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Upside:  We now have amnesia.  Find a tragic love story, and this series will officially have everything imaginable.

Downside:  Wu Fei has abandoned the circulation-halting, migraine inducing braid and replaced it with a circulation-halting, migraine inducing thing that officially boots Tsume *points to icon* out of place for having anime's most unfortunate rattail.

Also, way too much Relena and boring Sancs kingdom pacifism stuff.

I'm going to mostly ignore the whole Relena/Sancs kingdom stuff because...it was amazing boring.  Mostly only fun for Dorothy bwa-ha-ha-ing in the background, giggily anticipating the destruction of Relena's dreams, and the following:

1.  NO ONE NOTICES when two boys enroll in an all girl's school.
2.  There is dueling, thus strengthening the Revolutionary Girl Utena resemblance.
3.  Relena almost got blown up.  *sigh*
4.  Relena makes Heero promise not to leave Sancs without telling her.  He agrees.  She drives off.  He steals a gundam and heads for the most suicidal battle he can find.

Ok, seriously, years of shonen has left me extremely well schooled to OTP/canon pairing codes.  Heero/Relena is blatantly meant to be the epic romance.  And yet, 3/4 into the show(ep 33) and he can barely be civil to her and flees the second her back is turned?  There is just something amazingly wrong with this approach.

5.  Somewhere in there, Heero mentions going to look for Trowa(AT LAST! THEY REMEMBER THEY LEFT HIM UNCONSCIOUS IN SPACE!) but never does.  I THINK they said Sally was looking for him, though.

Anyway, off in battle, Treize hacks into Heero's comm unit and gives him a pep talk.  Heero goes to see Treize and Treize asks Heero to kill him.  Treize philosophizes some, and then GIVES HEERO A NEW GUNDAM! IT IS MAGENTA!  IT EITHER HAS A GLOWING, PREHENSILE TAIL, OR  A GLOWING WHIP THAT LOOKS LIKE A TAIL! I CAN'T TELL WHICH!  Treize tells Heero that Heero isn't allowed to die until he kills Treize, so Treize was disarming the self-detonation mechanism.  Heero sighed, felt naked again, and wondered why people kept doing that to him.  THE NEW GUNDAM DRIVES YOU EVEN BATTIER THAN ZERO(the crazy inducing gundam that made both Quatre and Heero go bonkers)!!!  HEERO TRIES TO OUTDO QUATRE'S BREAKDOWN!  HE DOESN'T SUCCEED, BUT IT'S A NOBLE EFFORT!  Heero returns to Treize AND TREIZE TRIES TO GET HEERO TO KILL HIM AGAIN!!  Heero rejects Treize and goes back to Sancs to angst some more.

Meanwhile, Quatre is on his way back to his people, and as he heroically struggles through the desert, he has the following line to offer us: "Wait for me, my dear Sandrock.  I'll be there shortly."

In other news, we FINALLY check in on the others(briefly each.)

Duo ditched Wu Fei, or Wu Fei ditched Duo.  They don't bother telling us.  Personally, I'm thinking Duo remembered that the last time he partnered with another pilot, they went all crazy and suicidal on him and he fled while the fleeing was good.  He has clearly decided that if he has to be with a suicidal person, he's better off with a cute, cheerful girl than an angsty teenaged boy, and has hooked up with Hilde.  I don't know if they're shacked up or platonically cohabitating or what, but they seem to be living together from what they said.  Duo is off making raids with Deathscythe to keep doing his part, BUT HE IS CAPTURED! BY A ROGUE PILOT! WHO FORCES HIM TO PILOT ZERO! YES, DUO WAS FORCED INTO THE CRAZY MAKING GUNDAM! IT MAKES HIM CRAZY! HE HALLUCINATES BLOWING UP HILDE AND THE REST OF THE COLONY IN A MAD RAGE!  Then his subconscious goes "WTF? DUDE! You're the sane one!  Snap out of it! Do you want Wu Fei to steal your title?"  Duo snaps out of it and escapes.  We don't see him again this disc.

During that, it was confirmed that Zero does talk to the pilots.  This makes me wonder if Nataku, Tallgeese and Sandrock really were talking to their pilots all those times the pilots seemed to be delusionally talking to their gundams.  Do I need to takes those bits of mockery back?

Somewhere along the way, Zechs started wearing the bird helmet again *sad sigh* and was forced to destroy Tallgeese, but got ahold of Zero.  He's travelling space with Howard, the fisherman/engineer/whatever who fished him out of the ocean a while back.  Howard seems remarkably sane.  However, Zechs, who is already nuts, starts flying around in the crazy making gundam.

Meanwhile, Wu Fei made it back to his home colony for more angry stoic angst training.  He trades in the braid for an equally painful looking rattail and beats up fellow trainees while a new Nataku is built.  Wu Fei feels he is too weak for the new Nataku, too. THE COLONY IS ATTACKED! WU FEI AND NEW NATAKU GO OFF INTO SPACE TO DEFEND THE COLONY!  ONCE WU FEI IS SAFELY AWAY, THE COLONY COMMITS SUICIDE BY BLOWING ITSELF UP!  WU FEI WAS NOT WARNED OF THIS AND ENGAGES IN A LOT OF SCREAMING ANGSTING!

Meanwhile, Zechs has realized that he really could use a few more allies, and goes off to recruit Wu Fei.  Wu Fei says he cannot join Zechs unless Zech's defeats him in battle.  Zech's understand.  They angst and "GRARR!" at each other a lot, and then fight.  ZERO WORKS IT'S MAGIC! ZECHS SNAPS OUT OF IT AND REMEMBERS WU FEI ISN'T AN ENEMY!!!  (I feel compelled to point out that, until now, Duo is the only one to free himself...Quatre seemed to use psychic powers to free Heero, and it took the shock of apparently killing a friend to snap Quatre out of it.)  BUT IT IS TOO LATE! WU FEI VOWS THEY ARE ENEMIES FOREVER!!  

Meanwhile, WE FINALLY SEE TROWA AGAIN!  HE IS ANGSTING ALONE IN THE RAIN!  CATHERINE FINDS HIM! HE HAS AMNESIA!  OH NO!  Catherine takes him back home with her(I gather the circus is touring colonies or something) tells him he's her brother and dresses him like a clown again.  He looks amazingly lost and confused and woobie and angsty, even if the return of the clown suit made it hard to take the angst part seriously.  Honestly, I 100% get why Catherine wants him to think he's her brother and not run off again(the last time she saw him, he had just tried to commit suicide, and was taking off with suicide boy) but it's obvious he's lost and miserable.  He needs Heero and Quatre(and Duo and Wu Fei) to show up with guns, a massive supply of ammo, and Heavyarms.  And for Heero and Quatre to angst and grovel and apologize for not angsting more and feeling more guilty about the whole bit where it was all their fault he ended up amnesiac and floating around in space.

Sally was no where to be seen, but I think she's supposed to be looking for Trowa.  Noin was largely background material for Heero, Quatre and Relena, but remains awesome despite that.  And her men still worship her.  The crazy scientists are nowhere to be seen.  Clearly, they are off making even better crazy-making talking gundams.

I have long sense stopped trying to keep track of where various gundams are, how many gundams the pilots have had, what the various political factions are, who's on whose side, etc.  I don't really care.

Fourteen episodes left.  That's plenty of time left to kill Relena.  ANIME! PLEASE DON'T LET ME DOWN ON THIS FRONT!  You can let me down on anything else(except killing Duo, Quatre, Noin, and Trowa) if you'll just do this one thing for me!

Meanwhile, for those who has seen both series, anyone else notice that Sousuke in Full Metal Panic seems to be a refined version of Heero?  Played even straighter and crackier, and with much less obvious suicidal tendencies(ok, Sousuke really isn't suicidal at all...he tries to blow everything BUT himself up...and unlike Heero, he always blows up what he wants to blow up), but definately a later generation version of the character.  And with an infinitely superior love interest.

SPOIL ME AND WU FEI WILL ANGST AT YOU WHILE HE DOES YOUR HAIR! JUST! LIKE! HIS!

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