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"The Gundam's curse is a heavier burden than you think."
Some fans thought a school setting would mean a lighthearted approach, but they seemingly forgot what franchise they were watching.
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PROLOGUE
- The GUND Format's effects on humans are rather grisly and seeing rows of hospitalized people does add credence to Delling's condemnation of it.
- Nyla's Boom, Headshot! is pretty shocking, especially in the TV Version.
- Watching the Beguir-Beu completely destroy Wendy's Gundam Lfrith Pre-Production Model and then kill her can be rather tough to sit through. The poor girl basically doesn't just get quickly slaughtered, but brutally mauled and bisected.
- Four-Year-Old Eri's innocent Accidental Murder of three pilots and relating them to candles is very chilling and has become the Prequel's Signature Scene for very good reason. Even Ericht's mom is horrified to discover the Gundam Lifrith is under her control, knowing her precious little girl will become a walking target for life.
- In the web novel leading up to the series proper: said mother, Elnora, was so wrought with grief and trauma over losing everything but her daughter, that she then turned around and groomed Ericht into an oblivious Tyke Bomb. With new aliases in tow, she intentionally weaponizes her daughter's potential she was initially horrified over for some long-term vengeance.
- The Dominicos Corps' horrified reaction to realizing that a four-year-old child happened to be caught in the crossfire when they were ordered to destroy Fólkvangr, with the only reason they even know due to hearing said child singing happy birthday with her father, a father that they no-doubt just killed.
First Cour
Episode 1: The Witch and the bride
- On Suletta’s first day at school, her first class is interrupted by a duel. The ensuing duel would’ve crushed her flat if it hadn’t been for Miorine.
Episode 4: Unseen Trap
- At the beginning of the episode, Vim showcases his anger at the Witch, Suletta, after some of his 'investors' mention that they'll cut off some of his funds if he doesn't show results in getting his son to reclaim his spot as Miorine’s fiancé. While that by itself isn’t nightmare-inducing, we have to keep in mind he was close to committing an assassination of Delling which would've likely had collateral damage. This same man now has his anger directed at a young girl who is in over her head.
- The news scene showing mobile suits being used against Earthian protestors is rather chilling. The gas canisters being fired were the size of trash cans, and the mobile suits are shown marching toward them. It's really, really hard to imagine nobody getting killed in this event. Later on, the news lies and states the protestors had weapons including Molotov cocktails as if that warranted the response it got.
- Chuchu belting one of the girls tormenting poor Suletta was an incredibly satisfying moment, but there is something unnervingly realistic about the way she is knocked unconscious: Chuchu socks her in the side of the face, and a moment later, the bully just slumps over like a ragdoll. Ouch!
Episode 5: Reflection in an Icy Eye
- At the end of their duel after luring Guel into his stun trap, Elan proceeds to brutally dismember the Dilanza. With the reactions of everyone watching, you'd be inclined to think that Elan killed Guel then and there. It doesn't stop with just dismembering the Dilanza either: Once it's on the ground, Elan has the Pharact manually rip apart the Dilanza's antennae as if ripping someone's head off all while Guel begs him for mercy.Guel Jeturk: Stop...
Elan Ceres: [Pharact grabs the Dilanza's fin and begins yanking on it] The only way to defeat a Gundam...
Guel Jeturk: I SAID STOOOOOOOOOOOPP!!!!!!!
Elan Ceres: ...is with a Gundam. [Pharact rips off the fin] - The simple fact that Peil Technologies has given zero fucks about the Gundam ban established by the Cathedra Agreement, and have gone so far as engineering the equivalent of Cyber Newtypes to get in on the action, with Elan himself implying that he's just the latest of many attempts.
Episode 6: A Gloomy Song
- Elan's true nature is very disturbing. On top of his harmful enhancements to pilot Gundams, he was robbed of his original identity by Peil Technologies and turned into a body double for the real Elan Ceres, who casually gloats about "Elan's" predicament to his face and holds the prospect of getting his life back over his head. Worse still is that he's implied to be one of many "Elans" who are in the same boat as him, which is justification enough for the heads of Peil to murder him via incineration for failing to beat Suletta.
- We also get our first true glimpse into the true nature of the Aerial. When Elan goes to Permet 4, he sees the GUND-bits as glowing silhouettes of a young Ericht Samaya, who all start to giggle creepily as they surround him and prepare for a finisher. Suletta considers the bits separate entities, and in addition, said bits go out of their way to protect one that had been disabled. On top of all that, it's revealed that it's been 21 years since the assault on Folksvangr, despite Suletta only being a high-schooler and only 17. The implications are obvious and disturbing. To drive this home, the musical swell that accompanied Suletta's prior victories is noticeably missing from the scene.
Episode 7: Shall We Gundam?
- After the Peil Technologies CEOs ask Suletta some questions regarding her and Elan's duel, the platform Suletta is on starts rising much higher as the CEOs confirm that the Aerial is indeed a Gundam. Cue ominous red lights to loom over Suletta as she's subjected to what is basically a kangaroo court, with the poor girl unable to do anything but plead her case and cry out to her mother for help.
- The incubation event gives us a glimpse into just how horrifyingly wealthy and powerful the various Benerit companies are. Piel Technologies is willing to jettison their Gundam program, valued at about 120 billion dollars, without batting an eye for the sake of making Delling choose to save Aerial or not. Miorine then doubles that to found her GUND Format research 'start-up'.note
Episode 8: Their Choice
- There is something off about how quickly Suletta accepts her mother's words, specifically with her eyes, that she kept Aerial's nature as a Gundam secret to protect them both, enthusiastically taking her word for it in a way that brings to mind gaslighting and outright brainwashing. Miorine is understandably unnerved when this happens.
Episode 9: If I Could Take One More Step Toward You
- Vim telling his son that he has a ‘backup’ plan in regards to Miorine after making it clear he can’t count if Guel wins back the Holder position after losing three times. Considering what Vim has been willing to do in previous episodes, it can be rather nerve-wracking to consider what he is planning.
- Lauda's sadistic cheering when Suletta is about to lose, clearly taking sadistic glee in seeing her violently beaten and calling her a "Mercurian wench". Even Secilia is visibly unsettled at how much joy he seems to be taking from her humiliating defeat. Between that and Vim's very nature, it's becoming clear that Guel may be the ONLY member of the family with any sense of humanity that could surface.
- As awesome as it was for Suletta and Aerial to singlehandedly fight the entire Grassley team and nearly win by themselves, the means by which the two access their Heroic Second Wind is somewhat creepy. The two seemingly have a proper conversation with each other, but because Aerial can't talk, it's like Suletta is only talking to herself, which confuses and bothers Miorine on the comms.
- The way Earth House's non-pilot volunteers get dismembered by Grassly Team is already hard to watch but becomes even worse when you remember that most of the members of Earth House are war orphans and contributed to GUND-ARM with the express condition of not developing mobile suits. Even in a controlled environment like the school, volunteering to get in a cockpit just to get gunned down by soldiers-in-training is probably a nightmare scenario for most of them.
Episode 10: Circling Thoughts
- The episode starts out with Vim happily telling Sarius that Delling is going to die. While Sarius apparently dismisses that he is capable of pulling it off, he is completely unaware that Vim has been close to pulling it off before. The only reason Delling is still alive is that his son lost to Suletta during the first episode.
- Elan seems fixated on seducing Suletta over to his side. He comes close to tempting her by simply pointing out that Miorine is using her, and he attempts to kiss her while her head is attempting to process everything only for her to push him and run away. As she runs, he seems impressed she resisted, but he appears confident that he'll push her over the edge to get her on his side. One can only wonder what other mind games he and Peil might play or what they’ll do if they succeed. Suletta even comments to herself that she found him to be frightening.
Episode 11: The Witches from Earth
- It's revealed that not only does Delling know who Prospera really is, but that they are also working together on a project named "Quiet Zero," something that Aerial is seemingly a part of.
- In this same conversation, it's revealed that Aerial has reached a Permet Score of 6. Keep in mind that Permet 3 already severely harms the pilot, and Permet 4 can outright kill someone unless they're an Enhanced Human like Elan, and even with all his augments he was pretty sure the Data Storm from using Score 4 would lead to his death.
- Prospera distinctly speaks to Aerial, assuring her that she won't leave her behind during the attack on Plant Quetta - once again calling Aerial's true nature into question.
- Shaddiq orders the assassination attempt on Delling two hours ahead of time despite knowing Miorine is there. At least one of his coconspirators expresses some level of concern about this. Shaddiq merely dismisses it by saying if Miorine is lucky, she’ll be fine.
- The episode ends with Suletta isolated and locked in a section of the station that can easily be exposed to space, with Miorine on the other side of a blast door. And to make matters worse, the Ax-Crazy Gundam pilot and terrorist Sophie has recognized her and seems very excited to meet the Witch from Mercury.
Episode 12: Keep Marching On Instead of Running Off
- Sophie has no mercy for Suletta even though she has no means of defending herself, cheerfully opening fire around the room she's in when all that separates her from space is a glass window. Miorine hears the gunfire on Suletta’s side and is horrified at the idea Suletta might be dead.
- Guel is understandably terrified when fighting another mobile suit because, unlike his simple school duels, his life is on the line, crying and screaming all the while before mustering the strength to fatally stab his combatant's cockpit. He is then mortified to find out he accidentally killed his own father. The sight of Vim’s dying body doesn’t help, given he'd just been impaled with a giant heat blade, and the inside of his cockpit is splattered with blood.
- Suletta seems to be suffering an outright panic attack after witnessing her mother kill off a group of Dawn of Fold terrorists, crouching on the ground in utter horror as her eyes flit back and forth in a panic. Prospera then rationalizes to her traumatized daughter that killing is alright in this scenario if it means protecting oneself and their loved ones. And when she brings up their "move forward, gain two" philosophy, something changes in Suletta and she wholeheartedly agrees with her mother while exhibiting none of the terror she was experiencing just moments ago.
- The devastating power of Aerial Rebuild, gaining a new gun that can combine with her GUND-Bits to fire off a Wave-Motion Gun. Norea, who is an experienced Gundam pilot and a proper terrorist, has a visible Oh, Crap! reaction before yelling at her allies to get out of the way, and a Desultor which barely avoids the beam gets its feet melted just from being nearby. On top of all that, the Aerial's beam weapons are still set to school-regulated minimum output, so that's not even full strength.
- Ever wonder what would happen if a Mobile Suit opted to slam its hand down on someone without any ounce of a Gory Discretion Shot in sight? Aerial Rebuild bursts through a wall to pull a Big Damn Heroes against a terrorist intending to kill Miorine and Delling, bringing its hand down followed by a startling display of red everywhere, with only one of the victim's arms left as it flies by Miorine to traumatize the hell out of her. Even worse is the follow-up, where a completely nonchalant and jovial Suletta gets out of the Aerial and falls into the pool of the terrorist's blood, even joking about how clumsy she was. She then extends a completely blood-soaked hand to Miorine, totally oblivious as to why the poor girl is utterly terrified to the bone of her now. Miorine even asks how Suletta is able to smile the way she is. Suletta's eyes consistently remain wide throughout that scene and are not seen blinking either.Miorine: How... How can you smile like that...?
Suletta: [almost nonchalantly] Huh?
Miorine: Murderer...! - This episode, but especially the final scene, makes you stop and wonder if there's something more Lady Prospera did when raising Suletta besides just a mantra to encourage herself. Her motto clearly not only encourages the girl in dire situations, but when said by Prospera, it almost has a similar effect to BioShock's "Would you kindly", completely shutting down Suletta's empathy and morality that were such an important component of her personality outside of Aerial's cockpit, leaving only the unhindered urge to complete the current objective no matter the cost. All the while Suletta behaves like this is totally normal and fine.
Second Cour
Episode 13: Envoys from the Earth
- While on a call with her mother, Suletta worries that she went too far when saving Miorine, showing that she does have some doubts about what she did. Then Prospera simply tells her that she did the right thing, and Suletta trusts her without question. What's worse, The Stinger shows Miorine accusing Prospera of having manipulated her daughter... and Prospera tells her that she agrees that Suletta went too far, even if it was for a good cause. Prospera has no issues lying to her daughter's face to keep her under her thumb or playing both sides to serve her agenda.
- When Nika objects to Norea and Sophie's presence at the school, trying to find out what they're going. Norea threatens her with a knife. And when she tries to foil them directly, Norea goes a step further and tries to step on her with the Pharact. If Suletta hadn't shown up in time, Nika would've shared the grisly fate of the terrorist from the last episode.
Episode 14: What They Wish For
- Continuing from their conversation in the previous episode’s stinger, Miorine can see that Prospera is manipulating Suletta as a means to an end to achieve her goals while Prospera merely tells Miorine that she has allowed Suletta to go to school because that was what she wished.
- When Suletta tells Sophie that she can’t lose a duel because she promised Miorine she wouldn’t lose a duel, Sophie immediately figures she should kill Miorine much to Suletta’s confusion and shock.
- Norea brutally and intentionally killing one of the school's pilots, in front of everyone, pretty much solely because he was a Spacian. Keep in mind, the whole school is watching the Rumble. A whole school of teenagers just saw one of their classmates get murdered before their eyes.
- Gundvolvas, GUND-bits not in the form of mere flying guns but full-scale semi-independent Gundams, that comes in hordes. And the attack is only a skirmish at best. Is it any wonder why Delling took such a hard-line stance against GUND-Format development to abusive levels?
- Prospera reveals to Belmeria that Ericht's mind was somehow uploaded into the Aerial, and claims that her goal is to make her daughter happy. Belmeria is so horrified at the revelation that Prospera turned her own daughter into a mobile suit that she nearly throws up on the spot.
- When Sophie sees through the GUND-format and realizes that Aerial is Ericht, Ericht turns to her with a completely callous expression on her face, lit up by the GUND-format Volcanic Veins, lifting her arm to signal the Stave Bits to kill her. Though she stops short of actually firing, it's unclear if that was because Suletta asked her, or because Sophie was already dead.
- What Aerial puts Sophie through even before lining up her Stave Bits to fire on her is horrifying. Deploying her data storm field, she wrests control of Sophie's Gundams from her, the process making her let out a bloodcurdling scream of pain. Despite this, Sophie keeps trying to fight through the pain, pushing her GUND to the limit to keep Ur under her control, coughing up blood before finally expiring from the strain.
- And one has to wonder what's going on in Shaddiq's head while he orchestrates all of this. While we could understand Shaddiq having his Amazon Brigade kidnap his foster father at gunpoint as a means to an end to gain control, allowing an armed terrorist group to kill students who probably have little to no idea what this was all about right inside the school is far less understandable.
Episode 15: Father and Child
- An imprisoned Guel being force-fed by Olcott, because the Dawn of Fold need him alive for potential negotiations with Benerit. The guy gets no break despite his post-patricide Despair Event Horizon.
- The depths of Norea's bottomless and irrational hatred for Spacians is on full display here, as if the unnecessary murder of a student last episode, again, for the sole crime of being a Spacian, wasn't enough. She fully blames Sophie's death and the impending attack on their fellows on Earth on Nika, repeatedly kicking her, and then taking it up a notch from being offended by the latter's more pacifistic wishes and desires. What makes her rage even more frightening is how completely Norea is fully in the wrong here. It's her and Sophie who chose to initiate the attack, and Norea herself told Suletta, who by all means should have been her killer, that Sophie's death wasn't her fault and that her GUND-Format's strain was the real cause. And Nika similarly has nothing to do with the Benerit Group's forces moving on Earth, as they were already mobilized after the attack on Plant Quetta - Nika couldn't even confess about her own involvement before Henao caught her, let alone leak any information on Dawn of Fold's whereabouts. All Nika did was threaten to expose the girls so that they won't try anything funny while in the school, but it's Norea who kept escalating the threat of violence. Even when Sabina steps in to stop Norea, the latter has the nerve to threaten her, before Sabina reminds her of her place.
- While Ireesha is not exactly comfortable with the above scene unfolding, Maisie's lack of even a hint of discomfort is in of itself unsettling. She's just being her usual cheerful smiling self and making a blasé comment about the violence unfolding in front of her.
- Apparently one of the steps to whatever Shaddiq is planning is basically sell the Benerit Group's resources off to the Earth. He claims that evening the odds between Earthians and Spacians will deter further conflict, but the past episodes and the look on Sarius's face should tell you how pointless and insanely dangerous this is.
- The battle between Dawn of Fold and a recon squad of the Benerit Group's security forces shows just how uphill the Earthians' battle truly is. The squad meant to Hold the Line until the refugees have evacuated, despite having as many mobile suits as the Spacians as well as vehicles armed with cannons and missiles, is effectively slaughtered to the man save for Olcott as a result of the vast technological gap between the two groups. The Benerit Group's suits boast superior armor, devastating power, and beam-based weapons that can One-Hit Kill the Earthians through their suits, who are limited to their ineffective ballistic weapons and physical spears. The only things that can even put the Spacians down are suicide attacks with exploding mobile suits and vehicles or their spears, the latter of which has the very real risk of death should they get hit - one such Earthian tries to get close, and meets his end when he gets launched what was easily several hundred feet, and his body is such a mangled mess that Guel immediately throws up at the sight upon opening his cockpit.
- Episode 14 and 15 puts into perspective how both Earthians and Spacians have shed their moral qualms in a bid for control. Delling's corporate hierarchy for controlling mobile suit development and war itself through corporate interests has enabled new veins of societal abuse (including Corporate Warfare, Earth-Space classism, Inter-House conflicts, the Holder challenge), starting from his banning of the GUND-Format and purge of its researchers, all the way down to between children. All while inhumane research (Elan, Aerial) continues regardless, and people in charge profit from the arms trade while exploiting the Earth for its resources and brutally enforcing the status quo. Meanwhile, Earthians are reduced to rampant conflict between themselves and Spacians for necessities, having to resort to outright terrorism (the school attack), war crimes (Gundam usage, Child Soldiers, hiding out at refugee camp) and forced indoctrination of youth (see Shaddiq agents' treatment of Spacians and Nika) all just to survive and have any control over their own destiny at all.
Episode 16: Cycle of Sin
- Elan #5 tries to hijack Aerial. The result of this attempt is him being forcibly drawn into her data storm, confronted by a dozen ghostly visions of Ericht Samaya who basically tell him to "Get out", all while he is screaming in pain from her jacking up his Permet implants.
- While he angrily berates an already-terrified Belmeria for getting Artificial Humans like him into this damn mess in the first place, Peil Technologies makes it very clear that they will dispose of his ass too just like Elan #4 if he doesn't do his job right.
- What makes this so frightening isn't just the system itself, it's who is inside it. We've seen the EXAM System rampage, Rita's spirit in the Unicorn Phenex acting on her own, the ZERO System and Alaya-Vijnana frying the pilot's brain, the Devil Gundam using its pilots as living batteries, and yet here we have a dozen Eris, a dozen toddlers, willing to kill a man so casually. This is probably one of the most frightening man-machine interfaces in the Gundam multiverse.
- During their conversation, Miorine comes to understand that Suletta will do almost anything that her mother instructs her to do, and Suletta thinks her mother is always right. How this is revealed is outright disturbing, and shows just how deep Prospera's hold on her daughter goes. Midway through the conversation Miorine realizes that Prospera was the reason behind Suletta's sudden change in attitude, and asks Suletta if she'd give up her dream of opening a school on Mercury if her mother told her to. Suletta dodges the question at first, but admits she would. Miorine looks horrified as she registers that statement, then asks if Suletta would use Gundams to kill people if her mother told her to. Suletta goes silent for a moment, and then, in an incredibly small voice, says yes.
- Lady Prospera revealing her origins to Miorine is quite haunting especially when she tells her she can hear the voices of her dead husband and colleagues telling her to get revenge for them.
- Really, if Prospera didn't seem unhinged before, she certainly does now. At the beginning, when she's revealing to Belmeria the truth about Eri, the Lfrith/Aerial, and her goal for Quiet Zero, the way she moves and the way the camera angles towards her, she's just a shouting voice and wilder gesticulations short of a psychotic Motive Rant last seen by the only other contender for arguably the most evil and psychotic Char Clone, Rau Le Creuset.
- When Miorine tells Prospera that she’s not going to let her have her way with Suletta anymore, Prospera easily overpowers Miorine and asks her if she intends to have her way with Suletta next. The implication that she might be willing to manipulate Suletta for her own ends as well is enough to give Miorine pause.
- When discussing the presidential elections with his House, Shaddiq briefly floats the idea of making use of Miorine once more, briefly sporting a slightly disturbing face as he does so before Sabina cuts him off. It doesn't seem like he's over Miorine just yet...
Episode 17: Precious Things
- While Elan #5 is just attacking Suletta to get Aerial, his aggressive behavior and insistence that she should let him since she likes him has some serious creepy overtones. Considering Elan pulled a taser on her when she rejected him, there's no telling what he would have done with her if Guel hadn't come to save her.
- Suletta's intended Finishing Move for the duel was to bust out the Bit-on Rifle, something that probably had enough firepower even under school regulations to annihilate a mobile suit entirely, disregarding the damage it could've done to the testing sector. If Miorine had not activated the kill-switch app to shut Aerial down, Guel would have likely been seriously injured or even killed.
Episode 18: Our Empty Selves
- The fact the episode ends with Suletta alone crying in space is quite terrifying even if she had an SOS light on her person, as she's effectively stranded without any means to save herself. Doubly so considering it was only by Prospera's mercy she has a chance of surviving, who for the longest time thought of her as something little better than a tool for her schemes of revenge
- Suletta's Journey to the Center of the Mind within Aerial is unimaginably creepy, with the poor girl being greeted by number of children who look just like her and refer to themselves as a "Coven". Creepier still is Ericht revealing the truth that Suletta was a clone all along and was no longer needed, and when she tries to appeal her judgement, Eri attacks Suletta the same way she assaulted Elan #5, subjecting her to data storms to put her in excrutiating pain, all while bombarding Suletta with her memories of her life and death before becoming the Aerial just to prove that she was her copy.
- Prospera was right about Ericht being unable to adapt to space; the bright young girl we saw at the beginning of the series passes away at eight years old because going the route of Brain Uploading was seemingly Elnora's only method of saving her. It's entirely likely that this was the Cynicism Catalyst that snapped her into doing everything she possibly can, moral scruples not holding her back, to change everything; a woman with nothing left to lose but her child-turned-Gundam, has everything to gain in her revenge now. And that's a charitable interpretation of events, given it's brief and vague enough that Prospera could've been personally responsible for the death herself.
- Yes, the rest of the bits in the Aerial's systems are also Eri clones like Suletta; the entire system isn't using a live child, but a brain scan and genetic clones as one gigantic scheme to effectively revive Ericht by straight up producing a sentient machine with the GUND Technology. And Suletta is no longer necessary now that Aerial has reached Permit Score 8, she's only got Prospera's faint sense of responsibility for what she's done and Aerial's big sister nature keeping her away from being disposable like Elan.
- While the context is humorous, Martin confesses his ratting out on Nika to a Haro which forms the school's counselling room. All of a sudden, the wall behind the Haro opens to reveal Secelia, who's been listening in on everything. Think about that for a second; a facility that's used for mental wellness, where you're supposed to go into your deepest, most personal problems, and someone trying to find leverage on you could be listening in at any given moment. Even worse, this may not even be the first conversation Secelia's listened in on…
Episode 19: Not The Best Way
- Just as Miorine seems to be on the verge of peacefully resolving the riots in Quinharbor, Prospera activates a data storm that hijacks one of the Earthians AFVs, causing it to fire on Aerial. In the resulting chaos, Cathedra forces begin to open fire on the protestors, setting the city ablaze. The episode ends with a horrified Miorine on a rooftop seeing the destruction she had tried to prevent unfolding before her.
- This is also the first time Aerial has been able to completely take control from a manned Permet-linked vehicle with the driver being unable to do anything about it when Guel and Sophie were both able to still move their Mobile Suits on their own. Now remember that basically everything is running on Permet links and how Quiet Zero has this ability as its center stone, with implications that it can do this on a global scale.
Episode 20: The End of Hope
- Norea's unleashing of her hatred for all Spacians was really on full display in this episode. Boosting her Permet Score to her limits, controlling 3 Gundvolvas, she then proceeded to unleash hell on the entirety of Asticassia, even managing to go toe-to-toe with Kennanji and his Beguir-Pente while doing so.
- Elan #5 losing it after seeing Norea get unceremoniously sniped by a Dominicus unit. The fact that the scene mirrored the fates that befell the likes of Four Murasame, Stella Louissier, and Anew Returner, to varying degrees, just makes it hurt all the more. The worst part: his Sanity Slippage triggers Ur's Permet Score (something he has steadfastly avoided out of self-preservation), causing the Gundvolvas to resume attacking.
- The aftermath of the attack is equally harrowing. Row upon row of body bags, filled with students killed from either the indiscriminate fire from mobile suits, or crushed by debris resulting from said fire. In particular, the shot Suletta wakes up to, of Petra pinned under the rubble and bleeding out.
Episode 21: What We Can Do Now
- We finally get to see Quiet Zero in action, and the results aren't pretty. Remember Angel Halo? Well this is like that but for machines. Aerial has full control of an army of Gundnodes that easily outpace the Space Assembly League's mobile suits. And if that wasn't enough, Prospera commands Aerial to make a data storm field that entraps the entire SAL fleet, leaving them utterly helpless as they are all gunned down like dogs, the fleet ships crashing into one another after being rendered powerless. Earlier, it is stated that practically everything in the Fronts use Permet, meaning Quiet Zero is capable of doing this to all of colonized space, with nobody being able to stop it. And in spite of how destructive this was, it is implied that this was just a test run. When used for real it could cover the whole Earth.
- For some, the belated realization that Quiet Zero has been right there in the second opening the whole time, right after the main titles fade before showing the sinking Miorine.
- Guston reveals the Space Assembly League confiscated a Gundam after the Vanadis Incident: the Gundam Calibarn. It's said to have absolutely no data storm filter, which means whoever pilots it will absolutely die from the Gundam's curse, presumably even at lower scores, earning it the nickname "Monster". And they want Suletta to pilot it for a chance to confront Prospera...
- Lauda, as a result of everything that's happened to his family, Petra, and Asticassia at large, winds up blaming Miorine for all of it and has now resolved to use the Schwarzette to kill her in revenge.
Episode 22: The Woven Path
- Quiet Zero is revealed to be at only 60 percent of its power to generate data storms, which makes one wonder how many new horrors it could let loose at full power. As in the previous episode, it continues to wipe out entire fleets of warships, reprogramming missiles to turn back on their launching ships while effortlessly bouncing off whole barrages of beam cannon fire with its shields.
- The entry of the Gundam Schwarzette piloted by an enraged Lauda means that Guel now faces the prospect of killing his own brother in addition to his father. And of course, the line he drops to Guel, coldly accusing him of being "obsessed with [Miorine]". Bear in mind, Quiet Zero should have been bleedingly hard to miss in that general area, and yet, he's still just hyper-fixated on Miorine and Guel shows how tunnel-visioned Lauda's irrational rage has made him. Alternatively, the timing of his attack may have been premeditated because Suletta, his biggest threat, was occupied with Quiet Zero and very unlikely to return in time to save Miorine. Either way, it shows how irrationally determined he is to murder Miorine.
- Suletta may have been able to clear Permet Score 5, but piloting the Calibarn still puts quite a strain on her body, making it very clear that she's operating on borrowed time to keep Prospera and Eri's attention.
Episode 23: Unrelenting Tenderness
- Haros of all things become terrifying killing machines.
- Throughout the entire episode one can hear Suletta's incredibly labored breathing making it clear that she is in a lot of pain from piloting the Calibarn and that the poor girl is pushed to her absolute limit. Even with her innate resistance, piloting this machine is a tall order, even for her. This goes along with Miorine mentioning that Suletta had told her off-screen about being afraid of dying while pilot the Gundam. While Suletta is giving it her all, she’s understandably afraid she may breakdown and die at any moment similar to how Sophie did.
- The Space Assembly League prove to be worse than Lady Prospera ever was as they attempt to wipe out Quiet Zero along with the main cast with their own massive weapon. Only Eri’s sacrifice protected them. The superweapon in question is a colossal laser that was built under the premise of an energy transmission system to the farther corners of the solar system. Furthermore, this weapon would not have just taken out Quiet Zero, but devastated all of Langrange 4, which the League and Peil considered acceptable fallout, allowing Peil to swoop in for reconstruction and play the hero afterwards.
Episode 24: May All Blessings Find Their Way To You, I'm Wishing It
- At the beginning of the episode, Suletta almost died from datastorm infection. The fact that her face continued to show the markings even after being extracted from the mobile suit is pretty disturbing that even her friends are shown to be frightened by them.
- The fact the Space Assembly League planned on firing another laser blast if it hadn’t been for Suletta’s intervention. This especially concerning as they initially planned to write the first blast off as an "accidental discharge", meaning they either have the means to keep the fact that it was used multiple times quiet, or just don't care as long as they can eliminate the only threat to their rule.
- Suletta floating in space alone similar to the ending of Episode 18. If it wasn’t for Eri who was transferred into Suletta’s keychain sending out a light, there is a good chance that Miorine wouldn’t have found Suletta.
- When Miorine finds an unresponsive Suletta, it is rather scary that you can find a loved one, and there is nothing you can do to save them. Luckily for Miorine, Suletta was only unconscious.
- Mixed with tearjerker. Even after three years, Suletta is still shown to be suffering health effects from using Calibarn as she has scars on her face and needing crutches to walk. Thankfully, Suletta appears to be recovering from it, and she might be able to walk on her own again.
MISC
- After the airing of Episode 12, a tweet made by Suletta's Japanese voice actor, Kana Ichinose, may have added credence to the theory that Suletta has been brainwashed by Lady Prospera, as she is begging Miorine to help Suletta "wake up".
- In a podcast Kana Ichinose did with Lynn, Miorine's Japanese voice actor, she was told by the director to make Suletta's voice sound comical
in the aftermath of her crushing the terrorist to pull off a deliberate Dissonant Serenity. They also comment on how Suletta was clearly not in the right frame of mind. - The teaser image for Season 2 depicts Suletta, Miorine, and Aerial standing in Asticassia, now in ruins and littered with mobile suit wreckage.
- The second ending theme appears to depict Suletta being consumed or transformed by Aerial which causes a freaked-out reaction from Miorine. Afterward, Suletta is depicted as dancing and moving in synch with the Gundam bits.
