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2011-04-20, 15:14 | Link #1222 |
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For Ranka cooking?
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Of course, she storms out before we know how well she cooks. Tbh, I saw the "bitter cookies" as a metaphor in context to make us feel sorry for Ranka, like Sheryl cutting her finger and looking helplessly moe. I doubt either girl is a professional chef, though, but they should be able to cook. But, anyway, this argument is beyond silly. Whoever girl ends up being Hime's Prince, my money is that Alto's going to be the one in the kitchen. After the Vajra crisis is over, Ranka's and Sheryl's superstar agendas are busier than his regular days filled with paperplane folding and flying in the sky.
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^^^ Alto never shows that he is against the idea of cooking either.
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2011-04-20, 15:24 | Link #1225 | |
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What forum are you talking about? It feels like I'm missing something
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I can't picture Ranka or Sheryl giving up their careers to fit a housewife role (Let's not even touch Sheryl who is obvious. Ranka wanted Alto to LISTEN TO HER SONG. Not to eat her food).
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2011-04-20, 15:26 | Link #1226 | |
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For example. Kags think the train ride was really romantic. I don't. That's something we can discuss. This cooking debate or inventing facts isn't worth discussing. I'm very fine with anyone liking any couple, but if you want to bring it up to discuss at least have a firm grasp on the canon of the show. It's very hard to have a rational discussion with anyone if some on the other side seem to have watched a special version not available to normal folks. |
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2011-04-20, 17:47 | Link #1233 |
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@wisteria: Oh well, I usually kind of find it really amusing whenever I venture into this thread with all the debating you guys never used to do. I generally find myself laughing my head off. So, though you say LoveMeKags' facts are very shipper goggled, I always find it interesting to see through someone else's shipper goggled vision (especially when it's someone with a different opinion to mine)
@ShinyBunny: Oh, I agree with you on the train ride, I didn't really get a romantic vibe off it. While I do see LoveMeKags' point on him chasing after Ranka while explaining stuff, (that did sort of have a 'cheater trying to explain' vibe off it) the train didn't strike to same way. In my opinion, they were two close friends especially from Alto's position. While there are some hints of uneasiness on Ranka's side, so it was supposed to be a romantic scene, it was pretty one-sided on Ranka's side in my view. *shrugs* |
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2011-04-20, 20:10 | Link #1239 |
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With those reactions, I think it'll best for my sanity if I stayed away. I'm not feeling masochistic enough tonight. Besides, it makes me sad when people get angry or sour over something so insignificant as imaginary couples.
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All I can say after having read all this is one, I can't turn my back for a second and all this chaos breaks loose?! And two, the arguments LoveMeKags puts forth is pretty much in the spirit of other pro-Alto/Ranka arguments I've seen elsewhere.
Basically, they tend to believe that because Alto was figuring out his gender identity, he needed a hyper-masculine life with a hyper-feminised version of Ranka; Ranka is shorter, more petite, soft spoken, unlikely to say no and so on, and in their second breath they call Sheryl a slut or whore. The thing is, both girls are career oriented (though I could argue that Ranka might have started too soon; if Alto's paper plane hadn't been there, things could have gone very differently), and their time will be fully booked and with having not just saved Frontier, but Macross City and the other Macross fleets, they are now truly intergalactic songstresses of salvation, there's touring and everything else to consider. If Alto wants a relationship with either of them, there'll be some massive compromises, because both will be busy. Just because Ranka is shy around Alto when she does not know his feelings, doesn't mean that she'll become a meek housewife; just watch how she behaves with Ozma, Michael, Elmo and Bobby, that's how she behaves around the ones she likes and is comfortable with, her timidness around Alto is because she wants to make a good impression, and if they got together, and she grew secure with their relationship, she would likely to open up a lot more. With Sheryl we have the opposite; the less she knows you, the harsher she is. Any celebrity knows that weaknesses multiply with fame, and remember how she was all angry with Alto seeing her boobs and later said that he could fantasise about them? Yes, it was teasing, but it was light teasing after she learned that Alto is awkward, but not a malicious pervert. We then watch as she gradually becomes "softer" (but never losing her edge) as she gets to know everyone better. Oh, and anyone saying that Ranka's life was worse than Sheryl's is talking out of their ass; born on a colony were hive-minded cyborgs were mandatory (as most supplementary materials seems to say) to parents who are rebelling against said assimilation (wasn't there a manga which said this), have said parents killed/assimilated and left on the streets, picked up by a person who experiments on her, giving her a terminal disease, and then used, and then thrown aside like a used napkin by only parental figure, starts to die, watches as the universe crumbles around her, thinks that the man she loves is with her out of pity and thinks he instead loves her best friend (as I think Ranka would qualify as at that point of the series) and so on. Unfortunately, the series did not go into greater detail about Sheryl's early life, and what growing up on Galaxy really was like, other than that it had slums and that she hated it (yet still wanted to save it, because it was, after all, home). At least Ranka got to forget and build a new life until she was old enough to face her tragedies, though I do not want to minimise Ranka's troubles either, but there's a reason why Ranka is more trusting and innocent, and that's because she's been looked after constantly since her birth, first by her family, then by Ozma and SMS as a whole and then by Brera, and then by, well, everyone. The only time a truly malicious person got a hold of her was when Grace became her manager and when Grace captured her. Oh, and here's the criteria of a good house-spouse: Is willing to risk their career by putting it on hold to do the chores that no one will laud them for (seriously, there's even feminists who want house-spouses to get some kind of wage, since they are essentially working to enable their working spouses better job opportunities), and to do so by their own free will and be sure that it is what they want. Likewise, they should consider the pros and cons carefully and discuss the rules at lengths with their partners so that none gets taken advantaged of or left in the wind. But again, it should be a fully informed choice, yet, it is a choice I don't think either of the girls will consider for a long time. Alto is more likely to make the choice, simply because with the war over, many soldiers will be seen as redundant, particularly when resources will go towards colonising their new planet. And Alto will have his sky regardless of his military status (in fact, I have a pet theory that Alto might even consider returning to Kabuki now when he has reconciled with his gender identity, got his sky, Frontier is safe and he is no longer intimidated by his father. Would be hilarious to see Yasaburo's face if Alto just shows up and is like "Yo! Dad said that you were doing Sukeroku, do you have Agemaki's script ready?"). |
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