The Zeta score playing was the best kind of fanservice

I feel like we're moving towards a classic Tomino style conflict with a bunch of factions ricocheting off each other.

Challia inheriting Char's will is probably the best part of the show, and the MC's getting split between the different Zeon factions too just to drive home the toxic yuri (Shuji's probably on earth lol)

Braw Bro with a little dude that pops out

the little dude is the ki ke roga! (edit: oh man the word filter)

It also looks like we're going back to the alternate UC 0079 next episode. Seems like elements of CCA are being brought in like with Gundam X's alternate UC.

Yeah next ep looks like they'll go over the remaining flashback stuff from the movie that didn't make ep 2 due to time, although I do wonder what else they'll put into the episode since that footage was only about 15 more mins of runtime.

Requiem for Vengeance

That was such an awful show lol. I trust Tsurumaki enough tho, so far he's really hammered home how much both Zeon and the Federation suck. Although I'm getting anxious about if the AEUG/Mafty/Space Maoist analogue faction is going to show up tho.

Is it just weird bonding from the psychic space high they get while doing space murder?

It's this, and the director kinda compressing a lot of legacy franchise tropes together into one character. The girls are kinda projecting a lot onto him (Freedom for Machu and Security/Companionship for Nyaan) whereas bro's more interested in tagging and his haunted gundam- that said, I'm not sure it's thaaaaaat unrealistic for teenage girls to develop love triangle drama from what amounts to their first crush.

I expected him to get fridged to drive the plot forward but him literally peacing out is way funnier

That's what I've been saying! And yeah I get teenage girls and all that. But they haven't done the work to make me, as the viewer, give a shit about him. The "romance" went from 0 to 100, at breakneck speeds. It felt like I missed an episode.