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Forgot about Canard. Sorry I kinda skipped the Astray mangas. No it doesn't, IIRC. But considering he was a "failed experiment", then you can come to the conclusion that Canard did not come out as planned, unlike Kira. Well when someone dashes up to you, cuts off your arm and runs away...you'd be wondering what the heck is going on. Neo shamed Yuna in a sense by taunting him (that's how I saw it, I'll watch the sub later). (I'll probably edit this later with a better statement on what happened.) Either Athrun couldn't reach him (serves the plot) or Kira didn't receive/wasn't listening. Milly is probably the one feeding Archangel info about other nations and their link to what else is going on. In fact, it looks like Milly is the one who arranges the meeting between Kira & Cagalli with Athrun. And you have to wonder why she's showing up in some unusual places.

Cuz Star Wars really doesn't need to go that far. Don't know if James Earl Jones is doing the voice. It would be hard to not have him, but since the mechanical version of Vader doesn't come till the last 5 minutes of the movie, Mr. Jones doesn't have much to say in this movie. Expect no more than a 30 seconds of dialog, total (That equates to a few lines). Edit: Word from the grapevine was, JEJ recorded his lines as soon as Lucas wrote what lines he had in mind. IIRC, that was during pre-production. So JEJ was done after a what would be a 1-hour session at the recording studio. Yes Mon Mothma will be in Episode 3. Genevieve O'Reilly will be playing the young senator. http://www.theforce.net/episode3/characters/index.asp

Being the Ultimate Coordinator has nothing to do with being a Newtype. What the Ultimate Coordinator means is that as a Coordinator, he came out perfect, no genetic anomalies of any kind. Re-watch ep. 45 of SEED. In it, they explain that the biggest problem with Coordinators is the mother's womb. To fix that, Dr. Hibiki created the artificial womb. No interference from the mother. Everything the embryo receives is pure and un-tampered. To that, Kira came out as the perfect Coordinator. No deviations from the original plan. His eye color, hair, and every other part of his biological make-up came out exactly as planned. In addition to that, Kira was the only one to survive the artificial womb. Kira's "Newtype" senses are manifesting from his SEED factor, not his Coordinator status. Naturals and Coordinators have the potential, but many have yet to reach that point that few have (Cagalli, Athrun, Lacus, Shinn. Kira is probably a bit more advanced that the previous mentioned). Given time, Kira's "Newtype" abilities would probably match that of Mu or Le Crueset.

Probably not. Most of the songs are re-releases except for the last track which is a new track. It doesn't look like she's been doing much lately: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encycloped...ple.php?id=2410

Agreed, it was a no-win situation. Cagalli has now, tried everything she could to not involve ORB in the war, but everything she's tried has failed. Cagalli is not so much trying to stop a war but, trying to keep ORB out of the mess. That is the reason why she went out. ORB is her home country. First and foremost, Cagalli is doing what she should as a leader, protecting her country. She already tried to stop the war and it didn't work. Now she tried to stop her own people from getting involved. That has now failed. She doesn't have many options left but to do things the hard way...again.

IIRC, according to Lucas, we won't see much of the Jedi slaughter. We'll hear more and see the aftermath but the purge will be short and mostly off screen. Seriously though, who would want to see a 10-year-old get blasted to bits. Heck, there was a school shooting incident this week.

*tap tap* http://www.anime.net/macross/production/au...l#fukuyama_fire

Yes, Kira did sense something (Newtype!). No newtype ping or flash, however. Heine was just in the wrong place/wrong time. Just as everybody else in Freedom's path, Heine was wondering what was going on. Stellar was too concerned with going after Freedom. Archangel did have to fall back. Cagalli's message didn't go through. They had no choice but to go to plan B, disable everybody on the way out.

If already on DVD for some of us in this world.... http://www.digitaleyes.net/Details.cfm?info=LGE016940

It would be called Gundam if it did..... Well we have PPB-punches (M7) and we have bayonets (M+). There isn't much emphasis on close-quarter combat in Macross. Those would become part of Escaflowne. Kawamori drew up those pics of valks with swords for a show he called "Knights in the Sky". That idea eventually evolved to Escaflowne. Actually, if you think about it, the times we don't see the YF-21 with the gunpods, it's flying underweight. Most of the time, we see the YF-19 with the gunpod, yet often enough, we see the YF-21 without it....makes me wonder about the YF-21 at that time.

Having seen that, it's no wonder Obi-wan and Yoda gave up on Anakin (i.e. there is still good in him). If you saw something like that, would you have faith that the guy who did it just made a really bad choice? I don't think so.

Good post from the n00b. don't worry, you'll make an idiot our of yourself later. We've all done it. Actually, I would say they replaced it in the VF-1 with a computer-aided target/tracking system. Remember, the eye-movement scanner is a manual system. Imagine targetting dozens of missiles with that thing and if you miss one or 2 missiles. That's 1 or 2 too many. IIRC, the barrier system as well overloaded with the barrier. That would be a problem. Unfortunately, that would drain the power generator. You'll be vunerable while you recharge. That's still finite energy, my boy. Yep. Star Trek uses deflector shields and ablative armor. Gundam SEED uses anti-beam coatings and anti-beam depth charges. In the case of the anti-beam coating/depth charges and ablative armor, the material, when hit by the energy weapon reflects or absorbs (i.e. disintegrated) some of that energy, thereby reducing the effectiveness of the shot. As nice as energy weapons are, they still aren't as effective as kinetic weapons.

I would say it's better if he gets the symbiote and gets rid of it in 1 movie. In the 2nd one, show the consequence of that (i.e. Venom). That way, you can have a beginning, middle, and end.

He could be Eddie Brock for most of the movie then be Venom at the very end. Kind of a lead in to the next movie. I too prefer the classic villans for the movies. The older ones appeal to the older fans.

Girls Bravo is licensed (if season 2 isn't, then you can be sure that it will be). If you're looking for fansubs, Animesuki.com. If you're looking for licensed stuff, go buy the DVD, otherwise, no we don't link to that stuff here (i.e. if we knew, ask for it in PM, not on the board).

See the parts on the hands? Perhaps they're an alternative to the combat knives... i.e. close-quarter combat weapons not stabbing but nothing like a good enhanced punch. Doubt the shield has a beam cannon. The beam cannon seems to be referring to the one in the palm of the hands. Gunota's translation doesn't state that specifically. I just guess it would since we've seen it a lot lately. Simply, Destiny is a combination of all the major points of Impulse (Force, Blast, Sword). Until the final specs come out or until we see it on screen, we will probably have to put the beam boomerangs on hold. I don't think they're beam sabers. The anti-ship sword can handle that function. IIRC, the final specs on Justice didn't come till near the end of SEED. At that time, the specs never listed the beam boomerangs it had in its shoulders (since the specs probably came from the model). The shoulders may well be boomerangs, they may be beam sabers or they may be nothing. Until we actually see Destiny in action, we will probably have to put those boomerangs on hold.

Invalidates beam weaponry....positron reflectors (that invalidates beam weapons, when turned on....) Why do I get the feeling that this thing has a minature positron gun on it... Oh and Destiny's weapons Humm...so it doesn't have beam boomerangs....

Yep. all the principal people are signed up for 3 movies. After that, all contracts have to be re-negotiated, if they still wish to use the same cast.

And one more spoiler (highlight to read): And some character profilings from Newtype: http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p...46&postcount=44

Seriously....never, ever do that again.

"2 Sith rule" http://www.starwars.com/databank/organizat...sith/index.html (only using the "movies" section) Agreed. The only way to get in the club is for one of the 2 members to die. Even the Jedi use a version of that rule. After a certain age, a master receives a Padawan and only 1 Padawan at any given time.

You haven't heard of Psyco Gundam? Forgot my thoughts about Episode 22....They mislabeled it as Phase-21....Scenes of Astrays getting cut apart were taken from the same scenes as when the Windams were getting sliced up...and at 00:21:11, Impulse became Strike......Geez the production crew is really taking shorcuts.

That could well apply to the Jedi as a whole... but I don't think so with the Jedi Council. What Mace admits to Yoda in AOTC is that the Jedi are losing their ability with the Force and wants to tell the Senate before Yoda disagrees. Dooku also tells Obi-Wan that Darth Sidious has "clouded their vision." Ultimately, it could depend just how long Palpatine was working his bad mojo in the Senate before the Naboo crisis. I would say a little from column A and a little from column B. Thanks to the revised Sith doctrine, the Sith remained only 2 active at any one time. 2 people in an entire galaxy would go by un-noticed in the sea of other races and the Jedi wouldn't notice their activities. When the Sith first get mentioned in Episode I, the first gut reaction is the Sith are not around and if they were, the Jedi would have done something. You could say the Jedi were drowning in their own arrogance. Then we have Palps. To make sure his rise to power goes quietly, he starts off in the Senate as a senator of a fairly insignificant planet. When he starts at the Senate, he starts to work his mojo. Most people would see him as ambitious and making his way up the ladder. And then he took the Senate's growing corruption and politics and made it work for him. All the pieces fell into place, Palps just took advantage of the situation. As for teh Jedi, all he would have to do is "cloud the vision" of the council and the rest would follow.

http://www.slyck.com/dc.php A few notes: Files....There isn't much Macross to share that people will dive in for. SDFM and M+ are licensed in the country where MW's server exist and I don't think we want Macrossworld to have it's name tagged with anybody who would be sharing licensed material. Also, what about the person who just wants a few things and doesn't have much to share? Mp3s are what most people go for and there only a few popular ones that usually get downloaded many times. And most of those are already on other P2P networks and other hubs. .NET framework - Current versions use it. Not that I'm bashing MS, it's usefulness or anything but.....it might not be a good idea to have additional baggage with your install of DC. Multi-source downloads - Still not supported by DC core development yet. This is a useful point to have as it does increase download speeds (like Bittorrent which uses Multi-source/swarming for downloading/uploading) at the cost of network performance. So your speeds are dependent on who you download from. Although there are mods for this, the standard client does not support it yet. We tried the whole IRC-channel-thing....Not enough people and not many people hung around. Not that a DC hub isn't a great idea, we just don't have a great amount to share that isn't already shared on other networks/apps.

"Wheel of Destiny"....umm not really. "Akatsuki" (literally) means "daybreak/dawn". So translation isn't quite correct.