I said many times in our Gundam thread that Shinn was the worst lead ever in Gundam.
By the time I finished AGE arc 1 I no lie backtracked like a little bitch and flat said that I would take Shinn as a lead over Flit any day of the week. When I did so the only thing that happened was people kept saying sorry because of how bad it was going to be when I got to Kio and his crying only to be made worse by the fact he doesn't ever accomplish or do anything of note.
When have we ever been able to trust SE with Sci Fi? Tri Ace made all the Star Ocean games, and lets be honest the stories in 3 and 4 at least are some of the worst shit on the planet, even Toriyama's XIII nonsense can't stand up to some of the "great" plot twists in those games.
Oh man that does not bode well. Flit is annoying, but I don't know if he's worse than Shinn yet. At least when Shinn didn't talk he was cool. The problem was when Shinn opened his mouth he suuuuuucked so bad. At least I got to see Athrun roflstomp him and slap him.
If no one slaps Flit, I'll be disappointed. Gundam protagonists should always be humiliated at some point.