Gundam 00 Episode 25

[Yukimura]

I don't know, I'm sure they have dye and scissors in the future.

The similarity between those two has always made me suspicious and something as simple as a haircut doesn't do much to ease my suspicions. Most of the characters in the show look different enough from one another that I don't feel comfortable blaming the similarities between Shirin and Tieria on lazy character designers. Plus, they had similar personalties in terms of their pragmatism and their condescending and arrogant demeanor towards their more idealism driven foils. The Setsuna/Tieria dynamic was somewhat similar to the Maria/Shirin dynamic, though Tieria was wrapped up so tightly with Lockon, being a Meister, and his own personal issues that it wasn't always obvious. I would find it fitting that there be some sort of Tieria/Shirin relationship that somehow reflects the Setsuna/Maria relationship.

And something that seems to have been swept totally under the rugare the Observers. Where the heck did they go? I would think they would have had something to say when the GN-X's came out, but we didn't hear a peep from them after the recap ep. Hopefully they'll make an appearance of some sort in Season 2 otherwise I'll have to light another candle on the alter to Sunrise's missed plot opportunities.