The ending of the Gundam 00 has a lot of action but I felt it was just repetitive eye candy. I also think the quality of the animation is a notch below the first season. The ending was very weak, since it just involved killing Ribbons. Ribbons looks so different in a pilot suit. It’s hard to believe that Ribbons wouldn’t have had a backup plan if he were to die in a final battle with Setsuna. There’s probably a couple more Ribbons clones out there so what about them? Anyhow the scenes with O Gundam (total homage to the original) and Exia tries to be nostalgic and cool at the same time, but I’m like what about the OO Gundam? I have to say OO Gundam without the OO Raiser has turned out to be quite pathetic. Having it dismantled in the last episode really is a kicker. Anyhow the O Gundam does some classic beam cannon shots and sword play poses. Exia has it’s one charging pose with an awfully green sword (was it from the OO Gundam?) and walla…. the end. Anyhow I do sort of like them having a classic Amuro Rei / Ramba Ral moment where both cockpits are exposed. Unfortunately there wasn’t really any great dialog accompanying it like the classic. At the end we’re to just assume Celestial Being and Gundam Meisters will be around when another evil appears in the world.
I found this series to start out with some promise. The first season got a little better as it went on, while new and interesting mecha and plots unfolded. The final battles were extremely good. Unfortunately for the second season it was quite lost. Ribbons and the Innovaters weren’t that interesting pulling strings and the characters weren’t that interesting either. They tried to play the relationship theme in the series but it was very weak and boring and most viewers probably would barely connect or care. I also felt the whole second season focused on Setsuna and Saji, they both were incredibly boring characters. If the writers had made them more interesting I would have enjoyed it more. As far as the other Meisters, they also weren’t that much fun. They downright sucked throughout most of the second season killing absolutely nothing. When Tieria finally killed one of the Innovators, it was such a relief to see they were capable of killing anything by that point. Anyhow the writers obviously sucked so bad, they couldn’t kill off any of the main characters or crew. Nothing came even close to what happened at the end of the first season where Lock-On died and two main crew members. Tiera doesn’t count since he merged with Veda. Perhaps there could be a continuation in this universe but I don’t think it would be that interesting. I would rather see more Gundam Seed series.
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Would rather see more Seed Series? GSDestiny was horrible, one of the worst I’ve ever seen. 00 season 2 did have some major fuck ups, but it was way more entertaining than GSD.