The story and characters have an epic potential but I don't know whether it is because it is an old anime or what, but the story has many holes, characters behave really shallowly a lot of times and the anime create really artificial moments in order to evoke a certain emotional reaction in the viewer. All of this makes you feel like the authors treat you as a dumb, not demanding or 12 years old viewer who can't catch all those obvious flaws.
For example the crew needs to go asap to one place, but they debate whether to go to 2 other places before hand and they decide not to go to not waste time. But 10 seconds later the ship's engine melt and they have to go to one of those places and after fixing the engine they suddenly decide to go to the other 2nd place.
Or in a big fight in a really intense moment they portray a main character like he died from a heart attack and then 10 seconds later he is standing next to them completely fine with a doctor confirming everything is fine.
There is a lot of stuff in this anime like this that turns you off even though you really wish everything would be polished, because the story and characters have an epic potential if made right.
The sound/music in this anime really suck ass, they are simple and like from 1960 but because you think the story and characters will develop so well you don't care about the sound, until you realize the story and cast falls short and they you feel disappointed even by the sounds and soundtracks.
