Maaaaaaaaan....
So far, I've been content to let Tsurumaki's pace carry me, but unlike FLCL which kinda had no expectations placed upon the viewer and the intended viewing experience was to just go with the flow, GQX is building upon decades of narrative and lore that at this point are kinda essential for context, so as of right now even I'm starting to feel how crazy fast we're hitting plot beats out here.
I mean, the entire episode is about Lalah Sune, who she is as a character and what she represents thematically to the entire series, but if you haven't seen OG Gundam thru Char's Counterattack (because her relationship with Amuro and Char is an important aspect of her character) her appearance here is just going to be a weird catalyst for Machu's character growth and probably very confusing.
She looks great in GQX's animation style tho
But having said that, doing The Man in the High Castle with UC0079 Gundam is so insanely ballsy and ambitious, I'm down for the ride.
Even with this TikTok-ass pacing, I do not see how they could have all these things come to a satisfying conclusion in just three more episodes. The ending of Witch from Mercury felt to me like they had more planned but didn't get greenlit, so they had to pivot hard to an ending, I fear this one will end with a "then everyone space magic exploded the end".
I do love a nice Gogg, though.
I mean, that's basically CCA and Unicorn/Narrative lol, so if anything it'll be kinda par for the course.
Tsurumaki seems to be building up to something rather intentionally tho, so we'll see.
Space magic exploding is a huge part of Tomino shows, too. Just look at Space Runaway Ideon (which inspired Anno to do it with NGE) and Turn A Gundam.
The WfM ending had a bad case of The Swerve