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  1. JB0
    Oh no, not the censored version! Give us the hardcore lesbian makeout we deserve! As Shirow intended!
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    Apparently not, since we have real fans on both sides of the debate. Unless the definition of real fan is "someone that agrees with me." False dilemma. Just because the major isn't an asian lock-in role doesn't mean only historical roles should be given to asians. This just happens to be the ONE instance where whitewashing can be justified in-setting. I'm not even saying it's right, just that it is the one place where it makes any sort of sense. And THAT would be an excellent place to make a stand on Hollywood racism, rather than a main character whose every aspect is either undefined or changeable at will. Her name is unknown, she is introduced in the original comics as "Motoko Kusanagi(obviously an alias)". She works for a future japanese government... that is based on the modern british Parliament. She begins the story in a cyborg body of unspecified make(but known to be made to higher specifications than those legally allowed CyberJapan's civilian populace). I do acknowledge the assumption of japanese manufacture for her cybernetics is fair. The era the comic was produced in was one in which Japan was known for having a large manufacturing base that produced high-quality products, making them an excellent choice for a supplier of high-quality cybernetics. But it is still an assumption, not rooted in the original source material. I would think a "real fan" would know this already, though.
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    We can but hope!
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    I thought it was the other way around, that the new Fury was a response to the movie Fury's popularity. *looks it up* It's actually both ways. Ultimate Fury was based on Jackson years before Fury appeared in a movie(because he's always been awesome), then they cast Jackson for the movies(because he's awesome), then they replaced mainline Fury with his illegitimate son that looks like Jackson so he would match the wildly-popular movie Fury. Either way, they didn't just go "You know what'd make good narrative sense? If Nick Fury's long-lost son was Samuel Jackson, because he looks so british."
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    I was cool with mister Jackson playing Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD. I think he'd actually be a good choice for a live-action Roy Focker.
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    He was probably there JUST to make sure he got Hayate's allergies. How did he know Hayate was coming, you ask? Scarfish has his ways.
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    MASK Vs Jem. My will shall be done!
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    I betcha that's why Scarfish has that big X. He got a chest beam implanted, he's just waiting for the right time to use it.
  9. JB0
    Whether it's 30 earth years or galactic standard years or whatever, it's uncommonly short relative to other races.
  10. JB0
    So Freyja likes every animated musical act... EXCEPT Sharon Apple? No taste.
  11. JB0
    They look more like cat/seal hybrids to me. Mermaids have scales.
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    Nope!
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    Well, umineko means a different animal in modern japanese, too. One we english-speakers would call a seagull. It seems that there is actually a pun intended with the creatures in Delta and a real terrestrial creature. But calling them "seagulls" would make no sense, because in english seagulls have no connection to cats. Such a pity that this pun involving aquatic life named after felines could never work in english because we just don't have that kind of linguistic assemblage...
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    Not at all.
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    It was epic. Which just made the SDF Global that much more disappointing. Impossible to live up to the hype, but the truth was just so... mundane.
  16. JB0
    This man speaks the truth, Scarfish is the best character, and this is my favorite thread right now.
  17. JB0
    Pretty much, yeah. Everything old enough is new again. Star Trek: Next Generation forced the same style. It was an ironclad rule for several seasons that no one be written as descended from the original cast, no one written as having connections to the original cast, and no script could so much as namedrop the original cast after McCoy's handoff in the pilot. They didn't bend that rule for several years, and when they did it had already served it's purpose. The crew of the 1701-D wound up being stars in their own right, not defined by the shadows of their predecessors. It's a good rule to have if you don't want the entire franchise to be about a handful of ever-older characters. It also has the side effect of making any callback to the predecessors a major event, precisely because they're so infrequent. Spock and Scotty showing up in Next Gen were huge deals, as was that DS9 tribble episode. And I think most of us remember how crazy things were in here when Frontier ended an episode with what appeared to be the SDF Macross while playing the DYRL song. (For those that don't remember: It was SUPER crazy.)
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    Active gravity control does seem the most plausible solution.
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    And will they have real-world guns or are people gonna be packin' Seburos? Because Shirow draws some cool guns.
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    That's our Basara! (The new sitcom premiering fall 2067 on Galaxy Network 7. Don't miss it!)
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    I've long wondered how fast people "grow up" in post-war Macross. Exterminating the vast majority of humans should have significant and far-reaching effects on long-held cultural standards for both labor and family. Which is the complex way of saying that with so few folks around, people should be starting careers younger, marrying younger, and starting families younger. Of course, then you pack thousands of them into flying sardine cans and send them across the galaxy and that skews things in another direction. And then they start colonies and everyone's on a sparsely populated planet with more elbow room than anything else, and... It gets complicated fast, but I imagine that the modern society in Macross is still skewing young. Today's admiral is yesterday's high school fighter ace, after all. The people in power see nothing wrong with hiring young, because they were hired young and that's the way it's been for as long as they've been around. So to drag this kicking and screaming back to the point... it makes sense in-universe for a dadgum whippersnapper like Hayate to have much more experience than one here in the real world, because their universe has had some significant events to shake things up that ours thankfully did not.
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    The point is that this is a ridiculous place to make a stand and stoke the flames of righteous indignation. People are angry that a character who was intended by her creator to appear as a westerner, is being portrayed by a westerner, acting as though it is a deep affront to everything the franchise ever stood for, often while demonstrating a shocking ignorance of the franchise. That is the "so what". And now the defense is that it doesn't matter if the argument is wrong, we should be outraged that this one character was cast correctly because it will offset a chronic history of blatant racism. That's a pretty bad position to be holding, it ALWAYS matters if the argument is right. Now, to be clear, I am not saying Hollywood does not have a race problem. They do. They have an INSANE race problem. But the major is not an example of this problem. And in fact, there seem to be more asian roles in this film than the last DECADE of Hollywood releases, so it would seem to be part of the solution from where I'm sitting. It is certainly a far cry from Star Trek: Into Darkness casting a genetically-engineered super-indian as british(which was not just whitewashing, but blatantly and overtly racist even if one is ignorant of the two nations' shared history, and I don't know how they weren't absolutely crucified over it). And yet, there seems to be MORE anger over Ghost, because anime fans. Hisssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.
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    If she doesn't shoot the cockpit, it doesn't count!
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    Minor adjustments to gun angle vs turning into a giant robot, I think we all know which is easier. ... But I'm sure they can overcome the engineering challenges needed to make a gun change angle anyways.
  25. JB0
    Thank you. Saved me the trouble of saying it.
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