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I suspect one of the biggest drawbacks of cloning natural born humans is how messy our genes are compared to a zent. The protoculture has had many thousands of years to hammer out the details on the zentradi genome in order to make them effective as warriors and robust for micloning and the cloning process in general.
The human survivors had to face the fact that they were outnumbered by giant, radiation resistant and vacumm sucking super soldiers who were armed to the teeth. The only reason why mankind isn't dead and gone is because the zentradi like us too much Small consolation when a race has been driven almost to extinction. Thing is, the friendly zents are just a small fraction of those who don't know about culture and would usually shoot first with planet buster weaponary On Gender: IMO, the reason why there is an all women bridge crew is from the 10 years of world war in order to form a single world government. Not enough balls to fill the iron room by the end of it. |
2008-06-11, 20:43 | Link #43 |
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Seven episodes in now of the original Macross. I love the battles more than what's in Frontier, as well as the overall situation Macross faces. There's some nice strategic depth, I love the tough choices Global frequently has to make, and the constant gambles with alien and unfamiliar technology (though I don't really understand the need to fly back to the island before using the Fold System). Ideally they'd spam the main cannon, but they keep having to improvise and there's an emphasis on the improvisions generally sucking quite a bit.
I can't tell if Minmei is really strong or really crazy. And what's up with Misa regressing to a twelve year old mentally just because she so happens to find her old crush's room? Are women just nuts or what? I also had to face fault a bit when Hikaru jumped into a horde of battlepods and Ger-walked out of it unscathed. I was hoping there wouldn't be any of that kind of bravado in the original series, and it was pretty disappointing when my hopes were dashed. |
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2008-06-11, 21:32 | Link #45 | ||
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I just find it silly how Macross's desendents are mimicing her, when it did alot of things out of harsh, unforgiving, necessity, not because it was ideal. Quote:
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2008-06-11, 22:18 | Link #46 | |
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She's both. She has extremely strong coping mechanisms for just about any situation, but she also has lots of blindspots where she just doesn't look at things the way most people would. In fact, this is explicitly explained as a device to differentiate Minmei from normal girls. It's not really a case of "regressing". Misa had know for several years that Riber was probably dead. She was finally given a chance to find out the truth of the matter, and the message from the Mars Base gave her the false hope that he might still be alive. Finding out the truth, and confirming that he'd been long dead put Misa into a moment of weakness, and she just had trouble coping at that very moment.
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2008-06-11, 23:05 | Link #50 | |
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Oddly enough, the Mars episode is one of my favourites because it allowed everyone to see a completely different side to one of the show's most driven and apparently stable characters. It's also the first time Hikaru had seen the one person he's had a difficult and antagonistic relationship with as a vulnerable human being. Before that Misa was all business, a machine tasked with ordering people to die. By the next episode she had sobered up and soldiered on, till the next dramatic explosion Moving on, what I liked about the development in Misa and Hikaru's relationship? How Hikaru keeps getting suprised by the girl because the longer he spends time with her, the more he realises that she has many admirable qualities and can be rather playful. There's something to be said of a person capable of outthinking a millenias old giant alien, recover quickly from the shock of near death and then ordering the available male for a kiss [and make it good ]. Without the wierd hair, it becomes easier to acknowledge that all that intelligence, courage and will is bundled together in one attractive package. On Misa's side, she sees him grow up and become increasingly dependable. It's hard not to like someone willing to take a hit for them and consistently go into fire each time she's in trouble. One day both wake up with the realisation that they make a pretty good team. It's not the whirlwind romance that Max/Miriya had but something that took a lot of work to get there. |
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2008-06-11, 23:17 | Link #51 | |
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Proud military heritage, a long career ahead of her, all too easily it seems she gave up on all of it for what is to me at least a most shallow reason. |
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2008-06-11, 23:50 | Link #54 | |
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Misa has uncompromisingly high standards, a cold relationship to her father, rigid adherence to authority and is a stickler for responsibility and duty. Throw in the continuous need to prove herself and you have the making of a death wish. In short, she somewhat starved of love with few close friends and confidants. Nuts, even her first kiss had no love behind it. You've just pointed out why I found looking at the girl so painful in the beginning. She's a walking head with so many emotional ties damaged or missing that there were times I've wondered how she keeps functioning. Amazingly enough, these are the very attributes that allow her to work out how the Zentradi mindset operates and from there figure out how to save her own life and the human race. If Misa was born a Meltandi she would have made a very effective fleet commander, until some space rogue came along and showed her 'culture' |
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2008-06-12, 00:03 | Link #55 | |
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2008-06-12, 00:28 | Link #56 | |
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Speaking of which, she also recovers very quickly from hurt, shock or indigination. Her fastboot mode is pretty effective. It's good enough to save Hikaru's life later after receiving a pretty big setback to achieving her mission objectives. Chalk that up to a personal favourite performance by her VA. Didn't think it was possible to voice a cold and emotionless greeting to one's own father. 25 years on I can still remember that episode. |
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2008-06-12, 00:31 | Link #57 | ||
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Because she is definately more then "just the head bridge bunny" Quote:
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