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Obviously, "Meer" was a well-written episode because... it had good writing. In fact, it ranks up there among the best written Gundam episodes. NeonZ, your complaint is simply that it's timing was wrong, which may mean it's not to your taste, but it still has no bearing on its writing.
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My complaint isn't related only to taste. Gundam SEED Destiny is not made by a bunch of episodes only thematically related, or anything like that. "Meer" is not in a void where it can be judged completely on its own, ignoring everything else. It's an episode that failed to provide any kind of advancement or any relevant information. The timing is just one of the problems.
It basically is what many people call "filler". Most of that episode could be skipped without, in any way, changing the other episodes of the series or the interpretation of those episodes. It doesn't clarify any motivations which hadn't been shown before, it doesn't advance the story, not even characterization, it's just a failure as a character analysis. Compare it to Eva's last two episodes(or even Rei's monologue in Eva's first clip show), and its flaws become obvious.