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  1. Duke Togo
    Negativity? Huh?
  2. Duke Togo
    They've been making Gundam anime for almost 40 years. It's pretty much a cultural icon at this point. I'm not speaking to the quality of every production, but what's bigger than Gundam? It's like the Star Wars of anime. Full disclosure: I've never seen Gundam Note: this is OT and probably better left for discussion elsewhere. Maybe PMs.
  3. Duke Togo
    If not for the post here I would have never seen it. Nothing about it on /Film, FilmSchoolRejects, or TheForce.Net. Not one of my friends who are Star Wars fans mentioned it (which accounts for most of my friends). So, again, I say who cares?
  4. Duke Togo
    I find that hard to believe
  5. Duke Togo
    Who cares?
  6. Duke Togo
    And is the most popular anime of all time and known world wide. Just sayin'.
  7. Duke Togo
    Oh, the prequels. They aren't part of my head canon.
  8. Duke Togo
    It's still bizarre that TFU was canon for about 5 minutes.
  9. Duke Togo
    We don't serve your kind here.
  10. Duke Togo
    Everything I've heard about this movie is that is centers around a team, not any one person. It's an ensemble piece. I suspect the trailer was more of a marketing decision based upon the popularity of Rey than a accurate depiction of what happens in the movie. As far as leads go, whether it's a male or female doesn't matter to me. I just care that the movie is well done.
  11. Duke Togo
    In the movie, yeah. But the toys were AT-ATs. At ats!
  12. Duke Togo
    Sure, but they're not in balance. One can point out the humor in the space tuna scene, but they can't forget that shortly thereafter Minmay proposes that instead of facing starvation, they throw themselves out into space to commit suicide together. Not so "ha ha."
  13. Duke Togo
    Renato, to this I would reply everyone needs to go back and rewatch the first four or five episodes. For every instance of Roy being a lecher and "no smoking on the bridge," there are ten instances of deadly seriousness. And yes, I understand that relative to animes x,y, and z from that period it might be more lighthearted, but to pass it off as some idol show with mecha (not you) is grossly inaccurate. They tackle serious issues in Macross, and deal with the high cost of war on a regular basis.
  14. Duke Togo
    To which I would say doesn't everyone call them scout walkers?
  15. Duke Togo
    They're talking about the anime, which Kawamori worked on.
  16. Duke Togo
    That's nonsense. A handful of episodes of light-heartedness don't set the tone for the entire series. Nothing says "whimsical" like an idol singer getting slapped around by her abusive manager/cousin/whatever, who is a drunk, while trying to rebuild civilization in the ruins of humanity. Good times. Or our hero's sempai bleeding out on the couch of his girlfriend. Or hundreds of thousands of civilians being obliterated in what amounts to a military accident when a shield overloads on our beloved SDF-1. Or any one of a thousand things that actually set a fairly serious tone for the series. Some of you guys really need to go back and rewatch SDF Macross (or, perhaps, watch it for the first time). Certainly, the franchise has evolved and diversified since then, but to say the original didn't have a serious tone is revisionist nonsense. Edit: heck, i totally forgot to mention that our idol was used as a weapon of psychological warfare.
  17. Duke Togo
    I wonder if the author has another article about how blatantly The Hunger Games rips off Battle Royale.
  18. Duke Togo
    Most fans, judging by the number who have told me I say it wrong.
  19. Duke Togo
    The main Saga is the story of the Skywalker family. Outside of that I'm not sure what you're referring to, unless you mean some of the crappy EU stories out there.
  20. Duke Togo
    She has little to no memory of her early childhood. She doesn't even know who she's waiting for to come back.
  21. Duke Togo
    I love how JJ calls AT-ATs "at ats" and not "a-t a-ts." See, it's not just me!
  22. Duke Togo
    This has nothing to do with Rey's parents. Where did you get that idea from?
  23. Duke Togo
    Episode 1 of Season 6 is titled "The Red Woman."
  24. Duke Togo
    /Film: ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ Trailer Breakdown: Going Through the First Teaser Frame-by-Frame
  25. Duke Togo
    Macross hasn't been doing this stuff for decades, and no matter how many times you repeat it isn't going to make it true. I've seen every Macross production atleast twice (including 7, which I actually have on DVD), and I've been following this franchise since the beginning. I KNOW what this franchise is and how it has evolved, and I know what it is not. Despite the callbacks (which they did in Frontier, did we need to do them again?), Delta does not feel like Macross, and I have a very hard time suspending my disbelief with a lot of what I see. That is their failure, not mine. You don't care about these issues and you like it, and that's fine. But don't try to tell me I am wrong by twisting facets of the franchise to fit your view, and then go on to totally ignore and misrepresent what people are saying to make your convoluted argument. Anyway, I am done here. See you next episode.
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