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I never really saw the argument for anti-war sentiment in the original series. At the very least, it's far more subdued than most anime with the theme. Heck, one of the major story points is the anti-war Hikaru realizing that there ARE times where fighting is necessary, and becoming a highly-respected squadron leader. And the Macross itself, Earth's biggest and baddest warship, winds up saving humanity in a violent, if highly unorthodox, manner. It's really a refreshing change of pace from the standard "WAR IS BAD! STOP FIGHTING BACK!" of so many other shows(*cough*Macross 7*cough*), and I appreciate that they DID acknowledge that sometimes every peaceful solution fails and you just have to fight back. As long as we've got destroids!

He defeats a LOT of varuta pilots, though. Sure it's non-lethal, but he still removes them from combat.

NANANANA Cain't touch this!

The stealth valk IS cannon. You just can't see it because it's stealth.

Alternate attack... Dang it, now I have an image of Isamu, Texas Ranger doing a pinpoint-barrier roundhouse kick. This is all your fault, somehow. I thought he was referring specifically to artificial manufactured pop stars, of which Sharon is the pinnacle. From that angle, he WOULD respect Basara, who not only isn't manufactured, but has actively resisted "selling out," even though it would make him more famous and get him lots of money. ... Story-wise, of course. In reality, Fire Bomber is more manufactured than Sharon.

*laughs* True. I guess blue hair gives you supernatural abilities just as well as anything else. Hence why I said it becomes an endurance match. Basara's gonna become less effective as he tires. While the same is true of Isamu, Isamu's not in any danger.

Meh. A good tube will show the issues just as well as a good panel. But yeah... does Manga do ANY of their releases right?

Guld was another highly-skilled pilot, probably considered of similar skill to Isamu. And he had a neural interface elevating him to superhuman levels of perception and response time. Nope, but it does mean you'll win a fight if you hit. If you don't... I believe Isamu was the pioneer that first adapted the pinpoint barrier punch to single-pilot mecha, so he's still well-armed once his ammo runs dry. Sometimes being too similar causes more annoyance than being total opposites. Besides, VS matchups aren't concerned with the why and how.

If I recall, Roy's death in DYRL was supposed to be Kamjin's big entrance/exit. Could be fan misrepresentation, like the Roy VS Millia thing, though.

AND he's already done the musical warfare thing and come out the other side. Next to a insane computer with extremely effective brainwashing subroutines, Basara's weapon of choice is a trivial headache inducer. Worst-case scenario, it becomes a war of attrition, with Isamu tiring Basara out until he ceases to dodge and block effectively. Sure Isamu's gonna tire too, but Basara won't counterattack, so no worries. Game, set, and match. Isamu wins, no contest.

Sometimes it helps to be lazy with the search terms.

Max is officially good with women too. He just found one he wanted to keep faster than Roy did. Though how hitting everything without a Y chromosome makes you better at anything other than collecting STDs is beyond me. Hikaru learned from Roy. Max was more or less "InstantAce: Just add ammo." He was outfighting Hikaru straight out of training. Roy also got coke dumped on his head. Max is still cola-free. So Max being smart enough to stay sober when he was on duty makes Focker the better pilot?

i checked gamefaqs, they only had one for a PS1 game. 'S because the game isn't called DYRL. The official title is Super Dimensional Fortress Macross(or rather, the japanese equivalent thereof), like the TV show. Just do a search for Macross and you'll find it fast enough.

The Roy Focker Conspiracy! Tonight on Fox!

Solid Teflon. Everyone knows it's non-stick, but less people know it's also slippery.

Max was awesome too. And thus we come to the first law of Macross: The Jeniuses rule.

Enterprise series was a hack, it was to PREquel the original series yet they used higher grade equipment 90% of the time! gah sry, i just didn't like the concept.. wasn't it Gene's son who wrote that anyways? 419817[/snapback] I don't think any Rodenberrys were involved.

Awesome, thanks for the link! That first unicron prototype was just hideous. amusingly hideous though. 419786[/snapback] Yah. Hard to say which of the G1 protos was worse... I think the blue+yellow one, but it's close. That Beast Wars one was awesome, though. The big backpack on the BWNeo one kind of hurt the robot's look, though, allowing the Armada/Energon version to compete on robot mode(despite an abysmal planet). Would've been neater if it BWNeo's backpack was hollow and folded out or collapsed or something.

it mentions the hatches being able to open, but it previously had shown Basara sitting on the dome of City 7. so it kinda makes you wonder, + why would you want to expose the agricultural sections to an alien enviroment? i could potentialy kill all the plants, or worse, even if the atmosphere was similar to earths, it doesn't mean the plant life and spores of such are. (makes ya wonder a bit more don't it? about them being on an alien world, and walking about without a care in the world before running extensive tests on the plant life/air/atmosphere/and so on ) 419404[/snapback] Isn't that SSOP? (Standard SciFi Operating Procedure) The only time I've seen people walking around an earth-like planet in environment suits was in Serenity. Even then, they took them off after everything was determined to be normal - of course in that case, Miranda (the planet) was terraformed, so it WOULD be ok. In M7, I just assume that the Macross 5 already ran all those extensive tests before they decided to set down. 419438[/snapback] They used suits in an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise. ... But it was backwards. They confirmed the existence of disease-causing organisms and THEN they started using suits.

Hmm..interesting. That I didn't know. 419728[/snapback] It actually makes sense that the Phalanx varies so much. According to the Compendium, it was a rushed hackjob that was created aboard the Macross(likely as a supplement to it's minimal anti-mecha defenses). So rather than building each one to spec, it makes sense that they would use whatever spares they had to make Phalanxes, or tweak the design as deficiencies appeared. The spec is just the "ideal" Phalanx.

Unless Holographic Versatile Disc becomes viable enough to dominate the PC storage arena, leaving both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD to compete in the movie arena. If the HVD Alliance also doesn't unsurp them there. 419629[/snapback] Of course, at this point we'll be lucky if computers ever move to freaking DVD, never mind higher-density media. Seriously, how much software STILL comes on CD? 2 disks of OS, 4 disks of game, all to snake a few dollars out of some poor sap that thinks his Pentium 2 can run Windows XP and FEAR.

Could be said about MOST of the gen1 Transformers, if you look at it objectively. But... what sort of Unicron WAS planned for the Gen1 release? I'm not familiar with it, and my curiosity is getting the better of me. 419624[/snapback] Green egg shaped body with head and thin limbs...think Dr. Robotnik crack baby w/Boss Borot-like arms from Mazinga Z and the Unicron head and horns from cartoon. It was bad. Be happy it never came out. In fact the armada one looks more g1 accurate than the cancelled g1 unicron ever did! LOL but its very true!! *laughs* Green? Seriously? They could've at least spent money on a paint job...

Could be said about MOST of the gen1 Transformers, if you look at it objectively. But... what sort of Unicron WAS planned for the Gen1 release? I'm not familiar with it, and my curiosity is getting the better of me.

Isn't in vehicle scale. Robots look like they'll be about even. And bot mode is what matters for a Transformer. 419108[/snapback] Bit shorter. tformers.com has a pic from a japanese hobby show last week. Screamer only looks "even" with the stand and him suspended in mid air. But if one were to remove the stand and make them stand side by side, screamer is a few inches shorter. 419147[/snapback] Ah, the stand... I forgot to account for that.

The grown up thing to do is probably to just let this go but having a degree in TV/film, my pride just doesn't seem to let me. At no time did I ever say DVD is NOT NTSC. DVD IS NTSC (in NTSC regions), but it still has better video than broadcast. And a component input as opposed to a composite input DOES improve the image quality, although yes, like you said, it is still NTSC. Wasn't aware you had any sort of background. Sorry. I was just saying that the quality diffrence ultimately boils down to how clean the source is. I'm not saying VHS didn't suck. Far from it. Just that HD is a huge step above DVD. And like I said, I can see the faults of DVD on smaller sets, and though I didn't mention it earlier, I can see the diffrence between low-res and high-res video clips on my PC's positively diminutive monitor, so I doubt claims that it's only visible on 50"+ displays. Again, I wasn't aware you had any sort of background. MOST people are totally unaware of how stuff works. They just know there's pictures and sound on the DVD, or at least data that can be turned into pictures and sound. I apologize for the unintended insult. I make pretty close to jack squat. Which sucks since I have several rather expensive interests. I HAVE emphasized several times that I think HD players are too expensive now. But I'm very excited about the prospect of them becoming realistically priced in the future. Mmmm... Sounds like me and games, actually. My tastes skew pretty far out from mainstream there, so the releases I'm genuinely excited about are few and far between and I like a lot of titles that the masses have deemed crap for the exact reasons the masses hated them. I actually value the content too. I just see no real reason to NOT improve the presentation. A few years has always been where I've predicted it'll start being genuinely interesting. Right now it's definitely overpriced and undersupported. And I figure it's about 2-3 years before the players become affordable, not where they really become mainstream. It took, coincidentally, about 5 years before DVD became the preferred media, despite having more obvious benefits to the average consumer(scene selection, smaller package, and no rewinding). I'll probably grab one once they hit an affordable price point(and get the format war out of the way, since I doubt coexistence is possible and I'd rather not rebuy everything later). I AM a technophile, after all. Just not a raging one.