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  1. JB0
    I think we're all still speculating on if the father is THAT Focker or not. That said, if the father is Roy, and the mother is not Claudia, it doesn't matter who his mom is because we never met the girl.
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    Not sure what you guys are on about. Her ribbons are fine. Only thing off about her is the size of those bunny ears.
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    Pokemutants: Gotta catch 'em all.
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    Oh, geez, the Tamaki merch train is STILL running?
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    This IS the (legally-distinct descendant of a) company that was known for licensing shows they had no intention of releasing, just to keep other companies from getting them. Sad to see the tradition survives. Like I said: You guys deserve better than this.
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    As I like to say... Terminator 2 has plot holes big enough to drive a truck through, but no one cares because they DO drive that truck through. And then the truck blows up. And then they do it again a half-hour later.
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    That would be the best Megatron if they hadn't forgotten the scope and shoulder stock.
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    I still love how the Walkure Romanze stuff looks. Given funds and space, I would probably buy everything.
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    Likely more about "old curmudgeons" versus "kids these days". Most of us are a decade or two older than the typical target audience for entertainment productions on either side of the ocean. Compounding the problem, I believe most of us are here because we liked the original Macross, which was an unusual production even for the era.
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    You ain't lyin'.
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    That's actually something that makes sense even though it seems not to. The skirt rockets are designed for lift and rapid acceleration in a high-G environment, which generates a design profile pretty much directly opposed to what you would want in an EVA pack(primary thrust vector being down the legs instead of out from the back, and MUCH higher impulse).
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    Most likely, yeah. But if they can measure song energy on a per-member basis, which we know they can, they should be able to measure the difference between protective gear and idol costumes. Of course, a resonance effect with Mikumo would blow all their measurements out of the water and still generate a false positive. Honestly, here in the real world I think it is just a a mid-series retcon, and Reina's spacesuit is the fly in their ointment. I hate to say it. I really don't like calling it out, but I'm fairly sure that's what happened. Initially they were supposed to be using holograms over proper light armor, but then they decided to fanservice it up and give them flesh-colored skinsuit armor instead. But they can't go back and handwave the space suit away so they're gonna hope we forgot or come up with a good explanation on our own(that they can steal later).
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    And we'd watch it and love it, then disavow it twenty years later when we learned those awesome fights were from a different show.
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    Apparently, there was a crossover audio drama with Iczer-1 and Dangaioh. Obviously, any modern stories should be in the crossover universe to maximize the bangs/bucks ratio.
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    Honestly, it seems like Walkure is doing it to maximize their effectiveness. They basically said the point where they stopped wearing the body armor and started wearing Makina's handmade idol costumes coincided with a sharp spike in their effectiveness, so apparently they couldn't get in the right frame of mind or couldn't nail the dance moves right in the relatively bulky protective suit, and it was to the detriment of their song energy output. While the show's had a lot of logical flaws, in this specific case, it makes sense to me. That said, they still haven't really dealt with Reina's disappearing spacesuit in the first episode. It seems they'd like us to believe the holographic outfits were simply hiding it(like the Windemere pilots and their helmets), but that doesn't seem to line up with the skinsuit armor or the upskirt rockets. ... I suppose it is possible Walkure has a custom tear-away space suit, but that seems like an exceptionally poor idea.
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    Dangit, I was just about to say that! Oh well. Part man. Part machine. All sith.
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    I think it is in consideration of the prosthetic runes the "infiltration" team was wearing.
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    "The uploader has not made this video available in your country."
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    So... them Draken guns blew some pretty big holes in the ground. Good illustration of the "Valk guns ain't just throwin' lead" issue.
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    Happy birthday, Star Trek!
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    Incidentally, Iczer-1 made it into Super Robot Wars a few years back. Still among the very few characters in this game series that head into a giant robot fight without boarding their own giant robot first. Which is not to say that Iczer Robo was not present, just that she doesn't NEED it. (The game also included a chiptune version of the Iczer-1 opening)
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    You ain't lyin' about that soundtrack. It is fabulous.
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    Geez, this episode is a dog. Not as bad as the "summary of the franchise talking head festival", but... ugh. Yes, I just watched it. I remember when I was excited because a new episode was coming. Now? I'mma say the whole show died when Messer did, it just hasn't realized it yet.
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    Actually, I think it's just saying that a drama about Space War 1 has been produced, not that the real world's SDF Macross is such a drama. It would not be the first such production in-universe. Mylene and Basara starred in "The Lynn Minmay Story", which was a wildly inaccurate piece of recruitment propaganda masquerading as a documentary. I believe Frontier's first opening was supposed to exist in-universe as the opening to an unnamed drama series about Space War 1. This drama was clearly not SDF Macross, simply because SDF doesn't use Triangler as an opening. And of course, there's always the elephant in the room known as DYRL. And just to confuse things further, there have been debates about whether our DYRL and Macross's DYRL are actually the same movie. The possibility exists that their DYRL is significantly different than our's. That said, Kawamori's stated several times over the years that what we're seeing isn't the "real" version of events. We always get a dramatization, because it is more entertaining(and frees everyone involved from having to adhere perfectly to a strict continuity).
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    Yeah, there are DEFINITELY some wrinkles in the timeline there. I still assume they are tracking fashion in some way. The SDF era was big on sci-fi space cars, presumably because the ASS-1 had rekindled an interest in space and got people watching a lot of old sci-fi again. The "modern era" of Macross apparently sees a renewed interest in the classic four-wheeled gas guzzlers of the late 80s and early 90s. The Macross Prius is someone's reinterpretation of classic automotive design. In the same way the real-world modern VW Beetle is not a Bug, but is equally clearly inspired by one. So... alternative-history retro-futuristic motor vehicles? From an out-of-universe perspective, it is clearly just lazy production done with the CG models they have instead of creating new ones that would make more sense.
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