>>23332769In a way. Episode 7 was when the anime started to come apart, which coincided with Deux and Gates getting rolled like nobodies after the hype from episode 6. It doesn’t seem that way in retrospect, but people were expecting Deux to be a major character (design, weird personality, mentions kira kira, kid/teen gundam pilot, cybernewtype, etc.) and the EFF to start being a key player (main characters’ had been talking about Earth for the whole anime plus Shiiko), so it was a disappointment. Then every episode after piled on the disappointments and the pacing went into overdrive.