I feel I enjoyed this show a lot more than others. I know people hate the newtype stuff in Gundam, and this show really feels like it's mostly about that aspect of it. I wish it played more into that honestly, but it's not my show. I will say that it's pretty difficult to follow. This is good in some regards, like, when we aren't focusing on the main cast, a whole other side of the war is happening, and when the main cast returns to that side of the war, to these characters we haven't seen for a long time, they're in a completely difference space. I think that's neat. But also, it seems a lot of stuff that should be said, isn't. Like, why has the tables turned in such a way? Maybe it's the subtitles I used. But it just seems confusing, and the characters say things that don't make sense (another sub thing)(possibly used dubtitles, so it could apply to dubs too)
That adds to the disjointed feelings I got from this show. It's difficult to follow a character. Like, I don't want things totally spelled out for me, and the show is alright in letting the audience figure out why a character is behaving a certain way, but sometimes... well, you expect some things to come up more often, make the show easier to follow. I don't like being a critic. It's okay if a war drama is hard to follow. I do think this is also a symptom of the show not being cleverly written, and by that I mean set-up and payoff isn't really there, or at least I am not good at recognizing it here. Episodes start to become pretty self contained part way through, and near the end it's like...
Some people just have issues with the story itself, why things are happening, not just the writing. To that I say, it's not good to be a critic, let it tell its story. I don't know, I just don't get that side of criticism. It has something to say, let it say it. "uh 0079 was better because both sides were both good and bad and this just has a bad guy" Yeah well maybe that's interesting to me and seems like a real evolution of this universe.
Animation is really fun, even with some budgetary decisions. It's really fun to go from this show from 0079 and see how it's evolved, and it has evolved. The designs are also really fun, lots of gunpla you could make. I also really like the pacing in it. It's hard to describe, but it just makes sense, and feels real and enough is introduced every episode to keep you going, even if it's not really explained much or held onto long lmao.
I think this show is for me. I like it, even with the issues I have with it. I think if you dislike the Newtype stuff, you won't like this show. I think if you're open minded and willing to work with the show and let it do it's thing without judgment, you'll like it too. If you're the type to always have your critic brain on and nitpicking every thing, you'll soon grow tired before the 50 episode run is up. Not that it's so flawed it's somehow bad. It's confusing, but you can live with confusion. It doesn't have some traditionally good things that make a "good" script, but that doesn't mean it's good in other ways and can't exist beyond missing some set-up and payoff that someone as lowly as me would enjoy. If I had to diagnose a problem between this show and 0079, I would say that Zeta tries to do too much, even for it's 50 episode run.
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