[Anime] Mobile Suit Gundam 00

Originally Posted by crabman

The other thing that makes me not want to watch this series and the thing that ruined Seed Destiny for me is characters like Setsuna, and Shin Asuka who just piss me off, like it was alright when they made that emo as hell Heero Yuy, but that was only because there weren't that many of his kind around when Wing came out. Setsuna just sucks ass. We need MEN, people we can look up to like Kamina, or grown up Simon, or Master Asia, or Domon Kashu, or Char Aznable, or Mu La Flaga. Not these pretty boy bitches.

I totally agree with this. These emo-like characters are just not an enjoyable part of watching a series, such as one of a Gundam variant. I can already discern that the emo-like fellas are going to have all these stupid mental problems in the middle of a fight. Then they're going to crack and go insane doing some flashy fancy gun show or massacre by melee. All just to show off the idea that if you mess with these guys, you're going to unlock their super sayian(?) power.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Getting better or worse is to be decided by which faction viewers are favoring more of.

Spoiler:

For the fans of the faction(s) in which the gundams work for, it's getting a little better with one group, but a little worse with the other.

For the earth based military faction fans, it's gotten much better.

However, I am starting to think the anime itself is getting a little worse. Spoiler time!

Spoiler:

The event to trigger some kind of climatic change in the struggles between gundam interventions and the earth based militaries was certainly needed. But the fact that the event became something stupid like, "Oh, we managed to get top secret information on engines that work like the gundams. Let's make our own gundams and kill their gundams. Haha, victory is mine!" LAME. BORING.

I guess in one sense it can be somewhat understandable that the playing field was balanced in this way. In the sense that the only scientist who was studying the gundams immensely had ended up dying by the Trinity group. But then again, it's an example of another flaw in the anime's story/plot. Why only one scientist working on learning how the gundams work? Why not a whole team of them? Why not a whole faction with some secret underground base experimenting and learning of not only the gundams, but perhaps even inventing new tech to outfit their faction's mobile suits? Could these 3 earth based groups have really been THAT preoccupied with each other's existence? Not even one window of oppurtunity(?) arose for people to think, "Wait, HRL (or whoever) have a guy working on understanding the gundams? We should kidnapp him! Or get our own research team! Or kill him!" But noo, it's ended up being, "God, if I can capture a gundam, I'd be god amongst my subordinates and peers! They'd all bow down to me!"

Don't view unless you saw the latest episode releases or don't care about spoilers!:

Also, Aeris dies two Trinity pilots die/are-severely-wounded.

The way the anime is progressing now makes me think it's going to end soon. It seems it's being buttered up for that "epic" finale that ends in certain kinds of revelations and realizations in which will end the conflicts and the need for mobile suits.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I want to say the ending battle was good, but was also bad.

Spoiler:

The fight between Setsuna's Exia and Graham's Flag was just weird for me. Firstly, I guess it can be understandable that they can slice through each other so easily like that since they're both wielding similar level technology. But that does not change the fact that the gundams are made of better material than what the earthbound nations ever could know about. /flashback to first attempt to capture gundams. They couldn't saw open Kyrios' cockpit hatch.

Although, it may be debatable that because the armament tech was leveled enough that Graham's mobile suit had the power needed to slice through gundams.

Secondly, way too overly dramatic for me. Just that last fight sequence. "Oh yeah, you hit me? Well I hit you! Oh, another hit? Here's one from me!" God, that mechanic is soo overly used that it disgusts me now. Hey look, we are the evenly matched! lolololol!!!1111!

Thirdly, I want to say that fight sucked soo much because of the whole "we're on par with each other" idea. But then the entire series would be so lacking of that kind of detail if it didn't happen. We'd be back to the whole side B is greater than side A fact without any room to question the potentials of side A.

So, I don't know what to make of the ending. I just don't know!

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.