>>23344996>SEED's major problem is being too long and animation reuse.No, its main problem is its incompetent direction and asinine writing, length be damned. Leave the basic ideas, kick Fukuda and Morosawa out and you get a decent show out of it.
>SEED shamelessly copies 0079 in many many ways, but you don't NEED to watch 0079 to understand it.Because it's intended as a remake.
>but also on raw nostalgiabaiting without any real merit.Except there is a merit, like it or not (I certainly don't): nostalgia makes money. Original projects don't get a lot of traction with audiences, and Bandai is very much aware of that.