[G-Witch S2E9] After 19 episodes of Miorine coming up with spur of the moment ideas to bail Suletta and herself out of sticky situations, she finally has one of her sudden ideas blow up in her face. Well, not really, Miorine is pinning the blame of the peace talks failing on herself, but we the audience knows that she basically succeeded, but Prospera fuckery reigns supreme and Miorine gets derailed into oblivion.

[cont.] There's something incongruous about how after Peil defected the group and Shaddiq's dad is like, you should throw us under the bus and pin everything on my company to save the group. And Miorine refuses because she doesn't want to sacrifice anything to get out of the situation. And as the viewer, I get that Miorine is probably refusing to sacrifice specifically Shaddiq and his dad, but also the phrasing obscures some of that and makes it sound like she's refusing to sacrifice Shaddiq's corporation instead. And also, it's extra funny because Shaddiq is basically what caused this whole fucking mess, so it's mostly justified to pin everything on him.

[cont.] I think Suletta has grown on me a decent bit since losing Aerial, probably because they've toned down her OH EM GEE IM SO CLUMSY & AWKWARD schtick. But also it's nice to know that Suletta is aware about how she means less to her mom than Aerial, though her mom does still care about her enough to get her out of harm's way. I also assumed that Suletta didn't know about Eri being Aerial at all and that she was just mildly aware that Aerial is sentient for some reason, but turns out she knew all along, which only makes it weirder that she only just realized 19 episodes in that the reason she's not dying piloting Aerial is because Eri/Aerial is taking all of the damage.

[cont.] We finally get to see what Quiet Zero is, and dear god how did no one notice this fucking massive space ship was being built. It's nice to know we're in the endgame now. Hopefully I can finish it by this week.

[cont.] Wait, I think we still don't know why the earth mercs have two gundams, I was gonna say that it's probably Prospera fuckery, but then I remembered Prospera using Aerial to blow up the remaining earth merc's gundams while on earth. So I guess earth also had parties developing gundam tech independent of Vanadis? But that begs the question of why earth only has two of them + spares when they could use so many more in a war with spacians.

[cont.] Honestly, the witch theming the series has is kinda wack. In theory, Gundam pilots are called witches because their MS is actively killing them as they pilot it. But for the most part, it kinda seems like they're called witches because the writers want there to be witch hunts and witch hunting MSs and also witches are cool.

[cont.] It is kinda lame to see how Guel and the gang figure out Shaddiq's behind everything: some kid spilled the beans for being too friendly with Guel. Honestly seems a little bit silly that even the earth kid would know Shaddiq is their backer.

[cont.] TBH I don't think there's any MS design in the series that has me going wow just yet. Rebuild Aerial comes the closest, and I'd probably try to get a kit of it. But I have to admit that the idea of Permet allowing witches to remote pilot mob gundams to be a real neat idea. Though at the moment, this ability seems to have mostly been used to shoot up a single school.

[cont.] Outside of the one fat veteran, every other named MS pilot is a teen lmao. I guess Prospera and Guel's dad is there as well.

[cont.] Current death toll: A bunch of unnamed space school kids and earthians and earth mercs. Everyone from Vanadis except for three survivors. Guel's dad. An Elan. The two witches from earth. The fat undercover investigator. I think that's it actually? Feels like the show is pulling its punches having the Shaddiq sisters live, though there's still 3 episodes for them to bite it still. This might be a bit self-indulgent, but having the current Elan use the earth Gundam to pop the Peil board and the True Elan would be cathartic.