"Wow! It's the New Coke!" - Hayley
"This is a white woman's chihuahua" - Hayley on The Pink Haro
"The only emotion Kira's crying can convey is how bad last night's burrito is treating him." - Hayley on that one scene.
"These 90 seconds have told me more about this cast and made me want to learn more about them than 16 episodes of Gundam SEED have." - Hayley after I showed her the opening to Overman King Gainer
"Oh so the big innovation this time is the black tri-stars are going to be furries?" - Hayley on the BuCUE.
"A single leaf falling in the wind is a better realised and more immersive visual than anything we're seeing in Gundam SEED." - Hayley as she once again plays Unicorn Overlord to stop me putting another Gundam SEED disc on.
"Why aren't we watching this?" - Hayley on the trailer for Madlax included on the fifth disc.
"Coordinators and Naturals are incompatible societies because the former filter their freshly ground coffee beans while the latter drink instant." - Hayley cutting to the core of what this show's about.
"These two are like if Beecha and Mondo had no charisma and were also straight." - Hayley on Yzak and Dearka.
"I hate everything this show represents." - Hayley on 15 year olds who love to play the piano.
"Is Murrue up to the true burden of command: remembering the differences between Sledgehammer, Wombat, Igestellung and Helldart missiles?" - Hayley on Natarle's departure.
Hayley: This show's tech is a supermarket shelf. Jam jam jam jam jam.
Me: No, ZAFT just cancelled the jam. The show's left us the white bread.
Hayley works a stressful, tiring job and has been overbooked all year. We started watching every Gundam in January with the idea it'd be something we jump on in between other activities. Instead, immersing ourselves in a succession of worlds contemplating ourselves, our society and the path to a better world has been an ideal activity for us. I'm starting this way to highlight that it was not ZZ Gundam's sitcom hijinks, Stardust Memory's fascist apologia, Victory's clumsy discussions of womanhood or Wing's aimless rambling that drove her insane, but the jump from Ɐ to SEED which finally reminded her she has other hobbies and interests which she'd like to pursue for as long as it takes for me to stop waving my cheap clearance sale boxset of SEED at her threateningly.
