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Let me preface this by saying I'm quite a Gundam fan. Now, Gundam Wing is a standalone series following 5 young colony pilots as they try to....? Exactly. Originally operation Meteor was the mission, which had some details I won't spoil, but half way through the series, the motivation is scrapped, the mission becomes unclear, and the pilots give into long art of war-esque speeches and constantly switch sides and act like self righteous brats. For this reason, I prefer the first 15 episodes where there is a clear structure to the last 35. Character development, character development was terrible, some characters changed entirely (for the worse) others became senseless and convoluted and were passed of as deep thinking individuals, but the reality is they were pretentious. The series doesn't have very much action, it is mostly speeches and distant gazes from characters, which in a mech series, bothers me, because Gundam is usually a good balance of story and action. I think that's my biggest criticism, the series portrays itself as something deep and philosophical but under scrutiny, you can see the total nonsensical actions of all the characters, like "I don't know what I'm fighting for, better arbitrarily pick the side I was just fighting against for no reason" Now I understand the writers may have been trying to make a point about war and what becomes of soldiers after they're done fighting, but that's not how it comes off, it just comes off as childish. For nostalgia, it's nice, but objectively, if you, like me, like the whole terrorist Gundam cell, and espionage type stuff, you're much better off watching 00, similar themes that don't come off so ham fisted, MUCH BETTER ACTION (there's much more than 5 fights like in Wing) Better characters etc To return to characters actually, Heero was 1 dimensional (which is explained why in Endless Waltz the movie, but still as your main character it was so dull) Trowa was also 1 dimensional, Quatre pretty one dimensional and repetitive, Duo was just a loudmouth, nothing more, Wu Fei was a senseless braggart, Milliardo/Zechs (AKA char clone) was a solid character, but they ruined him in the second half of the series. Relena was also boring, yes, peace is good, we get it, no need for her idealism and speeches to take up half the episodes. Treize was a decent balance between ideals and actions, he had a lot of potential. ANyways, if you have time, there's better shows, but if you have your heart set, you'll still enjoy it.
score 5/10
jackson-mar 28 March 2015
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