2008-10-18, 17:04 | Link #1 |
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Macross Frontier Character Discussion: Grace O'Connor
This enigmatic character was the driving force to move the plot along at a steady pace. You are a Sheryl-fan? You are a Ranka-fan? Then, you ARE a Grace-fan by default. Lovely Grace, through her gentle prodding, also inspired the roles both of these characters would come to adopt eventually to complete the grand scheme of things. I'm also certain Alto-hime would have lost the extension "hime" if he attracted Grace's attention. Of course, that leads to the terrifying image of Alto singing, "Aimo Aimo.." , to attract Grace's divine attention. *shudders* The thread's purpose is to discuss everything about Grace, and I mean.. e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g. Just one rule you will need to adhere to when posting in this thread:
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2008-10-18, 17:11 | Link #3 |
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Love the rule.
Well, I found Grace to be the most charming villain of an anime series in quite a while. Her cunning and dissimilitude were very well portrayed. I just wished for Sheryl to actually confront her (or Ranka, in regards to her), after being let go so forcefully - it could have led to more drama. But that's nitpicking and not really related to her character. Anyway, just wished we knew more about her - I mean, how did she end up like she did? Who were the voices inside her head? What was her relationship to Mao Nome? Questions, questions, questions...
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2008-10-18, 17:19 | Link #5 |
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I love that picture of her. She looks so hot, but so evil at the same time.
Grace gets kudos simply for the scale of her plan. Enslaving the minds of every humanoid in the entire galaxy and using an unstoppable alien race to crush those who refuse to submit? That's audacity for you right there. |
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As Bento mentioned there is so much we don't know about her. Possibilities are immense, I won't say what for though
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2008-10-18, 21:35 | Link #8 |
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of course she's not "dead". She already had her physical form blown up once. Makes me wonder why no one questioned how she made it out "alive" from the planet getting blown up.
But beyond that, to add to the questions, "how did she gain control of Galaxy?" That would make for a great side story. Did she use another body? Did she have the other "voices" help her? I mean she was touring with Sheryl for at least a year. Though it might be cheesy i'd love to see more of her in a future macross series. |
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2008-10-18, 23:08 | Link #10 |
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Grace is the Final Cylon.
Given the launch date of Macross Galaxy is prior to 2047 as it is the year of Macross Frontier's launch I think she was already a corporate spy of Galaxy on the 117th Research Fleet. I think she resents her work is ignored. It is an era where Dr. Chiba pioneered revolutionary fields of science. Some of which were used by other scientists such as Lawrence of Zola. The emotion index and fold wave detectors could be derived from his work. |
2008-10-21, 17:46 | Link #15 |
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For all we know, Grace could be a tool for a collective mind developed in Macross Galaxy. This collective mind rebelled, destroyed Galaxy and is still roaming around freely somewhere in space giving out orders to cyborg bodies like Grace's.
This collective mind would be a computer, a cyborg or maybe the original Grace. Think man-made copy of the Vajira queen but with the several counsciences (voices) controlling it and trying to speread it out its network. Now tell me that is not a cool background plot for the movie? |
2008-10-21, 17:51 | Link #16 |
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I wouldn't mind a bit. Although, probably we have seen the best part of Grace in the TV series - or maybe she will have an added role in the re-envisioned story of the movie... who knows?
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2008-10-22, 00:01 | Link #17 |
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Finally, a well-deserved thread for Grace.
Regarding her resurrection ability, I think the facility is found somewhere in Frontier. Follow-up operations to capture all rebels in Frontier would uncover it. Otherwise, she could still be there hiding or going about in a new body. |
2008-10-22, 00:52 | Link #18 |
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I find it also interesting that Grace has a military rank; when she confronts Brera in Episode 24, he addresses her as Taiisa, the Japanese title for an officer in paygrade O6 (either Army/Air Force/Marine Colonel or Navy Captain). Makes me curious to see how she got that rank... unless she was intelligence, or black ops?
...I just realised that Grace is the highest-ranking Macross charecter in a valk No other Macross pilot before her has gotten to O6 as a valk pilot (Roy and Ozma were O4s, Hikaru barely made it to O3, and Max only made O6 after his flying days were more or less over).
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Railgun slug: $135 The look on Grace's Face: Priceless. There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard.
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