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    I... probably should've known that one. It sounds really familiar to me. ... I wanna live in HG Wells, Mars.
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    So are errors in official translations, sadly. Seen way too many of those done by someone who doesn't care, or has someone above determined to crap the work up.
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    I've seen two separate fansubs of the episode. One is from people who appeared quite familiar with the franchise, but were having a lot of fun with their subs. The other is from people who were trying to be more "straight", but honestly I was pretty sure they had no familiarity with Macross whatsoever. Just as a side note. I found neither translation to be what I would consider trustworthy.
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    Okay, that makes sense. ... Is Mars inhabited in the "present-day" Macross universe? Or did they decide finding other habitable planets made terraforming too much of a pain?
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    It's an express train to comedy, at least for me. (What can I say? Some people just want to watch the world burn.) City 7 was not under-defended. They were faced with an exceptional fighting force. And generally speaking, you DO assign the bulk of your defenses to keeping the enemy OUT of civilian population centers. I don't see you cursing the crew of the SDF-1 Macross for having inadequate defenses to repel Kamjin and Millia's incursions into the city. The VF-27 and VF-171 aren't the same tech level. And the Drakens were clearly superior to the -171s. Who was recalled from the front lines? The VF-31s were a limited special force, and they were engaged with a force that had attacked Walkure, who they were charged with defending. The -171s were not redeployed. Again, you're wrong. It's more the case that if you have a motorboat, why would you take a canoe? They had a Valk that was optimized for aquatic combat, so why use one that wasn't? Yes, if you have a surprise attack, you're more likely to hit someone. That doesn't mean we need transforming tanks, or in any way affect the strengths and weaknesses of the missile cloud.
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    My impression with the attack on the Mars base staff was that they believed them to be an attack force, and the quiet reconnaissance label they'd assigned to the base was just a cover story. Which, to be fair, makes sense. The most likely target for reconnaissance was on Earth, and if you wanted to assemble a large strike force without intervention from the Anti-UN, you'd do it somewhere they couldn't reach... like Mars. I'm not entirely sure what purpose the martian outpost was actually supposed to serve.
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    It's probably also notable that the SDF Macross wasn't carrying it's intended armament. If I recall, much of it's defensive weaponry was supposed to come from the ARMDs that it failed to dock with in the first episode, so the surplus of destroids were pressed into service as, effectively, MAKESHIFT defensive weaponry. That said, the ship was plenty big enough to support them. Everyone wants the Aliens Power Loader.
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    After the crossover comic, how could it not be?
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    They could make Sven's death trip to the hospital planet have some meaning. Instead of getting wailed on and dropped, he could get captured and turned into a robeast. ... Oooh, he could get brainwashed and replace Yurak partway through. That'd add some melodrama, and a great recurring plot thread, while being completely in character for the franchise.
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    I hope it isn't. I don't want to wait fifty-one years and two months.
  11. JB0
    OMG SPOILERS! (As if anyone on Earth didn't see that one coming)
  12. JB0
    Dictionaries are terrible things, dedicated to sucking the life out of a word and misleading people in proper usage.
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    As I recall, AKB0048 also had music being illegal. And I didn't watch past the first episode because it was so godawful terrible, mechs or no mechs. What can I say, I just had no interest in watching Revolution X: The Animated Series.
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    The good ol' sci-fi spacesuit, clinging to every curve since time immemorial.
  15. JB0
    Sheeez... we ownin' the shelves this year.
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    Fitting for the man who KILLED PRIME! NEVER FORGIVE, NEVER FORGET!
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    Yeah, basically it was a problem with inbreeding, not with cloning PER SE. Since the zentradi, prior to "culturization" weren't breeding, there were no problems with inbreeding.
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    It is the best approach!
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    Well, we also know from Macross 7 that at least one Protoculture facility was programmed to look for zentradi hybrids and grant access to the facilities only in the presence of one. Which means that at least one group of protoculture desired to see a reunification between the PC and their warriors. One would assume they carried a similar attitude towards other engineered races, since Mylene's status as a zentradi-human hybrid instead of a zentradi-PC hybrid was not an issue. So not everyone viewed them as simple breeding stock.
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    Robotech: The Abridgd Series! Coming to a theater near you for an extremely brief time in 20XX.
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    I, on the other hand, kinda prefer the stupidly young nature of the heroes in SDF, because when you stop and look at it, it emphasizes how screwed-up their situation is.
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    Remember, time flows slower* in a fold than normal space, and they've spent a lot of time in fold space over the years. Hours become days, weeks become months, and everyone winds up with a calendar age that's much larger than the time they've actually experienced. Basically, they're both quite a bit younger than their dates of birth would suggest. *Even after Frontier's big ugly retcon... it doesn't do much for Max and Millia, who have lived most of their lives in a world without fold quartz, dealing with fold faults and the associated desyncs. They have not lived a life with 1:1 fold-time:real-time** ratios. **And Einstein is rolling in his grave at the proposition that a universal standard rate of time exists. But much of science-fiction sets him spinning, so meh.
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    In this thread we learn that pseudo-Grig can't count.
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    More than you would expect, given I am often driving after midnight down the freeway and some dumb kids with more money than sense have pimped their cars and race them down said freeway, using the shoulder as a passing lane. Just sayin'... you need a helluva suspension to isolate the driver from that many jolts.
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    I'd like to take a moment to point out that EVEN IF an infantry attack is viable, the Octos doesn't land enough of them to be useful. Six men might be useful for an operation involving stealth and finesse, but not a major landing operation. And if stealth is a concern you don't land in a thirty-foot robot with a pepperbox missile launcher. That's pretty much the exact opposite of stealthy. (Seriously, why DOES the Octos have a six-passenger compartment? It makes less than no sense.) Ya know, thinking about it... riding a Tomahawk sprinting at 180 km/h has to be an insanely rough ride. I'm starting to appreciate the wheels on the Cheyennes more.
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