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Originally Posted by Kaioshin Sama
I thrive on bluntness, however I completely disagree with the way in which you and others seem to be approaching this show. My only response would be why not give a 50 episode show time and allow it to unfold it's tale? Especially when there's some very displeased people that have made their intent to follow it through to the end regardless of how apparently awful it is very clear. At that point that's basically what your doing, giving it the whole 50 episodes, but if in committing to watching the whole thing you're not going to give it it's fair due than I really don't understand how their can be any goal other than to just watch to gripe.
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Well, there's a couple of reasons, really. One being what WD said, we're hoping it might surprise us, although chances of that are getting slimmer. So in other words, it could redeem itself, and I'd hope so, but seriously doubt it.
For me, the other reason is that unless I have seen it, I have no right to say it was crap. Same reason I read Twatlight all the way to its idiotic end. Now, I obviously don't do that for every fictional work that isn't up to snuff, don't have the time or interest- just the ones that are insanely popular for no reason (like Twilight) or that I expected better from, like Gundam- things that you normally get some sort of quality from. Nothing to do with it being Gundam specifically, could be anything.
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Personally though I fail to see where these bland battles are, I actually quite like the score and find it fitting, feel that the core cast (Flit, Emily, Grodek, Yurin) is deeper and their fates more intertwined than people are giving it credit for, and feel they are doing everything to foreshadow that there is very much more to what's going on than meets the eye and that this factor will very shortly come into play.
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Well, watch a battle from a previous Gundam show and compare. The score is simple and leaves no impression, if you're ok with that kind of stuff, good for you- To me it sounds like a low quality, cheap out-of-a-tin score, and by no means could you compare it to that of 00 (not perfect, but very good for a TV series), or Unicorn that can hold its own against non-animation scores.
How is the core cast not two-dimensional? Yurin is the typical sweet orphan in distress that the main character is infatuated with for absolutely no reason at all other than to fabricate drama.
Flit is the typical hero of lame kiddie shows, more or less a massive "please paste your face here"- what's so deep about him?
Emily is some kind of girlfriend. That's really all there is to her.
Grodek is the "glorious mutineer" (hahaha), who will either die or be praised. Wow, so deep.
If we're not giving the show enough credit, then you might be reading too much into it, maybe. I don't think this show is ever going to be very deep or surprising... :/
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Age's selling point is the multi-generation thing by the way though, and how the different generations and factions interact with and see the same situations through different viewpoints and approach them from different angles based on their value systems and the situations they grew up with. Yeah some of these portrayals like Don's could be a little childish at times, but it is a kids show and it is there as a core theme.
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Agree, that's supposed to be it's selling point. It's more of an empty promise point by now though, or an emergency reset button, like someone pointed out so fittingly. Problem is, this hasn't been used in any impressive way.
It's being written like a kid's introduction to different viewpoints and values- and I, as a kid, would've been insulted to be presented the subject this way. Sorry, but I watched intelligent shows back then that didn't try to child-proof what they were trying to say. And if I had kids, I'd have them watch something cooler or smarter or just plain better because I doubt they'd be satisfied with this either.
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If I had to guess this arc is all about building the scenario for everything that is yet to come in the next couple of generations, that's another reason why I feel the show at least deserves the time to play it's main gimmick in full.
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we all hope that. We're still watching for some reason, be it to watch the disaster happen or hope for improvement, or hanging on to the reset button.
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Well this is a Gundam show so I guess people would find that grating in this particular case. Swear to god people get really nit picky when it comes to this franchise and find the silliest little things to gripe about and this one is one of the all time greats in the making. I'm trying to envision a scenario where any place else that would be a major issue and I'm coming up with nothing. 
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Again, nothing to do with that. We find it annoying because it's an uncomfortable sound. Nearly have to forward these scenes because it makes me feel really uncomfortable. It's what I imagine that infamous Pokemon episode must've felt like. But as you can see, sounds are subjective, some people aren't bothered by it. Just because something doesn't bother you doesn't make it silly, I'm sure there's sounds or visuals you don't like, scratching on chalkboard maybe. It's kind of like that.
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Originally Posted by Znozzy
That'd be nice, but at the same time we're going to have 3 main characters, and the base one is feeling a bit empty, what im worried over is that instead of getting 3 rushed main characters we will get 3 twodimensional characters that are as boring as flit is right now, he just feels empty.
I hope the storytelling improves for the 2nd generation, but i am starting to highly doubt that, sofar this show has taken alot of bad turns when it had great potential.
It's like having a train constantly run at half the speed for no particular reason at all
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couldn't agree more with this, pretty much sums up how I feel about the show as well.
