Zeta Gundam~! SEED was okay for the first five episodes or so, then it started to dive. Clip shows within the first ten episodes didn't help. Once it got into the teens, it got -really- boring, more or less just trying to copy the sand arc from MSG, and like MSG, failed miserably since it was a bad arc to begin with. Then the show wouldn't actually find itself until like...the late 30's. Though if it were SEED Destiny, it'd be different. That show was great from the get go and really only crapped out in the final five episodes. Zeta on the other hand found itself in the first three or so episodes. It was dark, epic, knew how to do drama, had great music and a great main character, the perfect anime.