[Dr Kain]

Oh boy, where do I start? We watched the last 6 episodes to IBO and they were quite good and a lot I did not expect to happen happened. I won't go into details due to spoilers, but as a whole, this show was fantastic. I will say that if I were to compare the two seasons separately, I did think the first season was better than the second. While not bad, the second season didn't feel like it had any sort of direction to it as if the writers didn't really know what they wanted to do. In fact, Kudelia was pretty much pointless throughout the whole thing until the last ten minutes.

I also got a laugh at how Barbatos' name kept getting longer and longer as the series progressed. I still think the original form is my favorite version of the Barbatos, but the Lupus Rex upgrade was pretty badass. It was also great seeing in the last few episodes returned to showing how armored these mobile suits were as I felt like they forgot to do that in the middle of the season. The ending itself was great as the guy who I thought was going to be a straight up villain was not so and it was nice to have an actual epilogue as the second half of the show instead of just having someone say in the last 30 seconds of the show, "The war is over, let's see what the future brings," or some sort of crap like that.

The Bael was a pretty kick ass Gundam too and might be my favorite mobile suit of the show. My favorite character was hands down Naze. On one hand it was sad to see this show go, but on the other, I am glad it is over with because it was a solid one. It probably won't break my top 5 once I have time to digest everything, but it will most likely make my ninth or tenth spot. Now the decision comes down to whether or not I buy the show on BD because I do want to watch it fully dubbed (despite not feeling JYB for Orga), but is it going to be worth it when I've got a ton of other Gundam series on BD? Well, that's a decision for another time.