User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Sorcerer Magazine, Issue 44: August 2015/@comment-7418318-20150903075612/@comment-1776824-20150903161846


 * Gundam SEED is pretty shit. Basically you have to get through 30+ episodes of the first series, dealing with all the typical teenage drama and nonsense, until you get to something resembling what should've happened in the beginning. From the Battle of Orb onward the show is a masterpiece, but 3/5 of it is just a waiting game (with the exception of one death, mid-series, which was wonderfully executed [better so in the remaster]).
 * SEED Destiny is arguably better, however you have the same problem. You have all of Athrun's character development undone and you have to sit through most of the series hating Shinn, which although is extremely good writing because you in a sense are paralleling Athrun in terms of most of the emotions you are feeling, especially towards Shinn, it's fucking annoying. The Remaster is also superior to the original, as they adapted the OVA ending for the series into a two-part series finale which honestly made me tear up. Overall, SEED is a waiting game where you just sit and watch the characters bicker about stupid shit and then have a moment of clarity about 3/5 of the way through and then everything magically falls into place. Although in Destiny, Ray was a really good character; as was Gil.
 * Gundam 00 is very, I don't know, average. There isn't anything about it that stands out, aside from the mobile suits being ridiculously overpowered (nerfed heavily later on :P). The characters themselves are deep, but you don't learn much through character interaction; you just kinda learn through flashback and indirect exposition. The actual interaction with the pilots is kind of weak, as they are divided into teams. Like, Allelujah, who is my favorite character in 00, is basically shoved aside until the end of season 1 because he is teamed with Tieria, and Setsuna is the main focus, thus you get more tension and work between him and Lockon. Plus,
 * The original is okay. It's just in this day and age it's hard to watch '70s animation when we have, well, all this stuff. '-'
 * Gundam Wing is iconic in the USA because it is the Gundam that started the Gundam craze, whereas SEED killed it. When God and I were just kids, we would watch Wing on Toonami every single day. Hell, I had Wing models, and only Wing models, and action figures, etc. Wing was what essentially got us into Gundam, and while we acknowledge its faults, to us it's easily one of the best (to him, the best) Gundam out there.
 * Gundam Unicorn is best understood after watching all of the other UC timeline Gundams. Essentially, you have to watch everything else except for Victory Gundam to appreciate it fully. .-.
 * Gundam AGE is the best Gundam imo. Watch that, Prime. =)