You are not alone. In fact, you pretty much took the words right out of my mouth. The only thing I would probably disagree with you on is the fact that Turn A was entertaining. To be honest, I haven't really been a fan of Tomino other than MSG and maybe ZZ. His style of story telling has always been boring to me. Why do these character exist? How do they progress the plot? Why is this battle significant? What are they even fighting about? These seem to be questions that I constantly have with most of his Gundam series, not just Reconquista. His story telling is out dated. His mobile suit design is trash, but supposedly hes doing that to spite Bandai. About the only satisfaction I get from any of this is watching all these UC fan boys try so desperately hard to pretend it's any good. These same fan boys that like to put themselves on a pedestal and trash every other AU series like Wing, SEED, G Gundam, etc. Wake up. It's a terrible show so far and apparently the numbers are proving it. And at the pace it's moving, it won't get any better.

But you know what? I'll still give it a chance. I'm only on episode 20 right now. I haven't downloaded the next few episodes The only motivation I have to continue watching is because of the fact that it is a Gundam series. But make no mistake, in my opinion the most entertaining Gundam series currently airing is Gundam Build Fighters Try.