Review of Mobile Suit Gundam 00

So for a little background i am a old school Gundam fan, I love all the UC series and tend to hate the newer series. Now i was planning on never seeing this series, but after talking with people who know a lot about mecha i decided to give it a shot, and wow was I very disappointed. The gundam pilots or as they are called in this show "meisters" have no depth to them at all. They have the personality of a paper plate and even after seeing their background nothing is really added to those characters. The gundam's themselves are over the topand so ridiculous at some points i couldn't help but laugh. The one saving grace of this show are the enemies. Characters from the other 3 countries are pretty well developed, and pretty damn likable. The mecha designs are nice and realistic. For most of the show i found my self cheering for them hoping beyond hope that they would be able to beat the odds and defeat the gundam's. So overall its 3, its really just Gundam Wing with very likable bad guys.