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Jealous <----What I am right now!

I am here to proclaim that Macross Frontier & Macross Ultimate Frontier have finally turned me from my hatred of Macross II, but I'll be damned if the Macross Cannon gunships aren't still fugly.

The true number one reason why Robotech is better than Macross: -Because Robotech fans can't cope with the fact that their dead pirated franchise of choice shafs them at every opportunity, while Macross fans are basking in the glory of regular every few year doses of awesome!

Yui's comments were in speicifc reference to the fragility of human life (i.e. there is only life on this planet), and the "need' to spread it outward, Evangelion being the tool with which to do that. Humans will eventually die, but Evangelion can live forever and spread that life again. The requirements being that a planet with a sun & moon were needed, and that is exactly what she went out searching for, just as Lilith did before her. You'll noticed Yui slyly left with the Longinus Spear. The spear itself being the key to activating the process in which a first impact could be initiated elsehwere (and thereby starting human/angel life agian with Yui swperating into the white moon/black moon forms from which life spread, yadda yadda). If the whole point was for Yui to merely become immortal, then that was already achieved when she took in the angels core (fruits of life). Gendo woiuld have actually have had better luck if he would have settled for merging into Unit-02 with Yui. he got a bit greedy though, so instead he decided to take on the form of the original god (replace Adam's soul with his own, and try to become the dominent personality with Lilith). Obviously Rei caught on, said "nuh uh," and kicked him to the curb, while retrieving Adam/Kowaru from Terminal Dogma. Things would have actually ended up somewhat better if he were allowed to succeed, at the very least hte Earth's surface wouldn't have gotten toasted if both he & Yui ran off with the Longinus Spear out into space. And Keel would have been sooo pissed Which takes us to Instrumentality, which was actually a 'devolution" (are we not men?), not an "evolution." It was literally like being able to jump back into the womb. Seele believed that the path human evoluition had taken was at a stalemate, and had no hope of progress, and would possibly lead to destruction. Their choice instead was to run back & hide in the womb from which life sprang, Lilith's Egg, and become one with "mom/god." In this existence (as we're shown through Shinji being the dominant persona for all life once achieved), there woiuld be no individual thought, everyone would exist as one being, in a form of warm gooey contention.

I actually have Raxhephon waiting to be watched, I'll get there eventually. Might I also reccomend Blue Gender (TV, not movie) for those who haven't caught it yet. Not as good as Votoms, but still pretty good.

A couple things: -Rei actually "is" Lilith, and it's doubtful those latent memories are Yui's, they are her own. or rather if you take it in this context.. Look at the very end, and you will see Yui Ikari (a human) has become Eva's description of a "God." What does she do? She leaves Earth knowing Shinji will restore things to as normal as they can be with the EArth's surface being fried. Yui's purpose all along wasn't "Instrumentality," or necessarily to create a better world for Shinji to live in (at least not in a conventional sense). Yui knew that Seele was dead set on setting those events in motion. And being as closely involved as she was, knew that at some point the form of existence that humanity continued in would come into question. Her goal in joining with Unit-01, as well as the main agenda that Gendo carried out (aside from attempting to hijack the original Adam & Lilith), was to become a god, go out into space, and initiate a "first impact" somewhere else that could sustain life, and start that whole process of Angels/humans evolving along seperate paths again. Taking things into that context, then you can extrapilate that Lilith (Rei) has already done this, and likely at some time in the distant path was indeed someone's mother. -There's a couple factors in choosing Touji as a pilot that you guys are neglecting. The final key in starting Instrumentality is the destrado (desire to die) of the pilot. Yes Touji was a semi-normal character overall, but he was also a character that could be easily pushed over the edge by the loss of his sister. That one event could easily make him of like to Shinji & Asuka. And assuming Pete & I are correct in the choice for the core of Unit-03, then who's to say Ritsuko/Gendo didn't already start the process of placing he soul in the core. If it really came down to it, would Touji really have any choice but to get itno that cockpit? -Gendo had nothing to do with Unit-03 being taken over, that was entirely the fault of the careless pilot flying it to Neo Tokyo. As to why it didn't manifest itself until Touji got in, that may have something to do with the operational limits put on the Eva, or maybe it was indeed another attempt at understanding humanity. But we know that thing didn't ship with a core, otherwise one wouldn't have had to have been prepared. -There's absolutely no question or conjecture about Ritsuko's mom being the basis of the Magi. However it wasn't literally her brain placed in it, but a copy. Likely the Magi was the true prototype for the dummy plug system, Gehirn/Nirv's first attempt at an artificial soul. And it wasn't the human brain that couldn't be copied, it was the soul.

First and foremost, understand that you can switch your target lock by holding up (stronger enemies) down (weaker enemies) or left/right (general switch, and the one you want to use for this mission) while hitting the target button (circle in most cases). Also note that if you pause, it will show you a map with all enemies on screen. With that said combo's also play a alrge part, and while the Sound Force Valkyries are awesome for taking out waves of enemies, they don't get you combo points. To S/SS this mission, absolutely under no circumstances should you take on either battleship before the waves of Quadran Rau have stopped. Check your map, look out for the new enemy appeared message, and switch your targets. Do "not" shoot those ships. Once all the Q-Rau have stopped, feel free to unload hot death upon them. The same goes for Chlore, "do not shoot her" under about 2-3 waves of Q-Rau have come and been taken out. Check your map, and once she's the last one there, and no others have appeared, take her out. Use a strong unit though, or she'll eat you alive.

I'm actually gonnna say Basara's singing has nothing at all to do with Minmay. From what very little info we're given about his childhood, it's doubtful he would have even heard of Minmay. Basara sings to move mountains, to change the universe, and because he can. I'd say it's more accurate that Ray, Max, & Chiba chose Basara because they believe in the legend of Minmay, but Basara would sing regardless.

Speaking of which, I was kinda dissapointed Jet alone didn't make some kind of appearance in the movies, so many comical opportunities there.

How can Gainax be wrong if the anime itself is the very source that infers Touji's sister is in the Eva? And really, considering how long he would have been in the hospitol with those injuries, you're forgetting a very important incident that easily covers Nerv's ass. Specifically, an angel succeeds in getting into the GeoFront, takes out a ton of poo, and "easily" could be blamed for the Death of Touji's sister. Even if that hadn't happened, they could have claimed she fell into a coma why not. But that's besides the point, because as Pete & I have already shown, 00 blows away the whole "only the pilot's mother" theory. Again, none of this goes against Gainax, just extrapilates from what they do give us. Some other things to note here, Gendou was never after "instrumentality," as he couldn't have possibly cared one way or the other. He just needed enough events set into motion so that he could become a "god," and join Yui. And Nerv's only real competetive threat was Seele, whome by all apearances were doing far darker things than harvesting souls!

I wish Simone & Yoko had finally gotten together sometime after, but the fear of relationship jinx on both of them would have been too great.

The whole digital copy thing is a bunch of back handed B.S. Also, buy a bluray player!

Again, the key here is that Touji was the only child in class (a well known fact btw is that all the children in Shinji's class were candidates) that coul dhave a core immediately prepaired. If say Kenske (who's mother was also dead) had a dead mother's soul on tap in storage, then he would have been an equaly immediate choice. The fact that he actually had an interest in being a pilot would have made him a "better" choice. But in the realm of story telling, especially a mystery story, the proof is in the clue's strewn about. Touji never mentions his mother, Kenske does mention his mother, but more in a bonding reference. Touji is "very" attached to his sister. Touji's sister is very seriously injured. Rei has no mother, or rather, Rei is the mother of "all." Rei synch's with Eva Unit-00 through a splinter of her own self, which sets the precedent for it being more necessary to synch with a close "female" influence, rather than an absolutely specific mother. And here's the real clincher, Touji's sister (a character whom we're actually semi-familair to, though only in repeated reference). is moved to a Nerv medical facility at the same time a core (which by all official references, has to be a close female influence in the pilots life) can be prepaired. So you tell me which makes more sense and is illuded to. Touji's mother who is never mentioned, or Touji's sister. This reminds me if debates of old where people swore it was Misato that killed Kaji, even though she was in lock up with no gun or secuirty card (to get in or out of Nerv) at the time.

The Angel "occupied" Unit-03 when it flew through that storm cloud. As for being berated by his sister, specific dialogue?

-Unit-00: The Core is comprised of part of Rei's own soul, upon its destruction, Rei becomes unified agian, and remembers she's Lilith. -Unit-01: Yui Ikari's Soul -Unit-02: Asuka's Mother -Unit-03: What just happened in the series? Touji's sister was seriously injured at the beginning of the series. Touji's conidtion for becoming the pilot of Unit-03 was to have his sister moved to Nerv's personal hospitol. Ritsuko upon noting that a "core" could be easily setup for Touji, also very quickly agreed to have his sister "moved." Combine all that with the "cores" of all known (non-dummy plug) Eva's requiring the soul of a female loved one for the pilot to synch with, and damn, how could you possibly say that wasn't hinted at. As for EoE, the damn thing was scene for scene matched up with the TV ending, just in far more awesome detail. If you can't see that, then no amount of "interpretation," can help you understand Eva. What gets me are thsoe who say Eva was too abstract, or is open to whatever random interpretation they choose, simply because they weren't able to understand and follow the clearly drawn out path (as well as the support materials given) that Anno gave. If nothing else, go watch Proto-Eva, i.e.Nadia. But whatever, it'll take until the new movies are done before the remaining naysayers finally listen to what I'm saying.

If your PC has a memory stick slot, you can just pop it in there while playing through the song select, easiest way I've found to do it.

Have I participated in earlier pages of this specific topic? If so, read those posts. There is indeed "ONE" correct interpretation of the events in Eva, if you don't believe me, search any Eva topic I've participated in, and watch the series again.

Solution, fly solo!

Yup, I have all my PSP saves backed up on my PC for just such a random happening. BTW, have you (guy with the currupted save) tried starting a new game, and seeing if it would pull in any of your leveled stats? If it worked at all, worse case is you'd have to start fresh with the original charcters, but have everything else in tact. Maybe if you start a new game, and save to slot 2, it'll fix the rest of the save.

Eva makes perfect sense, you just ened to pay attention to what's actually going on, not what you "think" is going on. As for Orguss, it is fluff through much of it, but wait til you get to that epic final arc. In fact, when I finish Clone Wars season one, and rewatching Giant Robo, think I'll go back and rewatch Orugss.

It was called "Star Trek Nemesis," and it sucked. Well that's not true, Nemesis actually rocked, when it was called "Wrath of Kahn." Besides, with a mining vessel, you have reasonable belief that much older federation ships would be able to somewhat hold their own against it, at least hold long enough to eject their crew & ram it. They wisely dropped their main plot hole with the whole being captured by Klingon thing. If they had left that in, then the major issue would have been why the Klingons didn't take a small fraction of that 25 years to dismantle t he mining vessel, and incorperate the new technology in their own ships. Hell, you saw how apeshit they went over "Genesis."

Ah, but that's not the end of the story. Studio Nue prophesized the corruption to the timeline, and left Macek explicit instruction on how to repair the damage, in the form of "Super Dimension Century Orugss," assuming Macek would realize the only way to undo the damage done would be for the present & future Macek's to kill themselves. Macek promptly ignored these instructions....

Freeplay you can get everyone out, using Veffidas as support.

Ok, I'll fold, where is Big West's HD remaster of Macross II on Blu-Ray so I can hopefully pay much less than I did for import Zero? Coem on BW/BV, pick up the ball and start putting out more Blu-Rays!

Nah, you see it's funny because Shadow Chronicles retcons the end of Mospeada and removes all but the 3 characters I mentioned, therefore none of those others characters exist anymore in Robotech.