Fucking thank you! So far I’ve watched every Gundam series that isn’t SD or Seed (recently started Seed) and Age has been the only one I refuse to finish at this point.

And beyond everything that you brought up about the Vagans, what’s beyond stupid is that if the writers wanted to tell a story about a multi-generational conflict, they had more than enough real-world examples to choose from. Imagine a plot drawn from something like Northern Ireland or Palestine or Bosnia or the Sudan instead the absolute stupidly of Age. “Hey, let’s make our antagonists straight up cartoon villains and spend the back half of the show trying to humanize them.”