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As for the characters, I didn't really like most of them. Simon was meh. Yoko was for fanservice almost exclusively and did pretty much nothing noteworthy in the whole show. Kamina was great but he wasn't in most episodes. No major complaints with the rest... except for the clown guy who I believe had the soul purpose of mashing whatever giant "fire all missiles" button they put in front of him.
You have the world that's facing the evil aliens by itself while the island with the tech to fight them hides. Then when the world says "Damn it, help us!" the island says no. So on the global scale the islanders are arsehats. Then on the small scale, you have the islanders telling the children that they don't matter and only to make sure the robots come back. At this point the islanders are basically the arsehats of the show and the rest of the world is looking like the good guys so what do the writers do? The next episode the world attacks the island and the islanders are suddenly all hugs and smiles to the children.
That's basically what I remember from Fafner. Well that and Shouko's death in episode 2 or 3. I don't remember that death because it was memorable so much as the fact that they killed a character with no audience connection and then periodically went emo over it in the next 10 episodes left an impression.
Sorry, I'll stop now...
And my favorite GW characters were Duo and Zechs as well. The biggest nicety about Gundam Wing is that there are fewer emo moments. There are fewer "Wah wah, why do I have to fight you? Waaah!" moments in Gundam Wing. More so than most other Gundams I've seen, Wing pilots seem to accept their situations readily and handle them quickly.
Plus if you watched the dubbed version you had to deal with Heero's emotionless VA'ing. Mark Hildreth is a good VA, but the studio made some bad choices with Heero's character. So instead of a young man acting on his emotions you ended up with robot-like assassin.
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