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Recap:

01 "Celestial Being" October 6, 2007
"Celestial Being, a private army dedicated to eradicating war, begins demonstrating the powers of their new "MS-GUNDAM" suits by interrupting the public demonstration of AEU's latest Mobile Suit, the AEU Enact and by protecting the Human Reform Alliance's Space Elevator, "Tenchu" from being attacked by terrorists when their mobile suits had attempted to launch rockets on the "Tenchu", earning a news appearance from various TV news channels."

02 "Gundam Meister" October 13, 2007
"Celestial Being made their first appearance in Ceylon, formerly called Sri Lanka where Lockon leads his fellow Celestial Being comrades in taking on the Human Reform Alliance and rebel Sri Lankan forces. Meanwhile, JNN reporter Kinue Crossroad discovers something about Aeoria Schenberg's origins. The episode ends with Graham Acre ambushing Setsuna to sate his curiosity about the Gundams."

03 "Changing World" October 20, 2007
"Tieria returns to space with Gundam Virtue. The Union Army creates the Anti-Gundam Investigative Squad with Graham and Billy transferred from the MSWAD as official members. Meanwhile, Celestial Being launches surprise attacks in South Africa, the South American continent over Taribian airspace, formerly in Venezuela and in Ceylon. Setsuna later faces off against Colonel Smirnov while conducting an attack against Human Reform League mobile suits. Later on, a JNN broadcast revealed that various militant factions in North Ireland signed a peace treaty, ending years of fighting between themselves, the British Army and the PSNI."

04 "Foreign Negotiation" October 27, 2007
"Colonel Sergei returns to the Reform League to head a new squad designated for capturing one of the Gundams, with Soma Peiris as his designated subordinate. Encouraged by Celestial Being's anti-conflict actions, the South American nation of Taribia declares its withdrawal from the Union and declares it independence over the control of energy resources, prompting a Union military response, forcing Celestial Being to intervene. In Azadistan, Shirin Bakhtiar explains to First Princess Marina Ismail that the conflict is not as simple as it may first seem. Meanwhile, the Anti-Gundam Investigative Squad, in Flag Customs, engage Exia in Taribian airspace. Later on, pro-Taribian separatist politicians led by its prime minister are forced to drop their bid for independence after their forces were defeated by the Gundam Meisters."

Review:

So, the few day wait is over, and Gundam 00 Episode 5 is released. But was the wait truly worth it?

The answer is yes, yes it was.

Although it was a borderline filler episode, it still stayed solid with the storyline and didn't drift off anywhere in space (no pun intended).

Now the episode is about two of the minor characters (who knows, maybe they're main characters) going to space on a date. When they arrive on the space platform, they go around looking at places, and do the normal dating routine.

Meanwhile, it also shows how a certain Lieutenant agreed to be a test subject for a genome type human experiment that involves nano-machines and the like.

That, of course, was a flashback.

When the Corneal and Lieutenant jump into their suits, the Lieutenant goes mentally insane and starts shooting at the space platform, cutting loose one of the links that the two minor characters were in.

And trying not to be spoilerific, I'll just leave it there.

Of course, I didn't give out any names to cut the spoilers somewhat.

And really, episode 5 was just really fun. I have not been disappointed in Gundam 00 at all, really.

The usual Gundam clichés are really done away with. And it's great, because we really don't need any more trump card laser-beams winning every single freaking fight in the series.

What's even more interesting, though, is the amount of religious overtones 00 has. I mean, we're not talking about Xenogears/Xenosaga type stuff, but it's really interesting because:

A: It's obviously set around the Iraq war, of course in the future.

And B: It's odd for a Gundam series (correct me if I'm wrong, please).

Now, call me obsessive-compulsive, but I did find near the end one of the characters lips didn't sync completely right with the sound. It might have been just me, but that's REALLY the only bad thing I found.

So overall, this series is a MUST for any Gundam, Mecha, or political drama fan. You just can't miss it at all.

So overall, this episode gets a 9.9/10.

- Lord Mog

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er where the heck did u copy and paste this crap from anyway??

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Lord Mog

The only thing I copied was the episode summaries from Wikipedia, I wrote the review myself.