Ghostbear0

Someone is jel-ly.

Like all WMDs, usage requires an executive order. And from previous NUNS comments, it sounds like that authorization came from someone much higher-up the food chain than a regional commanding officer.

Speculation time!

I think NUNS knew about the PC ruins on Windermere. Not wanting a repeat of the Birdman incident, they knew nukes won't hurt the thing so they brought in the MDE in case they lost control (In case of Protoculture emergency, break glass). A Mayan priestess share a similar function that a Wind Singer does. Two different cultures that grew up completely unaware of each other, who both have a being that share a similar function. It doesn't matter what you call them, shaman, priest, Wind Singer, idol. And it can't be a coincidence that 2 different species have this "idol". They all can interact with those Protoculture artifacts.

Wright could have been coerced into dropping the MDE. The Windermerans found out that NUNS had a WMD during their revolution and decided to pull that string. Without a trump card, Windermere has nothing in their revolution.

Macross physics are far enough outside the bounds of reality that it's less visually interesting is the far greater concern. Hyate's breakdancing and Mirage's catch from episodes 1&2 are still some of the most interesting mecha action in the series. The asteroid fight being the other dealt neat one.

The pace of this show is weird. It feels like it's dragging and rushing at the same time. If that makes any sense.

Up to now it was always portrayed as a good thing. This time it looked pretty ominous compared to 7 and the other times Hayate received it.

Mirage is totally ready for the Immelman.

Not really the shelves and stuff faded out but the people didn't and/or were highlighted. So an increase in interpersonal connections? That or she accidentally sent him super mode in the middle of Halmark instead of a pitched battle. Also everyone seems to be forgetting that Hyate has active fold receptors the necklace is an antenna that helps not causes his connection.

That we know of, but anything is possible with Macross.

To add to my earlier point, I am expecting Mirage to join Walkurie at some point. The foreshadowing regarding Hayate "finding" his bliss with flying before knowing his father was a pilot and the implication that Mirage didn't have that option herself was apparent to me.

I would bet that this is the beginning of the set up for Mirage to find she loves singing more than flying and that Lady M is indeed Mylene who will encourage that in her at some point.

Perhaps the impetus to have Mirage join Walkurie is for Freyja to sacrifice herself or be captured. However, that would reduce Delta to even less of a contingent so replacement pilots will be needed soon or have Mirage sing from her cockpit.

The scene among the Knights highlighted to me a growing crack in their resolve to "take over the galaxy". The region is one thing, but the whole galaxy is quite another for a race who only live to about 30 years. Who would want to spend their entire lives fighting wars of conquest?

Plenty of people would love to spend their entire lives in a war of conquest..... in their late teens to early twenties..... before they tried it. So the twins who only know winning and are young and imortal are hyped, Herman and Cassim are old with a life of war behind them want no part of it.

I imagine most of the manufacturing systems from her days as a colony ship are intact. The island was probably one of if not the major manufacturing centers of Ragna. Remember it was still a functional city it's just that the power demands of a city are miniscule next to the demands of propulsion or life support or gravity or the fold drive. Then they red lines all those systems at once after no more than idleing them for 30 years. Island 1 is still a functional island class. They just found 30 years of gremlins in a situation that would have stressed them coming strait from the shipyard. Mind a scene or two with maintenance guys talking about getting her back to whatever percent and their progress towards making her indepent of the Elision again would be nice.

Though the ep had a very bittersweet tone to it. The shopping scene highlighted that Hayate doesn't really know much about love or even infatuation. The snow scene did a great job of showing how is affection was growing in a very natural way. Mirage still does an admirable job as best wingman by trying to help Hayate find a gift and in a way sort out his feelings toward Freya. All the while suffering the fact Hayate doesn't understand all the clues she's been throwing at him.

I will say I was looking forward to some arcade duel action in the mall but i suppose that was my Hayate x Mirage ship leaking out.

Back on the bittersweet theme. This is the normal halfway point in a Winderemerian's life. I supposed normally they'd be married and maybe have at least one kid on the way. Hell if we think about it, Freya said she avoided her birthdays cause the mayor would always tell her to get married. That implies at least 2 b days, so it might not be uncommon for them to get married earlier than 12. Some weird decision making by the PC if they really did gene craft the Winderemians life to be shorter but not also give them a faster maturity cycle.

Back on Windermere nothing worth noting happens as normal.

Arad NOT doing the right thing, he really should have told Hayate the full truth. Maybe not at the b day cause it's probably something awful but they've had plenty of time to have a one on one talk where Arad could provide context with some tact about how Wright was a good guy but made one horrible decision.

Overall on the positive side. I will say Delta has handled the triangle the most organically of all modern macrosses.

Delta has the biggist arena and largest cast yet but everything seems to be decided by the same 20 people and 11 VF's. Where are the bloody Vared forces? They do their initial So as out then disappear. Is Windermere so tight on manpower they can't wrangle their zombie hord?

I feel like I should take a drink every time they say "wind". Okay I get it, you like wind.

So you feel like comitting suicide by alcohol poisoning?! Don't do it man!!!

Next episode is a birthday... I hope all of our characters have a Happy Birthday

With any luck it will be Herman celebrating the ripe old 34 with his grandbaby.

What happens to Heinz voice when puberty starts. Male voice usually starts to change when they get older. Is that why they need to get things accomplished asap. They need a young boy's voice as they can't trust a girl/women to sing the song for the Var effect.

Why would his voice changing have any effect?

Interesting theory.

The VF-22 and Hayate's father is red herring. We saw a crashed Sv-154 of Keith with Roid helping him.

What if the footage was doctored instead of a VF-22 it was really a Sv-154 that launched an MDE at the NUNS base? Carlisle was collateral damage. The reason why the rescued guy hates Hayate's dad?

Raito Immelman could've stopped if he shot down Keith. As seen in the prequel manga Windermere isn't above using child soldiers. Raito has an affection for kids. He probably gave that player to Freyja. He couldn't shoot down Keith thus Carlisle went boom.

Keith has a Guld like memory suppression and starts blaming NUNS for it when the truth was it was him who did it.

I like it. I doubt it, but I like it.

Anyone else getting tired of seeing the NUNS getting their crap kicked in at this point?

Yes.

Not really. When you consider that the various macross class are super dreadnaughts and super carrier rolled into one the ratio of lesser ships isn't that nuts. Though where all the SDFN and Battle Classes whose fleets have setaled have run off to is an interesting question. Maybe Spacy has fast reaction forces with multiple macross class to deal with large threats like rogue zentrati fleets. Mind there wouldn't have been enough spare during 7 but if they exist they darn shure should have shown up in Frontier. Or maybe I just want Spacy to function like well a functional military.

That makes her an..... odd design for chaos to field. She seems to be a gunboat with minimal fighter support of her own. That's a great thing in most NUN's fleets since most of their ships lean heavily towards the carrier side, but what do a bunch of merks spread over several planets need with a capital ship Hunter?

But we've already got a Mr. Johnson (well if he were to get demoted from captain).

Decent low action ep. I feel this ep had good moments to help fill out Chuck's character slightly. He's hasn't got much development other than we know he's been to war and doesn't like killing people.

So the rear docking was due to the normal method being damaged. Still makes me wonder if the Elysion was the Island's original macross ship just because the scale and possible front docking orientation looks to be off in a traditional sense.

We don't get any clarity on what damaged the Island's fold drives... I guess we'll chock it up to battle damage but it really seems like those should have been much better maintained.

NUNS... doesn't seem as sinister to me. Just more of they recognized that the Windemere song might have been a huge threat, tried to take steps to deal with it 7 years ago and failed. Their calmness comes from having a fold jamming technology that would help them in the future.

Fixing plug scenes were fine I actually like how Hayate was extremely job focused.

The performance... the song was VERY lacking to me. Maybe it was the overuse of English, but it felt hollow mostly. That being said, I think Kaname had the best part in the performance.

But the big goose in the room, and I'm super surprised no one has pointed this out, is that Lady M got a contract FROM A MINING COMPANY to free the whole cluster.

W.T.F.

Unless they're mining fold quartz there no way a mining company could affordably commission a mercenary group to free dozens of planets, which the mining company might not have any presence on I might add. Hell I know this is just for story fluff but it sets it's a very dangerous precedence of a private corp "freeing" planets from local authorities. The commission would have made a HELL of a lot more sense coming from NUNS.

We joke the NUNS officers are in conspiracy but a CEO of a PMC conveniently finding a sponsor to take over planets is HELLA fishy.

Hell this could set up a conflict between NUNS operations and the interests of the mining company!

Mining companies plural. So multiple Galaxy spanning Corps. They can afford it. But yeah that set my shadowrun senses tingling to..... Hears hopeing.

So do we know that the 800m length on the Elision referee to storm attack mode? Because if it say refers to its cruiser mode length without the Aether and Hemera then she is the size of a NMBC or larger which brings the Island more in line with know vessels of the class.