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EP. REVIEW: Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury

I remember we had a glimpse of the outer world(s) in past episodes*. But now we're stuck with a mixture of MBA, high school life and cringe PR videos. While I do not need a nuke exploding an killing every minor character, I'd appreciate something to happen that involves the story moving forward.

I understand the idea of setting a character in a new place and having everything explained to her/the viewers. But it's as if suddenly they decided that Suletta cannot be too active. Lately her most usual dialogue is "Sorry!". She is looking more and more a secondary character in her series (it's the Witch from Mercury, not the Neglected Heiress).

* do you remember the riots on Earth? Apparently the writers don't.

This show sucks. It sucks straight up.

I really wanted to like it, because a female-fronted lesbian Gundam sounds great, but the writing is absolutely asinine. There's clearly supposed to be an arc about the main characters growing and learning to beat the adults at their own game, but since new rules are constantly being arbitrarily added, it makes the adults look like morons and it completely breaks the suspension of disbelief that this society actually exists the way it does.

There's no sugarcoating it: This is the worst-looking G-Witch episode by far.

Meaningless ritualism rife with unfairness and outright rule breaking having an outsized effect on people's lives and fortunes? The duels themselves are an example as to how capitalism, e.g. stock market fluctuations affect people's lives.

You must be watching a different show. We've seen kids desperate to escape, kids who have to gamble and rear animals to make ends meet, kids who are willing to throw other kid into a meat grinder just to get ahead. Plenty of pressure here.

We see almost every episode how the Earth House gets struggle to get by. Simply buying flight pack nearly bankrupted them to the point of needing to gamble to recoup funds. For someone who is decrying what they view as unsubtle storytelling, you sure seem to need your cues as cliche as possible.

We live in a world where someone barely older than Miorine was able to establish a billion dollar medical technology company based on literal nothing just via pure connections. At least Miorine was trading on technology that actually exists where people can see it.

Venture capitalists in real life routinely throw millions or even billions of dollars on stuff without even doing due diligence. This was actually more sensible than that,

Congratulations, you've learned today how silly the stock market can be. A single tweet from a fake account can (and has) cost companies billions. Again, this is almost sensible in comparison.

There's clearly supposed to be an arc about the main characters growing and learning to beat the adults at their own game, but since new rules are constantly being arbitrarily added, it makes the adults look like morons and it completely breaks the suspension of disbelief that this society actually exists the way it does.

To be fair, Suletta's attitude towards her bride has been… having a "date" with Elan, shipping her own fiancee with Shaddiq and running away from Guel's proposal, more out of fear/dislike of him than for love/loyalty towards Miorine. In fact, she seems more possessive towards Aerial than Miorine. It may change, but you can't build up a relationship when none of them seems too invested in that (maybe Miorine, who is always snarking about their status)

Also, do you also remember when we thought that Suletta would be destroyed after Elan(clone#1)'s death and substitution and treason by Elan(original)? No worries, she's fine, Elan who?

Suletta is too trusting of her mother (almost to sycophant status) and just way too out-of-her depth at this point to feel like a protagonist driving the plot, while Miorine's assertive personality makes her stand out more in the last few episodes. Maybe the Shaddiq fight or finding out the truth might change that.

I also have to assume Prospera found a workaround for anti GUND-Arm tech, but she's surprised me before with how little she's prepared Suletta for what she has to deal with.

There's no sugarcoating it: This is the worst-looking G-Witch episode by far.

and referring to the show as "G-Witch."