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Oh, he's easily my second favorite character. It's just that saying "Alto should end up with Nanase...he doesn't even deserve Bobby!" doesn't really sound like a compliment to the Girlfriend in a Coma...

Of course I know...wild mares were meant to roam...and roam free... Now, if you need me, I'll be sulking in my room, gazing out at the drizzly sky, with my hand nailed to my forehead...

Tell you what...you make that movie, and then I'll take it, splice in some footage from an almost forgotten, completely unrelated giant robot show, turn the hero into Hikaru's cousin, and tack on a happy ending. It'll be GREAT!

Are you implying that Nanase is less than Ranka or Sheryl, or even Bobby? If so, you clearly have no taste.

Now THAT would be an ending! You know, I hate to say it, but the Sheryl and Ranka shippers have it easy...at least THEIR favorite character(s) have been active, running around, doing stuff, and thinking about things...mine's been stuck in a coma for the last three episodes, and we don't even know if she still has a right eye! The rest of you want your favorite character to get the guy and save the ship...I just want mine to regain consciousness.

Tell me about it...I've just seen it the once, and I didn't back up, but was that a lot of Dimension Eater detonations I saw all around the planet in the next ep preview...? The Vajra swarm coming out to "greet" Ranka and Brera was awesome.

Hmm...that one, I don't know... *scurries off to imdb*

Section 1 Section 2 And here it is, the long-awaited third section of Miss DJ!!! If you listen carefully, you'll notice that she flubs a line or two on "Yesterday." Mari's English wasn't quite as fluent then as it is now... Speaking of flubbed lines, a lot of Minmay's commentary on the letters is, um...well, I'm not really too sure about it. If someone wants to give that part of the album a listen and PM me any corrections, I'd be grateful. NEXT: The devil himself tells Minmay that she did a great job, and Shammy wants YOU...to listen to her song!

Yes, yes, yes! This Quiet Earth was really, really good. (Although for some reason, I keep mixing it up with The Last Wave...dunno why.) And Bliss...was that the one with Sheryl Lee? If so, it was '90s...

Lord, I hope you're wrong on that... I DIDN'T DO IT! YOU CAN'T PROVE ANYTHING! In fact...I bet it was YOU! YOU DID IT! KILL DREAMWEAVER13!!!

I don't think she'd be quite as enthusiastic to do a Japanese voice acting job...and I think the penduluum may have swung back from "I Am Minmay" to "I Am NOT Minmay." At least, she hasn't performed "DYRL" at any of her shows in Los Angeles for a few years now (and still seems a little annoyed that most of the new people who show up at her concerts do so mainly because they know her as the voice of Minmay), and she really didn't seem terribly happy to sign my copy of "Macross Love Story" a few months ago.

Oh I agree with you completely on that. I am 95% sure Sheryl is not going to die from the V-Virus, and 90% sure that she's not going to die at all. I swear to God it wasn't me!

Well...Kawamori decided that BEFORE Hase died, but his death probably cemented it. I also doubt that Mari Iijima would be terribly interested in doing a new Macross show...and do you really want a fake Minmay as well as a fake Hikaru...?

Oh...you mean the love triangle ending, not just the end. Well, then I would say that the biggest "gtocha" would be Macross 7 (amazing how some people really wanted the 14-year-old girl to decide who she really loved...no 14-year-old knows that). Oh, I don't think they broke with the logic of the plot, just that they were big surprises that floored everybody. That didn't bother me HALF as much as the revelation that Van and Allen's dearest wish was the fight each other to the death. I mean, seriously: COMPLETELY ruined the ending for me... I think maybe you misunderstand my point. I was talking about stuff like, "Here's a character who kinda looks like Roy. he kinda acts like Roy, and he's got a Roy-style VF. He's gonna die, he's gonna die, HE'S GONNA DIE!! Wait...no, he's not. BOOM! Bye-bye, Max!" I wouldn't put it past the show to say, "It's gonna be Sheryl, it's gonna be Sheryl...well, maybe not." And I'm not saying that it WON'T be Sheryl, just saying that it MIGHT not be...is that really so controversial...?

Hmmm...maybe Basara really IS Hikaru's illegitimate son, and inherited his invincibility genes...

a.) Does Macross Zero count...? Escaflowne also had a number of twists by the end. b.) The plot construction has been solid, but there have been a number of fake-outs ("ZOMG!! It's Kamjin! ZOMMFG!!! It's the SDF-1!!!"), and I believe a relationship path for Ranka and Alto HAS been established, just not touched on in a while. But it seems odd to mention Kawamori's lack of twist endings as proof that MacF won't go that route, and then suggest that the final episode might be tragic, even though he has no history of tragic endings (I think...I haven't seen Arjuna or Aquarion). I say that all bets are off with his show. All along, he has drawn us in with familiar-seeming characters and situtations, only to give them aggressively different outcomes, and I don't see that pattern changing.

And it looks like no matter HOW it ends, there will be some people here and on other forums complaining loudly that the ending was completely out of left field, showed no understanding of the characters involved, and was just plain WRONG WRONG WRONG. And to be honest, I don't really want to read those posts.

See, it's that "solidly developed over the entire season" that bothers me...Froniter has taken great pains to try to be anything but predictable, and a long, relatively unbroken thread (leading to the outcome that anyone with half a brain would expect) isn't exactly the sort of thing they've been doing in this show. Well, okay. There was Ai-kun. But other than that... But then, I got burned being on the wrong side of the WTF-1 debate, so I'm hesitant to predict ANYTHING in this show.

Well, DUH. I'm not stupid, you know.

Well, I think that AltoxRanka would be a happy ending (as long as a miraculously cured Sheryl accepts it, and goes of to have a series of flings with her many groupies). But then, I also think that AltoxSheryl would be a happy ending (provided that Ranka isn't too broken up about it and ends up realizing that the one who TRULY loved her the whole time was Nanase). But I think that saying that either one is THE one-and-true ending...well, that's a bit premature at this point. We've still got 75 minutes to go, folks. A lot can happen in that time.

Ooh, I just thought of an obscure one that I love... DEMONWARP! Zombies, aliens, and bigfoot coupled with gratuitous breasts and a tacked on "It was all a dream...OR WAS IT?" ending. Truly atrocious movie...it's awesome. Oh, and of course, Troll 2. Remember, "Nilbog" is "Goblin" spelled backwards...

What 'bout Reform School Girls? "So young, so bad, so what?" Greatest movie tagline EVER! Well...besides "his nose is not the only thing that grows"...

Keep going... Ishtar was older than Silvie (I think...) Guld was older than Isamu Basara was older than Gamlin Liza was older than Passero It's not as clear-cut as you make it sound. But no, I don't think Alto will choose Ranka.

Ditto. Having a Macross series without any of the original creators really makes it nothing more than a high-budget fanfic. If years of Tomino-less Gundam has taught me anything, it's that Gundam suffers without him (except for 0080 and 0083, which seem almost like flukes to me now). I'm assuming it would be the same for Macross.

Wait...wait...was that the one with the, erm, "windows" in the back of the jeans...? I never saw it, but I remember seeing an ad for it. As for me, most of my favorites have already been mentioned, so I'll keep it brief... Sheena (YOWZA Was that really PG???) Deathstalker II (never saw Part I) The awful remake of the Blob with Shawnee Smith and Kevin Dillion Firday the 13th: The Final Chapter (which is the best in the series because it's the only one with Corey Feldman AND Crispin Glover!) Godzilla 1985 Young Sherlock Holmes And special mention MUST go to Nightmare on Elm Street Part II: The Gayest Horror Film Ever.