Graham Ackers martyrdom was abused to heap praise on the savior shonen Jesuseiei.

The first season was the first show in the franchise that I completed.

Through it, I got the possibility of Gundam, and I proceeded to rewatch all the other Gundam shows I dropped and since most of them were from the Universal Century continuity, there was no looking back for me.

I bought into the passing of fossil fuels as the main energy source.

I bought into the new energy hegemony created by access to the orbital elevators structures that I thought were clever proto-proto-space colonization pieces of science fiction.

I liked the idea that Celestial Being drank their own Kool-Aid, that they actually believed in what they did no matter how comical it is under rigorous scrutiny as a policy for conflict suppression, much less for permanent peace.

The story would show them the complexity of human beings, which would lead to varied epiphanies along the idealist-realist continuum or so I thought, having not yet watched Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, and Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny.

I have yet to truly experience how Gundam-style pacifism proselytizing is hell.

I even bought into 00s take on Tominos Newtype concept that is, the ability to communicate without misunderstanding (some kind of telepathy).

The greatest thrills it gave me involved how the technologically overwhelmed pre-federation nations used skill, numbers, and tactics to combat the Gundams.

It made for great drama.

Sumeragi Lee Noriega to this day had the second sexiest hair in all anime, all years (next to Lockon Stratos).

Even the characters were memorable I thought, and the characters eccentricities informed the battles in interesting ways.

The promise I got out of 00 was fulfilled by the older shows I watched.

The consequence of this is that I learned to be discerning when it came to Gundam.

Marina Ismail was infuriatingly all over the show despite having the significance of 2.5 Meer Campbells.

Doublellujah Haptism turned into a wailing mess without the fangs, and Soma Pieres was nerfed beyond shame.

Speaking of disgusting pairings: Wang Liu-min x Hong Long, Lyle Dylandy x Anew Returner, Sumeragi x Billy Kitagiri, and Feldt x Setsuna WHAT.

But then the gaga squadron came from nowhere with its unlimited innovade works and my poor, poor face kept getting raped by my palms.

Then the Trans-Am Burst fixed everything and merited a prominent place in the armory of Failhalla.

I loved the touch of putting him in the 0 Gundam and bringing back SExia for one last fight.

I can acknowledge its merits easily while avoiding dumping on its faults.

I hated the stupid thing, such a jingoistic faux-substantial failure of a spectacle.

Gundam has always been about war is hell but Gundam 00 as a franchise spent more time preaching how conflict is bad than portraying the existential emptiness and meaninglessness of war.

And how loudly and clumsily it preached, and never as obnoxiously as in this film.

Jesuseiei renders the attempts to give other characters dignified exits failures.

Gundam Nt Torrent