I honestly don't see what the appeal of this series is, and this is coming from a die hard Gundam fan that has seen most Gundam series that have ever been made. I was excited about this series when I first heard it would be coming out, but after only getting roughly 10 episodes into it, I was sick to my stomach and couldn't take anymore. If you like the series, good for you, I have nothing against that, it's just this series didn't even come close to living up to the previous Gundam series that came before it.
Story: Ok, this was the first thing that I noticed about the series and the thing I hated the most about it: Gundam Seed's story is pretty much 90% a blatant copy of the original Mobil Suit Gundam story from 1979. If you think Seed has a good story and you've never seen the original Gundam, I highly recommend you go watch that to see where this series got it's material and to see what a 'real' Gundam series should be like. Yes, I only got 10 episodes into the series, but that's all I needed to completely lose faith in this series story wise, because I had already seen the same story pulled off in a much better fashion.
Animation & Sound: This is really the only thing I can't fault the series on, in my opinion it had amazing animation and sound. Actually, this is probably the only reason I stuck with the series for so long before finally giving up on it as a massive train wreak. The animation down to the smallest detail is very well drawn and very well executed, and the sound helps to accent that. Overall, this was the only good thing about the series.
Character: I won't spend much time on this, because I have pretty much the same thing to say about the characters as I had to say about the story, just a copy of the original series. Group of young kids/teenagers get caught up in a war and are made to face the opposing forces (ZAFT in this case over the original series' Zeon) in which one of those kids must pilot the Gundam and fight off the standard 'villain in the white mask' (Char in the original, I don't know or care about his name in Seed). Overall from what I got out of the episodes I saw, the characters lacked depth at all. Once again, to see this series and it's characters told in a much better way, please watch the original Gundam series.
Enjoyment: I didn't enjoy this series one bit, and it actually killed the Gundam franchise a little in my opinion that thankfully Gundam 00 restored a little in my eyes. Again, if you like this series, thats for you, but coming from someone that grew up watching all the Gundam series, I felt it was just a very bad and poorly executed attempt to re-tell the original Gundam story for a new generation, which itself really wasn't a bad idea, it was just pulled off very badly. Overall, if you want to see a Gundam series, I would recommended several of older series over Seed anyday.
