I just managed to finish Macross Zero Ep 5. Like most of you, I wished they did a better to bridge Ep 4 and Ep 5. It just doesn't make any sense, in Episode 4, we were left with a cliff hanger of the anti-un bombing the jungles. And Sara and Shin was no where near Aries and Roy. All of a sudden in Ep 5, Roy and Shin were resuced by the UN forces but Sara and Aries were captured ! What gives ? Wish they did a better job with the bridging of the episodes !
On the hand, the dog fighting scenes were superb, I really like the battle scenes of Shin/Nora and DD/Roy. However I find a bit far fetch that Shin's battle skills have improved significantly after getting trashed by Nora so many times. But the fact he is on a mission to rescue Sara has increased his battle potential ?