Zeta is still the best Gundam series there is imo. No one should skip that.
edit: oops, was looking at the last page. Responding to old discussion
You have to take in consideraction Zeta was unique and it's own thing.
Seed Destiny is a very bad version of Zeta.
At least Amuro never beat up his friends and stole their girl. I have never seen Age.
Then why aren't a lot of them better than MSG and Zeta?
Yeah I think it's one of the only full shows I've never really seen.
How the fuck is that possible. That's like scrapping the bottom of the barrel and digging straight into a toilet.
Flit Aseno.
I call bullshit on this and would argue why.
I thought Shinn was fairly justified in his angry tantrums towards Cagalli, considering how she acted in almost all of Destiny. One of his rarer moments of being correct.
Well Woolf is the best as he pilots Ultra Magnus and is boss.
I wasn't a huge fan of any of those tbh...but everyone's tastes are different so that's just me.
Zeta is my favorite. It's got the trifecta, badass music, badass mechs, manly men and bonus points for badass waifus with fucking issues balanced out by some cool ones..
Are my episodic reviews becoming legendary?
Oh ok, though 00 season 2 was a damn clusterfuck. It had potential but somewhere along the way it just shit the bed.
00 Season 2 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>AGE.
It's not saying much given I think 00 is basically dog shit.
Cause he's a spoiled brat that thinks the world owed him something. He wasn't the only person to lose their parents during the war. Athrun lost both parents as well. He fought to avenge his mom and during that fight he watched numerous friends of his be killed by HIS BEST FUCKING FRIEND and during that time he wanted revenge, but he still managed to keep his head and make rational decisions and never exploded on people, he did have moments, but they weren't Shinn tier, even after his dad died in front of him. Shinn just couldn't do any of this and on top of this when met with a person that has shared the same personal tragedy as him he couldn't relate to him, he didn't try to learn or even realize this he just saw him as another person to vent his frustrations on. Shinn couldn't learn, he couldn't evolve, he just stayed a screaming asshole
If only Destiny could have been as satisfying as the last episode.
I still see him as a Gundam pilot that wasn't even mentally fit to operate a Gundam. He wasn't just some random kid that fell into the cockpit, he was trained by the military. His definition of right and wrong is so skewed that he shouldn't even be allowed to operate a fucking Ball.
In the end?
Kira and Athrun are both main characters and heroes of Seed. Seed is just as much Athrun's story as it is Kira's. Both Kira and Athrun are responsible for the deaths of each others friends. I see it as a story of two best friends on opposing sides, just that Kira starts on the "right" side and Athrun eventually makes his way towards it. You have to remember that after Seed and for the most part even during it they really don't hold that much of a grudge with each other barring certain events, their main beef is just the fact that they actually have to fight one another. Kira doesn't view Athrun as evil and Athrun doesn't really view Kira is evil. Shit Athrun once kept his team from even capturing Kira. They didn't want to fight each other until the stress of that situation made each other snap and they forced themselves to try to kill each other, which didn't even make Athrun happy when he thought he won. This isn't exactly a Char vs Amuro rivalry since they lacked the past and the narrative nuance that Kira and Athrun have, it's not the same relationship.
But Emma put just as much effort into raising Kamille as Quattro did. Even with the mentoring Kamille still knocked Quattro out twice. Athrun fucked up with Shinn cause I don't think Athrun is just good in that type of situation. Them retreading Seed character growth with him didn't help either.
The guy was consoled by the voice of his dead sister that was left on a voice mail recording. He must've obsessively recharged that god damn phone. The kid didn't know how to stand on his own two feet, he always had somebody else do it for him, which always led him in the wrong direction, the bad thing is he didn't realize this himself. Athrun was a guy that defied his own father and made that choice and stuck with hit. Shinn couldn't even defy boy scout leader Paptimus.
Athrun was like, "This is looking a wee bit familiar" at that point.Gundam Seed Destiny Episode 18
Athrun continues to seem like a babysitter to these kids at times. Yet at others he really knows what to say to get Shinn to perform at his optimum and even to say the right things to inspire him to keep doing good. All the anime needed was some red lines on Shinn's faces in many of the scenes.
Lohengrin mission was good because of the flying without being able to see a thing, though I hated how brutal it was with the villagers killing the Earth Forces at point blank range facing away from them. Cruel.