directs them to the factory floor where he’ll meet them. They have a quick glance around and then look at the various mobile suits that are collected there. Dique spots one that he likes but Madorna, with his wife shows up and starts being the crusty old man. Then it evolves into a who has the better mobile suit, the Gundam or the G-exes, and Madorna dismisses Flit until Flit tells him he’s an Asuno to which the old man changes his tune and they start talking shop about mobile suit designs and such. While this is going on Madorna’s wife and Emily have their “boys and toys” type of girl talk while the elder of the pair seems to pick up that Emily may have a thing for Flit. NAAAWWWWW.
We then get to the point of the episode as they check out what Madorna called them to check out, a UE mobile suit that he was asked to customize. Of course the Gundam crew is shocked by this and starts asking why he’s working on a Ue mobile suit and the likes. Just as Madorna is about to reveal the name of the person who brought the Ue suit powers up and starts shooting up the factory, trying to escape. Madrona direct Flit and Woolf to a pair of mobile suits they can use to try and stop it but they obviously can as the fight spills outside in space.
Flit calls Vargas back at the Diva to send out the Gundam, which is does as the new UE unit literately flies circles around the pair. Moments later, since Vargas has access to FTL tech, the Gundam arrives and Flit floats from the suit he’s in to the Gundam while Woolf covers him. I know it’s a few seconds but methinks he’s have some sort of injury or signs of such being in open space with bare skin. Of course, we see that even though he has the Gundam, the Titus form doesn’t stand much of a chance as the UE suit is far too fast to be hit. While this is going on, the AGE system in the Gundam is sending back data to the AGE builder. At this point we go to Desil who is watching and notes he’s bored as orders them to pull back the unit at which point it flies away and leaving a confused Woolf and Flit. We head back in and Madrona’s wife gives Emily the “if you care about someone then support them” speech as she gets Emily to realize she may have feelings of more than friendship for Flit. Impossible, Emily has no room in her heart but for her own selfish desires! Anyway, we learn the name of the man who brought the suit there: Yark Dole.
Back on the Diva as Woolf and Flit report to Grodek what they know and Grodek shares that Yark Dole came up doing his own talks on the Colony. He then announces that the Diva will meet with the ships the Zalam and Euda are providing before going to battle the UE. The crew of course objects and it break many regulations along with cutting out the Federation command. Grodek, Emily et all this fess up to the stuff we knew before but they didn’t: The original captain was going to leave the colony behind, Grodek lost his family to the UE, The federation knows and doesn’t care, Emily is a cunt. Well, not the last one. Anyway, the crew then all agrees to follow Ahab…err….Grodek on the mission just as an alert comes in: UE mobile suits are approaching. The Episode ends with Vargas in the hanger area being shocked at the designs the AGE Builder is spitting out.
Nimrod’s Thoughts – Not much to say about this episode. It seems by the end the whole bridge crew of the Diva are crazy and deserve whatever fate they have for following the madman in command. Of course, the show again defies logic in many places though at least it seems we learn that the Ue units may be completely remote or even AI controlled and not actually alien. Oh, and it seems we may be getting something new for the Gundam next week if the end says something. I’ll be honest; if I didn’t have to recap it here I may have given up on this show by now.
