Gundam 00, kidou!!

So Gundam 00 finally hits the airwaves in it's home country where bi-pedal automatons are the popular form of entertainment. After the magic of the internet and fanaticism allowed me to view the first episode, I can now finally make a good judgment on how much I may enjoy or not enjoy the series. I'll begin by outlining the pros of this show so far :

Pro : The intro song is by L'arc En Ciel. The animation is being done in HD video. Gundam.

Cons :
Ok I really have to wonder why it is that they decided to copy the story from Shin Kidousenki Gundam Wing. They came to the conclusion in that series that using war to stop all wars is a ridiculous notion. Here we are in 2007 with another show where the first episode has 4 mysterious uber-Gundam mechs flying around destroying all sorts of mech-baddies with their oh so invincible turbo engines of winged doom and...well...we've all seen this before. It's not that much fun after the 22nd time. The show even pokes fun at how hypocritical the situation is with the group Celestial Being who are using their big guns to stop all arguing amongst the nations in the world. Unless the show is consciously trying to go somewhere with the idea of "Hypocritial Being" then I honestly don't think this could be all that good.

It's also become way too blatantly obvious that they're using the formula that worked for Wing to try and capture the 13 year old teens segment. But how are they achieving that? With more pretty girlie boys and ugly girls? How is a 13 year old boy preoccupied with the growing world of internet porn going to like watching a show with the most metro sexual cast since Code Geass? Setsuna seems destined to be another Heero Yuy clone with the same exact backstory and perhaps future growth as Sousuke from Full Metal Panic. His Gundam Meister (oh jeez...) mates all seemed predestined for lots of BAD bad yaoi fiction and the mech design has no sense of uniformity, preferring to mash a bunch of different cut and paste MS' into the show.
They should have just animated Unicorn...