Mobile Suit Gundam AGE

Got to love how when Flit commandeered the Gundam and the commander asked him what the hell he was doing, Flit said, "This is what I want to do." and the commander basically said, "Well, alright then." This is a seriously laid back army they have there.

Also have got to love how Flit demanded to go face the enemy in the machine he built, and once he's face to face with them, he goes, "Uh oh. Is this thing armed?" *facepalm*

So the UE lost one soldier and immediately retreated? What a bunch of pussies.

Looks like they plan to blow up the colony in the next episode. Good, I've come to think of it as a Gundam tradition, like christening a ship by breaking a bottle across the bow.

So, you think Yurin just happens to be a psychic/newtype that Flit randomly stumbled on? Me neither. I wonder if she's an UE, maybe even the one from the first suit Flit beat.

Going back to the AGE system: you have a mini-weapons factory that can create a counter to enemy tech in about thirty seconds. Why the hell didn't you use this hours ago and give those DOTS rifles to every mobile suit so they aren't worthless?

I loled when Flit fell right into the enemy and was caught off guard, as well as the enemy. I bet the UE didn't see that coming. >D

At first Woolf is basically Monsha without the drinking. Then he pulls Flit out of the line of fire when the UE mothership shows up, which only Woolf actually noticed.

It turns out being highly trained and experienced is pretty darn useful.

Another useful thing: being basically invisible. At first it wasn't clear weather the UE were catching the Feds with their pants down every time because the UE had stealth tech or because Gundam AGE radar tech just really sucks. Now we know it's the former.

We also now know that any Fed mobile suit can in fact use Gundam weapons like the DOTS Rifle, so they had better be cranking those things out behind the scenes and handing them out like candy.

In SEED and the original Gundam, our prodigy pilots were conflicted about having to go out and fight. Since Flit apparently doesn't give a crap, Emily will be doing it for him it seems.

After watching the battle footage, Grodek says to himself that he's figured out what the UE really are. We'll have to wait and see if he's in a sharing mood in the next episode.

"So this is the Gundam huh?"
I would be very suspicious about why this kid knows it's name except Flit was probably bragging about it all the way there.
*Kid steals control module*
Okay, Flit probably didn't tell him about that.

Two Genoaces go out and there isn't an effective weapon between them. I know I keep harping on this but it is just dumb as hell.

Now we know there is a mysterious organization called EDEN, which seems to be lead by a refugee from Ronin Warriors. Going to guess that it's members are all Newtypes. Since small EDEN children seem to be able to kick the UE's ass at every encounter, it seems unlikely they are the same group.

And there was a Zaku in the episode six preview.

Then they expand slightly on Grodek's personal vendetta against the UE, which is the cliche but believable "the killed my wife and child" backstory.

Emily blows up at Flit for doing exactly what she's been expecting for at least two episodes.

Woolf gets permission to take his military issued mobile suit out to run personal errands (I've mentioned before that this military is very laid back). From the sound of it, he plans to have some major custom modification done to his mobile suit, which realistically speaking, the mechanics on the Diva would probably be incapable of repairing should the need arise.

Flit chases Emily into the colony and then... Zakus. I actually had forgotten about those. A mobile suit battle breaks out between someone and someone, the buildings get sealed off with defensive walls, and the pair of them end up taking refuge underground.

The underground city I can buy. But Fardain is supposed to simultaneously be an economically prosperous colony, and a war-torn battlefield? They've already established that this colony is Federation controlled: they're putting up with this bullshit? I know the commander is corrupt, but even he couldn't keep it quiet that there are daily mobile suit battles in the streets. Oh, wait, apparently this is common knowledge. What the hell?

Grodek is apparently buying four warships. Where the hell is he going to get the crews?

Okay, this guy lives in a shanty town, but he has his own mobile suit. I know they did something like this in 0083, but they did that in a way that made sense.

Then the testosterone poisoning kicks in and Iwark decides that two gangs of mobile suits destroying each other is unforgivable, so he'll try and destroy both of them by himself.

Then Vargas gets the Gundam there faster than a Jimmy John's delivery man.

The crew of the Diva really sucks. There is no other way to explain how: the most powerful weapon in the Federation left the ship and none of them noticed, and despite specific assurances that they were keeping their eyes open for the UE, they still show up in the colony unnoticed.

Oddly enough, the part of the episode that makes the most sense is the Zalam faction arresting Flit. The colony factions were fighting when an unidentified mobile suit attacks them. They shoot it down and a second unidentified mobile suit attacks them. Then a third unidentified mobile suit shows up and they run like frightened deer. They come back with reinforcements to find their city shot to shit. Yeah, I'd arrest him too. Now Flit letting himself get arrested is a different issue.