I almost turned off the episode when the ship crew started talking about "omg, so this is a battle between newtypes??" as if I was watching a battle shounen anime, then the attempted commentary on human fallibility in the insertion of the standard bit about despite being newtypes they're fighting.

It's simultaneously constrained by general and gundam tropes while having no writer capable of utilizing these familiar elements in a novel or compelling way. It also somehow thinks passing knowledge of UC Gundam was enough to make up for the lack of thematic building on its own front. The large amount of exposition in service of spouting banalities was somehow unexpected by me. I think GQuuux is bad but I don't dislike it. I'm left with a feeling as hollow as the narrative and characters now that's over.