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I think it was a solid Gundam show.
I liked the characters. I liked the setting. I liked the character/MS designs. I think season 1 is pretty great if you embrace the show for what it was trying to be even if it didn't, on the surface, feel like a normal Gundam show.
But I feel like the show started missing a few steps in season 2.
The pacing was haphazard, stuff resolved quickly or took too long to resolve, characters sometimes felt like they were acting at the necessity of the plot, stuff that should be discussed or relevant is glossed over, and things move so quickly that there's never enough time to properly unpack everything which leaves events feeling underwhelming or ill-defined. It really does feel like they had to condense a 50-episode Gundam story into two cours.
The animation was crisp, character-driven and beautiful and the 2D Mecha animation is always a pleasure to the eyes, though at the same time it felt like they didn't quite deliver on the great Mecha fights that we got in season 1. Especially in the climax. But that's just me.
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