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its said in the show that the gerwalk opperates like a fighter, i guess that means the throttle controls the legs: minor throttle means walk forward, more throttle means the valk lifts up on its leg engines and pushes forward with the backpack thrusters (lift gained through the wings aswell as the leg engines) approaching full throttle the wings start to provide more lift and the legs start to come up into the "fighter" position to add additional thrust and speed. all other controls i asume work the same even when not moving, pull back on the stick and the valk looks up, push forward and it looks down. push the stick left/right and the valk will roll/lean as far as it can. the pedals would still turn the valk. this mode probably very automated, with the plane figureing out how to over come obsticals with the pilot just telling it where to go.

eh.. good point. as for the fast packs though. the valk runs on nuclear power right? so what do you mean about needing fastpacks because of fuel? Nuclear subs cannot fly in space. vinnie you saying the valks burn fuel in space? i'm still confused, as far as i understood the valks didn't need fuel at all. please be blunt and obvious, i'm totally missing the point.

i can go with the story that he wasn't acutally hit by the enemy round itself and more likely hit by tiny chunks of his own plane dislodged by the round. my issue isn't that he was wounded in his plane and died later from loss of blood, my problem is the way they handled it. having him being more attentive to his girlfriend (he's supposedly trying so hard to be with) would have made way way more sence than him casually sitting on the couch absentmindedly strumming a guitar, waiting for some food. (when people are sick/wounded don't they usually refuse food anyway?) i'm just sayin it was bad storytelling, it left so many blatant questions that i think even the casual viewer is left asking about plot holes rather than just takeing in the moment. maybe i'm wrong. i guess i'm wrong since i seem to one of the very few who thinks the scene could have been improved.

Funny. Even as a kid back in 85, it didn't confuse me one bit. I don't think many people are confused by this scene. Even your description of the scene leads me to believe that you aren't confused by it either. You just didn't like it. i distinctly remember when i first watched it i had no idea why he suddenly dropped dead. later in the episode they basicly spell it out for you. you do understand the diffrence between seeing it for the first time, and looking back on it years later in hindsight, right?

i assume this appeals to the same croud that likes Sea Lab 2021

mostly stuff like roy getting drunk and minmays butt. its not THAT edited, but there are a few diffrences. i think the newbie forum has all the diffrences. (its not the topic of my thread)

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i dont believe for a minute they intended roy to have "toughed it out" to make it home "one last time" if ANYTHING it seems to me roy was actin like he had no idea he was hurt. if he was trying desperately to see her again, why did he spend his time hardly looking at her or anything, he was just sittin on the couch. i agree that roy dieing was a very important part of the serise, i just dont' think they went about it very well. in my opinion the way they did it actually DETRACTS from the importance of the event in the story because its so bewilderingly strange.. its hard to look back on it and be sad when its just so freakin bizzar

i dont' think this is a noob question. in my opinion, each squadron would start over with numbers ie: skull 001 Vermillion 001 Red 001 what ever... seems to make more sence to keep the numbers low and stick to code names. and if you keep the numbers tha way its very easy to see who you're talking to in the chain of command. if you have Skull 001 you know your talking to the leader of skull squadron. if the numbers were arbitrary, youd have situations where your talking to say skull 384 and not have any idea where in the chain of command he is. just a thought. i don't know how they do it in the real millitary.

i'm sure Roy knew that he was shot. he just chose to spend his last minutes with the woman he loved. plus, he promised her he'd be there for Pinapple Salad - and there's one thing Roy isn't, and that's a liar. I'm sure all of that holds true (as true as fiction could be), but I believe the story tellers chose to hold your the audience's suspension of disbelief to a point where the question will always come up. The answer is pretty obvious. Roy knew he was going to die and wanted to be with Claudia. I bet if he was bleeding internally instead of externally he would have chose diddling her instead of the guitar. in my opinion, roy acted as if he had no idea he was hurt. and its not like he just died on the couch, he like all of a sudden was convulsing and then fell forward, i take that as he wasn't feeling any pain, then it hit him and he fell forward? for all the explinations given for how this scene played out, i'm still not impressed by how it went down. neither story wise (i'm imideately left thinking "what the hell just happend? he's dead? huh?") the first couple times i watched it i didn't even put it togeather that he'd been wounded in his plane. its one thing to instill the pointlessness and tradgic loss brought by war, another to confuse the audience with an unplausable and confuseing death scene

the theme song, why in gods name is it so god awful!? i've only seen the show a few times, i just, i just dont' understand how they decided that was the song for this show??! egad!

i'm one of the few of you who will actually, truthfully... buy only one 1/48

eh.. good point. as for the fast packs though. the valk runs on nuclear power right? so what do you mean about needing fastpacks because of fuel?

something jsut doesn't seem right to me, internal bleeding(with no external bleeding) isnt usually caused by stuff being blasted through the skin, its more of a bludgneing type thing. someone hits you with a bat, internal bleeding someone shoots you, blood everywhere, usually anyway. oh well, personally i think they left too much out. good opinions guys

word. Vic. hey guys, i knew if i put the 1/55 up there, it would ruin the poll because no one would vote for the other two!

i was just wondering. now that i think about it, i think the way roy dies in the tv was done poorly. i'm actually a fan of the ungloryous death of the tv show as opposed to the drunken heroic death in the dyrl movie. BUT, heres my problem: i felt that they didn't properly work up to it. i realize they showed some ground crew looking wide eyed into the cockpit, but thats it? i mean, he was supposedly haveing massive internal bleeding or something right? that hurts ALOT to the point of incapasitateing someone. and he's just walkin around like its nothing till he drops dead. my opinion is that the writers wasted a great opprotunity for some good storytelling, what do you think?

ewwwwww mac 7 well considering the valk needs boosters to reach space and mac-engineers decided it needed FASTpacks, i'm going to say weight was ALREADY a problem. end of discussion. not really sure what you're getting at. well... for one, the gunpod has something like 300 rounds if i'm not mistaken, and that is limited no mater what its fireing, the head lazer has never once in the show proven to be really all that powerful, and as for war being about skill.. really war has usually been broken down like this: superior numbers, superior technology, superior tactics, superior moral, and finally, superiority of individual soldiers. anyone of those can make or break an army/navy/airforce, if war is anything, its random. do you think most veteran soldiers really are that much more skilled than the rookies getting killed? or were they just always lucky enough to be the guy NEXT to the guy who got it.

wow i think you managed to find a question that no one knows the answer to. congrats!

Anyone here on the city of heros beta test? im intrested in how its coming along.

word. they are a intresting thing to read for the hell of it, but searching through one for a specific tidbit of information is a chore like no other. iv'e been slowly working my way up the macross newbie thread for over a week now!

i don't know, if they upped the age to anything past 16 i dont' think it would work as f0cked up as things were for these kids, their ability to deal with stuff with even a few years age diffrence makes a huge impact on what you'd expect from them. a 19 yearold whos got hatred for his dad, it would be annoying to see him doing the childish things the kid does in eva, running away and just being all angsty, you'd expect more from a 19yold. a 14 year old is still in his formative years, i expect he'd be way more confused about things, and have no idea how to deal with it. the ages from birth to 20 see by far the largest changes in a person per year than the any time after those years. the diffrence between a 14 year old and a 16 year old are huge! 19 is out of the question. i don't see why 14 year olds couldn't be used in an american version of the movie... what exactly happens to them that is so wrong? its not like there is any graphic sex or anything. remember The Professional where the girl developes a sexual attraction to the 30+ assasin she lives with or dozens of movies with child stars that are raped and murdeded in the movie. Interview with the Vampire, the girl stares at a woman dressing/undressing herself and the girl desires a womans body she can't have. if they can do all that in american cinima, they can do anyting needed for eva. (except maybe the jerkoff scene in the movie... but really i don't think that was such an important scene to force it into the live action version)

looks neat, but would it be safe to drive? i've never ridden a motorcycle so i wouldn't know, seems like youd want to be able to turn the handlebars further than that would allow. any bikers know?

pretty dern cool, some of that was kinda lame though.

no, no no no, NO and now i've seen them, its too late to go back. as a car guy i support the notion that if it makes you happy, and doesn't put me or my friends/family in danger, then more power too you. but personally i find those things embarrissing (as both a car enthusiast and a starwars fan)