I personnaly don't like the idea of none of the series/oav's are in the same "universe" or "reality".
This concept can be innovative, well-thought or anything, it breaks something to me .... I am very disappointed ....
I loved Macross, the first tv show (jut watched the whole series last week, never watched it before) and for me it's the "real" thing ... I wanted to continue watching it as a sequel but this stuff confuse me ...
So far I've only watched the 5 first episodes of Macross 7, and despite the Exsedol problem, I like it. But contrarily to many people, these songs annoy me, I don't like them, ... worst when Basara sing, it looks fake to me, the face and the lips doesn't fit the song. Anyway...
Thanks for this article, I now have the answers, ....