Duke Togo

Another solid episode. I never liked Billy's haircut, anyway. Next week: Crimson Tide!

Clubs where, in the US!? 369106[/snapback] In Europe to, from what I understand. Extensive may have been an overstatement, but it certainly got some attention. Clubs, raves, straight or remixed.

Macross Plus music got some extensive club play. Its clearly the highest quality music in the Macross franchise.

Robotech had a pretty good BGM. You could also argue that the songs in The New Generation are superior to much of what was in MOSPEADA. Actually, I think MOSPEADA has some of the most consistantly bad music of any anime I have ever watched. Macross with the original songs, but the Robotech BGM? It would be insteresting to see how it worked.

I heard "pudknocker" once on Beavis and Butthead over a decade ago. I've never actually heard it used in real life, or anywhere else for that matter. You have to wonder about the kind of peopel ADV employs...

LOL, I must have missed the episode of Macross 7 that had those things in them. Which one was it?

Macross never has been my favorite anime. I wasn't really a fan coming out of Robotech (I fell in love with MOSPEADA). It wasn't until I saw DYRL? in '91 that I really got into Macross. Its also the same time I saw Gunbuster and Nausicaa, my two favorites. Macross really kicked into high gear for me when Plus came out. Its been in a slow decline ever since.

I think that if it came out that we had seen the last of Macross, I wouldn't have any problem with it. It would take a truly dynamic new Macross production to change my feelings on this.

Harmony Gold makes the same mistakes the RIAA and the MPAA keep making. Somehow, they feel that abusing their consumer base is the way to do more business.

SDF Macross A great story heavily flawed by incosistant animation. The non-Anime Friend episodes look fantastic for their day. The mecha sequences in these episodes are more fluid and dynamic than much of what we see over 20 years later. I'd almost call them legendary. The strengths of the story and these brilliant flashes of animation overcome the damage done by a shoddy animation studio (Anime Friend). Its unfortunate that their work make watching an anime classic almost unbearable at times. Macross DYRL Brilliant work, but as stated already, it cannot stand on its own merits, its needs the original series to make it complete. It may be the best Macross work ever produced. And really, you haven't lived until you've seen the uncut Hong Kong dub in all its glory. Macross Flashback A nice little add-on to the series and the movie. Essentially a long music video, with some great new animation. Worth seeing just for the Megaroad-01 and the VF-4. Macross II Oh, how excited I was when this came out. It never comes close to what it should be. Some of the music is fun, and it has some decent to exciting mecha designs. Worth watching as a novelty, but it really has no place amongst the franchise proper. Macross Plus For me, the true heir to the original series. A tight story, great animation, amazing music, the love triangle, and some top notch mecha combat. No fat, no crap, just a good, hard Macross story. Clearly the direction the franchise should have gone, unfortunately... Macross 7 I'll never get these hours of my life back again. The story goes nowhere for 50 episodes, the animation is substandard, the music is bad jpop, and it adds several elements to the Macross mythos that have no business being there (effeminate male villians, space monsters, magic, and the like). The Jar Jar Binks of the Macross franchise. Macross Zero I've watched it twice and I still don't get it. Spinning off of the Macross 7 continuity, it just doesn't seem to fit in with the franchise. The mecha designs that pre-date the original series really seem so far more advanced, they just don't work. I'm left feeling indifferent, and I wonder if this wasn't the last gasp of a franchise that has seen its day.

Wizards, Warriors, Agent One & You

What kinda girly man whining thread is this? Buncha slack-jawed...

Fornicating with hovertanks should be an offense punishable by public castration. 366534[/snapback] If loving a Hover Tank is wrong, I don't want to be right!

Which has NO place in Macross.

Oooh, just wait.

Its not just the movie rights, but the original series as well. Its all out of print, and Rhino no longer lists them on its webpage. I'd say somebody new has the rights...

I just watched my ADV MOSPEADA DVDs again this past week. The translation and subtitles in the set are about on par with your average HK bootleg job. I realized that it shouldn't really shock me that the Macross dub is truly that bad. Are all of ADV's products this bad?

**SPOILERS** This will come up big time at the end of this season. Starbuck's missing ovaries are the major plot point for season 3.

Hey, its Beast Wars!

Been dabbling around in spoilers. We're pretty much coming to the end of any resemblence to the original show.The end of this season should be... interesting. Third season stuff should be entirely new territory for the new show.

That's great. Now, has anyone heard anything?

Its true. Its OOP. I have no clue who has the rights now.

Its my understanding that that's long past. He's actually done a sit down and had been a part of an interview with Katee Sackhoff (new Starbuck). You can find pictures of the two of them smoking cigars together online. Also, I am fairly certain that it was made public that at one point they had Dirk slated to play the Cylon God, but instead went with the baby angle on Kobol.

Dirk Benedict needs a cameo in this thing at some point.

I dug it. Nice to see some Viper combat. I do have a problem (of course). The whole cliched act Kat put on for the episode. Is that the best the writers could come up with? Good to see another fleet episode coming up next week.