Duke Togo

No, Agent One is right. Think of any movie you saw that you didn't like. Now, put some lightsaber combat in it. Totally awesome.

Agent, can you sticky this thread for us?

Agent One was the real hero of Macross. I saw him tear a Zentradi in half once with his bare hands.

We asked for one once, a while back. They said no. Damned trekkies.

I have an iPod Video, and I can't imagine watching video on it. The screen is just too blood small for it.

Feel free to beat me with a stick if this thread is toys only, but does anyone know the details behind the Region 1 "The Movie" DVD going out of print?

There is only one Max.

Something like 60-40 against Macross 7. Put it up against Macross Plus, and it does even worse.

Anyway, as I was saying, the character age of Obi-Wan (57) and Guinness's age (62) at the time of shooting are close enough to dismiss it as a post-prequel continuity error. This of course does not cover over the age problems with Anakin and Owen & Beru Lars post-prequel.

Actually, that is incorrect.

I'd like to say that anything and everything Agent One has to say about Macross 7 should be considered to be my position on the series as well.

A man's got to know his limitations.

Waddling into a cinema near you Another film on the penguin theme is Happy Feet (December), a computer-animated comedy by George Miller that tells the tale of an emperor penguin who tries making up for his lack of singing ability by tap dancing his way across the permafrost. (Miller is also in pre-production for Mad Max 4, which, let's face it, is the news we really want to hear.) He's also been quoted in non-online publications that the film is back in pre-production, with full production starting by the end of the year.

No wonder the Colonies were annihilated, the Viper Launchers only hold 2 Vipers.

Hey, the age thing is a problem, I believe I stated that months ago (along with a few posts up). My only point was that we were all a bit off using Obi Wan as an example, as the character's age (57) and the actor's age (62) were close enough to be reasonable. Beru, Owen, & Anakin remain problems. As I said months ago, the Seven Samurai template would have been an obvious choice for Lucas to base the prequels on, I really think he missed the boat there. Starting off with a 10 year old boy (or however old he was) threw off the entire age continuity. So, the Seven Samurai... you could easily turn the peasant/bandit conflict into the Clone Wars (which should have taken up the entire Trilogy). The forbidden relationship between the peasant girl and the young samurai could easily have been Padme and Anakin. Now, you take the Magnificent Seven path, and combine the Kikuchiyo and Katsushiro characters into one. He becomes Anakin. He idolizes the leader, now a more appropiately older Obi Wan, and is reckless in his attempts to prove himself. His lack of control and his penchant for following his emotions lead to his downfall. And, in this version, he truly does kill Padme.

Except he take orders from Tarkin in the original film. If owning the 6 films on DVD and growing up in the Star Wars generation makes me a "Star Wars Geek", well, I guess I'm guilty. You realized wrong. Being that you're part of the "his hands are too small" crowd, I know there is little chance to reason with you. And you might want to go back a bit in this thread, and read what I was actually saying instead of assuming. The fact still remains, Guinness was 62, no matter how old you thought he looked.

Oh, you mean like Vader taking orders from Tarkin? Governor Tarkin, I should have expected to find you holding Vader's leash.

Except he wasn't. He was only 62. Unless you have figured out some way that Lucas has tinkered with Guinness's birth date, thereby ruining his childhood as well.

Hikaru is a totally different cat in Macross than he is in Robotech. As is Minmay, for that matter. You could almost argue that their personalities are reversed between the two incarnations.

Some more age comparisons... Shelagh Fraser, who played Aunt Beru, was 54 at the time of filming. Phil Brown, who played Uncle Owen, was 60. As seen in Episode III, Bonnie Piesse (Beru) was 21, and Joel Edgerton (Owen) was 30. Being that they are 19 years between III and IV, you are looking at 40 years and 49 years, respectively. That's where the real age discrepancy is. Even with the reasonable aging effects of the environment, that's pushing it.

Man, I dumped those model mag wallpapers I did a few years back.

That would be my assumption as well.

GUNBUSTER GUNBUSTER GUNBUSTER!!!

Ok, something interesting that fits in around where this thread left off... According to the official chronology, Obi Wan was 57 at the time of his death. Alec Guinness was 62 at the time of the filming of the original Star Wars. Not as much of a stretch as we thought it was.