Icarus's blog: "Hope- by any other name."

I'm weighing the consequences of skipping ZZ Gundam and just watching Char's Counterattack.

... ZZ is thus far the comic relief series.
It didn't need to happen, and I already of one relevant character death.

So what happened between then and now?
I went from watching Z Gundam which had at least one death an episode, emergent psychics, politics, treachery, doom doom doom and X0079 was... well THE Mobile Suit series.

Now they expect me to sit through some cornball teenage motley crew of screwoffs and antics?
FUCKING ANTICS!?

There's a group of kids (we're talking elementary school kids) in every series who serve as the comic relief or mischief makers for every series thus far

they actually KILLED one from the original in Zeta if that gives you any impression of how dark Z was.

and now it just feels like- from the music, the characters and even the exagerated movements and expressions of the main characters that
everyone
is going to be the comic relief/troublesome kids.

...yeah

so

Newtype Messiahs versus ... Snarf and the kids?

I had an instant dislike of the main character in the MSG games, Judau
he's a tween, he's goofy looking, and ... have you heard his fucking dialogue? It's fucking goofy > < ! "In the name of shangwalarh!" ...
They even gave the english voice actor an intentional upper jaw/lip lisp.
Like- put your lower lip under your front teeth
now talk like fucking Goofy from the old Disney cartoons without they "ahyhyuck"
you've just impersonated Judau.

So we go from Amuro Ray

The man who single handedly turned the tide of the one year war and could pilot a fucking suit with no camera or controls when he had developed his abilities.

Char and Kamille who were some kind of psychic messiah politician aces who pretty much headbutted an entire conglomerate force of ... EVERYONE versus a small but well funded guerilla ragtag band of deserters of multiple factions against prototype suits, giant city destroyers, nukes, asteroids headed for colonies/earth/themoon, giant lazer cannons, and psychos with almost equally impressive psychic abilities and even more impressive mobile suits.

Seriously

How the fuck am I to take trouble making fun loving Judau fucking Ashta seriously after watching Kamille absorb people's souls, his own sorrow, and his will to evolve and survive
and use it as a weapon

I pretty much loaded up these episodes saying
"oh shit... is Kamille okay? Where's Char?"

...
"where's Char?"
...
"Where's Kamille?"
...

"/sigh".

I'm only two in, but this is pretty much the end of the Neo Zeons, and a bulk of the UC timeline. (sure there's F91, Turn A, and the soon to be released Unicorn ? (name's pending) but this is the extent of Amuro and Char's impact on history)
This is really thus far a pretty pathetic sideplot.
I'm almost convinced that two relevant things happen in this series
the ZZ Gundam is developed (and its fuckin HUGE with tons of Pewpew)
and Haman dies. (20 year old spoiler alert /gasp)

I'm pretty much interested in only old characters at this point, and I'm worried I'll get tidbits at best.

I guess this is my question

would you watch a really
REALLY
bad side story to find out just a SMIDGE more about a really great timeline?

... its like watching Voyager to see if Picard makes a cameo.

... and I didn't watch Voyager.

Cliffnotes?