Keith

Let's break it down. -Macross is all peachy ready for its test launch -Zentradi fold into orbit. -Macross main cannon heat's up & prepairs to fire. -Bridge crew attempt to deactivate cannon, finding they're fully locked out of the system. -Cannon fires at Zentradi -All major systems of the Macross which were previously thought to be peachy horribly malfunction. While the specifics of the "booby trap" program are arguable, its doubtful that the firing of the main cannon itself, or rather, the act of the cannon firing was the cause of the problem, as that too would have been one of the pre-checked ready to go systems. To take it a bit further, considering that the cannon was repeatedly fired through out the series without such damaging effects, its safe to assume the problem was indeed with the program that caused the "booby trap," not the cannon's firing. Now regarding folds, there are obviously too types shown through out the series. The type in which a ship is motionless & surrounded by a fold (this type being the style in which we see the ship pop directly between two points), and the type of fold where a ship is seen using its own propulsion to move into the fold (this type being the style we see fold space, my personal theory of which being it's used to travel a greater distance by only "partially" folding space, and using the ships conventional engines to make up the rest of the gaps. This would also conserve on fold energy charge). The spherical & motion folds are both shown to work inside & outside of an atmophere (say Max folding on Varuta to launch the reaction weapon at Gepernitch would be a good example of a motion fold), and even the Zentradi are shown using both (Bodozla's fleet folding into Earth orbit used the spherical motionless point to point kind).

What are you talking about? spherical folds are seen used all the time. When a ship is stationary before a fold, that's the type seen. When a ship is moving and goes into a fold, that's when you see the warp style.

Maybe I missed that part just now. Do you remember when in the episode he says that? Episode time: 4m:17s. It's an ambiguous phrase (computers didn't exactly have the amount of attention in 1980 as they do now...) since it could me circuit board or software. But in either case, a program had to have interpretted the sensor readings as hostile and such, overrided a manual overide. So there has to have been some software running. Exactly, the very nature of the booby trap was the Macross firing its cannon at the Zentradi. How did it do such a thing? Automated response. How did the cannon know to fire? A leftover program. Though all the technology was new, there's no reason to believe that the crew was massively inept in using it. A conflict occured between the new & the old, causing massive shipwide havoc.

Bite my shiny metal ass! It's clearly stated there, now go actually watch something instead of wasting everyones time by mindlessly arguing.

I don't think it was that bad. I liked how the human's inexperience led to them dragging most of South Ataria island and the two carriers out to Pluto with the Macross. Since there were no ARMD's around, waste not want want not. Let's attach these perfectly fine carriers instead. Actually, it wasn't inexperience at all. All the shipwide problems, including the massively miscalculated space fold, and the gravity engines ripping away from the ship, were caused by a conflict between the newer ship's software, and the supervision army software that was re-actived by the boobytrap (see Global's Report)

Correct, Z, ZZ, MkII, & hell, let's even count the Hyaku Shiki. Not to mention Gremmi's red Zeta knock-off whatever it was called. After that, all hell broke loose.

i have no idea how long, though I did hang on to afm entirely too long

In fairness, ZZ is where the franchise truly started the whole "everybody & their brother has a gundam" trend, you can't blame G for that.

That's actually really nice art, I'm impressed.

Considering that HG gets a slice of the Macross TV sales, selling Plus only stands to help them. Besides, with the apparent flop that "robotech remastered" has been, and the fact that they've been trying to make a new robotech show for 4 years now, HG may finally realize just how dry the robotech cow is.

Here's some wild speculation. Maybe with Manga in theier current state of turmoil have been bought by HG! Think about it, barely any new releases, living off their back catalog...

It's far more likely that maybe, just maybe, someone at HG has wised up and seen that trying to horde the Macross license will only end up burning them in the end, like so many hemroids. Someone buys Macross Plus, they'll want to know more about it, and will seek out Macross (and probably accidentally robotech). It only stands to boost HG sales. At the same time, they're supposedly working on a robotech sequel (it's been what, 4 years now?) which likely nothing (good) will come of, and there they are again trying to sponge off Macross. It just makes sense. Now if Bandai would just license Macross Zero, the floodgates would open.

I really hope it's something dirty. Jeez, she's 16 years old.... Too old for Keith. 16 is plenty old, and firm, and soft!

Oh come on, even in that stupid top, Tomo Sakurai was still hot!

-Planet Dance (possibly Humming Bird's lead singer along with Basara's Seiyuu) Mind you hair styles are different, but about equal in length. I have no idea when either concert was, and the first concert is almost entirely difficult to get positive id face shot without the manga in the way.

Here, you tell me, as I don't have any photo's of humming bird, but here are some screen caps from the concerts. -Holy Lonely Light (definately Humming Bird)

Not sure what the episode distribution is, but probably early on for the Holy Lonely Light concert (just hummingbird), and the later one with the seiyuu singing (planet dance) was probably on one of the last tapes. In both instances, Humming Bird are still there playing.

Don't like the lyrics in the english version but you like the singing......(psst, there's a Japanese version) !

Though I'm still first & foremost a Macross fan, Gundam has really grown on me the past couple years. Macross however should "never" be done in the massively crouded AU franchise style of Gundam, Macross should stick to being about 1 cohesive timeline. As for MS's, it's all about the Nu Gundam!

NEKKI BASARA --- Basara is the lead vocalist and guitarist of Fire Bomber as well as a damn good pilot. He expresses himself through music and want others to understand the " meaning" in music.

Why the hell would you want an english version of voices? The english versoin makes absolutely no sense. Just how would Myung know the events of the OVA 7 years earlier when she was in high school? Hell, the lyrics don't even make sense with the title any longer in that verison.

Nope, HG would only license U.S. rights to AnimEigo.

Be nice, we owe Gundam for inspiring Kawamori to make Macross.

Now where's this cranky nonsense coming from? And the only reason I listened to the commentary on the heavy metal dvd was because i made the mistake of renting it, and figured it had to suck less with the commentary....still undecided.

The only real annoyance on the FX release is the removal of the first couple seconds with the toho pictures logo, it just jumps into the black screen with Britai & Exedor.