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BTW, this is probably my last post for a month, I´m away on vacation to Paraguay until September 11th. Be seeing you all then!
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And although I've never played Battletech, I understand how something like the "Thinking Cap" makes sense...it just conflicts with the animation, which something had characters flying without helmets. But of course, if I take 4tran's suggestion to look at the books as separate from the animation, there isn't much to complain about there. Really, I can come up with good, rational reasons all day as to why the books were inadequate (well...almost all day, since I remember next-to-nothing about either the Sentinels novels or The End of the Circle), but mostly my problem with them was that they weren't giving ME what I wanted at the time, which was a better glimpse at the original series that made up Robotech. But they never promised to do that, so I can't really dislike them for it, can I? I'll still maintain, though, that any attempt to make the Robotech "universe" more cohesive (which IS what the novels promised) is doomed to failure, just because the three series don't fit together very well. |
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Admittedly, I never watched more than the first DVD (six episodes, I believe), but I couldn't stand it...although a lot of that may be due to the fact that everyone (except Mari) said "muh-CROSS" instead of "MA-cross."
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I don't remember what she sounded like in the English Macross dub, in Robotech I thought she was better than a lot of the voices...but the same is true of the original Japanese voice actress; she was one of the best actors in the entire production. |
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Carl Macek passed away Saturday from a heart attack. He was the person primarily responsible for bringing Macross to the United States ( and many other places ) in the form of Robotech.
Link to the news.
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It's thanks to him that i ended up watching the original Macross and became a fan of the mecha genre, so at the end of the day it's a shame to hear said news. Especially when he's still quite young.
R.I.P.
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It is due to Carl Macek that I first got to know the Macross universe and also the BattleTech universe.
As a kid, by happenstance I passed by a television set in a commercial center which showed Robotech ( and the original Macross saga part, to boot ) on the english television channel Sky Channel. Since Sky Channel wasn't available in the German cable TV set-up my family had, I spent the next months going daily to that commercial center to see Robotech ( and G.I. Joe ^^ ) on that television set which was permanently tuned to Sky Channel, often getting chased away by some irate salesman. It's one of those memories which never quite fade away and which make me nostalgic for the "good old times". Goodbye, Carl. Thank you, RIP and bon voyage on the journey you are now embarking upon.
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So Robotech is a Frankenstein of three existing anime? Why the heck would they do something like that? I know that Americans were terrified of letting Japanese anime and manga show absolutely any trace of its cultural roots until the close of the 20th century, but were they so scared to just localize the three anime that they had to make Robotech? Or is this just jacking material from the three anime because they can, like Power Rangers did?
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