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  1. Seto Kaiba
    Having read the light novel... this season is going even further over the top with the fanservice. They're adding two more characters to Diablo's harem (a grasswalker loli and a robot maid with a one-track mind), the local governor wants to jump his bones, and the first villain's evil plan is literally powered by public indecency. The only upsides are that you'll get to see Diablo's first real fight (as in, the first one that's not a curbstomp or interrupted) and watch him go absolutely apesh*t when the second villain brings his wives and they're all wearing that item that's his berserk button (wedding rings). I've started How Not To Summon a Demon Lord Omega myself, and wasn't impressed. I feel like the animation quality isn't as high as the first season's. I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level is, thus far, kind of a cutesy feel-good sort of series. I enjoyed the first episode quite a bit. My Hero Academia Season 5 is pretty fillerific... not much more to say about that. Later I'm going to be starting 86 and Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro. Another one that landed on my watchlist that I haven't started yet is Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took In a High School Runaway.
  2. Seto Kaiba
    What little information has been made available for Absolute Live!!!!!! has indicated that the antagonist in the movie is a new threat rather than the return of an old one. The trailer suggests whoever it is, Windermere IV is willing to put aside its differences with the Brisingr Alliance and New UN Government to stop them. Insufficient information to make any determination at this time. Mind you, with Kawamori's loose attitude towards continuity in general the answer could well be "Both" or "Neither". (For instance, in the Macross Frontier side story light novel Macross the Ride, the setting is generally based on the Macross Frontier TV series but the movie-exclusive YF-29 is talked about briefly in connection with Macross Galaxy's YF-27 program.) Yes. As popular as Sheryl (and May'n) is with the fans, I think it's a safe bet she will. (Certain works outside the official setting mention her continuing her music career beyond the events of the Vajra War, including Variable Fighter Master File: VF-25 Messiah.) He was a pretty minor character in the movie version, and spent most of the film nominally aligned with the "bad guys". Yes, with the exception of the first few Megaroad-class ships, all emigrant ships have been built in repurposed factory satellites. There has not been any explicit mention of new emigrant ships being built after the 2040s, but the answer is almost certainly "Yes". The New UN Government had multiple planets launching emigrant fleets in the 2040s and production was ramping up not down, so it's very likely that production of those ships is ongoing in the 2050s and 2060s, albeit with ever-more-modern designs.
  3. Seto Kaiba
    As in the Super Dimension Fortress Macross TV series, a portion of the Zentradi forces defected to the UN Forces while the remainder retreated as per standard practice when they lost their command ships either during or at the end of the battle. Many of the defectors and stranded Zentradi managed to live on Earth and integrated successfully into human society. Some tried and failed. One area where Macross II's timeline is different is that a small group of those who tried and failed were able to secure a ship and flee into deep space... resulting in the events of Macross 2036 and Macross: Eternal Love Song.
  4. Seto Kaiba
    Yeah, but that's the difference between having days of advance warning vs. thousands or millions of years. A supernova's not something that sneaks up on you unannounced. Stars give a LOT of advance warning when they're about to blow even with today's technology. With the far more advanced technology of the 24th century, having a supernova detonation sneak up on you means someone (or in this case an entire interstellar civilization of billions and billions of someones) were asleep at the switch for literal centuries.
  5. Seto Kaiba
    Fittingly, given that it was a stand-in for the Chernobyl disaster, an accident caused by unsafe operating conditions and insufficient safety measures. Millions, usually... but something that normally happens on a geological timescale somehow caught the Romulans completely by surprise without, at any point, being indicated to be in any way unnatural.
  6. Seto Kaiba
    So... is the actual question "Will a handful of butthurt fanboy gatekeepers fold their arms and refuse to accept a new Macross series from Kawamori's successor?" I'd bet on it. But who cares? It'll be like the droning of cicadas in summer. Inevitable, but trivial, background noise. Kawamori's been pretty clear about his view that Macross has no canon and that the Macross titles he didn't work on are as valid as his own. I doubt most Macross fans will really be at all bothered by it. Will the next Macross be the last Macross? No.
  7. Seto Kaiba
    *looks at G Gundam, Gundam Wing, Gundam X, Turn A Gundam, Gundam SEED, Gundam 00, Gundam AGE, Gundam Build Fighters, Reconguista in G, and Iron-Blooded Orphans* ... I'm pretty sure they'll be OK if they don't stick to the original Gundam timeline.
  8. Seto Kaiba
    No can do... Alien vs. Predator already trademarked the best tagline: "Whoever wins, we lose."
  9. Seto Kaiba
    Well, yeah... square peg, round hole? Macross II belongs to a radically different timeline that emphatically doesn't fit with Kawamori's later work. Like this? Yes, the UN Government and UN Forces in Macross II reuse old Zentradi ships for a lot of different purposes. Several that've been used as a foundation to build on in Macross City are visible in different establishing shots. Many others are refurbished for UN Forces use, and several were heavily reworked to become the Macross Cannon-class gunships. That's kind of Macross II's schtick, Earth has dealt with the Zentradi so many times that they've gotten incredibly good at it and their cup runneth over with secondhand Zentradi hardware. (For about the first forty years after the First Space War, they barely had to do any shipbuilding of their own because they had SO MANY leftover Zentradi ships. It wasn't until the 2054 Zentradi invasion depleted their fleet that they had to start seriously considering next-generation warships like the Gloria, Heracles, and the new model battleship in the OVA. By the time the Mardook roll up, the Spacy's technically gone 5-1-1 on main fleets. It has the explicit blessing of The Powers That Be... as an alternate universe story. Why it has to fit into the main Macross timeline is beyond me. Macross Ace included it on the timeline in error, after forgetting it was officially an AU.
  10. Seto Kaiba
    Something something reverse the polarity something something tachyons something subspace field. Really, that nobody even attempts to explain is one of the more telling signs that they didn't think this one out even though it's plot-critical to Picard. It definitely doesn't give one any hope for the writing in season two.
  11. Seto Kaiba
    Well, that was certainly a thing that I watched... I have no idea what any of it means, but I definitely watched it.
  12. Seto Kaiba
    Not being a toy collector myself, I don't really have any strongly-held feelings about it... especially since I never bothered to buy any Robotech-branded stuff. But wow even the Wikipedia article for the company makes them sound like tools.
  13. Seto Kaiba
    Some of the Expanded Universe material kinda tried to go that route... blaming the J.J. Abrams version of the supernova event on Tal Shiar hijinks, either in the form of them carrying out an illegal subspace weapon test that Went Horribly Wrong or, in STO, being deceived by the Iconians. I know, I just saw the opportunity to take a cheap shot at TAS and ran with it. Shredded Space Satan made me do it.
  14. Seto Kaiba
    "No we didn't." - the wizards of Megas-Tu. (Yes, this is an actual screen capture of actual wizards from an actual episode of Star Trek.)
  15. Seto Kaiba
    Especially Toynami... Harmony Gold created this whole mess to protect their then-new partnership with Toynami from competition from Bandai and Yamato.
  16. Seto Kaiba
    They were... but the problem is "for how long?". The supernova that destroyed the Romulan system in Star Trek: Picard was a normal supernova, which means the Romulans should have had MILLENNIA of advance notice... not a few years. Stars don't go supernova overnight. It's a process that takes millions or billions of years.
  17. Seto Kaiba
    Yeah... at least when they did that awful tie-in comic to set up the first J.J. Abrams movie, the supernova that destroyed Romulus was in a different star system on the edge of Romulan space, was triggered artificially, and the threat was due to some kind of subspace shenanigans causing the destructive wavefront to propagate faster-than-light. It was goofy, but that was to be expected from Captain Mystery Box and the Can't Write boys. Picard's alternate take on it, making the star the Romulan system's own and removing the exotic (and malicious/illegal cause) made it substantially more ridiculous since the Romulan civilization as a whole and its entire (considerable) scientific community collectively failed a spot check every instant of every day for two millennia or more regarding the status of the single most noticeable object in their homeworld's sky at any given time. It took it from being stupid and goofy J.J. Abrams-trademark trash tier writing to complete insanity. Let's be honest, how many times has the Enterprise been "the only ship in the [term for a volume of space]" when Earth has been threatened? I'm pretty sure that alone answers the question. Starfleet's forces are mainly concentrated on the Federation's borders, rather than near Earth, partly because the Federation seems to share borders with so many belligerent powers: the Klingons (until the 2280s), the Romulans, the Cardassians, the Tzenkethi, the Breen, the Gorn, the Tholians, etc. (That's why the first question asked after Spock indicates that the Klingon peace proposal includes a total cessation of hostilities and dismantling of the defensive installations along the neutral zone is if they're mothballing Starfleet.)
  18. Seto Kaiba
    If they're smart, they'll just go create their own Gundam timeline.
  19. Seto Kaiba
    Circle FANKY? Ships are kind of their thing, so I'd expect they're probably more or less done with Macross.
  20. Seto Kaiba
    Or cultural... what great, monolithic empire hasn't been paralyzed with indecision after the capital it believed was untouchable is threatened? (Maybe that's why, by TNG and DS9, there's an auxiliary Klingon military HQ on Ty'Gokor?) The general vibe I get is that the Romulans, as a less belligerent and fractious people to begin with who were only just switching TOS character sheets with the Klingons over which of them are the "good enemies" vs. the backstabbing deceitful ones, generally had more of their sh*t together than the Klingons ever did. It wasn't the blast itself that knocked Excelsior around, it was a subspace shockwave produced by the blast. Excelsior was at impulse and still got knocked around pretty badly by it, but it's worth noting that warp drives aren't the only propulsion technologies that use subspace fields for propulsive effect. Impulse drives do too. It's possible ships at warp were hit even harder by it because they were running much more intense subspace fields, and were maybe tossed about to their own destruction. It was one of those weird planar shockwaves that only exist in fiction... maybe Qo'nos got lucky and it just... missed? Admittedly not any less unrealistic than the Romulans just failing miserably to notice their sun was ready to go supernova, something that any idiot should've been able to tell in the two thousand or so years they'd lived in the system after emigrating from Vulcan.
  21. Seto Kaiba
    At the very least, that is how Kawamori chooses to explain things like Macross's "broad strokes" approach to inter-series continuity, multiple versions of a given story and the changes between versions, zeerust, most examples of art evolution, and the occasional Word of God moment like redefining the significance of the VF-X2 coup attempt. I don't think so. Kawamori's views are his own, while Big West takes a somewhat (but not too much) firmer view of things like continuity. As to the awkward framing choices in Delta... I don't think there's anything more to that than just having done a very poor job with the action choreography, which is a problem that dogs the show's entire run.
  22. Seto Kaiba
    ... Uncle's Cousin's Nephew's Former Roommate! Seems like a vanilla-enough action comedy, I guess.
  23. Seto Kaiba
    Gundam is... diverse in its styles of storytelling. Amuro and Char could most charitably be called best frenemies, but there's a lot of wooly stuff about the evolution of mankind, empathy, and the nature of conflict. Basically, "like Macross but relentlessly dark and pessimistic."
  24. Seto Kaiba
    Yes, there absolutely wasn't an entire feature film devoted to Char's unrequited man-crush on Amuro complete with him secretly sending Amuro gifts and everything before a dramatic reunion that involves what might as well be actual magic and ending with them dying together. The Earth didn't move, but a moon-sized asteroid absolutely did. After all, that'd be crazy, wouldn't it?
  25. Seto Kaiba
    "The Q and the Grey" definitely supports the idea, since the subspace shockwaves from the Q's civil war collapsed Voyager's warp field. Mind you, there'd probably be a more immediate economic crisis caused disruptions of traffic to and from Qo'nos due to the debris from Praxis's explosion impacting the surface, the ensuing environmental catastrophes large-scale impact events would've caused, and the disruptions to shipping caused by the debris that is still in orbital or near-orbital space, to say nothing of the inevitable cleanup effort that probably involved no small amount of photon torpedo and disruptor fire to break the debris into manageable chunks small enough to be burned up on reentry or at least be towed away with tractor beams. Quite a lot more disruptive and anarchic than simply coordinating mass evacuations.
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