@DDBen-

Kira dying would have been a major boost in the series. I don't care that there are X number of kira fanatics, it would have made the series go into new and fresh ground for a gundam series (again, unless someone can cite a series where this has happened already).

If you play the Fukada/safe/stupid way, then yes, you keep Kira alive despite the impossibleness of it (what, is Kira related to Mwu now?["I make the impossible, possible!"]). Then the Kira fans can go wet themselves @ regular intervals whenever he winks or smiles all knowingly.

If you play the innovative and, admittedly, gambling way, then you kill Kira off in episode 34, which polorizes Athrun et al (and the kira fans) against ZAFT, and you stop having 10 episodes of "well.. I dunno what to do... I want to not fight but I blah blah blah blah blah." It gives it direction (revenge for Kira, stopping a psychopath, preventing the Destiny Plan, whatever you want to call it). We're supposed to be 2-3 episodes from the end of the series, right? how much are they going to leave unexplained? unless they make them hourlong episodes @ least, there's very little chance of resolving much of anything. If they had killed Kira off 13 episodes ago, there would have been much more time for plot development around 2-3 characters, namely Athrun, Shinn, and Rey(maybe him, that's iffy), instead of this stagnant shuffle that we've had since then.


Other than that, I agree with most of what you posted.