Jex
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Yea that suit was pretty awesomesince its pilot was a true boss and wasn't some snot nosed brat who just read the instruction manual either).
One of the reasons i always found 08th MS team refreshing.
The rule in Gundam generally seemed to be that, as long as you're a kid whose read the manual then you're okay to manouevere this incredibly complicated piece of machinery. Of course, once you have 'Newtypes' that like your magic word for explaining away those kind of bizarre plot points.
I suppose the thinking was - kids are interested in seeing other kids do cool stuff, so the protagonists have to be kids therefore they wouldn't have any training and eventually that became the norm. Of course, that line of thinking is clearly flawed because kids have always been interested in adult characters, just look at Batman and Superman.