From what I am told, yes. Mobile Suit Gundam back in 1979 was the first series to become what is called the REAL ROBOT genre. As opposed to the Super robot genre where the hero gets an invincible robot to battle his enemies, who keep sending enemies that are eventualy defeated curtesy of Hero in Super Robot.

In contrast, series like Gundam and robotech focus more on characters and the horrors of war, where the giant robots are just another tool of destruction, not a special ace up the hero's sleeve.

Gundam Seed was a spectacular play on human emotions. How many of us watched the duel between Asuran with Kira without breathing? How many of us feel sad every single time Kira has to kill again and again when he doesn't want to? How many of us want to Mangekyo Sharingan Frey alster into a thousand years of hell for seducing and f*(ing Kira? How many of us rejoiced when we see Kira floating in space being found by his best friend Asuran and sister Cagalli in the middle of space after the final battle?

for GSD? Hell, even Impulse looks like Strike. And Shinn, they haven't gone anything further on his character apart from his obsession with Stellar and destroying ORB's ideal

The chaos of episode 28 really made me think: What the helll is this episode all about? Oh wait I know, Saviour needs to be scrapped because Asuran's getting Knight Justice!!

pathetic really. Please focus more on the characters and less on bringing in new Mobile suits, and new pilots who are eventually killed in 2 episodes. (Remember Heine)