I watched the first season of Gundam SEED last year during quarantine and thought it was fantastic and I just wrapped up Destiny earlier. I went into it thinking it wasn't going to be good from what many people say about it and yes it was incredibly flawed and I think it could of benefited if they didn't reuse so many animations over and over. It isn't until the 30th episodes does it feel like you're getting to see new animation and not just reused gifs for particular battle sequences.
Now I haven't seen many Gundam series, as I've only seen this and Wing. I think this is clearly better than Wing. While Wing is great for it's designs and cool cast, it's too involved with it's own space politics bullshit which is very wooden and uninteresting. I read the reboot Manga of GW not long ago and that was root canal trying to get through that shit. There's politics in this one, like with all G series, but at least this one isn't painful and it only gives you quick snippets without it being painful.
There's supposed to be a new Seed game I believe next year and there's going to be a sequel to Destiny as a film for the 20th anniversary of SEED. I don't know why in the 00s and beyond, I've read many people say SEED wasn't any good but I'm thinking they meant Destiny. I think at it's core it's problems are rooted in a new main character that is so abrasive you can't even root for him and he ends up being an unknowing villain and the entire new cast is completely in the shadow of the much better S1 cast. Another thing that bugs me is how fizzled out the ending of the show is. The final battle of S1 is incredible and fast paced which literally comes down to the wire while Destiny, the final battle is very meh and isn't even a challenge for the good guy to take out the bad guy.
I've really committed a lot of time to my Gundam kits and I want to continue you going through another series one after another. I'm probably going to go into Gundam 00. That has two seasons and a film. After that it'll probably be Iron Blooded Orphans. I do wanna see Turn A Gundam, Stardust Memory, and maybe Unicorn since I own the full armor kit which I purely bought since it's a clusterfuck of armaments.
Now I haven't seen many Gundam series, as I've only seen this and Wing. I think this is clearly better than Wing. While Wing is great for it's designs and cool cast, it's too involved with it's own space politics bullshit which is very wooden and uninteresting. I read the reboot Manga of GW not long ago and that was root canal trying to get through that shit. There's politics in this one, like with all G series, but at least this one isn't painful and it only gives you quick snippets without it being painful.
There's supposed to be a new Seed game I believe next year and there's going to be a sequel to Destiny as a film for the 20th anniversary of SEED. I don't know why in the 00s and beyond, I've read many people say SEED wasn't any good but I'm thinking they meant Destiny. I think at it's core it's problems are rooted in a new main character that is so abrasive you can't even root for him and he ends up being an unknowing villain and the entire new cast is completely in the shadow of the much better S1 cast. Another thing that bugs me is how fizzled out the ending of the show is. The final battle of S1 is incredible and fast paced which literally comes down to the wire while Destiny, the final battle is very meh and isn't even a challenge for the good guy to take out the bad guy.
I've really committed a lot of time to my Gundam kits and I want to continue you going through another series one after another. I'm probably going to go into Gundam 00. That has two seasons and a film. After that it'll probably be Iron Blooded Orphans. I do wanna see Turn A Gundam, Stardust Memory, and maybe Unicorn since I own the full armor kit which I purely bought since it's a clusterfuck of armaments.
