Gundam 00

[cmcloyd]

yeah, the throne gundams are on a completely dfferent level from the first gundams. anyways, if vader is in some way a computer it has to be an a.i. how else could it predict the missions so well, computers cant calculate unknows as well as vader seems to predict them

[mercer_sensei]

According to Wikipedia (I love Wikipedia):

Celestial Being [...] acts upon the advisory of the artificial intelligence Veda [...].

So Veda is an AI. I was thinking it was, cause in that episode where Tieria entered into that spherical room and he "interfaced" with Veda, but I wasnt sure til I just looked it up.

The Thrones Gundams all appear to be the same model, with different weapons, sorta like a production model that you can equip/unequip to suit the mission... think Strike from Gundam SEED. Now that makes me wonder if there will maybe be more Gundams in the future episodes. The original 4 suits were different and obviously designed independently from one another, each focusing on a particular skill, but these 3 new ones look similar to each other and have multiple skillz, so what if there is some factory somewhere (my vote in on the moon) that has the capability to mass produce these Gundams, the only holdup is the solar furnaces, which probably hard to produce and are not produced at the same factory.

[cmcloyd]

i agree, thanks fo r the great info!

[mercer_sensei]

well, all I looked up was the thing about Veda or Vader whichever it is... the other stuff about the thrones is just my speculation, but wouldnt it be cool to have an army of gundams backing celestial being

[cmcloyd]

yeah, it would. however i find the idle speculation is ofter correct because most of us have seen so much anime that we begin to recognize patterns in the story line that allow us to predict the most probable outcome of the story or what events are most likely to happen next.

this is especially true of the gundam franchise. when it comes to gundam there is a small hint of the ea games strategy. ea basically makes the same games every year. but for the ea startegy in relation to the gundam franchise, it seems that like fasion trends sunrise makes a gundam series and then 30 years later makes in essence the same series again but oticibly different.

[mercer_sensei]

if thats the case, how long before one or all of the super powers, Union, AEU, or HRL get ahold of a solar furnace?

[cmcloyd]

thats a good question, im not completely sure. however i imagine one of the factions will get a hold of one by accident. probably be discovering the factory that makes the furnaces or gundams by a complete coincidence.
however they might get one by taking one of the gundams out but it is more likely that they will stumble upon one though.

[Sanouske]

I watched episode 17 last night. It was pretty interesting.

Spoiler

Who else thinks the two meister groups are not really going to get along. =p At the moment they don't seem to like each other. It was interesting to see how they got the Gundam info though. After watching that scene where they find that Haruo I am pretty sure the new group is not directly related to Celestial Being. Like I speculated earlier I think they are taking orders from that observer. He has been getting more and more face time latly. I wonder what his goals are. He says he is just an observer, but I have a hard time believeing that.

[cmcloyd]

i havent seen 17 yet because i havent got the hi-def release yet, i wonder when shisen will post it? anyways 17 is probably going to be really good, but thats just what ive heard. then again there realy hasnt been a bad episode yet either!

[mercer_sensei]

I just watched it and it was pretty awesome.

Spoiler

Im beginning to agree with you Sanouske, that observer has to have some higher role than observer. I think he may just be an observer for celestial being, however, this new group of meisters, did they say that they were also celestial being or just that they were going to eradicate war?? I think the two groups will come into tension later. This new group must have more people on earth, I mean, they had tapped into the Professors computer, which is probably highly secured, but I cant prove that or anything. Plus I think they might have some ulterior motive other than eradicating war, and when the Prof figured it out, he got knocked off.