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  1. Einherjar
    So, anyone watch it? Season 3 starting this January.
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    And said people actually think there's still a story in the ongoing Robotech saga to be told that doesn't involve salvaging completed anime that people haven't seen outside Japan.
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    In a world where Kaneda and Tetsudo could be played by caucasians, yet Donald Glover can't be Spider-Man, and Michael Cera can't be Shaft, I think it's safe to say Kim Kardashian, as of this year especially, has enough real life experiences and assets to really pull off a good Linn Minmei. (But not Lynn Minmay, huge difference)
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    So wait, Braveheart didn't single highhandedly win the Revolutionary War wielding a tomahawk? ...Minmei?
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    Wow, I didn't know A Bug's Life was based on Seven Samaurai. Thanks wiki. Pixar and Scorsese have been pretty consistent with their work. Compare those to the adaptations of anything in general that have bombed over the years, though.
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    I think too many productions have used that excuse to justify a whole lot of questionable choices over the years. It would be a miracle if adaptations/reinterpretations end up like a The Magnificent Seven or Ran these days. Look at Robotech, still trying to reinvent itself years after its initial success. At one time or another you could say the things that came after episode 85 "worked" until it was replaced with something that "worked" better. And what eventually happens with the LAM will also "work" for whoever is doing it. The audience they're catering to, however, may think differently.
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    Maybe it wasn't as big of an issue because the people in the anime industry back then weren't expecting it to be seen outside of Asia or become so popular internationally. Foreign translators were the ones given a lot of freedom to interpret those kinds of things if details were left very vague, like in dialogue/accents, before accuracy became a big priority and probably made it an issue. I didn't know that's actually hard for some people to do when they get older.
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    Yeah, that's a different beast altogether.
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    Thank goodness The Roughneck Chronicles helped salvage the film series a bit.
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    I guess, but it's still a vulnerable audience to deception like this. Women of Robotech and stuff.
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    I guess that's why Robotech was marketed to children who wouldn't know that difference and potentially swear by it when they get older. Unfortunately, I keep forgetting that the criticism post came from a guest blogger who pretty much had the same opinions about Frontier as JLS. I'd post a link, but it would be easier to refer to what you, azrael and I said about nostalgia and it not being Robotech.
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    That damn bike could probably be the only thing that isn't reinterpreted for this movie.
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    Imagine what could have been if HG had DYRL. Rick and Minmei having and dandy night clubbing in Macross City followed by a picnic in Saturn's rings for no reason. That's pretty consistent with Robotech fans, both loyal and disillusioned, don't you think? They're really putting themselves in a Catch-22; Robotech isn't as enduring or wholesome as before, but neither is Macross sequels because it's not as "epic" as the original one was and more childish in their minds. Or, perhaps it is not as "epic" as Robotech supposedly made that chapter in the various reiterations through different media for those who invested so much in it. Either way, in the foreseeable future, with Love Live Alive especially, it's not going to get better. The author's criticisms reminds me of CaptainJLS' critique of Macross Frontier years ago. I'm not sure, but seeing people look at Macross sequels using the Robotech version as the meter stick, or having a huge bias towards it, doesn't seem like the best fit.
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    Let me guess, a DVD bonus in one of the collections?
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    It's seizure-riffic!!! No, seriously: The Twilight pregnancy scene is giving audience members seizures
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    I don't know why, but after reading that it made me think of a Cloverfield sequel. Or at least what I heard about the Cloverfield manga.
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    The fifth paragraph talked about recent happenings, in terms of the franchise at least, including Shadow Chronicles and the Carl Macek documentary. I assumed this was, once again, another person who got betrayed by the franchise after supporting it so much in the past and learning its dirty little secrets. You know, nostalgia, the Internet, and drama put together. And as a testament to the real progress Robotech has gone through in the 2000s, I think it would have been relevant regardless of when in that decade this article was actually written.
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    http://www.cornponeflicks.org/robotech.html Honest criticism, for once, for everyone who comes to this thread.
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    Is there an established character that had the hots for Lion-O in the original series or will they have to make a completely new character for that? Honestly, I was thinking the season finale would be a whole lot darker, with Tygra stealing the spirit stone and becoming a bad guy.
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    Since there are apparently no real consequences in saying stuff like that, sure, why not. It's people's own damn fault for believing it.
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    Since they're going to do it again anyway, might as well mock it to death. From Wikipedia, here's a rundown of films coming up in 2012. Just pick one and call it Robotech already once people stop believing in Pacific Rim. See where that "speculation" gets you. http://en.wikipedia....ki/2012_in_film http://en.wikipedia....13_in_film#2013 Don't believe whatever synopsis or descriptions are already posted, at least one of them has to be Robotech in disguise!!!
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    Worth it.
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