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Maybe it's "BEATLE Queen"...? ...... No, it's "Little Queen." EDIT: And this probably should be in the newbie thread...

I hope your tongue was in your cheek when you typed that...

I don't, either...which leads me to believe that anyone expecting Frontier to tie up all the loose ends is simply setting themselves up for a big fall. Much like those here who convinced themselves that Macross Zero would somehow tie into the beginning of SDF:M, when Kawamori had promised no such thing.

Are you kidding? This is a marketing opportunity of the greatest kind...they could have a contest, and whoever wins would have his or her name and likeness used for the VF-171 pilot. And they would be allowed to write their own dialogue. And if they decided to tell the main characters what they should do, the main characters would have to obey. Then they could retitle the series Macross Mary Sue. It'd be GREAT!

And I even spoke well of Carl Macek in another thread! Basara Loves you yeah! By the way, does anyone have a reference for Kawamori saying that Macross Frontier would tie up all the loose ends...? Or is that just a rumor?

20 bucks says that no matter WHAT they look like, the VF-1 will still look better.

I haven't seen that anywhere, either...and it wouldn't make sense, since very little of any import happens in the first 26 episodes...things don't really start moving until they get to Lux. If it had been a short series that was extended, it most likely would have been the reverse. So I assume it was planned as 49~52 episodes from the start. I like the last nine episodes, but they really make me lose sympathy for Hikaru ("MAKE UP YOUR MIND, DAMMIT!"). I definitely agree that it adds a lot of depth to the series to show the world a year or two later, and makes one realize that nothing was tied up into the neat little bow that episode 27 seemed to promise. Life always goes on, and there are always problems. IIRC, Ishiguro said that the last episodes were his favorites, but Kawamori said they were completely disposable. Funny that the staff would be so divided over them...

Almost right, except you're wrong about who Grace is, and what her motivation is... HINT:

"Incredibly low" is a bit of an exaggeration, but "breakout runaway hit" would also be a stretch. Besides, ratings are one thing. DVD sales are another.

...that would make one hell of a doujinshi...?

WAAAY off topic here, but as much as I dislike Robotech, I try to cut Carl Macek some slack. He is, after all, a big Macross fan, and we wouldn't have had it in the U.S. if it weren't for him. I wish he'd gone about it in a different way, but slipping and sliding through broadcast regulations and copyright issues isn't easy. Streamline wasn't a great company, but they at least gave a half-assed stab at releasing the original components of Robotech with subs. Much later, I thought he did a good job with Dunbine. And all of the things I really hate Harmony Gold for were none of Macek's doing. He's no Great Mastermind or Godfather of Anime in the U.S. or anything, but he worked hard on behalf of anime at a time when few were receptive, and helped open the floodgates, so for that, at least, I think he deserves some credit. Sandy Frank, on the other hand, deserves to smoke at least twenty extra turds in hell for what he did to Gatchaman.

Luckily, my Japanese-English dictionary (Lighthouse) has TONS of example sentences, so I found 鶴の一声 by looking through those. (At first I was like, "Crane? What the hell...?") But yes, あいなる eluded me. Right now, I'm working on Macross drama albums (and starting -slowly- on Misa Hayase: "White Reminiscences"), and yeah...one of my Japanese friends is helping me quite a bit, but as she's an amateur comic artist, she doesn't have a whole lot of extra time, and sometimes I simply don't have the patience to wait.

Well...it WAS Carl Macek, but he eventually quit. Now it's some guy whose name is Yun or Yune or Yunee.

One of my Japanese friends wanted to watch Frontier, but hadn't seen any previous Macross series except Plus. So about six months ago, I gave her ALL the Macross stuff...and her biggest complaint about SDFM was the overuse of "My Boyfriend Is a Pilot." My point being: In Macross, it has ever been thus.

I wonder about that, too...since 49 episodes aired but 52 were made... As for Frontier...if they planned it for two seasons, it should run for two seasons. If they only planned one season, I'd rather they didn't drag it out. If they can continue the story after the end, though, I certainly hope they do. Macross Dynamite F, anyone...?

Well...Max DID get top billing in DYRL for a little while...so who knows?

Now it's official. Macross Frontier is the most awesome sequel ever in the history of Protoculture-derived civilizations.

Maybe I'm just a masochist, but I enjoy the exquisite pain of seeing an episode end and knowing that it will be a full week before the next one starts...besides, sublime nonsense like the WTF-1 theories wouldn't be able to blossom if we saw it all in one sitting...

While I may disapprove of your taste in literature, the fact that you have a first edition is pretty damn cool.

No, it's better. Because Hemingway (apart from "The Sun Also Rises" and a handful of short stories) sucks.

At this point, I can't see Alto with either of them, so I picked "None." We'll see what happens by ep. 19.

Probably, although I did meet someone who thought that the short story was superior to the novel. But if you also thought "Speaker for the Dead" sucked, then there is no hope for you.

That's a little unfair, I think. On another Macross forum, I saw someone complain about the Deculture Edition that here we have yet ANOTHER alien race that goes all emo over the power of song. Now THAT was someone who clearly didn't watch it. This, on the other hand, is a case of someone just not putting all the pieces together, or putting them together in a different way. Regarding the vulnerability of the Vajra, I don't see it as a mystery. When they first attacked, they were completely unknown. But by now, NUNS has had A LOT of time to study them and figure out what works and what doesn't, so naturally fighting them will be easier. It's not like the Vajra have been impervious to reaction weapons the whole time. NUNS and SMS just have never thrown that many at them before. And, as Duke said, Alto has been training for quite a while now...he didn't just get into the VF-25 with a manual and expect his Newtype awareness to fill in the blanks.

Yeah, that shot of the house lights coming on in the empty theater just ruined the episode for me. C'mon! The original Macross had TWO entire clip shows! Macross 7 endlessly reused the same footage of VF-11s going kerblooey, and you're complaining about a shot of street and some VF-171s launching...?

You have no taste or discrimination, good sir.