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  1. Seto Kaiba
    Nothing says "we're here to save democracy" like Darth Vader's daughter rolling up in in her 7'2" asthmatic gimp daddy's old instrument of galactic oppression. (Really, I think we can rule that latter one out for the same reason Kawamori has generally kept the Zentradi ships out of the NUNS fleet shots... no sense letting audiences get confused about which one of the extremely similar-looking ships the good guys are on.)
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    Nah, the planet they're parked on just has REALLY uptight parking enforcement... Vader parked his fleet there and went for a soak, and woke up to find his massive armada had been booted.
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    A bad idea that was arrived at, IIRC, because the studio believed that general audiences wouldn't understand the Wachowskis original concept that the machines were networking the brains of their captive human population together in order to use them as wetware processors to augment their own computing power. Server farms, rather than power plants. If all you needed humans for was thermal energy generation, it'd be a lot easier to lobotomize them at birth. Not to mention it'd render the planet nearly uninhabitable in the short term, and actually uninhabitable long term with no photosynthesis going on to replenish atmospheric oxygen... accumulation of pollution and oxygen depletion would gradually turn the planet into a barren wasteland covered in unbreathable toxic smog. Come to that, a new Matrix sequel is going to be set in a pretty grim place unless it takes place in the actual Matrix. Who wants to be the slumlord of craphole county living out on the toxic, radioactive wasteland leftover from the war with the machines?
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    There's something on the trailing edge of the wing that looks like the kind of small thrusters the VF-25 had. No official confirmation that's what it is, but it's a decent guess.
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    Well that didn't take long.
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    Really, I suspect it was Revell. Why would the networks object to an anthology? Force Five was already a proven winner. Revell needed to promote Macross so they could make some money on their failed Transformers knockoff, so the goal wasn't "get a series on the air" so much as "make the part that we already have the rights to long enough for syndication". Harmony Gold didn't have a license to Dorvack, Dougram, etc.
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    The prequel trilogy was kinda going the other direction, TBH... Failure was the Only Option because the Jedi were mostly oblivious Lawful Good paladin types (what RPG-ers would call Lawful Stupid) up against a hyper-competent Lawful Evil antagonist.
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    Maybe they should... but only after spending fifteen minutes artfully posing, Jojo style.
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    Really, I think the first brick in the wall between Big West and Harmony Gold was laid when Harmony Gold decided to strip all the original creators names out of the credits in favor of a blanket credit to Tatsunoko Production only. Nothing says "douchebag" like taking an author's name off their work and claiming it as your own. Their best, most Big West-friendly way forward would've been to run Robotech as a Force Five-style anthology series, but (IIRC) Revell wasn't having any of it.
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    Really? I could've sworn I'd read something on TVTropes Palpatine being involved. Well, it's kind of hard for a character to NOT end up as one when their role in the story is to be The Chosen One, Ultimate Hero of Ultimate Destiny, Anointed Savior by the Magical Energy Field that Controls Fate Itself. That isn't just an unusually literal case of Designated Hero, it's about as close to an omniscient morality license as it gets. Let's be honest, if the Empire and First Order weren't holding an idiot ball the size of the second Death Star 24/7 this would've been a VERY different series... and recent films keep drawing lines under this fact like they've got stock in Bic. You kidding? Look at the evil intent seething in those dead, empty eyestalks... the malice in that horrible grin... The Jedi library's copy of Laser Swords, Sabers, and Staffs: A DIY Guide got wet in the rain.
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    The Rebellion was up against long odds in the original trilogy, but they had an actual war fleet in Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi... enough to at least briefly hold their own against the Imperial Navy. From this teaser, it looks like they're set to attack a fleet every bit as big as the one from Return of the Jedi with a single beat-up light freighter, a diplomatic courier ship of a type that made its debut losing an entirely one-sided fight with a single old model Star Destroyer, a double handful of fighters, and a single infantry platoon. That's a TALL order even by Star Wars's standards... especially when the godmode chosen one isn't a fighter pilot this time. The older Star Wars movies weren't quite so blatant with the idea that "good will always triumph because evil is dumb". Isn't that basically how we got Anakin in the first place?
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    You came up with more or less the exact same answer that a thousand Robotech fans before you came up with when asked how they would have edited Robotech in accordance with more modern industry practices. No no no... this is when we get out our really good Sunday torches and pitchforks. Not our "wear around town" torches and pitchforks, the ones for special occasions. Which begs the question why you're energetically trying to assimilate the Kazon.
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    Flattery will get you nowhere. Huh. So that was a thing. I'm not sure what the takeaway from that was supposed to be, but it's certainly a thing that exists. If that shot of the sky literally filled with old-school Star Destroyers is any indication, there's going to be some next-level BS going on to allow the Resistance's meager handful of soldiers to win.
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    Max and Rick there look like they're on their first week at Rob Liefeld's gym.
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    Somehow, this sounds vastly more interesting than the actual plot of The Rise of Skywalker. It's like that brief aside in Evangelion where Shinji isn't a total wuss.
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    Gave Do You Love Your Mom and her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks a go... and dear sweet machine god this might actually be as bad as Isekai Cheat Magician. This feels less like an isekai series and more like a cheesy PornHub original setup for a hentai version of a stepmom movie.
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    Really? Then let me rub some salt in the wound.
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    For a lot of Robotech fans, I gather it's seen more as the opposite of a problem... there ain't much love for the old comics or novels except among the really hardcore fans. Really, I thought the Borg had standards?
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    Oh my that's pretty. I've always really appreciated the reference too... kind of a missed opportunity to not call it the Havock-class, like the HMS Thunder Child from The War of the Worlds it's named for. It would've been surprisingly appropriate, given that the ship's debut was against the Borg, who find chaos (havoc) distressing beyond belief.
  20. Seto Kaiba
    Arson, murder, and jaywalking...
  21. Seto Kaiba
    Just finished Isekai Cheat Magician's 7th episode, and I have to say it's far and away the laziest show I've seen in YEARS. Nothing about it stands out except for how incredibly generic it all is. They killed off a character in this episode, and it was almost literally random. It came out of nowhere, it made no sense, and there was no reason for the protagonist to be broken up about it since he barely knew the person and she'd been trying to kill him previously. If it weren't so obviously trying to take itself seriously, I'd suspect it was a stealth parody.
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    Probably still making vending machines that stalk people through the streets...
  23. Seto Kaiba
    The non-canon comic books and the Star Trek Relaunch novelverse have both featured Mirror!Picards. The Mirror!Picard of the Star Trek Relaunch novelverse is very much like Mirror!Spock from TOS, actually a decent person despite being surrounded by knife-wielding psychopaths. IIRC, when the Terran rebellion and its allies manage to overthrow the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance and establishes the Mirror Universe's equivalent of the Federation, he ends up in command of the Enterprise and leads a diplomatic mission to the Dominion (who are a generally-benevolent bunch in the Mirror Universe).
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    Sean Connery said the same once... that's how we got Never Say Never Again, literally.
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    I dunno, there are characters who aren't food snobs (e.g. Eddington, Paris, Janeway) who insist that replicators often do a pretty poor job with even simple dishes like tomato soup or pot roast. (Janeway and replicated pot roast becomes something of a running joke in Voyager, with it being suggested as a way to fend off the Kobali.) Very likely. Most of the other Starfleet ships we see in the same time period usually have a mess hall, and on occasion we've seen an additional senior officer's mess and/or a captain's mess. (Voyager's captain's mess became Neelix's kitchen.)
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