So Gundam is trending on twitter worldwide right now...

Explains why the stream was so laggy and the massive hype behind this show.

I'm not liking the design of the Barbatos. At all. It's way... way... WAY too exposed.

Hah.... HAH.

This MS strikes fear.

Considering it can parts jack off of other, we don't know what the episode to episode or the final version of Barbatos could look like.

They've done modular mobile suits before.

They at least had a respectable amount of armor in critical areas and didn't have their entire freaking back exposed and waiting for a lucky shot from a 12 gauge to disable or destroy the damned thing.

In other words...

CAST OFF....CHANGE, BARBATOS!

the fact that the damn thing is gonna be moving around and will probably have those parts covered by the end of the series, I really don't think it's an issue.

let them be creative and dumb. I love the look of it because it looks like it would be a bad guy gundam but it's the good guy one instead.

If I'm going to invest time in watching something, I need to like the story and actually find whatever I'm seeing in action to be somewhat aesthetically pleasing.

The show seems to hit ONE of those points right now. I'm not optimistic about it hitting the latter point. It looks like they allotted themselves a budget for armor and spent it piling it up on the limbs and head and then figured "Hey, no one's going to aim for center of mass from behind!". Unless that thing's made of some super-high tolerance material, a glancing shot from a beam rifle is going to MELT its hydraulics. I have no problem with giant robot designs as long as they're somewhat practical, particularly in a Gundam series.

well, seeing as the grunt suits have the same thing going on with the waist, it's probably something you're gonna have to get used to.

again, I don't think it's a problem if the mobile suits are constantly moving in general.

Which is an issue when it comes to the reason Gundam exists in the first place: To sell model kits.

Pretty sure you can't really constantly have those moving.