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Originally Posted by RedWing
Felt low budget. 1st episode and they are already stretching my suspension of disbelief. At least SEED came up with a good excuse as to why the underaged first time pilot beats veterans and UC has the whole Newtype thing, but this show seems to have just forgotten those details.
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He build the damn thing! I would think being the builder/designer as well as having spending many years vigorously studying and building the Gundam due to his sense of duty/hatre/revenge he would at least know how to operate it. Heck it would make LESS sense if he didn't know how to operate it better than anyone else given his background - as it would be irrational that he would never once considered using the Gundam himself while he spent his childhood years making the thing to fulfil his suppose duty and act on his hatre against the UE.
I can say that AGE has actually given one of the more convincing explanation that we've ever got for a civilian teenager "accidentally" becoming a pilot in Gundam history. For UC work where the protagonist aren't professional pilots none of the Gundam pilots has ever awaken as a Newtype in their first scramble, instead we have always been just told that the protagonist is "good at mechanics" in the first episode (Amurao, Kamiyu, Judo, Seabook etc all fall into this category) and Newtype power is not associated with good piloting sense (it gives you a combat advantage, but not piloting sense) - the protagonist is always augmented with being either a mechanical engineering prodigy/student (Amuro, Seabook) or had experience with non-combat/small size mobile suits (Kamiyu, Judo) or even secret pilot training (Usso, Banagher) to make it plausible , here Flit is also given the same old "good at mechanics" reason (again he spent years studying and building the whole damn thing just from the blue prints! even Kira's ability pales to Flit's mechanical sense here), so singling out AGE here is just ignoring the same flaw that exists in almost all other Gundams.
As for why he wins his first battle, as per Gundam tradition the Gundam is over-powered, so again per tradition Flint relied on the power of the Gundam to defeat the enemy, plus as the episode has explained the memory unit has data which he dock into the Gundam, the "excuses" for making it plausible are actually plentiful in the episode unless you wilfully ignore it, and most of these excuses are just straight out cut and paste from previous Gundams!
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I don't understand why he would show his teacher his evidence for an attack rather than someone who can actually do something (y'know like the military people he is working with?).
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That looked like it was a whim of a moment emotional out burst due to his classmates being care free. It seems he was going to tell the military when he goes back to base for the testing of Gundam that afternoon anyway, but in the morning he was in a rush when Emily was so eager to push him to get to school so he didn't get the chance, and shit hit the fan before he could do anything. Chronologically speaking there isn't much of a problem with it.
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