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  1. JB0
    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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    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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