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So, I rewatched the first episode of Gundam Wing tonight. It's nice having it on DVD, because it makes it so easy to pause it so that I may laugh my ass off without fear of missing something. Mostly at Zechs. I'm not the only one!
Zechs: "So that's their little battle seed, here to grow more battles."
co-pilot minion: *makes a little snorting noise like he's stifling a laugh, as his eyebrows go up and his lips sort of smile in a trying-not-to way*
or how about:
keener minion: "I say we wake him up with our machine gun."
Zechs: "No machine gun for him!"
XD Oh, Zechs, you amazing budgie.
It is a good episode, though, in that it at least gives you a glimpse of each of the pilots once they've reached Earth -- we won't be seeing some of them for a bit -- and also of a few of the other principle players.
Relena is just as batshit crazy as I remembered, but somehow I had become fuzzy on what an incredible brat she is. Seriously, if my dad let me tag along with him on his diplomatic mission IN SPACE, I'd like to think I'd have been a little more grateful. The first time we see her she's bitching him out for not spending time with her. He's an important diplomat dealing with a volatile situation! The colonies and Earth are on the brink of war! (The first battle starts in that scene!) He took you to space -- suck it up, princess!
Oh, how I wish Zechs hadn't shown up in time to stop Heero from destroying the shuttle Relena was on. She's so incredibly annoying, moreso because I think I'm intended to somehow sympathise with her and that's just never ever happening. Not when she's so clearly off her nut.
Meanwhile, I really like Treize. I had forgotten how much. I wholly sympathise with his frustration with the stupid old men who are running things, even though I strongly suspect he's meant to be based off of Napoleon. (And he must be very good about bribing folk, for them to let him take his laptop into his balcony at the opera. I wonder what he was there to see?)
The most perplexing thing about this episode is how many people on the Earth-side seem to know about Operation M(eteor). Zechs and Treize and their men -- but not the older military dudes, plainly. Ambassador Dorlian actually looks out the shuttle window at the "battle seed" prepping to shoot him down and says, out loud on a civilian shuttle, "So they've gone ahead with Operation Meteor". If so many people know about it, why the hell weren't they prepared to deal with it? It is just because of the stubborn old men? I think it must be.
Zechs: "So that's their little battle seed, here to grow more battles."
co-pilot minion: *makes a little snorting noise like he's stifling a laugh, as his eyebrows go up and his lips sort of smile in a trying-not-to way*
or how about:
keener minion: "I say we wake him up with our machine gun."
Zechs: "No machine gun for him!"
XD Oh, Zechs, you amazing budgie.
It is a good episode, though, in that it at least gives you a glimpse of each of the pilots once they've reached Earth -- we won't be seeing some of them for a bit -- and also of a few of the other principle players.
Relena is just as batshit crazy as I remembered, but somehow I had become fuzzy on what an incredible brat she is. Seriously, if my dad let me tag along with him on his diplomatic mission IN SPACE, I'd like to think I'd have been a little more grateful. The first time we see her she's bitching him out for not spending time with her. He's an important diplomat dealing with a volatile situation! The colonies and Earth are on the brink of war! (The first battle starts in that scene!) He took you to space -- suck it up, princess!
Oh, how I wish Zechs hadn't shown up in time to stop Heero from destroying the shuttle Relena was on. She's so incredibly annoying, moreso because I think I'm intended to somehow sympathise with her and that's just never ever happening. Not when she's so clearly off her nut.
Meanwhile, I really like Treize. I had forgotten how much. I wholly sympathise with his frustration with the stupid old men who are running things, even though I strongly suspect he's meant to be based off of Napoleon. (And he must be very good about bribing folk, for them to let him take his laptop into his balcony at the opera. I wonder what he was there to see?)
The most perplexing thing about this episode is how many people on the Earth-side seem to know about Operation M(eteor). Zechs and Treize and their men -- but not the older military dudes, plainly. Ambassador Dorlian actually looks out the shuttle window at the "battle seed" prepping to shoot him down and says, out loud on a civilian shuttle, "So they've gone ahead with Operation Meteor". If so many people know about it, why the hell weren't they prepared to deal with it? It is just because of the stubborn old men? I think it must be.
