Actually, now that I check pictures, my memory messed up just a bit. It's tan and it will be seen next week, but in that epilogue she's actually still in her white dress suit.
Oh wow, I caught 00 again this week!! I'm'a gonna try to make it to the end of the series!!
Anyhow, I really enjoyed seeing Nena die. She had it coming and I could care less about her sobstory. One thing I'd have appreciated though is that Louise calmed the heck down and returned to the ship with Saji and Setsuna. With only three episode left I'd love to see her and Saji interact a little bit more.
Well, up to that point, lousie sounded nothing like Hitomi (or any other of Kelly Sheridan charcter I've heard). Now, if Lousie began to see visions of giant robots and bisohenen, I wouldn't be surprised.
Celestial Being was a fairly large organization. All Ribbons has really done is show it up publically and stolen Veda. The majority of connections and agents remain, as we can see with Wang Liu Mei.
As for the second question- 00 can split its shield in two and dock each half under the drives. That's probably what you saw.
Right now we should be glad the movie's even being made. Remeraber what happened to the Gundam SEED movie. It STILL isn't out yet to give us some closure on CE.
Except for the fact its not a "sob story." It would be if Nena had lived a typical human life. But her existence is beyond even typical for those living in the 23rd century.
Speaking of which, I find it ironic that the fans would prefer to enjoy Nena's death than to realize the message of "Revenge is wrong."
What Lousie got was not justice, it was a merely a step down for her soul.