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  1. JB0
    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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    I am in the "add a subtitle" camp. I hate it when a new production just uses the name of the original wholesale. And this would be the FOURTH production to be titled simply "Star Trek". No one is ever going to confuse this with Kirk's Enterprise or Kirk's Enterprise in a cartoon or Kirk's Enterprise with lens flare, but it just makes for awkward conversation... or would if Trekkies ever referred to the first show as Star Trek instead of "TOS".
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    Man, Reina WAS my early choice for favorite. But now? Mirage has had a chance to establish herself as a genuinely interesting character, Mikumo has the "mysterious badass" angle going, Freyja... has the cockpit dance?... Meanwhile, this is the first time Reina's, you know, DONE something in almost two months.
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    That's my assumption too. It's just a representative voice from some point in the past, not a specific person. It is possible it isn't even a real person, just Mirage's personification of a sentiment she is sure exists(because with family like that, it would be stranger if she WASN'T being compared to them).
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    Yes. She is.
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    Having had this discussion with someone else earlier, and... unpopular opinion, but the Macross I love died with DYRL. The instant music stopped being simply the most visible aspect of "culture" and became a special thing unto itself, the Macross I loved was dead. Explicitly magical or not, that was how DYRL handled Minmay. Her singing had an immediate and powerful effect on all the zentradi, with some ridiculous one-liner about genetic memories of pop music thrown in for good measure. I have enjoyed most of the productions that bear the Macross name, but... none of them are heirs to the show I love.
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    Reactions as I made it through the trailer: Narration starts: "Wait, seriously? All you had to do was say "Space, the final frontier", and everyone would be on board. " "Wait, is that the original theme? I really hope that sticks for the entire show." Long story short, I was worried they had no idea who they were selling to, but... they do. We'll put up with a lot, just let us believe greatness is possible.
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    Bomba!
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    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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