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Don't get me wrong I was expecting char to come back after his disappearance in the zeknova from the start and I was even expecting an amuro cameo but I didn't think the char lalah amuro shit would completely hijack the show to the extent they did by the end. There was a point where the epic references kinda just completely subsumed the suggestion of a plot, and I wanna say that was around the point the psycho gundam MKII appeared for no real reason to do nothing much at all and then shed its armour to remind you of an EVA.
Machu and Nyan felt like characters created entirely from first draft bullet points. The writers knew the major beats they wanted the characters to hit, but put literally no effort into leading them to and from each development.
The friendship didn't feel earned and wasn't really shown, so the "betrayal" didn't feel earned, so the confrontation didn't feel earned, so them forgiving eachother and becoming perfect mavs to beat the final boss didn't feel earned. Each stage in the process needed like, 2 more scenes at minimum. Show should have been double the length, and ideally I would have liked the final conflict to not just collapse into lalah's grief and multiverses. I found the grounded problems of the actual setting they'd created more compelling.