I have to agree about certain characters where the rewrites they did were just plain stupid. There is no reason to make characters basically start over where they were halfway through GS namely Calgari and Athrun. Also the you watched him blow up but he's ok thing has just gone way to far considering in GSD it was used with Kira, Athrun, Sting, Stellar, Lunamaria and Neo just off the top of my head. I can buy a lot but come on Neo was shown dropping about 300 yards and casually gets layed on the ground while his mobile suit blows up. This doesn't even include the resurrected Mwu.

That aside I have to say the music hasn't even come close to that of GS. Opening 4 is terrible beyond belief and most of the songs rather then being truely good had to grow on you. Given there were a few highlights but overall its well below what GS taught me to expect.

Oh and one final note the amount of clip shows has been absolutely abominable even if we don't have to suffer through another one between 4 clip shows and MANY episodes starting with footage from the previous episode as well as opening 4 being a rehash of opening 3 with about 10 new scenes just overall these have disappointed me greatly. Please note I hate clip shows above and beyond anything else in anime.