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GUNDAM WING - 2020 REWATCH - 17 - 18

What stands out now:

17. Betrayed by Home, Far Away

It’s cool how the Space Colonies were the inspiration for how the dream world would look in Inception.

Une’s interpretation of “more graceful” means letting her hair down and slipping into something more comfortable.

Nothing can go wrong with a Mobile doll, a mobile suit with no pilot. That never backfires, does it. I’M LOOKING AT YOU EVANGELION.

Une talking to the colonies: You People; The colonies: What do you mean “You people?”

Not the glasses… NOOOOOOO She’s evil again

Duo and Quatre plans are basically like “wait we don’t like OZ but our home is starting to like them” We better go, show them what’s up.

Young Politician: I’ve heard Une executed a number of plans in the past; Older Colony leader: No, no, those were “people”

“So they’re coming home as expected” Was that supposed to be your internal voice out did you mean to say that out loud??

Quatre: I don’t know Trowa’s phone number so I thought I’d just fight really hard and maybe he’ll show up

This young guy’s an idiot. I Love OZ. Eff the Gundams. I hope this doesn’t come back to bit him in the ass.

Wufei enters the battle like a goddamn super model

OMG They still don’t know Wufei’s name?

OMG Trowa and Heero are here HEART EYES MOTHERFUCKER

Wufei is like, thanks for sacrificing yourself, see ya space cowboy

How did Sandrock let him out? Did he go berserk? Is he going to eat the Aries mobile suits?

It’s been 15 years, now we can finally do our secret handshake again.

We have 5 master engineers on our ship, and we suddenly have massive failures. What could possibly be causing this???

18. Tallgeese Destroyed

It’s a good thing we had this space coaster coaster set up, or gettin off Earth would be tricky.

Do you think the scientists met in a “something weird happened to my face” support group, then broke off to build the gundams?

Zechs: Treize, I caught the feelings. What do I do now?

Treize is very explicitly like “Zechs will die” not Milliardo. WINK-WINK, NUDGE-NUDGE

Treize is so wonderful here. I love that he just strolls up and is like “I’ll fight these mobile dolls. You gonna stop me?? Also, if you try, let’s just test the allegiance of these soldiers...”

Strike a pose and make a statement, Treize. Take advantage of the breeze. You don’t even need a Gundam!

TREIZE IS THE GODDAMN BEST

The old Alliance is like: Dibs on that Gundam pilot

Wait, why are they sending out troops? Oh shoot, we should send ours out

I have a question: what happened to your noses? Seriously, guys. This is not keeping a low profile.

Quatre just gives motivational speeches in his sleep

He’s so motivational that Doctor J is like “He’s the ONE. He can bring everyone together” and that’s while he’s sleeping!

Wow that alliance guy just totally sacrificed himself for Quatre, who is now going to just float aimlessly through space

Zechs: Only 70 Mobile suits? I’m worth way more than that???

THE CRACK IN THE HELMET

Zechs: Farewell Treize, I still love you.

The VO of why they created the colonies and why humans are still there is still so poignant.

How did Heero get into this class, why is he reading off a blank paper? What is he doing? How long has he been there? How long has Quatre been floating in space? Why is Heero’s first move to enroll in a school?

SIR THIS IS A WENDYS - a joke that @mpanighetti took to just the right place.

I forgot that Heero was using Duo’s name here. He was like Oh, shit, I only know two people’s full names, and I probably can’t get away with going by “Relena” here, can I? Duo it is then. He’s so bad at this.

Episode Ratings/Thoughts:

Look, I am unapologetically a Treize girl. He is the gateway character into my love of morally ambiguous characters... But he is amazing in Episode 18. He knows how to play the game, and he is trying to get a win for himself and for Zechs, AND he is not afraid to put his money where his mouth is and just walk into a test battle. And damn, the way the soldiers immediately defer to his order. Yeah, I am into all of this. Tracking Treize’s arc and motivations is a big part of this rewatch for me.

All that being said, I found most of the non-Treize stuff in these episodes a little less exciting than everything leading up to this point. And I get that we have to have these episodes that push the plots along, and get the pilots back to space, but after not seeing Duo, Quatre, and Wufei for so long, it was a bit of a letdown.

What I think I remember for the next episode(s):

I think we get into some good Heero-Duo shenanigans (and I’ll be keeping my 1x2 goggles on because so far, I’m not seeing as much of that as I remember from back in the day). And I think we start to get the pilots realizing they actually have to communicate and work together if they want to get anything done.

#gundam wing rewatch 2020 #gundam memes #gundam wing #sorry for the super deep cut there guys #i couldn't stop thinking about the through the roses scene #the random stuff that comes out from these watch parties is amazing

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