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That's, erm...totally NOT the same thing. I was talking about this.

That's how I am, too...although I haven't seen Turn-A yet (it's on my list, though, and I want to get to it soon). Unfortunately, I once made a vow to myself that I would never watch G-Saviour. I ended up breaking that vow...and so not only am I an oath-breaker, but I broke that oath in order to watch a really sh*tty movie, which isn't a very good consolation prize. If you close your eyes every time they show the insides of the cockpits, though, the battle on the colony's solar wing was pretty cool.

I need to reread that book...it's been far too long.

Or my translation Chronicle's VF-25S Sheet... http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?...mp;#entry695196

Damn, JB0...exactly how long have you been hanging on to that bombshell, waiting to deploy it...?

I must admit that my readings tends more toward so-called "high" literature (with post-WWI European Modernists like Proust, Joyce, and Mann being my favorites, followed closely by the one-two-three punch of Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare) with some fantasy for light, in-between reading (James Branch Cabell and Mervyn Peake being my favorites of the old crowd, Stephen R. Donaldson and Steven Erikson being my favorites of the new). I don't read much SF these days, and I haven't read a few of the series that I listed (I haven't read much Heinlein or Clarke, for example). However, I used to work the SF/Fantasy sections of two largish bookstores...so I know what's important and what isn't. Mostly. (And I would've LOVED it if Bowie had been able to do his 1984 rock opera...Diamond Dogs is very, very good, but...that would've been better.)

Well played, sir, well played. The score is one-love...your serve.

I've been surprised at how few people seem to want it, also... I'm not sure which tracker is the most popular, though...maybe Anirena isn't the best? Tokyo Toshokan has a "Nothing connected to ADV" rule, so I didn't want to risk it there. Maybe I should've gone with my initial plan to upload ALL my Macross audio files...but that's 6.65GB (with little song repitition), and thus would take forever to seed. Anyway, I hope that once I start putting up the remastered SDFM, more people will want it...

Is your initial experience so sacrosanct that touching up a few minutes ruins it for you? If so, you have the low-quality TV rips of the show, don't you? I kind of wish they could've done it with SDFM...it would have been nice to see a competently animated Max/Millia knife duel...but I think that time has passed.

I went to the one at Anime Expo in 2004, when they had promised they had some big news to reveal, possibly involving DYRL. The whole thing was centered around the Invasion game until the very end, when someone asked about DYRL, and they said they "found out" they had the merchandising rights to the movie and would be making the superposables. Certainly not the lamest hour I've ever spent in my life, but it's up there.

It's a little too early to say, since the successful science-fiction series is a relatively new phenomenon... But, let's see (and I'm expanding it to include fantasy as well)... Lensman: No. There were a few new sequels written in the '70s. James Branch Cabell's Biography of the Life of Manuel: Yes! Of course, it helps that by the time of his death, no one was reading him (a situation which, tragically, continues to this day). Tarzan: No. Sequels outnumber the original books. Conan: Ditto. Lovecraft's Mythos: HELL, no. Continues to this day. Foundation: No. A trilogy of sequels in the early '00s. Heinlein's Future History: I don't think anyone has continued this. Gormenghast: No sequels. Lord of the Rings: No. His son wrote a prequel. Dune: No. New York Times Bestselling Author Kevin J. Anderson™ wrote prequels AND sequels. 2001: No sequels yet. Rendezvous with Rama: Do those Gentry Lee books count...? The Wheel of Time: No. But only because Robert Jordan died before finishing the last book. The War Against the Chtorr: No sequels...wait, what do you mean David Gerrold's still alive? FINISH THE DAMN SERIES, MAN!! Those are the main ones I can think of...so no one (that I know of) has continued Cabell, Peake, Heinlein, or Clarke. Everyone else has been grist for the publishing mill, with varying degrees of success.

Like I said, I have to go to work, too...and leaving my computer running all day isn't really an option. Anyway, you have my undivided seeding attention now, everyone's up to 96.3%, and everyone should have the whole thing soon.

I'm sure MisaForgotten won't be the slightest bit interested in the cover...after all, it has Japanese on it.

Try to see it from our point of view...before Frontier began, we had a lot of people saying, "I bet they'll show the Megaroad-01!" After the series started, a lot of people were saying, "I bet the Vajra got the Megaroad-01!" When they showed the SDFN-04 Global, a lot of people said, "I bet it's connected to the Megaroad-01!" As the series drew to a close, some people said, "They're going to the Vajra homeworld...I bet they'll find the Megaroad-01!" Now, there are even people saying, "In the movie version, I bet they'll show the Megaroad-01!" Naturally, we get a little testy at times about it...it's like hearing your kid saying "Are we there yet?" for the 500th time.

She SINGS about Turkish coffee, but she DRINKS Irish. And according to "Miss DJ," the ultimate Minmay menu would be Irish coffee, carrot cake, and pig's feet. Yummy, huh?

Nah, I was just quoting some old comic that one of the MW members made years ago... I don't know what happened to them (or what will happen to them) but I disagree that they didn't have any time to shine. In Mac7, Emerald Force had "normal" VF-19s, and they used them throughout the later episodes. And the VF-22 was the star of bar-none THE best battle scene in the entire series. Hell, in the Encore episodes we even get blue and red Max and Millia VF-22 tag-team action! What more could you want?

I realize they're trying to simulate the characters' various ahir colors (except for the Nekki Basara, which sounds disgusting but oddly appropriate), but shouldn't the Lynn Minmay just be Irish Coffee?

Well, I have to go to work SOMEtimes...and I can't leave the computer on 24/7... Not to worry though, if all goes well, there will be plenty of seeds before I log off tomorrow morning. Either that, or a lot of unhappy people stuck at 98.1% for about ten hours...

Well...she was TRYING to save humanity...unfortunately, she thought humanity would be much better off as zombified Sharon Apple fanatics. (And anyway, I said "ONE of the only," not "the only." )

According to Macross Chronicle, the non-custom MAXL looks like a big question mark. Now, the 20th Anniversary DVD claims to show a MAXL, but I think everyone here at the time decided it was just a normal VF-11...

"Whoa, is that a MAXL...? Pretty hot!"

Oh believe you me, if the magazine is successful, I don't doubt they will add Plus-related content. And Zero, and II, and, hell, maybe even Macross Generation. Gundam Ace has explored pretty mch every nook and cranny of al the various Gundam worlds, and I don't doubt Macross Ace would like to do the same. Besides, manga anthologies like this usually add a new, high-level ongoing series by the third or fourth issue...what will that be here, I wonder?

I've never really liked Star Trek, so I can't really answer that...except to say that of course it's canon, since what is or isn't canon is decided by Paramount, not by Roddenberry. Television is somewhat different than films or books, since it's generally a more collaborative medium, with fewer auteurs, and so many hands have been involved in making Star Trek what it is that I think it's hard to point to anyone, even Gene Roddenberry, as being an indispensable creator. Ditto Doctor Who. These are the perfect franchises, with no overall unique vision or consistency (I should stress that I'm not making a value judgment here...shared worlds have their place, and can be very interesting and entertaining). But if there IS a unique, personal vision involved, if the world really IS someone's baby, like Star Wars, Dune, Foundation, Middle-Earth, Zimiamvia, Poictesme (to name a few of my favorites), then to have someone else go in and pretend that they can tell authoritative stories in someone else's world...well, that's just nonsense. High-level, well-paid, well-marketed nonsense, but still nonsense. A good example is Michael Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius books. When he began the Cornelius stories, Jerry was nothing more than a basic sci-fi superspy. Moorcock encouraged other writers to write their own Cornelius stories, and it was easy and fun to do so. But as Cornelius devleoped, and became something odder and more personal, the other writers stopped doing that. The REAL Jerry Cornelius was a character that only Michael Moorcock could write, and anyone else's version would seem fake. It's even worse when the creators get taken off their own creation, like most Golden Age comics artists did. In Hollywood remakes (to tie everything back into the thread's topic), you see it at its most inept, more often than not, where the new creators have no idea what made the original work, because (surprise, surprise) they weren't part of the original creation, and they have their own issues they want to bring out. Sometimes that works...Cronenberg's "The Fly" has little in common with the original, but it works arguably better than the first one...but that's because Cronenberg has his own issues which are more interesting than the original director's, and because the '80s version has so little connection to the '50s one, it works more as a variation on a theme than as a remake. It also of course helps than Cronenberg is a smart guy, unlike, say, whoever directed the reamke of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which has none of the urgency and brilliance of the original. Anyway, that's my take on it. As I've said before, I was a Lit Major, so I could spout stuff like this all day and not get tired...in other words, if anyone takes issue with my stance, it's probably wiser just to nod politely until I go away.

Hmmm? Frontier gets a number of spin-offs, and Macross 7 gets one as well...

She's a new character, and the heroine of "Macross 7th Chord."