Finally caught up with this show. I'll just rant in here instead of ranting a smalla amount in every episode thread...

To me all the characters are still very boring and flat, There is absolutely nothing interesting about any character, exept the Union Ace pilot flying that Flag suit, Graham was his name right?

He seems to have potential to become interesting, the rest just looks way to weird for my taste and their names suck big time. Why can't they design the characters a bit more normal looking? It feels like they try to hard with the main characters to make them look interesting and have interesting names. This just makes the supporting cast all that more interesting.

On the mobile suits, i think that it's great that all the suits doesn't look super high tech. This will hopefully prevent a SEED type effect at the end when everybody had colorful beam weaponry and the war more or less looked like a candystore not a battlefield. The fight between Setsuna and Graham in his custom Flag showed that the three major powers probably got enough technology to seriously challenge the Gundams, which is a good thing.

Lastly, the best designs is Kyrios and the Flag. Kyrios got the awesome mobile armor transformation thing and an incredible beam rifle. The Flag is just Evil looking, awesome...