Gundam 00 Episode 06

[Kraco]

I don't think mecha series have ever been especially sensitive about borrowing elements from each others. Gundam might of course be a special case as it could be viewed as an archetype, which, as such, has surely been an inspiration to countless other manga/anime series.

Besides, things aren't exactly like that in Gundam. For one, Celestial Being is a terrorist organization opposing the legit states, whereas Mithril was an organization often employed by countries. So, the Gauron / Sousuke and Setsuna / Mercenary setting would be quite twisted as the younger one would be the criminal and the older one the "good" guy (he's probably a ruthless merc, though, so he isn't a good guy either).

Also, in FMP the technological upper hand belonged to Amalgam, not Mithril (though there wasn't any huge gap there). I suppose in that sense it would be similar to this series; terrorists having the upper hand, but Amalgam was, still, a somewhat shapeless organization and looked more like a collection of individual faces, really.

Still, the CB personnel here look more like tools after this episode. The shopping, witless girls, but especially the transvestite guy who is a model example of the kind of person who very strictly and to the letter follows instructions and rules with no own idea where they lead (or he might think he knows but in reality doesn't), and is thus extremely easy to use by some shadowy mastermind who planted some of those ideas in him for his own purposes.

[Ryllharu]

It's more than just that. Tieria apparently believes that he is the only one "worthy" of being a Gundam Meistar. He hasn't said it to Lockon yet, but I'm sure he will at some point. I don't know what the hell his problem with everyone is, but I hope they explain it soon. Even if they do it soon, he's already so much of a douchebag that I probably won't care. Waiting is only going to make it worse.

Another thing I noticed is they way he fights. It's largely a matter of his weapon systems, but the other three tend not to kill the pilots of the mobile suits they fight. Admittedly, Kyrios does somewhat, but at least the Allelujah side of him feels bad about it. Exia slices enough parts off (usually the legs) and Dynames blows the head and all the sensors off. Tieria just doesn't seem to mind at all how many people he kills.

It seems that Saji will be fulfilling the whiny emo role that the Gundams are going about it the wrong way...

Anything with Sumeragi is enough to kindle interest, but not only does she know Billy (and probably Graham as well) but she was involved in some sort of 'incident' involving command or some military action. Now I'm very curious.