There are four in particular, Gundams which appear late in the show, which are just horrendous. The show hosts some of the worst mecha designs ever to grace the Gundam franchise. After all, they all looked exactly the same, so you couldn't even tell the difference if the hair was replaced. No joke here, Japanese fansites were actually taking screen captures from the show and replacing the hair of characters in the scene with that of other characters, with hilarious consequences. He can only draw one or two different faces and two or three different hairstyles, and he puts them together in various combinations with various different colors to create an entire cast. Character designer Hisashi Hirai should put out a book on resourcefulness, because that's about the only way I can see that he still has a job.
The character designs are absolutely awful. At least past villains had some sort of motive in whatever they were trying to accomplish, but this guy just wants to destroy for the sake of destroying. He's just a psychotic nihilist and nothing more. Furthermore, the show's masked villain, Raww Le Klueze, is easily one of the worst Gundam villains ever. Other characters ranged from underdeveloped to boring personalities to downright irritating, and all things in between. There was one character in the show I liked, and - surprise, surprise - he bit the dust. There was one original idea in this show, but it was promptly dropped after episode 20 and never acknowledged again according to interviews with the show's director, there were *never* any plans to take it anywhere, it was just thrown in for no real reason. It's one thing to reference old shows here and there, to pay them homage like that, but it's something else entirely to just build a new show completely out of old ideas. Everything in this show, right down to some minor details, can be traced back to some past Gundam series. Coordinator conflict may be a bit closer to real life, but at its base it's not much different from Oldtype vs. Nothing in Gundam SEED is new or original. It's fantastic that people like to throw around phrases like "best Gundam series ever" in reference to one of the worst, and many - but, granted, not all - admit to having seen very few other Gundam shows.
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