Wow, this back and forth bickering heating up.

DDBen, in your first post I believe you mistake some of the EFFECTS of bad script writing and directing for CAUSES of the shittiness of GSD.

Having Rey, Meer, Shinn's cocky/bitchy/whiny/aggressive personality, the EAF decline after losing Phantom Pain, Lunamaria in the series were all excellent opportunities. They've just been neglected by the script and the focusing more on Seed characters. Also, if you're going to make the case for having Shinn be captured or defeated at some point in the series, you are ignoring the bigger Bullshit Invincible Character. Kira survived a cockpit shot, averted a nuclear explosion, and was fished out of freezing waters by a retreating ArchAngel.... And lets not also mention Sting's surviving Chaos' crash or Mwu doing the same.

Also DDBen, you express alot of Fukuda like thinking by basing what should happen on which characters are popular in the fanbase. This is a recipe for rehashed garbage, an extremely conservative formula that Fukuda has stuck to so much that its pathetic. Any character from the original Seed series is portrayed as being "the good guy" and none of them have died, despite being in peril in numerous episodes.

Oh, and War is about Death. War dramas are fueled by the constant threat that almost any character can die at anytime. But in Destiny we essentially know that Seed characters will survive and others like Rey, Stellar, Auel, Sting, DOM Troopers, Heine and Meer (though I thought she'd survive actually) are the only ones at risk of getting killed.

Remember how they used to end the previews of episodes for the original Mobile Suit Gundam? Not with some corny idealistic line, but with an ominous "Who will survive?" THAT is war, that is the basis of what Gundam is, not model kits, not popular fanbase, not favoring certain VAs (YzakcoughcoughYzak) but telling a believable and exciting story about imperfect human beings and their efforts in war.