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Short Short Summary:
Having brought Meer back to the ArchAngel, Lacus discovers a diary of sorts in her bag. The dairy mostly talks about how happy Meer is to be Lacus and how she’ll do her best. As they load up Meer’s body into a truck, Gilbert announces the Destiny Plan to the world. Needless to say, the people on the ArchAngel, particularly Lacus and Kira, are not happy.
Who would have thought that this close to the end (three more eps), we’d get another recap episode. Guess that’s something the SEED franchise is famous for. The final arc better be really really good, as I’ve been rather disappointed with the past few episodes. The high points of this episode are (for me) Meer’s song EMOTION, the piano version of Shizukana Yoruni, and the song that played during Gilbert’s speech, which gives quite a sense of urgency. So yea, the musical selection is good.
I think the big issue I’m having is that, recap aside, I didn’t really come out of this episode feeling like I understood Meer’s character all that much more. Yes, her death is sad (the most touching moment of the episode was definitely her thoughts while trying to cope with seeing the real Lacus, and Lacus’ subsequent tears), and we get to see her point of view, but so what? She isn’t really played up as a character that we love or love to hate. She is Gilbert’s doll, part of Athrun’s harem, and finally dies protecting Lacus. Sure she serves her role, but I didn’t really like her role to begin with. Guess I’m feeling like there was potential for more in her character (in a very Fllay sense)…*shakes head* Anyway, we did get to see plenty of new fanservicey shots of Meer, so it wasn’t a complete waste. They were rather high quality too, though mostly stills.
The only thing left to talk about is where we go from here. Since Gilbert has announced the Destiny Plan to the world, there’s bound to be resistance, if nothing else than in the form of the ArchAngel and/or Eternal. I’m hoping for a grand final battle, but the resistance (led by Cagalli and ORB I assume) is going to require a LOT of ships for it to match ZAFT. Freedom and Justice will probably steal the show as usual…not that there’s anything wrong with that since we haven’t seen them in action for a while now. The preview for next episode shows the Requiem being used again, by ZAFT this time. We really can’t end a gundam series without the threat of a castastrophic superweapon…
Closing Thought: I came to realize that I really don’t care what happens to the CE world as much as I care about what happens to the characters in it. I think I’ve said this before, but I’d be happy if Kira, Lacus, Athrun, Cagalli, Murrue, and Mwu/Neo all survive the end, preferably with their couple status. And maybe we can finally see Kira and Lacus kiss….actually I think I’d rather have a Murrue and Mwu/Neo kiss…
