Episode
                  30: The Reunion with Relena 
                  Airing Date
                  2000-04-14

            I don't like Relena Peacecraft. There, I said it. I don't really 
            care how well she dresses or how beautiful her hair is or how much 
            the other girls at her posh private schools love her -- I think 
            she's a ridiculous, spoiled do-gooder. 
            At the end of "The Reunion With Relena" when she looks to Heero Yuy, 
            resting her head on her hands in a "you rascal" pose, I wanted to 
            toss my Mrs. Fields. Who does she think she is? She's a psycho 
            chick, that's who she is. She's a freak. Personally, I'd be a happy 
            camper if she got blown up by one of them killer Mobile Dolls at 
            their earliest convenience. But that's just me… 
            Regardless of my feelings, though, the rest of this episode wasn't 
            stellar Gundam Wing. Maybe it's just me but it felt like we skipped 
            an entire episode. The last time we saw Heero and Quatre, they had 
            decided to seek out the Sanc Kingdom because of its pacifist 
            beliefs. Now, suddenly, Heero has not only enlisted in the rebel 
            Treize faction but he's become their Luke Skywalker -- the 
            unschooled kid who immediately becomes their leader. 
            Wait a minute -- I'm wrong about that. When Luke joined the Rebel 
            Alliance he was Red 5, wasn't he? When Heero strolls into the Treize 
            Faction HQ, he's given command of entire army and given the call 
            name Red 1. Red 1? What goes on here? 
            Regardless, Red 1 leads a group of outdated Leo Mobile Suits against 
            the top-of-the-line OZ Mobile Dolls and, although they put up a good 
            fight, get their butts kicked. Heero -- Mr. Gundam Pilot -- gets his 
            arm blown off yet he promises to fight "longer than any other pilot 
            on Earth." Yeah -- with the exception of the mechanical robot that 
            just blew your arm off, buddy. 

                  I love the smell of hairspray in the morning. It smells like 
                  Gundam Wing. 
            Quatre, meanwhile, can't decide to fight or to plant a flower in the 
            end of his rifle. He spends most of his time with an old shopkeeper 
            discussing the virtues of the Sanc Kingdom and their pacifist stand 
            against OZ. Funny thing is, even though the Sanc Kingdom isn't up 
            for fighting, the Treize Faction is doing a pretty good job of 
            putting up resistance against the meanies of OZ. And if all that 
            wasn't trouble enough, an ill wind blows into Relena's neighborhood. 
            Dorothy "Twigbrows" Catalonia is basically Tonya Harding to Relena's 
            Nancy Kerrigan. Suddenly and for no apparent reason, we don't mind 
            Miss Peacecrap anymore. Not when Twigbrows is on screen, anyway. 
            Twigbrows is basically "Gundam Wing"'s version of Joan Collins. 
            Ostensibly a transfer student from the Romefeller Foundation, Dot is 
            a war-mongering she-beast who just smells like trouble even though 
            our TV's aren't yet equipped with Smell-O-Vision. 
            And where are the rest of the Gundams? Lost in space with Will 
            Robinson and the rest of our cast. Which leaves us with Relena, 
            Twigbrows and way too many bad guys. No thank you. 

            --Ross Brooks would vote for Lucrezia Noin for Queen of the World.