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Episode
22: The Fight for Independence
Review by
Chris
January
30, 2001
Zechs is
taken into a space colony to meet with Lady Une. He introduces himself
as Milliardo Peacecraft and says he has come from the Sanc Kingdom
as a good will ambassador to the colonies. Lady Une agrees to let
him do as he pleases. Elsewhere, colony D120 is one of the last
remaining Alliance fortresses in space. It is under the command
of Gwinter Septem, the son of the late General Septem. He and is
men discuss Zechs and agree to listen to what he has to say. On
Earth, Duke Dermail congratulates Treize for the progress made by
Lady Une. Tubarov prepares to leave for space where he will supervise
mass construction of mobile dolls. Treize doesn't like the idea
of Lady Une using mobile dolls and asks her what she intends to
do with them. She says that she will use them as his soldiers to
create his future. He says he doesn't want her to do that and has
no power to change the course Romefeller has chosen for the world.
Lady Une now wants
nothing to do with mobile dolls, but Nichol convinces her that she
needs to fight for Treize as an OZ soldier. He is secretly contacted
by Duke Dermail and ordered to destroy colony D120.
Trowa asks
what's going on, and Nichol tells him that Lady Une has gone off
to battle. Trowa asks to use the Vayeate and Mercurius support her,
but Nichol has him imprisoned. The mobile dolls begin attacking colony
D120, and Zechs asks Septem if he could help them in battle. Most
of the colony's space Leos are destroyed by the Taurus mobile dolls.
One Taurus remains on the battlefield, and it is piloted by Lady
Une. Zechs gets a call from Treize saying he isn't happy about what
Romefeller is doing. He says that only Zechs and Lady Une understand
him, but that Lady Une's feelings have caused her to have split
personalities. Treize asks Zechs to save her. Nichol orders the laser
cannon of Barge to be fired at colony D120, despite the fact that
Lady Une is still there. As it is about to fire, Trowa sabotages
it by activating Barge's thrusters. Zechs grabs Lady Une, and she
demands to be taken to Barge. She has Nichol imprisoned for his actions.
Nearby, Tubarov's shuttle approaches the Moon, which will be the
base for mobile doll production. Wufei attacks with his nearly destroyed
Shenlong, but he is unable to do anything. Tubarov has him captured
so that he can examine the Gundam.
Yet another
episode where not much happens. Lady Une is going crazier as each
episode passes, and someone finally notices. It seems Treize is
dissatisfied with OZ and Romefeller as well, and this will cause
trouble. I'm glad that Nichol is out of the picture, because I really
hated him. And what's the deal with Septem? This guy is normal and
pretty nice, but his father was a psycho. Wufei really is a moron.
I'm still confused about his escape from the last battle. Now he
comes back with a heavily damaged Gundam and only manages to get
captured. All the while he's doing his typical mad ranting. What
a fool.
Overall
Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars

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