I wouldn't call it "hate", the issue I have with Splash Star is the same as Suite: pacing. It's inevitable that a full year series of this kind has fillers. The challenge comes in making them "bearable", like Heartcatch did, for example. Splash Star had instead 20 episodes of nothing before the Michiru/Kaoru arc started (one of the rare good moments of SS) but then retreats into the "nothing much happens" for a while (including resurrecting villains, for example). Suite has that issue coupled with extremely weak villains (even now).
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