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Well, even if the fish were mutated, radiation caused mutations don't breed true. So long as the fish weren't mutated to the point of sterilization within a few years you'd have normal fish again. Corals would have survived as well, the reefs may have died but there would be enough free floating polyps and eggs out there to start repopulating the reefs. The bikini island reefs came back amazingly quickly. There would have been plenty of algae as well. And if DYRL is correct there doesn't seem to have been any real damage to the atmosphere. No nuclear winter, no drastic changes to the chemistry. Some seeds should have survived as well, those in the air, those already in the ground and of course seeds from plants that actually require fire or heat to be released. And even if all land vertebrate life had been wiped out... which is highly unlikely, I mean, extinction level events like an asteroid 6miles in diameter slamming into the earth couldn't wipe out *everything*. Once vegetation was established, insects and then birds, small reptiles and mammals, etc... It's obvious that humanity has both the technology and the skill sets necessary to successfully create and maintain complex environments.

gotcha, though, in my defense the common usage of "irradiate" means to expose to radiation. Well, considering the bombardment left the surface of the earth immediately habitable (as in able to support life), I don't think the bombardment did any serious damage to the atmosphere, plus hikaru finds flowers out in the wastelands. So even if the earth was sterilized, which would be highly unlikely... they still should have been able to start large scale restoration of at least grasslands and prairies and wetlands. In the worst case scenario they could have started to bring in plants and animals from other worlds. So yeah, I think it's quite easy to make a case that there are people who would feel disenfranchised or even bitter over the emphasis placed on the colony ships with those giant enclosed ecosystems while the Earth remains as a giant desert.

from the 2004 anime expo

Yeah, I'm really happy with the destroids. Great detail, posability and just full of win.

yeah, that was what I was driving at but you got there faster Spielberg and Lucas DID open audiences to a new style and studios to a new revenue stream but it was still up to them to decide where they would go from there.

yes and no, every VF gets called a "valkyrie", it's the generic term for them whether or not an individual fighter's designation is "valkyrie". Kind of like "kleenex" and "xerox". There's examples of this in every single macross sequel, people referring to VFs as "valkyrie"

I was talking about other film makers who took Lucas' model and not the prequels themselves, referring specifically to a claim in the trailer that Lucas is at fault for the state of hollywood today. And I disagree that the prequels are soulless (they are crap though), it's just as you said in the later part of your post, his skills as a writer and director are just not up to snuff with his vision.

yeah, that's what's interesting about this phenomena. It actually reminds me of stalkers, in that the fanboys have basically constructed a fantasy world where they and lucsas (or whoever, kawamori) have some sort of personal relationship and the creator of some show or game or whatever, owes the fanboy on some sort of deeply personal level.

Do the zents beam weapons leave radiation? In SDFM we see people walking around freely in the wastelands without and Hikaru finds flowers growing. The real world example of the bikini islands shows that nature actually bounces back relatively quickly from radiation (never mind you can't eat the coconuts because of large amounts of selenium) and we know from fruit flies and other animals that changes due to the genetic code from radiation don't breed true and that their DNA repairs itself within a handful of generations. I actually think that the earth is still a wasteland is unrealistic.

What's incredibly stupid is that it was BECAUSE george was a licensing nut he got to make the sequels the way he wanted and it opened up a revenue door so that studios and film makers could make a more risky and diverse selection of movies. It's not george lucas' fault that studios and film makers decided to run in the opposite direction and produce mindless souless crap so they could sell toys and happy meals.

maybe for non-canon paint schemes. But to do that for hero valks would be shooting themselves in the foot. Plus it would mean less tampo printing. besides, even if yamato gave us 4 heads, then people would be asking for tv a and dyrl 1 variant heads and then whine for TV style arms to be included with their DYRL valks, and then multiple pilots, the list is endless.

nice. Taking the modular aspect of the original pods and taking it further. And it makes sense in universe as well since the zents don't build or fix anything, they just add part or remove parts like giant legos.

I think that's the whole point of telling a story based on Earth. Maybe some people rightly or wrongly blame the turning of earth into a giant wasteland on humanity reaching for the stars. If they hadn't rebuilt the ASS-1, then the booby trap never would have fired and the zentradi wouldn't have bothered with a dirt poor, back water planet. So maybe it's a bunch of xenophobes who want to turtle up and not send the best and brightest out into space? (I'm not saying this is the "right" view so please don't start a debate as to whether the booby trap would have fired anyways or if the zents would have slagged the earth anyways, that's not the point) Maybe it's a bunch of environmentalists who are pissed that the government creates mini worlds and sends them off to who-know-where while the earth's environment is still a giant desert? Maybe it's a bunch of religious types who refused to get cloned and who are angry that their religion isn't able to spread across the stars as a result. Maybe the Mayans or the Anti-UN are still pissed about what happened before Space War. There's plenty of stories to explore that can take place on earth.

It's interesting in the larger social context of people who feel that the object of their admiration/devotion somehow owes their success to them on a personal level but I'm filled with "meh" over watching watching fanboys dress up and cry over how Lucas simultaneously gave their sad lives meaning and structure and then somehow stripped it from them a couple decades later.

yeah, I was agreeing with you. That the idea would work well cuz the basic theme is very macross.

rising above the baser emotions like bitterness and jealousy is a theme in macross, imo.

I liked the episode but I don't like Kyle, looks too baby faced. And I'm hoping john stops being so emo soon, it's getting old.

wow... okay miley.

It's not just the humor... it's the concept. Whedon's other stuff always had such a clear premise. this felt to me like too many people were involved. But I'll stick around to watch as well... if for nothing else to see eliza in another short dress.

Not impressed. feels very generic... it's looking like Dark Angel + Ghost Whisperer

gonna echo the other people throwing compliments your way!

I would never get one over a 1/60 but I might get one as a dupe or on an impulse buy if I saw it a hobby store or something.

well, the gn-u has a waist joint and a deeper leg bend then the 1/60

yay, looks good.

I have the bandai vf-17, if that's the answer I'd have to wonder what the prayer was.