Loved how it showed a time where they were actually getting along. Love the Zeta movies though since they're shorter, have some great new battle scenes, and added that scene where the Argama crew has cake. There are plenty of things I like about Zeta, but it's dead last in my Gundam ranking (yes, I like SEED Destiny more than Zeta).

I know there's the mind set of 'It's dark so therefore it's mature and deep and automatically better!' Is that part of what's going on here? I freely admit that I used to have that mind set as well. I only really got excited when the last few episodes came around because it felt like stuff was actually happening. A lot of the battles were rather dull and it eventually felt like a chore to sit through the whole thing. None of the characters were particularly likable save a few and spent most of the series bickering with each other.

I could only watch about 5 episodes a day because any more would wear me out. But when I watched it more recently I failed to see why it's considered so good. I've been wondering this for awhile but mostly didn't say anything because I know people would grab the pitch forks (jk) but why is Zeta Gundam held in such high regard? When I was young and impressionable I thought Zeta was the best Gundam ever only because MAHQ said it was.

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