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    Metal Ball. Come on, you know you want it. Buy a few of 'em, just so you can make endless jokes about your Balls of steel. Seriously, it is why I still have a cup of computer mouse components I gathered back in the day when mice had rollers.
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    I'm seeing two of 'em. Edit: What a classy way to start a new page.
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    THAT HE STOLE FROM SHOCKWAVE!1111
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    I make no statement either way regarding quality. Just that the polarizing effect the show's premiere had is one more way Seven Did It. LISTEN TO HIS SONG!
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    I didn't say it was worse than Seven. Just that it is generating the same complaints repeatedly, like Seven used to.
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    Honestly, I thought it was everyone realizing that a subscription model is VERY lucrative and trying to get a piece of that pie. Everyone is trying to set up some form of subscription, preferably autorenewing so they can roll in the free money when people forget to cancel it. I've seen a friggin' Android notepad application with a subscription service.
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    Is Delta the new Seven? Are we going to see a new "I just watched the first episode of Delta and it is terrible" post every few weeks for the next several years(or until discussion of Delta is informally forbidden due to excessive flames)?
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    A recreation area, a la the Enterprise-D's Ten-forward? Actually, the 1701-D has a LOT of "transparent aluminum" windows. (granted, ten-forward wasn't a glass dome, which would've simultaneously been gorgeous and destroyed the show budget)
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    Stay classy, HG.
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    I'm hoping they realize how dumb they're being too. I'd hate to see yet another decent show axed because it was used as a tool to try and force an impossible outcome.
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    BALL OR GTFO!11
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    Freyja is being an inane fool, as that is her default personality. And being shouted down. Gotta stick the ears somewhere. Wouldn't be the first catsoldiers with eared helms in sci-fi.
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    NO WAY! Good thing Delta isn't doing that, then? But having catpeople that, while not being obsessed with apples, routinely eat them(and other produce, before the invasion))... doesn't make cat people fresh and exciting, no. But it is definitely not a cat-related visual gag.
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    Trufax: I still instinctively consider the character "Peg". But I just couldn't see Peg becoming a Prime. He WOULD, however, write his self-insert fanfic character, Drift, as becoming a Prime. IDW: This one is free. Make Drift a Prime. It is the story arc we want.
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    Since when does Drift turn into a spacetruck? Did he get ahold of the Matrix when we weren't looking?
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    What they've been saying is episode 1 will air on real television, and everything after that will be CBS All-Access Exclusive, thus dooming it to failure.
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    Loud Pedal? Really? Everyone knows the black Corvette is Ravage!
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    Freyja largely laid off the cat noises. The apple salesman MIGHT have made a nyaa, I had trouble telling and couldn't really say if it was just his accent or not. Yes. Yes, I did. Cats and apples is a WILDLY popular cliche. No, of course I didn't. Cats are carnivores. They eat meat. And milk and cheese. I have NEVER seen someone try to sell catpeople as apple-scarfing herbivores before.
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    Man, you can see his fold waves with the naked eye. DEFINITELY an anima spiritia.
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    ALL the puns are translation artifacts. The japanese would just be ending sentences with cat noises, which is completely awkward and unnatural in english. It really isn't hard to listen to the audio and see how many statements end with a dumb cat yowl. This is not a case where you are dependent on GG's presentation because you don't know japanese. That said: Catpeople eating apples is about as unstereotypical as it gets. And keeps knocking against my suspension of disbelief.
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    Yeah, but the point is I like the Excelsior and wanna see more of it. I will settle for a lower-detail version.
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    Well, of course it does. This is the third movie, EVERYONE knows you blow the ship up in the third movie. After how incredibly badly they did with their take on Wrath of Kahn, I have close to zero expectations for this. The new trailer is doing nothing to inspire confidence.
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    I think they were actually remarkably light on the catty nonsense. In spite of Freyja. Honestly, I liked how quickly they shot her down when she started in with the stereotypical cat accent. Even if it DID deprive us of hearing Messer trying to sound serious and sullen with a "nyaa" appended to the end of everything he said.
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    Just give us a CG Excelsior warping past those planets and nebulas.
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    Saruta got it, pretty much. I enjoy DYRL for what it is, but the significant differences from the source mark the beginning of a fairly strong divorce from the "realistic" drama of the original TV show, most notably in how the power of song is elevated well beyond the bounds of conventional logic. And in fairness, a large part of that is because you can't fit thirty-six episodes of narrative into a single movie. Things had to be reworked significantly to make a movie, and with no reason to assume it would be the foundation of a multimedia franchise, why not run wild? Also in fairness, I note that Macross' universe is more heavily tethered to the now-dated "missing link" problem than ever before, but it does not impair the franchise in the least. (Nor does it impair many of the other fictions that chose to fill then-large gaps in the evolutionary chain with external forces) So it isn't really a problem with realism, just that it chose a direction I liked less than other possibilities.
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