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Maybe so, but I don't think there is any denying of the proto-Asuka! Other then that some common themes (but which show up in all of Anno's work), the concept of "service". There's more, but not anymore then you'd expect from any two works in the same genre from the same director and screenwriter. But there is no denying Proto-Asuka in all her glory, who begat Asuka, by playing her mother in Eva! No seriously every Gainax offical crossover I've ever seen has pit Jung against Asuka, I'm sure that at least is intentional.

Sorry, just posting the correction here for all to see who might be interested. Sadly tangental conversation is a part of life, wether the internet gods like it or not. But yes back to the Bubblegum Crisis, anime haircolors or natural for the actresses which would you prefer?

http://www.nitrorcx.com/smnsoef.html today I saw these for 150 Canadian Dollars each... they would make epic joe tanks no?

you mean Fried Green Tomatoes! Based on the book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (movie is a basterdization of the book, even if the screenplay was written by the author of the book.. the Ruth/Idgie Lesbian thing for example is way more realistically handled in the book, and skirted around in the movie).

Actually... there were themes that carry over from Gunbuster to Eva, and people do generally view Jung as the "Proto-Asuka", interesting fact Jung's Seiyuu voices Asuka's mother, I think that was intentional. But that and a view general themes, are all that they share in common.

Quote from a reply he made to a comment "And as for the opening this is the version from the episode Booby Trap I had, which I pulled from VHS. " umm he lies? That's the opening for the protoculture collection DVD huh! or he ripped it off TV. (they used that opening on Space not sure about toonami, I only ever saw the toonami short opening).

But it's got a Mother's love for her son... that's sweet too.

Is there anything wrong with liking both? Actually, it might be due to the fact that there's a lot of girls who will let themselves get dragged to action movies just for the eye-candy of the male star. I know my Mom only wanted to see Crystal Skull because she thinks Harrison Ford is cute etc. Another good example is the convo in Densha Otoko where Hermes' friend as asking about Densha. "Oh, he's like Tom Cruise, the last Samurai" "Actually, he's Japanese" "ah Watanabe Ken then?" "he's not totally unlike him" "oh so nothing alike then" do we believe this girl went to see Last Samurai for for any other reason then hot guys? So you loose on a potential market segment, guys will come for the action regaurdless of if there is bobbies or not. Some girls will too, but the straight girls out there who do not like explosions will want something else to entertain them while they are on dates with their boyfriends who do like explosions. (the preceding post is a generalization, there are always exceptions but the marketing companies go for the generalizations).

Yes, as I said I got it for my Brother for his Birthday (he really likes Harlock).

I liked the 2040 designs, but found BGC more fun to watch. *shrugs* Yeah, though, concievably it could be done as a cash-in It'd be interesting to see Tat Pro and HG pool resources to get a Tokusatsu produced and then do some Disney/Saban style editing to make an english Robotech version. I somehow doubt anything like that will happen.

I hope it has a 2040 aesthetic with Original BGC pacing.

Looses some of the punch since Damon didn't actualy ge the role, but still funny!

this is pretty old, but is it good enough for you? http://shatneriskirk.ytmnd.com/

I don't think this is quite fair, there are a number of good films that have come out in the past 15 years from Japan, to name a few Love Letter (the 95) movie, Shall We Dansu? (96), Shimotsuma Monogatari (2004)... I would say that the Death Note movies were pretty good for what they were, I could name many more enjoyable films. Just because something "looks like it's TV" or has a low budget dosn't mean it's bad. Sure Hollywood blows away the competion (Titanic and ET being two of the highest grossing movies in Japanese box office history after a pair of Miyazaki films), but there have been quite a few good emotional dramas and art films within the last 15 years. This isn't so called "Japanophilia" talking, I watch films from other countries too, and I admit there is a lot of rubbish in Japan, but there are gems there too if you care to look for them. Not so sure about that, I'd say at least the original Gojira was a masterpeice and Gojira Final Wars, was not a bad a movie either. Godzilla final Wars had the balls at least to try and tell a story in which the the big G was only a minor element... yeah it was mostly a (actually high budget for Japan about 10 Mill) action flick, with martial arts and mutants and crap. But it had a decent story for that kind of film and was just a ton of fun. So I think there can be good things done with Giant monsters if you try.

oh god, I blocked most of that movie out... I remember them raiding fort knox and wondering why they didn't see the red line marking the state border when they crossed over. How big were the aliens in it again? I thought they were taller then humans but not Zentraedi sized.

Well Battlefield Earth had a horrible director, terrible music. A fraudelently over-stated budget, and of course it's a thinly veiled propaganda movie for Scientology. Why are we comparing it to Robotech?

Well essentially my understanding is that it is and is not a reboot at the same time, because we have characters who are from the next gen era (this romulan and Ambassador Spock) travelling back in time and mucking with things. Their stories are uneffected by the mucking because they traveled back in time, but everything else is thrown into a rebooted timeline. We have Romulans fighting the Federation less then 100 years before Kirk becoming Captain of the Enterprise? = Divergent timeline If they actually see a Romulan's face = Divergent timeline So yes it's a reboot in that sense, why would they deny it... it opens the stage for an all new TOS era series if they want, but from what I've read in interviews and stuff they are taking care to pay attention to the continuity for things that matter and even incorporated things from some of the books like Spock's World.

Actually depends on which verison of the Robotech Canon, they do talk in the Macross Saga about potentially having a comon ancestry... and in Macek's original plan for Robotech 3 the SDF-3 would have traveled back in time and the survivors would have eventually become the Robotech Masters.

Yes and there are differences between the Pike Enterpise in both hull and interior to the Kirk Enterprise, and difference between the TV Enterprise and the movie era enterprise. So tacking on one more refit to the ship dosn't really bother me. (then again purely aesthetic changes in other franchises don't bother me either like the mecha redesign between Sakura Taisen and the remake Sakura Taisen Atsuki Chishio Ni (which made the second generation mecha, almost look like the 7th (or 9th depending if you count the two anime-only generations). Anyway, using time-travel like I said it can be a sequal and reboot at the same time, from future-Spock's and the Romulan's perspective it's a sequal, cause he still lived out his original life, but from the perspective of the TOS cast, it's a splinter timeline/reboot. In a way, again it's much like say Doctor Who, where the history of the Dalek's in particular acticvly got re-written a few times, or Legacy of Kain, where Blood Omen 2 only occured because of a time paradox caused in Soul Reaver 2.

I dunno, seems like it is and it isn't... since it has Spock from the current universe travelling back in time it is somewhat of a sequal, that sets up a new splinter timeline. There are continuities that have a lot more twists then that with time travel (*cough* Legacy of Kain, Transfromers, Doctor Who *cough*) where the timeline gets re-written semi-regluarly. Also, Superman Returns was designed to slot in perfectly with Superman II, the whole Superman slept with Lois then erassed her memory after leading to her confusion with the kid etc. (from the lester cut not the donor cut). To me it dosn't seem like a reboot because, they actually would not let Shatner play future Kirk since he died on screen (despite Shatner's really wanting to do it, and have them validate his coming back to life novels to make it work), so they obviously care about the extended continuity, but are using a similar idea to Enterprise's Time Cold War, to circumnavigate some of the baggage. And lastly, why should the Enterprise look exactly like it does in TOS? From the pilot/Spock Court-martial episode we know the ship underwent at least one major refit before Kirk became the Captain, So the look is justified I think.

Almost everything, there are some very good fanfilms out there like Troops, and IMPS.

okay, watched the trailer... I'm impressed by how un-star trek it is. Even though I LOST faith in JJ Abrams after the fourth or so season of Alias.

downloaded a couple episodes of the show... it was weird.

Actually Lucas did put the original theatrical versions of the movies (even sans "episode IV" title on the first one) as extras on a more recent DVD set so they are available. On the other hand, is there a an undedited DVD version of TOS? or just the version with the redone CG special effects and crap? I don't care much one way or another. And I guess people like living universes... *shrugs*

seems to me that's the article writers interpretation of the show, not a statement about the movie's script.