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When Shin used his laser to try and shoot out Nora's canopy. Either he completely missed it, or they bounced away harmlessly before she proceeded to perforate him with the rest of the rounds in her gunpod. I'm with Seto on this one. There are several instances both where the head lasers are little more than distractive, but are good point-defense systems against incoming missiles. AFAIK, there is a network of ECA circuits integrated into the hull of the craft, but only where there is metal. Is there mention of an anti-laser coating for weak surfaces such as pilot canopies?

That was one of the names that "came to mind", but we didn't settle on it. It's called brainstorming.

When Shin got into the wounded VF-0 in episode 2, he spammed his gunpod fire into the air towards Nora's SV-51. He managed to hit her and it blew her battroid's arm off. Then she proceeded to give the young fledgling a little schooling in variable-fighter close-quarters-combat before Roy came in to scare her off.

The first movie took about 11 months to be released on DVD. Don't expect to see any resolutions anytime soon. I am looking forward to the 2nd movie as much as anyone, but I'm not letting it bother me since I know I won't see it for about a year.

I discussed the Catwoman choice with my brothers earlier today and we all agreed that Anne Hathaway (although I'd love to lay her), is just not what we'd expected of a Catwoman-type. Names such as Catherine Heigl and Jessica Biel came to mind, but my brother made the best suggestion of all: Kate Beckinsale. With the experience she's got playing her role in the Underworld movies (and wearing tight leather suits! ), she'd be a great pick as well.

Compared to the tenure of you many of the members on this board, I'm still quite the fledgling.

I have so many questions and refutations for this, but I'm just gonna take it as I see it discussed here.

Yeah, but when you convert mass into energy by fusion, you're getting a lot of power for so little mass. It's kind of the same reason that nuclear subs and carriers can run for years without needing to be refueled.

Wait, I was under the impression that these are thermonuclear reaction engines. If so, they could feasibly run for ridiculous amounts of time without needing to be refueled.

Hey! Cam Clarke is a legend amongst voice actors. It's blasphemy to put down his voice-over work... even if it was on Robotech!

The constant application of a downward thrust onto the surface of the water would displace so much, it'd probably send several feet of that water into the city. Not to mention, the winds being kicked up throughout the bay would pretty much demolish anything that wasn't firmly anchored to the ground near the coastline. It'd have to be anti-gravity. I think your picture is great without altering the water effects too much. I do agree that maybe a bit of a shadow should be cast onto the water, but it's otherwise quite believable... relatively speaking.

I pretty much clapped out loud when Gamlin landed that haymaker onto Colonel Barton's face. That ass-master deserved it.

No, that would make the SDF-1 ridiculously enormous. Remember, it's about 1 mile long. The cranes are far behind it. You'd think that an interplanetary battleship would dock in the harbor if it had to go planetside. Just my speculation.

Oh, I dunno... an alien spaceship could crash-land on this planet at any time. Then you'd see such things before your death.

Yeah, that doesn't mean anything. At least we get to see them interacting with each other a bit more. Michael's death in the series caught me by surprise and manly tears were shed en memoriam.

There are several of us who share your sentiment on the gratuitous fanservicing of the movie. However, I thought that the mecha action was borderline orgasmic, so it's all subjective.

Is it strange that I initially misread that to mean something else?

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I'm inclined to agree. Grace doesn't seem to be "as sinister" as she turns out to be in the series. I think Leon is behind most of the animosity that's to come in the 2nd movie. It's all still up in the air, though.

Just because people aren't voting for Ozma doesn't mean that they're not liking him. I love Ozma's character. Total BAMF, but still has no problems admitting his feelings for Cathy at the most "awesomest" time. In the immortal words of Captain Zap Brannigan, "He's a man's man's man." I just like Isamu more because I share a lot of his personality quirks... and the fact that he's just a regular ass-kicker in the pilot's seat doesn't hurt.

Even though Roy, Ozma, Michael, and Klan rank very highly for me, I picked Isamu, simply because he frequently reminds me of myself. Cocky and arrogant, but effective. I know people can't stand my overconfidence, but they can't deny that I'll always come through for them. As a pilot, Isamu was probably only paralleled by Max and Guld. All of them were seemingly unkillable; even against unstoppable opponents such as the Ghost X-9 and Milia Fallyna. As was previously mentioned, Isamu was nothing short of an ass-kicking pilot, ripping through that squadron of dissident Zentraedi at the beginning of the series. Then he vaulted the YF-19 team ahead of the YF-21 team during Project Supernova. Later, he even managed to get through the impenetrable planetary defense systems. Even though it pretty much WAS luck that he did so, he's got one of my favorite lines, "Luck is just one of my many skills!" I loved his always-in-a-good-mood demeanor and his desire to get under peoples' skin all of the time... especially when he made Myung eat that sour fruit without telling her that it's bad. I was like "You dick!", but I laughed anyways.

Because at the time, I was not aware of a 1080p version yet. 720p is pretty damn decent, though. It was more than enough for me and I have an HD monitor.

QFT! /horns

Wait, I thought the MSG argument was about it just being unhealthy, not making your food taste worse. I put McDonald's employees' kids through college, I eat there so much. As has been mentioned, I'd rather eat something that tastes good, than eat bland and healthy. My mother complains at me and my diet all of the time; she's an organic foods maniac. I swear to god, if a food item doesn't have the term "organic" or "natural" on it, she won't buy it. Growing organic food is just fine and all, but I hate it when people take a giant dump on the usual way of growing foods; that is, using pesticides and artificial hormones. Right now, it's the most efficient way to feed 300 million Americans, and much of the rest of the world, for that matter. If we went all organic, we'd never be able to produce as much food. You can keep on eating organic food, if that's what makes you happy. The rest of us don't really mind the pesticides and artificial hormones.

The theory that seems to be floating around is some kind of tie-in with the new serialized novel in Dengeki Hobby magazine: "Macross the Ride".