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And Machu's infautation with Shuji is explained by the her poor relationship with her family and her general apathy to life as a whole. The Newtype bullshit really seems like the first she's actually felt something real in her entire life, but how GquuuuuuX handles Newtypes is an entirely different conversation. I'm not saying Machu's a deep or really interesting character, I'm just saying it was fun following a complete lunatic.
>but theyre too busy jerking off with more 0079 references to actually develop that into a full character arc
Yeah it honestly drives me fucking insane seeing people say how they wish the nostalgiafaggotry got more screentime. None of what they do with these characters is interesting aside from Challia, but that's because he's not even the same fucking character from 0079 anymore so I don't know why they didn't just make him OC donut steal who happened to Char's best friend/gay lover. The politics of a victorious Zeon aren't interesting at all, Kycilia and Gihren act so preidctably there's really no intrigue in their actions beyong Kycilia building a Cthulu gun. Dozle's still dead, Degwin still gets killed by Gihren, but at least Garma's implied to be out there with Icelina. For some reason the Earth Federation gets no exploration whatsoever. Sayla comes out of fucking nowhere to be Queen of Zeon at the end and the Charwank is the worst it has ever been in this entire franchise. The show's a complete fucking mess, I still liked it but I'd never say it's actually good. I'd say it should have been an entirely new universe but this would never happened if it wasn't an AU for the UC.