Quote Originally Posted by Tavrobel View Post
R2 is completely different from R1.
That was kind of the point of R2. When the show became popular, and moved to prime time from late night, they completely rewrote everything to try and appeal to the new wider audience, rather then the people that originally started watching the show. That and Bandai wanted more mechs to make more toys out of for sales, so ya'know.

Though there's rumors of a season 3 running about. Rumors that it might be the second half of the series as it was originally written and supposed to be. Which I think would be interesting to see how that would have turned out.