![]() ![]() ![]() By the final episodes, I was completely in love with Kira and Lacus, I enjoyed Athrun and Mu, and I sympathized with Rau and Natarle. Despite the inherent hypocrisies of the main cast using violence as the means to peace (which is a central theme of most Gundam series), I still grew to like many of them. The character interactions and the seemingly repetitive battles all served to hammer the "War is Bad" message in as deeply as possible. Rather, Gundam SEED was a complex and very full package of many elements given the ability to evolve and grow throughout its 50-episode duration. Gundam SEED did not have an award-winning story, phenomenal fights or terribly original characters. Naturally I was disappointed when the whole thing ended up feeling like a worse version of Destiny. However, this time I decided to do so via the movie series, which condenses the events of the original TV series alongside a couple of new and reworked scenes. So here I was, some seven years after I first saw Gundam SEED, and once again I felt the urge to revisit one of my old favorites. The only saving grace was the epilogue, which tied everything together nicely and left me with a good amount of catharsis. All of this eventually wrapped up into more-or-less the same ending as Gundam SEED had, leaving the entire experience pointless and frustrating. As if the premise and execution weren't ridiculous enough, I had to watch many of my beloved characters (Athrun, in particular) revert back to their original angsty selves and completely ignore their development from the first season. A repeat of much of the story (and all of the themes) from Gundam SEED, told from the perspective of a new terrible protagonist and set in a world where these problems were supposed to have been solved. I wanted to like it, and at points I did, but ultimately it was a huge sham. Gundam SEED Destiny, in constrast, was a massive disappointment. To date, I still consider Gundam SEED to be one of the better war anime I've seen, and I would recommend it to any Gundam fan. My feelings for Gundam SEED are rooted heavily in nostalgia, and I've rewatched it several times to hammer the point in. It told me a story I hadn't heard before, showed me fights I hadn't seen before, and bonded me with characters that were new to me. Not only was it one of the first anime I watched, but it was the first war philosophy anime, the second mecha anime, and the first Gundam anime I saw. Gundam SEED has a very special place in my heart. ![]()
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