Never finished Eureka Seven

[Mix]

I've actually completely forgotten what it was about.

Is it worth watching or should I just read the plot and call it a day?

[PokeNirvash]

Just watch it, and avoid anything beyond the TV series at all costs, especially AO.

[Mix]

gotcha, will do

[Doom Metal Alchemist]

For whatever reason I wasn't into it on the first run it had on AS, but when Toonami merged with AS and they brought it back I gave it another chance and I liked it a lot.

[Jman]

4 minutes ago, Doom Metal Alchemist said:

For whatever reason I wasn't into it on the first run it had on AS, but when Toonami merged with AS and they brought it back I gave it another chance and I liked it a lot.

I hated it when it was on [adult swim] mostly because I was in full “Fuck Adult Swim Action” mode at the time.  I ended up watching it on Hulu years later and quite enjoyed the original series.

Unfortunately everything after the original series is a sliding scale of missing the point and lowered quality.  Basically the FLCL sequels, but somehow worse (so far anyway).

[Chapinator_X]

I wound up watching it in out-of-sequence fragments because of how infrequently it was re-aired on Adult Swim. 

I did see AO, but there were diminishing returns from constantly trying to revisit an otherwise charming surfing mecha anime. 

[Martinman]

I'll echo everything else said about "watch the original and skip everything else".  Also the manga is really good.  Definitely darker and more brutal than the anime.

[Top Gun]

The original series is a fantastic coming-of-age romance story that just so happens to feature kickass sky-surfing robots. Fortunately it was complete as-is and no one ever had the asinine idea to tarnish its legacy with increasingly-awful spinoffs and "sequels" and lord knows what else.

[PokeNirvash]

For what it's worth, I never had the same problems with AO that others do, even concerning the finale. (The OVA, on the other hand, is a whole different story.) But the majority opinion does agree that AO, Pocket Full of Rainbows, and Hi-Evolution are unnecessary at best and godawful at worst, so it's best to keep that in mind when watching the original.

[SwimModSponges]

The only episode I ever saw was the finale.