A friend told me she hasn't watched this, but heard lotgh is more "pro-war" and less "focused on the underside of things" than gundam series tend to be. From just watching the pilot, i can see where they're coming from. Usually into the start of a new Tomino Gundam, there would be a civillian or two holding dead family members in their arms and one or both sides comitting a war crime of some kind followed by the antagonist giving out hints of what ideology led them to put away their empathy. Here, we have a 150 year war with no reason why it started and the main motivation for every single character from either side wanting their side to win isn't from any attatchment to their nation or ideals, just they don't want to die. Not saying this as an insult to lotgh, I like this being more focused on wars for what they are and space battles for what they could be.
I liked the silent and "dull" way they did laser bullets compared to gundam and star wars. Besides the realism component, the way a 1988 pilot depicted a space battle in such a "silent" way that ive never seen before is fantastic. Also i was getting kinda sick of the teenager romance drama being at the forefront in every war in Tomino's Gundams, so this is a nice change of pace.
