I expected some rant about how UC is superior to any other universe but this was actually not bad.
1. Yes the story is weak, but it still kept me going, simply cause the action and music is great. And I personally feel like the first 12 eps of destiny are pretty damn awesome, then good till ep34, then just fucking bad from there on.

2. I agree that Kira is a terrible main char, and he should've died of at the end of seed, or after the battle with Shinn, I liked how Athrun had a backseat role in destiny, but he and Kira completely stole Shinn's show after ep34. Shinn I like a lot however, he has his reasons for acting like he does and I feel that they are valid, and because he is an ACE nobody tells him otherwise, until Athrun shows up.
Shinn was actually maturing up after that, but soon fell back because he looked up to Athrun a lot, but hated that Saviour lost to Freedom ( this was shown in the manga version of destiny, which is sooo much more interesting).

3. Destiny actually had a glimmer of hope when Shinn trashed Freedom and the Gouf where athrun AND meyrin where in ( I thought his inner conflict here was great ). But this all went to hell the second fucking lacus and kira showed up in doom machines #1 and #2, ugh.

4. Well actually, Shinn and Kira was a matchup in Shinn's favor because his skills are superior in some area's, thats also why it was Athrun who took him down. Though I don't agree with the manner of the endgame, cause Athrun just completely trashed Shinn and destroyed the minerva in less then 30 seconds, rediculous. Athrun and Shinn's scores in the simulator ( manga) where very close to each other even before the events of ep34.
But yeah, it does basically have this entire crew of superior people banding together and destroying everyone else.
It would've been far more interesting if we had a bad guy like that.

5. I thought the endgame of Seed was pretty cool, those 2 ships blasting each other, mwu blowing up ( we'll get to that later), Athrun actually wanting to self destruct justice, Kira and Rau fight.
Same with the first 12 eps of destiny and then till 34, I thought it was very cool to see minerva get hunted like that and then have shinn just completely and utterly trash everything. As soon as Shinn set foot in Destiny though, it all went to shit.

6. In seed i thought mwu was pretty awesome, mostly due to his sacrifice in strike.
But then...... they bring him back with some anime magic and he does his trick again, but this time he survives like its nothing! Fucking nonsense, Mwu died.
I also thought Rau was a pretty good villain, heck at least he fought an endgame battle, Destiny just has a couple of "good guys" fighting each other. The best supporting char in destiny was definitly Heine... cept he died ;(.

I didn't mind Kira coming back, but the way he suddenly took center stage and got another magic gundam over his already magical gundam just completely fucked the show up the ass.
But I guess that is what you get when you want to please your overly Kira loving fanbase ;[