>>18 Half-seconded. Destiny looked promising at first - and then went off the very wrong way.

Some would say it lacks action compared to SEED - this is not a bad thing by itself, as the time spent not fighting is used for character development.

Now if only there wasn't that many characters to develop! The scope of the story just spread out too much, diluting itself, having potentially meaningful characters get no screen time and some very interesting others just killed off (/me won't forgive the scriptwriters for what they did to Heine Westenfluss, who happened to have both a spine AND a brain, things which are rarely present in a character in GSD)...

There were interesting moments nonetheless, but they for sure were spoilt by the overall mildness of the show. Blah.

Back on topic, Kira owns anything under the sun. He was made to be so whereas Shinn is a 'mere' gifted coordinator, in the same way Athrun is, minus self-control. Shinn just throws away his pain by inflicting it on others...

He might welcome worth something once he calms down and realizes what war and killing people means. As of episode 49, he's slowly realizing the most important lesson Gundam in general has to teach. It's about time he stops acting like an angry, angsty, frustrated brat with a weapon of mass destruction entrusted to his hands (which is a state of mind Dullindal fully took advantage of).

It just took waaaay too long for characters in that series to finally act how they ought to have been behaving from early on...

Need I mention Cagalli?!?