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Kind of all over the place, that ending. Didn't care much for it. Nyaan is suddenly okay with third-wheeling after all (just took machu asking her to be her mav), char says he'll send the rose of sharon back but spends the rest of the ep being attacked by challia bull for some reason, xavier is alright with challia bull after his fellow pilots and kycillia's faction is massacred... is there a reason the white gundam had to balloon in size?

Shuuji, who is a newtype travelling dimensions to put lalah out of her misery, has a revelation that she wouldn't want that thanks to.. machu preaching survival of the fittest at him and telling him that he loves lalah. After which he pulls a kaworu, confesses that he loves machu and returns her affections after 11 eps of... that. How is this a guy?? Why was he starving to death in side 6 with filched missing gundam (did they ever explain that?) if his mission was to destroy the elmeth? And the mysterious messages never do get explained do they...

(Ed turns out to be queerbait of the highest degree, consider me baited. I have no idea if it's a good thing that wfm came out before gqx, when plans were for the opposite...)

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Okay.. so I'm gonna talk more about this I guess.

I have been a gqux defender from the start, I've enjoyed most of it, but ugh...

So, the positives, what I liked:

Machu and Nyaan fighting together

The visuals, obviously

The fight choreography

Machu and Nyaan completing their dream of making it to earth, however I would have preferred a different ending. Or have them tackle it a different way

Negatives;

I kinda thought all the stuff with the original white gundam got a little dumb, especially with it growing in size???? What was that????? Sorry if thats me complaining too much

I think the narrative of this episode was nowhere near as strong as other episodes

A lot of it felt there just to tie up lose ends, especially with the ending montage and the clanbat people appearing again

It was so??? Rushed??? Nothing really felt satisfying to me I'm sad to say

I really dont like all the Shuji loves Machu stuff, the "this world was made for us to meet" NO!!!! SHUT UP!!!!!! Also I think Shuji isnt as strong a character as any other character, especially for a protagonist, and I think him being someone who has "chased after Lalah across countless worlds" makes him even weaker. It feels... lame and contrived....

Shuji is clearly my biggest problem with this show, he feels like nothing more then a bland plot point not a character, however I still believe the Shuji Transfem agenda

Everything just needed so much more time, I think there's a world where this show works and is good, the ending dampens everything the show has done good for me though.

More I can't name, I need to get my thoughts in orser but unfortunately a lot of my feelings for this episode are negative.

All that being said:

I think this show will always hold a special place in my heart, for various reasons. Talking about it week by week has been a lot of fun and I will miss it.

Machu is one of my favourite characters period rn, I do not think she is one of the best characters ever, but she sits in the top 5 characters ever in my brain though that may change.

I think a lot of this show was competently made, however I REALLY prefered the early stuff, up to like episode 7-8 with all the clanbat stuff, I thought that was more fun

As much as I can think the multiversal stuff can work it needed more buildup and it felt shoved in there and like it gunked up the show as a whole

But its impossible for me to say I don't like this show, I do, however there is an urge, an itch, to fix it because with that ending I don't think I can say Gqux is *GOOD*

I dont know, maybe I'll draft up an outline for how I'd approach what it feels like what they wanted to do and what I think could be done better, maybe I'll draft up a whole fanfic for it, I am confident it would be very different in the end from the show though.

Would anyone be interested in that?

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I have some... frustrations with this ending... but i will count this as both a yuri ending and a poly ending for them... ill cope

Episode 12... ugh...

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Episode 12... ugh...

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GQuuuuuux episode 12 tomorrow. No matter what happens next, to all of you who have also stuck around through all the ups and downs, I'm glad to have experienced this wild ride with all of you. Let's get the end, everyone.

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Why are so many guys in Gundam clearly actually transfem (imo)

Shuji, Char, Garma, I'm sure more I haven't met yet.

It's wild

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GQuuuuuux Episode 12 if my vision is correct:

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I think MMJ would make excellent magical girls

And maybe slightly more unexpected i think N25 would make amazing angsty mecha pilots

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I think out of everything Gqux has given us I'm mostly excited for the potential fanfics (i havent looked yet). Like the show hasnt fully delivered on everything i wanted from it (especially with nyaachu) ((still enjoying it tho)) but theres a lot of foundation and potential there and i hope fanfic writers are and will take advantage of it. I'll look after the finale on Tuesday though.

Im even tempted to write something

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sums it up

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Anyways Amuro is finally starting to work for me, I still prefer Char because Char is my favourite little guy but Amuro's growing on me :)

I think I like seeing him kept on the brink of exhaustion as mean as that may be to say.

Top 3 characters rn: Sayla, Char, Ryu

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The white base cant catch a break

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impeccable

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They can if you believe :)

deers cant listen to music or smoke weed its really really sad:(