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It's a problem...? I thought it was a good thing.

They'd better... Let me guess...it's going to be some kind of Overfiend scenario, where Nanase wants to show Grace her new dress designs, and walks in while Grace is doing something implant-y and important...she sees too much, and Grace tentacles her to death... Naah.

Could anyone who thinks a foo-foo haircut like that looks good REALLY be all that smart...?

Second section. Best enjoyed by Minmay and/or Mari Iijima fetishists...Some of the bits here I'm not sure of, so if anyone feels like checking my translation, I'd be grateful. Oh, and in case you don't know Minmay's favorites songs, click on the titles... NEXT: Three very strange guys have been seen around the Macross. Could they be...*gulp* ALIENS?!?

You have chosen wisely. May blessings and fecundity and hot babes in edible panties be yours!

To be fair, Ranka never jabbed her fingers into Alto's ass, like Mao did to Shin...

Okay...let's think this through. Some websites say that Ranka was the only survivor, but Leon, IN THE SHOW ITSELF, gathers together a group of survivors. The correct answer should be clear, I hope...

Let me guess...the Super Dimension Eater goes off, and destroys the entire universe, Ideon-style, and we get to see all the old characters' surprised faces before they're completely annihilated...

*ahem* Kyu~n kyu~n, kyu~n kyu~n, Watashi no kare wa... Wait...where's everybody going?

I agree with pretty much everything you say. The only real point of disagreement is that I feel prefectly justified complaining about yet-to-be-made remakes. But that has more to do with there being SO DAMN MANY of them right now. Hollywood seems locked in a rut and it needs to pull itself out. Now, if one or two of them turn out to get good reviews, I'll go see them. But, as you say, most movies aren't good, and I'm never keen on seeing a book or comic or previous movie that I really like get turned into mediocrity. I'd prefer that they stayed away from stuff that I like. Thankfully, most of the stuff that I really like is stuff that they would never, ever touch...

Who? Kawamori and company, or those who started this thread? Either way, I think the fact that the Dimension Eater detonation looked extremely awesome is of vital importance to all. TANGENT: One thing I've always wondered about but have been too timid to ask in the mecha thread is...at what point does the discussion break down? I mean, we're dealing with impossible mechanics that only work because the writers say they do. You can talk about the physics of Valkyrie flight or how a pin-point barrier system works for only so long before you hit the "well, THIS would never work in real life" wall, right? How far can you really take the analysis before you have to stop? Not trying to start any kind of scuffle, just wondering...

Hey, if someone could tell me where to get DVDs of Shakespeare performing in his own works, I probably wouldn't need any other performances. Likewise CDs of Beethoven conducting his symphonies. As I said, theater is a LIVE medium, making new versions necessary. Movies aren't. The reason there was no outcry about Ran, to take your example, is that it was damn good. There wasn't any outcry about David Cronenberg's version of The Fly, either...because it was different and arguably better than the original. You can't say the same about, say, the 2003 version of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Covers have been a part of pop music from the beginning, for good or ill. Any aspiring jazz singer has a large number of old standards which he or she MUST nail to prove his or her chops. Movie directors don't have to remake Jaws to show the world at large that they know how to create suspense. the nature of the medium is simply different. And pop music is, in large part, a disposable medium. Memories are short, lifelong careers are rare...make your money how you can while you can, then get out before you have to start travelling the oldies circuit. And, as I said, no one writes remake novels. I don't think ANYONE is complaining about good or superior remakes. But there are very few in the current crop that show any kind of thought or creativity. You can't compare ANY of the recent remakes to Ran, or Scarface, or hell, even Clueless. It's a ployt that seems to work for making money, but it creates very few genuinely good movies. But, as long as they're making money, they don't have to be good, right?

Surely you jest, sir. The Dimension Eater is clearly based on Friedmann's celebrated principle regarding clouds of destruction with swirly purple whisps looking extremely cool.

Yes, yes it is. So what? I don't think anyone is saying that every single remake is bad.

So if I wanted to write a "remake novel," that'd be okay? "Y'know, The Great Gatsby is good, but I'd like to re-imagine it as a a current novel for a current generation, using all of the latest literary technology...but I promise to be respectful to the source material." It's unfair to compare different forms of entertainment in this regard...theater, but its very nature as a live medium, requires new versions of classic works. Pop music began with songwriters being very different individuals than the singers who recorded their songs, and it wasn't unusual to have fifteen or twenty different recorded versions of the same song. In that sense, covers have become LESS frequent now than they were sixty years ago. There's also the fact that there are many, many more theater productions staged and pop songs released in any year than major Hollywood movies made. If (let's say) Sony only released twenty albums a year, and even five of them were wholsale remakes of previous albums, there'd be an outcry.

*pulls out gun-guitar* Nagareboshi wo tsukamaete Kawashite yuku Black Hole Do ja furi no ame ni utare Sabishisa ni naita kedo Wasurerare nakatta Love Song Fushigi na chikara no kotae doko ni aru no ka Wow wow FLASH IN THE DARK! Sagashi tsuzuketai! Daredemo mireru yo na yume ja nai hazu!

I remember when you said it, and I think think it's a great idea...at the very least, it should happen in the comic.

How about this...instead of remaking other movies, or adapting existing books, Hollywood ACTUALLY COMES UP WITH SOMETHING NEW? And (just maybe) something GOOD? I know, I know...just a silly dreamer am I...

If you like Macross...then yes, get Gunbuster.

YOU HAVEN'T SEEN GUNBUSTER??? You MUST pop your Gunbuster cherry ASAP! Seriously. You'll thank me. With cash.

Would you like to set a wager on that...?

It's "Hate made," actually...couldn't figure it out until I googled it, though...

Ai-kun is Ranka's little pet...the one who stole Sheryl's panties way back when.

So...I guess this means Ai-kun counts as a Vajra Inner Beauty-Man...?

MINNA, DAKISHIMETE! GINGA NO...HATE MADE! Suimen ga yuragu Kaze no wa ga hirogaru Fureatta yubisaki no Aoi denryuu Mitsumeau dake de Kodoku na kasokudo ga Isshun ni kudakechiru Anata ga suki yo Toumei na shinju no you ni Chuu ni uku namida Higeki datte kamawanai Anata to ikitai キラッ☆ Ryuusei ni matagatte Anata ni kyuukouka ah ah Noukon no hoshizora ni Watashi-tachi hanabi mitai Kokoro ga hikari no ya o hanatsu