Spoiler for Everything Dean the Young said:
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Originally Posted by Dean_the_Young
This is a case of where your opinion is against established literary practices. Saying that something that is sibling-close in terms of plot and script aren't alike flies in the face of literary classifications. Parodies are the good example; despite freely mocking, often having entirely different types of characters and situation, and being of entirely different types of production of what they target, they are always considered blank-"ish." SpaceBalls is an example; it throws out exact characters, plot arcs, and themes, but it is no way considered not "Star Wars-ish." Links between parts of a franchise are done through a mix of common themes, styles, motifs, and plot points, and Gundam Seed has almost all of these. Exact tone is largely irrelevant; Full Metal Panic and Full Metal Fumuffu are both equally FMP-ish, despite having entirely different takes and ideas. (One is a romantic comedy, the other tries to be much darker and more serious.)
Now, you might want to reword your opinion so that it doesn't contradict established definitions: you might want to say that "Gundam Seed tells it a story in a unique mood with different emphasis on character." That could successfully be argued. Saying that Seed is remarkably "unGundamish" runs against most of the measures by what that would be measured by.
Bad analogy: Gundam is a franchise, not a genre. Robin Hood is similarly a story, not a genre. A Robin Hood porno would still be considered "Robin Hood"-ish. "Men in Tights" is a Robin Hood parody you might know; it completely ignores most of the Robin Hood tales, but is hardly not a part of the same Robin Hood mythos.
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I don't think that those analogies are bad as what really did not tick here are our POVs on "what is "Robin Hood"ish what's not". Notice that I by no means said that everyone should perceive SEED as "unGundamish". The contrary.
However, I just tried to make one see that the show is indeed very original in many terms. The sole fact that there is war and Gundams and the fact that it was supposed to be a homage to the first series already makes it very GUNDAMISH (we all know that the prerequisites a series has to fiulfill to become a Gundam show so far became very "loose"). Still, if we judged it only by its designs and not-that-superficial but very strong "soap drama" character development, it's a very remarkable series by its own right. That's basically it.