I love Gundam X. The premise is basically "UC, except everything goes entirely wrong" [admittedly, UC is entirely fucked over as a setting anyway -- humanity barely survives the horrors of the universal century and all that jazz, shit just keeps going wrong from the OYW and shows no sign of stopping ].M.Knight wrote: In comparison, I am watching Gundam X at the moment and am around episode 20 or so. It feels like it's just random event after random event with no really big overarching goal or objective. I mean, there's a "gotta catch'em all" one but it might as well not be there. There's some info on the previous war and stuff, but...meh, it's not that interesting. And of course I don't even really pay attention to the battles and don't even feel like I missed something.
The series also pissed me off so much in the very first 30 seconds when it recycled yet again the exact same plot points in so many other Gundam series. Federation VS Colonies? Check. Newtypes being the key to the end of the war? Check. Yet another stupid nonsensical colony drop operation where you just kill your own homelands in suicide attacks and hope it will somehow show how evil the enemy supposedly is? Check.
It was so bad I considered dropping it right there, but thankfully the few scenes of a post-apocalyptic society afterwards seemed a bit more unique, and the MC is quite fun and has a few tricks up his sleeves. The two adult pilots introduced a bit later are also fun to watch, and so far my favorite episode is one where there is a focus on the personal lives of these two, which is mostly detached from pointless mecha battles while still showing how their choice to be mecha pilots influenced their lives (and vice-versa).
Oh, and the newtype hax in this one doesn't bother me that much for some reason.
Hell, I kinda feel like they wanted it to be the end of UC, but it got moved out.
X does feel a bit thin on overarching plot, yeah. Part of me blames the troubled production... but apparently even though it got cut short, they didn't even really rush anything, they just jump ahead and cut out a bit from the middle and kept things going as intended.