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Season 10, Episode 34: No Good Choices, No Choices at All (Patreon)

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This week - the fabled short episode finally manifests as the sheer magnitude of Zanscare's atrocities in Mexico leaves us with little else to talk about. Cronicle's crimes are as big as his tires, Nina makes (and loses) a new friend, Uso gets what he needs (with a little help from his friends) and Katejina's rhetorical strategy is unpersuasive.

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Mobile Suit Breakdown is written, recorded, and produced within Lenapehoking, the ancestral and unceded homeland of the Lenape, or Delaware, people. Before European settlers forced them to move west, the Lenape lived in New York City, New Jersey, and portions of New York State, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. Lenapehoking is still the homeland of the Lenape diaspora, which includes communities living in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario.

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Angel Jaimes

My theory for why mobile suit reactors in Victory (which is another point to bring up, mobile suit explosions in previous UC Gundam shows aren't nearly as destructive as the ones in Victory) go critical is a side effect of the further minaturization of the Minovsky Reactors. In-universe, one of the reasons why mobile suits were minaturized was that Minovsky Reactors had gotten more powerful while being smaller. I think that the reactors go critical when they are pierced by beam weapons, which are themselves Mega-Particles, charged up Minovsky Particles. The only suit we the audience see go critical is the Javelin Juca shoots with her beam rifle. The Javelin Mizuho was piloting got crushed by the Motorad ship but didn't seem to go critical. I believe that introducing Mega Particles into the smaller Minovsky Reactors of the UC 150s causes a nuclear reaction, and the only way for this to occur would be in mobile suit combat where beam weaponry us common.

Nanopocalypse

This arc is tough to watch and I'm incredibly nervous about your coverage of it, but so far I've been agreeing with virtually everything that's being said. I've recently imported the novels to see if they include Operation Giant Roller/Earth Clean because Tomino goes on for quite a bit in book 2 about what the roots of Mariaism are. It boils down to capitalism being to blame for life in space being both horrible and too removed from nature, therefore Spacenoids need to return to Earth with a new world order. Because this mission is as absurd as it is horrifying in the anime, I'm curious if Tomino gives any "sane" justification for it, as it's so hard to trust what either Katejina or Cronicle say in this episode! Make all the Garma comparisons you want, but I'm personally more reminded of Mashymre's and Chara's sudden moral declines in ZZ by Cronicle's (and to an extent Katejina's). The lovable Jem & the Holograms rejects separately disappear for many episodes, eventually to reappear completely insane and willing to kill anyone for the glory of Haman. The gruesome twosome here haven't gone away for more than an episode or two at a time but they get limited screentime, and are eviler with each appearance with little to no build up. One has to really pick apart the nonsense they spew to understand where they could possibly be coming from. Katejina hinted at hating (other) Earthnoids fairly early on and joining Zanscare has obviously accelerated that hatred. Cronicle thinks this is all in service to his sister, to somehow build a better world for her and presumably all women and children. Whatever happened to Maria and himself as kids is why civilians on Earth need to die. It's still murky what's making him lean so hard into his displacement of blame for his shitty childhood now compared to the first 15ish episodes, but it's probably because he's being rewarded for his service to the empire (just like Üso's being rewarded for killing!): promotions, Katejina's loyalty and affection (does she plan on killing him when he turns 21? 😂), reuniting with Pippiniden, not getting sent to the guillotine—we have to remember a huge motivation for BESPA soldiers is avoiding their own gruesome executions by carrying out orders no matter what. Pay attention to some of the things Goz Barl says in upcoming episodes! Katejina herself is empowered by Cronicle and by carrying out these evil deeds. Why she thought the League Militaire wouldn't give her power is nebulous unless she was absolutely convinced they were just going to make her a babysitter and not allow her to become a full-fledged pilot. Or a simpler reason... drugs. 😂 Literal industrial strength copium. Katejina is high as balls and Cronicle laces the inside of his mask with it! (just kidding!!)

Jalekok

From Tomino's Don't Underestimate creating Anime; "In Edward E. Smith's Skylark of Space series written in the 1920s, the characters are escorted out of the solar system with the single phrase, "They say nothing can fly faster than light, but we do.” Even knowing such examples, from 40 to 20 years ago, Mobile Suits were plausibly described as using fusion reactor engines, but since the troublesome nature of nuclear fusion itself and its technical possibilities (since the time of Gundam ZZ), I have refrained from talking about it even in a science fiction setting. Basically, I have heard experts' opinions on the issue of whether it is possible to construct a fusion reactor on Earth from an engineering perspective. [ . . . ] I had adopted the path of the chemical rocket engine which was followed by the nuclear fusion reactor era, which made space immigration possible. This is a lie, but since it was realistic in the Gundam World, we decided to carry it over."

Jeffrey M Heimann

Ultra Baroque is too cool of a term to limit to architecture.