Gundam AGE

[Barumonk]

The entire episode felt a bit rushed, but not too bad. My biggest problem is how they jumped from:

"Dying mother hands him designs to a gundam." -> "Kid has designs to a gundam, he is a god damn genius." -> "Kid has designs to a gundam, nearly zero learning curve inside cockpit during an actual battle when it was stated that it was so early in development that they only managed to do a mobility test to see if the gundam could even walk."

Even the whole fact that the commander in charge of the single mobile suit which has any chance to save the entire colony was just like:

"What are you doing?!"
*stern look
"Okay, let the 14 year old with no training pilot it."

Aside from the commander and that engineer who looks like Dr. Robotnik's brother, everyone else seems really normal. On the point of normal though, likelyhood that the sub-commander guy who was zoning out is a UE spy? 70%.