Gundam 00 S2 – 17: Andrei's Hail Mary

I think I am starting to see things that aren’t really there…

I am thoroughly euphoric and shit faced from the Super Bowl and intermittently passing out from food coma after walking back with my bike from the bar. Place holder post for now, will update leader board and this post when I sober up by tomorrow afternoon. Congradulations to Super Bowl XLIII Champs, the Pittsburgh Steelers for breaking the record for most Super Bowl Wins the 49ers will catch up someday… One of the best games I have seen, Interception with a 100 yard return, AMAZING. Good job Cardinals for hanging in there and coming back from an 11 point deficit, a Super Bowl first IIRC. Feel free to work teh RAGE HAET for Andrei. Damn chilli fries…I wish I could quit you. (Yeah I like football and my team is one of the worst, sue me)

If you kill someone, if you have do is it somehow better to do it clean with a bullet through the head? Is it some how worse to chop them up with an axe? What if you have to kill ten, or a hundred, or a thousand? What if in doing so you save a thousand or spare ten? What if you save yourself? What is the measure of a man or of his murder? By what insane calculus can we answer questions like these? Should we even try? – Major General Katagiri

Current Standings, I can’t believe Andrei just shot up to the 4th place…

I’ll skip the summary again because I have some mild wrist problems and am in desperate need of an ergonomic keyboard, I also need better meds that Motrin. It was a shooting gallery for the most part and we learned about how much of terrible father Sergei was to Andrei, who later developed an oedipal complex that resulted in Andrei shooting up to 4th place on the leaderboard. It was rather confusing initially in regards to what Homer was trying to achieve, at first it seemed as if he was simply going to blow the Africa tower all to hell and hence the pull back of the Feddie Army, but now right when Kataron sallied from the Africa Tower the Feddies were out there waiting for them. It’s a significant continuity error since by all rights the Feddies were in no position to tear Kataron a new asshole the minute they got out of the elevator. Also how did Divine get into space when Empress was with Katie’s fleet? Goodman ordered it to sortie but at the time it was on the surface. Glaring errors aside it seems that Homer wasn’t going to blow it all to hell only the low orbit station and even then he wasn’t telling Goodman to aim dead center. Given how Memento Mori only dropped a few degrees after it was hit I suspect Homer only gave Goodman the go ahead to blast off part of the station to let it depressurize and kill everyone in it. The High Orbit Station seems to have some how kept the tether up, but whether from broken physics or that the other two towers kept the entire thing up is beyond me as I have no idea how much engineering would have gone into them. Katie certainly thought Homer was going to blow apart the entire low-orbit station but the angle of the shot makes me doubt that even Katie knew what Homer was up to. No one seems to be talking to one another even within the A-Laws.

Andrei is clearly hot for mommy. Also Ginin’s was better.

Mein Oberst you can always call Homer and see how much off his rocker he is…

Peace through Superior firepower.

Given how it seems Homer is ignorant of media manipulation by VEDA the second wave of automatons were probably meant to cut the line of retreat for Hank and his coup plotters, given how no one other than Hank knew what he was really up to and Homer’s automatons were not making headway he probably wrote off the hostages as walking dead. Even if there were cameras it seems Ribbons and VEDA altered them before any one saw them, Homer probably didn’t see them first since there were trust issues between him and the Innovators. I assume that for Homer the Feddie government was not going to give in to Hank’s demands and that Hank would start killing hostages in an attempt to get concessions. Judging by Billy’s statement it seems probably that Homer was going to off Hank and the hostages so that the Feddie Army could storm the tower and leave it largely intact without worrying about who was caught in the middle. I think I can catch what Homer was trying to do even of Goodman is off his rocker, I guess for the original core that formed the A-Laws peace was to be preserved by any means necessary, hence why Homer felt that peace was precious even if Hank decried it as false. So far only 00bama and Ribbons seem to fully understand what is going on with Homer and the A-Laws being played for saps, and why Homer was seemingly ready to resign in disgrace over the matter. No cover up would have prevented the Feddie Fleet from seeing Memento Mori blast chunks out of the low orbit station, and given that there was no evacuation quieting those people who were still around the tower for what ever reason would have been impossible even more so now that the loyalty of the Feddie Regulars was not as sure as it once was.

More like dirt stupid Hank.

Wait why is there still Global Warming? Or is the heated atmosphere between these two the cause?

If so you’re aim was already off…

Since the automatons failed to get a beach head going and were taken care of fairly easily sending in the troops would still have resulted in dead hostages with even more bloodshed in urban fighting. It would have boiled down to bullets, grenades, and bayonets and it would have been slow going. In that regard there wasn’t much that could be done to resolve it quickly, the fundamental problem here as in everywhere was that no one was talking I doubt Homer knew what Hank was really trying to do, and given how Hank never seems to have even wanted to chat with Homer both made some assumptions about the other. As far as Hank was concerned the Feddies were going to off the civilians because they knew too much, when it probably seemed to Homer that the terrorist Hank was just going to kill them off anyways as a bargaining chip against Parliament that refused to negotiate, after all that’s what normally happens with hostages. Even if there was movement of the hostages the logical assumption would have been that Hank was moving them off for later use. Maybe if they met they could have guessed what each was trying to do, but they never so much as even talked face to face.

FLAG service.

We need an Enact based equivalent of Masurao…

For a guy named Hercules he sure is adept at being Wild Bear’s bitch…

Ah well the shooting gallery produced a lot of dust and dead, it did prove at least that when the chips were down the Feddies and A-Laws were willing to work as erstwhile allies with their enemies. In the end though, Hank and his coup will get all the blame along with Kataron and Celestial Being. Hank messed up big time by thinking that he was safe in the Africa Tower, from a strategic point of view the Feddies could not have let the situation drag for long, and loss of the tower would have threatened their energy reserves which were vital to the Feddie economy. Moreover Hank provided a focal point and could have used the Africa Tower as a haven for Kataron, and CB. In fact if Katron was moving equipment into the elevator I doubt Homer and the rest of the Federation can hardly be blamed for thinking that Kataron was establishing a new base with their new terrorist buddies led by Hank. Once taking it through Automaton failed, a long siege would have been costly in terms of blood, money, and resources. Taking out Hank and the hostages would have eliminated the need to go slow and hopefully would have left the coup plotters some pause as their hostages were already dead and could not be used to stop an advance. Still no one seemed to care much about the civilians, for Hank they had to be punished, and for Homer they were already beyond saving even if he tried.

Hank certainly lost most of his manliness after being manhandled.

Behold the power of Saji’s Reach Around.

That’s one bulimic elevator.

GN Archer showed up and boy does it look rather feminine. The first sortie did not rock my world though as shooting a few menacing solar panels is hardly the kind of thing that gets me excited. Maybe it will rock when it kills Andrei. Still I am proud of Louise for being able to follow Katie’s orders, so Ginin has indeed taught her well. Andrei on the other hand was getting too hot blooded and started acting without orders. I can sort of understand how Andrei could kill Hank since Hank was made out to be worse than he was and Hank Hercules was destroying the peace that Andrei’s mum had always wanted. Killing Sergei though was more of heat of the moment thing, let’s be honest Sergei was much more of a father to Soma than he was to his own son, after Holly’s death Sergei didn’t even want to face his son for what happened. Besides for painting Taozi blue Sergei probably deserved to die in Andrei’s view, because Taozi would have been kept pink. Funny how Soma might have smoothed things over, but Marie showed up ran away with her loser boyfriend, and now pretends to have cared.

I prefer GM Cannons myself.

…Really showing Kataron how it’s done.

Good job Kataron. Also no you cannot have it.

I have no idea what Ribbons is trying to accomplish by letting Hank do as he pleased and could have lost the Africa Tower in the process. I guess for an Innovator he feels he has all the time in the world, even if it all went to hell Ribbons could still start from scratch. Now that we know he thinks little of his creations I wonder how many Innovators will turn on him. Maybe Revival can make it out alive if he sides with Katie. Speaking of Katie I wonder what happens now that the Africa Tower got banged up real good, it seems that it did not fall, but the rail link was totaled. As glorious as Katie’s cavalry charge was I wonder why Revival and Care were left behind, also where was Patrick? I would have expected at least Revival to show up but I guess Ribbons forbade them or something. Well it will be interesting to see a Federation that is really out for blood after this, 00bama is going to blame Hank and Kataron for this and Ribbons will be more able to take advantage of the atmosphere of fear.

You have to wonder when CB and Jihad-kun will finally attack the root of the problem instead of siding with Kataron every time they cause trouble. They have known for some time, but given how no one is talking and Sumeragi is not pleading Katie to give her some mercy I trust that CB is going to kill a lot more people before they take on Ribbons. If only they weren’t so dumb, they know about VEDA, Sumeragi knows Katie is no idiot, and Jihad-kun knows who Ribbons is, but still no direct action against Ribbons. Saji is trying to become useful, but right now all he is doing is giving Jihad-kun a power up with a reach around. Moreover where the hell is Prince Ali and Bushido Bob? I can’t see why either would have passed up a good fight. It’s frustrating how two top tier pilots go MIA every time something major happens, Ribbons has them on his pay roll so really what gives?

Next week they do a time skip so they can avoid the awkward building of Anew’s character and her fall into the evil arms of Lying Lyle. Also it seems we are in for more day care. Marina’s statement about her song reaching every one has me thinking that there will be a concert somewhere down the line, it better be epic and there has to be a holosuit.