I can see that, and if you'd found the show on your own, I'd say six episodes is a reasonable tester. But in this case you've got lots of friends vouching for it, including ones such as myself who adore good female characters.

And a good thing to keep in mind is that Gainax seems enthusiastic about awesome chickness, considering that Gunbuster and Diebuster are about Bad-Ass Female Mecha Pilots.

I guess what I'm saying is, you may have seen enough to keep going or not, but not enough to informedly lump it in with less-than-awesome stuff.