Hm, interesting. Personally I feel original Gundam series is still superior to every other UC series (bar War in a pocket and 08th MS team OVAs; and yeah, I'm one of those few who thinks Zeta was a stinker), but this is still enough to get me interested. Might check it out after all.
All UC is pretty excellent, but War in the Pocket, 08th MS Team and MS IGLOO overshadow them all.
I can't say that about IGLOO. It has fantastic action and interesting designs, but as a story I have to say it's kinda terrible. It's pretty much the exact same thing happening every episode over and over again.
Get prototype > get test pilot > test prototype > stuff goes wrong > main char engineer guy files a report
At least in the first OVA.
Yeah but it makes sense, since the first show is
about these engineers testing prototypes, so naturally they have a certain workflow. It didn't feel repetitive at all to me because the action is so varied and awesome and the protos so interesting, it's not at all predictable either and the show never pretends to be anything more than an excuse for sick action (except for the second series OVA's theme with death gods, that was idiotic and didn't make any sense).
There's only like 5 eps per one hour OVA, and the second series, "Gravity War" I believe it was called, doesn't even follow the engineer guys. I thought the different pilots and their motivations were pretty interesting and the characters were all very consistent and unique.
My two favorites were the guy who used to be a sailor who piloted the Diver and he talked about his gramps, and the lady inmate whose guncannon squad were all death row prisoners. That was p awesome IMO.