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As much as I am angry at Saji, he doesn't deserve the blame. No, the people who should be blamed are the idiots and incompetents at Sunrise.
They introduced him way back in episode one, gave him loads of screentime which never advanced the plot, his character never went anywhere, then he got some sympathy by proxy after episode eighteen, but now they have pissed his respect away by making him a total idiot and loudmouth emo whose first action to advance the plot resulted in dozens of people getting killed.
Setsuna claimed that all Saji wanted was peace for himself, and not the world as a whole. That's what Saji did; he sold Cataron out to save his own ass. He continues to blame Celestial Being even though they have given him records showing that they weren't responsible for what happened to Louise. He chose to follow Setsuna out into the desert with minimal supplies just to satisfy his own personal ill-founded vendetta.
Honestly, Saji is a terrible character, but it is not his fault. After all, he isn't real, unlike the atrociously bad (and unfortunately very real) staff at Sunrise. They chose to introduce him back in season one with all that airtime, despite his involvement with the plot starting in season two. They chose to make him so stupid, so incompetent, so blind with rage and ignorance, that the show is suffering greatly for it.
Combine him with the drug-addled Louise (honestly, the drugged-out cute girl who's a pilot has been done to death), the useless Marina (not to mention her painfully stilted relationship with Setsuna), the usual crap about having teenage bridge bunnies (no military or paramilitary force would choose a teenage girl over a hardened and actually trained professional), and a whole host of other absurdities, and this series is certain to be worse than Gundam SEED Destiny. That's saying something.
Even if the dub was not the appalling piece of garbage it is, I still would refuse to buy the DVDs. The show is just that horrid.
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