As I already posted, Z Gundam is IMO and that of many other gundam fans. SEED was not the best by a good distance, it just breathed some fresh air into an old franchise without being truly great as Z Gundam or as terrible as GSD. If they had been more adventurous and took some risks and came out on top then the potential SEED had to beat Z Gundam would have been realized. Oh, and that Fukuda insult was one of the most random things I have ever heard lol.

P.S. Boxtorrents has a link of it if you want to check it out. And while the animation is not as flashy as SEED the series still remains pretty solid IMO.