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MA KU ROSS! MA KU ROSS! MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAC ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSS! Seriously, I like both intros.

Everyone else saw that in episode 1. All hail the froating head.

Tatsunoko's NOT a subsidiary of Big West. They're a separate (larger) company. And Big West produced SDF Macross, hiring Tatsunoko for help when it became obvious they couldn't meet their schedule with the manpower they had, and offering up international distribution rights when it became obvious they needed mroe help than they could afford to pay for. Anyways.... I didn't learn about the difference until the late 90s, when I gained access to the glorious wonder of the modern world known as the internet.

You forgot the Immature Radioactive Samurai Slugs!

Hey, the mecha cougars were awesome! ... I have an old VHS off-the-air copy of Sentinels somewhere. Complete with station logo in the corner and weather alerts.

BILL NYE, THE SCIENCE GUY!

Aside from not having twin sticks(YET, we hope), they actually broke some of the mechanics in the porting process. http://www.insertcredit.com/archives/002628.html

I'd just chalked it up to the ship being a retrofit instead of a new design. We also know the ship wasn't really ready to head out yet. They were planning a shakedown cruise, several major systems were still untested(cannon, fold generator, gravity controllers), they hadn't docked with the ARMDs, and who knows what else. It's highly possible that part of that space was intended to be full of spare parts, or something. ... Or maybe they were planning on making friends with the aliens and bartering for really sweet toys they could bring home and reverse engineer!

I want to see more of Coco. It's very early to start calling favorite characters, especially when she's been a background character, but she interests me.

Well.... remember that most of the anime companies from back then are no longer in business, and even fewer under their original names. With so many failures and mergers since the early 80s, it could be difficult to figure out who in fact owns what back catalogs. (If a company vanishes, their license doesn't automatically die. Depends on how it's written. It's probably safe to assume the licenses were sold as part of bankruptcy proceedings, or went along with everything else during mergers.) As I understand it, there's about 3 companies that THINK they MIGHT have a license, and they're all waiting for someone to do a release so they can fight it out in court. Plus Harmony Gold.

We've seen very little of Rollingtown, and nothing of Earthdash as a whole. They probably have crime and war just like everyone else. We just haven't seen it because Dan doesn't run in those crowds. Next stop: The princess's kingdom? Well, she carries her own personal gravitational field generator on her chest. What'd you expect? Seriously, she could just have been on Earth for longer, giving her more time to adapt.

Robotech.com deleted it as soon as the release fizzled. http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-rele...s-7-trash-manga Fairly sure that "article" is just a reprint of the Tokyopop press release.

Right. Perkier, not plumper, would make more sense. It went the wrong direction. Though it won't be long in the gravity of Earthdash before she starts having some serious back problems.

Spoiler actually almost sorta makes sense. Gravity SHOULD affect anatomy to a degree. Not to THAT degree, but... I also predicted it from the preview.

Given it was a Decepticon construct, it should probably be assumed it had some nefarious purpose or feature even if it wasn't explicitly stated. Something like a titanic drill that would extract the Earth's core, causing it to collapse on itself and creating a truly massive diamond.

NO DISASSEMBLE! I think the general problem is more that american sci-fi as a whole is a relatively small market. Getting a sci-fi show off the ground at all is difficult. One with a special effects budget is almost impossible. Beyond that... What's the defining american sci-fi show? Star Trek. The defining japanese sci-fi show? Probably Gundam, if I had to take a guess. That explains your general lack of giant robot shows right there. Star Wars had some highly visible piloted robots, though. Yes, folks... the American Gundam is an AT-AT. George Lucas not only raped your childhood, he killed giant robots too.

But Transformers is silly and borders on self-parody. Macross is Serious Business.

And from the standpoint of the military commanders aboard the ship, it was a good way to manage morale, both of the civilians and the military. Had they just kept them cooped up forever, they probably would've had a riot at some point. ... Okay, that may've been a bad example. But it gave the civilians the illusion of a normal life, and something to do besides stew in their own juices until they snapped. And it gave the military something unprecedented in the history of naval vessels. No matter where they were or what they were doing, shore leave was always available as long as you weren't on duty or in trouble. Given the crew was not prepared for an extended voyage, and a lot of the positions filled by rush-trained civilians that hadn't intended to enlist until the situation forced their hand(with everyone on the Daedalus and Prometheus having sucked vacuum and died, there were a lot of empty mecha seats and support jobs to fill very fast, and the fighter pilots had a very high turnover rate)... it gave them something to do besides stew in their own juices until they snapped?

The implication seemed to be that it wasn't a protocol so much as an underlying issue with the technology itself causing certain tendencies(I think Manga's subs used the word 'instinct', but it's been quite a while). Protocol would mean it was intentionally coded in by the designers, and hence easily fixable. Banning the technology indicates it was an unfixable or very difficult problem inherent to the technology. And the implication seemed to be that it was caused by the organic squishy bits thinking just a tad too much like organic squishy creatures.

I'd like to see a show with a wildly inappropriate laugh track. Either one totally mistimed so the laughter comes during not-funny parts and is silent during funny parts, or a laugh track applied to a serious drama. I'm special with the bunny ears. *makes finger quotes in the air* And damn you all. The Rimmer Song is stuck in my head now. I HATE YOU!

http://tinyurl.com/c4sd57 There's a working link for the "Michael Bay Signs $50M Deal To fart Up 'ThunderCats'" article.

When part of the creative staff is known to have published a Gundam fanzine, I think it's safe to assume they WERE Gundam fans.

Ah. Never mind then. If I ever watch Rawbooteck Shadow Chronicles, I'll view it as a low-budget direct-to-DVD release. That should spare me any suffering. ... Or maybe I'll just have some of whatever Roy's been taking lately. It seems to work really well.

Really? My standards have a lot more to do with the original series. DYRL is largely mechaporn, and while there's nothing WRONG with that, it's not what made me a Macross fan.

The problem with the movie was that the cartoon was dumb giant robots shooting each other up. The movie was a lot of people with occasional glimpses of giant robots. Now, the ORIGINAL movie... THAT was what Transformers is all about. Well, aside from the casual slaughter of children's heroes. It's probably a good thing that I'm in the large group of people that missed the original release and didn't see it until MANY years later. ... I never said it was a GREAT movie. Just that it's a great Transformers movie. And a much better mindless action flick.