[Dr Kain]

I can't say Mika was one dimensional though, when his purpose was to be Orga's trigger. That scene towards the end when McGillis is trying to get Mika to state his own feelings on matters and him costantly responding with, "I will do whatever Orga orders me to" gave the boy a lot of depth. Yeah, if you just look at the top layer you will not think anything of it, but that scene had A LOT of layers to it.

I actually found it funny that Rustal did exactly what McGillis wanted to do, just that he did it the legal way.

It's funny that you brought up Code Geass Yellow, because that was another show I felt struggled in the first half of its second season before giving us a strong second half.

I feel bad for McGillis. The man was pretty much Griffith 2.0 with elements of Char mixed in, and like Griffith, he totally got screwed (in more ways than one).

In the end, IBO was hands down the best Gundam show we have had since 00. It was nice to see something fully refreshing done even if it did not always work. All of the characters were great and it knew which ones you needed to hate and which ones you needed to love.