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Best Gundam series?

In the episode before the final one, Kamille's beam saber grows longer due to his rage. Before that, he shielded himself with his Newtype powers.

Just a few episode previously, the Newtypes were dueling with their minds. In his first appearance, Scirocco was using his ability to assert "pressure" to prevent Char from wiping him out with the large laser cannon.

It didn't just come out of nowhere.

I don't recall any of the instances where supposedly it had demonstrated unusual abilities before the final three or so episodes.

In the original series, Amuro and Lalah dueled with their minds.

Um, the first forty percent of ZZ Gundam begs to differ.

yet also another reason is lacus besides the way she sound in english voice chantal strand is by far most rare & unique voice of this generation.

dtm42 wants to label Zeta as melodramatic, but he's defending a show that is basically weepy, personality-deprived idiots with no presence piloting awfully designed mecha for a non-existent plot.

It has characters acting realistically in desperate situations. Unlike the CE characters who are too bland to even consider stupid. They have literally no personalities. They're just puppets being pulled by strings.

It felt like they just added a lot of crying because they hoped people would mistake it for characterization.

Unfortunately, people like you did. But by all means, enjoy your shallow, plastic garbage.

The_Libertarian_Otaku wrote:

Gundam 00 had a stellar dub. PROVE ME WRONG!

You just challenged me to disprove an opinion. This is the most retarded thing I have read on the internet, congrats.

Again, this applies to both Zeta and SEED. In SEED, the two main characters (Kira especially) are pushed to their limit as they are forced to fight against each other to protect the ones they care about. Why is it the Zeta characters get a free pass because their behavior is 'realistic' and yet the SEED characters are all 'weepy idiots'?

Sort of like how in Zeta they just added a bunch of people hitting each other and hoped people would mistake it for drama?

Funny how it's 'retarded' for somebody else to do this but not you.

Because Kamille has a personality, for one. It's not particularly likable, but it exists. Kira is just a robot Amuro Ray, who barely makes an impression when he enters or leaves a scene. The same goes for most other CE characters. No presence. Kamille has positive and negative traits. Kira is just a plastic doll that cries sometimes.

I think you're misinterpreting my intentions.

why claim it's too melodramatic?

That's a very convenient way of dismissing my criticism without actually addressing it in any way.

After reading this thread I've decided Gundam 00 will be my next. Thanks for all the Gundam love and knowledge everyone!

You're right. I shouldn't say "Gundam SEED is melodramatic". Melodrama assumes there's any sort of drama, and drama would be flavor. SEED doesn't even have melodrama, that would imply the staff put forward something resembling effort into the show. It's clearly a hallow shell of a series, so it can't be melodramatic.

I came into the thread as my favorite Gundam series was taking what I felt to be a lot of undue criticism and being compared to a series I felt was far inferior to it. If somebody is going to use this thread as a guide for what Gundam series to watch, I want them to get more points of view.

KLAC wrote:

yet also another reason is lacus besides the way she sound in english voice chantal strand is by far most rare & unique voice of this generation.

What are you, her agent? She's a mediocre voice talent at best.