[G]Sentenal's Guide to Gundam - Page 2

I hate Unicorn. My hatred for it might even be greater than my hatred for ZZ and Seed. It's so bland and uncreative.

Let's have a child protagonist and a love interest that's on the opposing side! Surely that hasn't been done before. Amuro and Lalah weren't actually just the two of them. The original's love story was an enormously interesting one when you add Char and Sayla. In Zeta, Four shows Kamille just how powerless he is. The Judau and Puru thing is kind of creepy, but I think he ends up with Lu Luka so that's fine. From what I remember about V, Usso's pursuit of women isn't uncommon. His attraction to Katejina is still weird, because she's batshit crazy and I can only assume he likes that. We can't forget the most cliched plot twist in 08th MS team. Aina and Shiro are in love, but they are fighting for opposite sides and GASP Aina's older brother is the commander. Domon and Rain have possibly the best relationship, because it's so integral to the plot.

Not only will we force them to be on opposing sides, we'll instantly make the female character important by making her Mineva. We can even bring back Char or at least someone who looks like him, because that isn't old yet. If anyone complains we can just say it's not really him! The use of Char to garner interest is just so blantantly wrong. Let him die already. Char without Amuro is like a Gundam series without Mobile Suits. Trying to being back every dead character seems cheap. So much for that 50 million budget.

The Unicorn and to some extent Banagher irritates me. In six episodes we're supposed to believe he can hold his own against someone who is supposed to be Char? Let's see the list of people who defeated him. This includes Amuro at the end of the one year war with lots and lots of battle experience as well as being a high level Newtype, Haman at the end of the Gryps Conflict a skilled pilot and a high level Newtype, and Amuro again this time with even more experience and a more advance Mobile Suit compared to his opponent. Both of them rank in the top five of pure Newtype powers. How do we solve this problem? Let's give the Unicorn GOD MODE, but we can balance it out by having it last five minutes that seems fair right? He doesn't have to be a decent pilot at all and we can continue pretending he's beating the Red Comet all while whistling to the bank.

It has merits like the Marida and making people look at the Puru saga, which made ZZ somewhat bearable. Still unless they do something spectacular I don't see how this series isn't just some cheap characters and lazy plot points dressed up in a large budget.