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  1. JB0
    I'm giving the hacker animation a pass. I choose to take it as a simple artistic effect, and the "real" hacking was just poking at a holokeyboard. Better yet... cyberpacman was the screensaver. Freyja was just impressed because she thought the screensaver was the ACTUAL hacking. I'm ... amused... by Reina singing "silent hacker", just for the paradox factor. I am MORE amused by Messer in a catear hoodie, which is likely going to be my favorite visual out of the show for a while. If Hayate is really allergic to cats, he should've been absolutely friggin' miserable. Watery eyes, stuffy nose, the whole nine yards. Not sneeze and we're done... unless he has prescription-grade antihistamines in his system and he's still sneezing at the cat dander, in which case I pity the poor guy.. Speaking of cats, they shoulda brought Scarfish. His absence was greatly felt. I note with great interest that windemerean apples are apparently critical to the spread of var syndrome, and that they've been exporting them LIKE CRAZY. And once they take over a planet, they ban local produce, forcing everyone to eat the varfruit?
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    If Optimus turns into a gunstar, I will watch it. No questions asked.
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    Oh, wow. Nemesis Predaking DOES look pretty hot. I think the flame colors of the original make it look more "beastly". But the black+purple is still a really good look(though in fairness, it is very rarely a bad look on a Transformer)
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    Clearly.
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    I think the show at that point was taking great pains to be as toy-accurate as possible, so probably. ... Looking at toy pics, less obvious screwholes and plastic voids would be nice. And more articulation.
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    Hence the "Technically." Aesthetically, the modern Huckebein is very much a Gundam with the VIN filed off(some of the pre-Katoki art is somewhat less so). But no Gundam ever blew up on the test stand and wiped an entire base off the map.
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    When they get the heck out of the way and let someone with a genuine love for the franchise work, good things happen. When they shackle the franchise to a bunch of egomaniacs with no talent... bad things happen. Nope. Totally original western-developed content. Vicious Cycle just happened to have some serious fans onboard.
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    They are both mad at us for "shipping" them.
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    That is better than an android. I like it. Spin: She is Sivil and Basara's child.
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    Mikumo isn't a traitor, she's an android.
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    That would be awesome. It is also possible that Mikumo just likes stirring up trouble. I am still laughing about the whole "Freyja, everyone thinks you are a traitor, but I'm not supposed to tell you because it is a secret. HEY GUYS, I THINK SHE FIGURED IT OUT SOMEHOW!" scene.
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    And Megatron was the same size as both of them, despite being a tyrannosaurus.
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    I think Messer may not be precisely calculating everything, but he's definitely accounting for Hayate's personality. Look at last time. "Chuck. Watch it with that scissor move." "Mirage. Aim to kill, you aren't good enough for trick shooting yet." "Hayate. Nope, you ain't gettin' crap. Your very existence disgusts me. Go bug Chuck or something if you want some hints." Everyone gets a brusque treatment, but only Hayate gets contemptuous scorn. At this point, I genuinely think that is why he was in the air after Hayate's "final exam". He thought it was likely Hayate would pass, and that "besting" Mirage would go straight to Hayate's head. So he dropped in to give him a dose of reality/be a giant dick, and deflate Hayate's massive ego. Freyja... she isn't EXACTLY like Hayate, but they've shown she has a certain lack of focus. She isn't learning the moves right(look at her entrance on her first concert), and her heart isn't in the singing/spiritia levels aren't rising, and her mind tends to wander. She pulls it together in a pinch, and compensates with a huge amount of innate talent(at least on the spiritia thing, which is what matters), but she lacks the focus needed to be genuinely good. And ultimately, both of them are depending on the other too much. Freyja sings better when she can see Hayate flying, Hayate flies better when he has Freyja's song( energy). Here's what I want to see when Messer goes var(which I consider a given). Mirage and Hayate tag-team Messer, and working together, they take him him down. Non-lethally, thereby demonstrating they have learned the skills to do so when fighting a seasoned badass. I don't think he is preparing them to fight him, but preparing them to fight OTHER awesome pilots will also prepare them to fight him.
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    It is still far better than the "oops, I fell" of the onscreen Quarter.
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    Yup. We got ROBBED with the redesign.
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    Huckebein/Vanishing Trooper isn't Gundam. Technically. Which is not to say it is not awesome.
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    Hollywood is bad at tapping trends. This would've been wildly popular if it came out a couple of years ago, but now? It's the first I've heard of Angry Birds in over a year.
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    I feel the original Macross did not look blatantly as though it was going to transform, either. It is easy to pick the robot parts out once you know it turns into one, but it makes a cohesive "boat" for the most part. I feel that were I ignorant of the franchise, I would believe it was a single-mode vessel. The giant shoulder booms and odd proportions also do a lot to stop it from looking too humanoid in robot mode, but that's neither here nor there. The Quarter, though... there's just no helping that thing. The ship "mode" just looks like a robot tripped and fell. The transformation is bad enough to be used in a Gundam show.
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    Of course not. That would make sense/ruin the minty original goodness. Especially since they "only grade factory-sealed packages"... except when they grade a resealed package because they're idiots, or grade a package from a system that didn't ship with a plastic wrap, or grade a prototype because they're rapacious creeps... you get the idea. The best was a case where they packaged a Metal Gear Solid game+cheat book combo package... in a box too small for the package, and "protective" case actually damaged it. Oh, and the only graded prototypes I've seen, they removed the protective stickers from the EPROMs. EPROMs which are erased with exposure to UV light... and sealed in a box that offers no UV protection... And the cost for grading a game is not fixed. It is a percentage of what they estimate the fair market value to be. Aside from being a fee blatantly unrelated to the actual service rendered, it also gives them a heavy incentive to overestimate value. Basically, the VGA are terrible.
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    So it is time for us to write WEP and tell them how awesome a Lego Voltron would be so they get on the licensing horn with Lego?
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    That's because our scripts don't literally just write down "technobabble" and tell the actors to ad-lib some sciencey-sounding gibberish.
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    Until recently, I'd definitely agree. But I think Messer is EXACTLY what Hayate needs. I thought he was being a dick to try and force Hayate to quit, and just misreading the kid greatly. But no, he's pushing Hayate's buttons in EXACTLY the right way to enkindle a burning desire to get better in him. The dickface stunt while he was celebrating at the end of his duel with Mirage? Got him to stop slacking and start attending classes. He learned how to fight, and it has already saved his life. No amount of reasonable discussion or threat of discipline would work, it just made him more stubborn. But Messer got through to him. He looked like a villainous caricature while doing it, but it worked. He is pissing Hayate off, and Hayate's slacker streak is being overwhelmed by his pigheadedness. He desperately wants to wipe that cold condescending glare off Messer's face, and he'll do whatever it takes to do it. He'll even learn how to fight if it means he can show up Messer. He'll learn what he needs from whoever will teach him, all so he can rub Messer's face in the dirt. Exaggerating a bit, as Hayate's actually shown a bit of respect and admiration for Messer, but... the fact remains that Messer's "I'm not talking to you, except when I surprise-attack you" routine has genuinely had a large positive effect on Hayate. He may not be a great teacher, but he's doing an EXCELLENT job at making sure Hayate learns what he needs. Mikumo and Freyja are similar, though we've seen less of their training. Freyja coming at this half-heartedly and needs something to galvanize her will, make her take things seriously. Mikumo is that something. Really, for all the crap Freyja gave Hayate about his slacker ways, she isn't any better. She's more active, but lacks the dedication to make things work. The two are every bit as alike as that scene in episode six made them look.
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    The 7 sound boosters were okay right up to the moment they started shooting lasers of song energy. Personally.
  24. JB0
    What about #teamHayateScarfish?
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    They already seem to have come to a sort of understanding. Scarfish is a good guy.
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