You know, you pointed out a very good reason why I can't get into Destiny. I watched Full Metal Alchemist between SEED and Destiny. That spoiled me for story *and* characterization. Next to the characters of Hagaren, the Destiny characters are flat, flat, flat.
The characters *were* better with SEED, though -- because the central conflict, Athrun and Kira fighting against each other, gave them something to *care* about. In Destiny, the canon characters are zombies, at least in the eps I saw. (And SEED also had a certain yaoi crack undertone which is missing entirely from Destiny. Every guy in the series seemed to be hitting on every other guy at some point or another -- at least from my viewpoint. ~_^)
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The characters *were* better with SEED, though -- because the central conflict, Athrun and Kira fighting against each other, gave them something to *care* about. In Destiny, the canon characters are zombies, at least in the eps I saw. (And SEED also had a certain yaoi crack undertone which is missing entirely from Destiny. Every guy in the series seemed to be hitting on every other guy at some point or another -- at least from my viewpoint. ~_^)