Anno cooked with this one. All Zaku’s are Bastards
Usual caveat that corporations aren’t our friends, including Bandai Namco (Interpret This 
Bandai Executives), Joyce’s quote from Disco Elysium, etc. But I had the chance to see the preview movie in theatres and this show has got to be my most anticipated anime of the year so far.
I was hyped for the first episode but then I remembered I saw this one in theaters earlier this year and enjoyed it. I’ll be honest I went in not having seen much of UC besides The Origin about 5 years ago, so I know who Char is but not the whole lore. I love the direction and choice of cinematography. I knew Anno and the creator of my favorite anime FLCL would cook with this one. Also the ED is great.
If you can, watch the compilation movies of the OG 0079 Gundam series, which will fill out the rest of the lore for this show, and are bangers in their own right. They’re up on Netflix and are also pretty easy to find by other means