Gundam 00 Season 2 Episode 02

[ChaosK]

I thought it was interesting that the 00 is not a brand spanking new machine. Fittingly, it is the super old 0 gundam that Setsuna saw as his god when he was a jihadist. They just retrofit it with synchronized furnaces. So it's not some outrageous godlike technology similar to the Throne Gundams when they combine, it's just a refit, retrofit, and an overhaul.

Well it is upgraded because the scientist hinted that Aeolia Schenberg had programmed more "theoretical data" to be sent to Celestial Being so I'm assuming along with attaching another solar furnace port, some of its capabilities were upgraded. Also, dual furnaces is quite an upgrade in itself. Definitely increased maneuverability, speed, and apparently it can hax by sending away beam particles.

From what was said this episode, I'll be gathering it's because for some reason her country refused to join the Federation and give up its military. Either that, or like you said, they probably saw her as the secret leader of the wild military power there.

This one is fuzzy cause she was pretty eager to be accepted in the UN in season one so her country could gain access to the solar elevator...

I completely forgot about the super-soldier brainwave scrambler. Looks like there'll be a way to kick Hallelujah back in after all

What..? Anyway, Hallelujah might be gone because I feel like if Hallelujah was still there, he would've never let Allelujah be captured...or Hallelujah came back after the right side of Allelujah's face healed (it was damaged in the last ep of season 1).

Totally agreeing with Soma in uniform. Too bad that's as good as it gets though. It's hardly likely A-Laws get to take a dip every now and then.

Haha. You know apparently she was 18 in season one? I had no idea...I thought she was 12.

[Buffalobiian]

What..? Anyway, Hallelujah might be gone because I feel like if Hallelujah was still there, he would've never let Allelujah be captured...or Hallelujah came back after the right side of Allelujah's face healed (it was damaged in the last ep of season 1)

I'm thinking he's gone right now, but having another supersoldier to mess with his brain may open a pathway for Hallelujah to come back. It's Sunrise after all, and split personalities don't even need a decoy ship.

[Ryllharu]

@Dark Dragon:
Bless your innocent mind, uncorrupted, unlike the rest of us.

Soma was showing a considerable amount of attachment to Sergei last season, and in the latter episodes, it extended beyond the normal friendly wish of keeping her commanding officer safe. She abandons a battle with Al/Hal in order to save him right at the end.

I suppose Sergei might have been one of the first people she met who treated her normally, but you could see her growning attachment that never really settled into the father-daughter bond. In the years since, she's only been growing closer to Sergei, more or less acting in a girlfriend capacity in his home. I also hate to say it given my reservations in the episode 1 thread, but the OP has her starting between Andrei and Sergei, and she looks longingly at Sergei as she floats into the foreground. It shifted from a father-daughter relationship in season 1 to what we now see here.

Well it is upgraded because the scientist hinted that Aeolia Schenberg had programmed more "theoretical data" to be sent to Celestial Being so I'm assuming along with attaching another solar furnace port, some of its capabilities were upgraded. Also, dual furnaces is quite an upgrade in itself. Definitely increased maneuverability, speed, and apparently it can hax by sending away beam particles.
Haha.

All true, but I don't think it's that much of a hax. It's more like an All-in-One. The A-LAWS pilot tossed a grenade in the middle of the battle that diffused all of Setsuna's beam weaponry, forcing Setsuna to engage in close combat, where he annihilated the overconfident pilot. So unlike Tieria's fatty Gundams, the 00 can do the GN shield (though it is more of a torrent), while moving very fast as well. It doesn't put Setsuna at an enormous technological advantage like we have seen in other Gundam series, or the Gundams here were at the beginning of the first series.

You know apparently she was 18 in season one? I had no idea...I thought she was 12.

I wasn't a lolicon for liking her last season? This is the best news I've heard all day.