Well, being a non-shipper, I loved this ending. It was all warm and fuzzy SherylxRanka friendship, with a little competition for the guy they both STILL love... It worked for me.
What didn't work was the Macross Galaxy. No one on board? Just a big tool that stands there and does NOTHING? Grace is going to send buggies all over the galaxy to wipe out the humans and yet do nothing with the most convenient weapon she has to wipe out her #1 most pressing enemy, while they are pointing a gun at her? Just too odd... I kept expecting a mano a mano fisticuffs, double daedalus attack or a main gun shootout betwen the two capital ships, but nothing! A quick punch from Battle 25 and its pretty much all over folks... MegaMech pR0n=FAIL!
But don't get me wrong... the battle scenes were sweet! Much flying around and stuff 'sploadin and all... GREAT sweep in and gunz a blazin' entrance for Mac 1/4! And it was really amusing having the Admiral Perry twins just sitting there aghast as Wilder tells them what for... Pretty much the Battle 25 guys were typical layabout government appointees, while Wilder and his Pirates of the Caribbean owned all!
I loved the scene where Alto gets his VF-25 brought to him on a platter and he links to it controlling it with his airplane hand... nice circular detail that. Sort of a bummer it got trashed and discarded in the end. But it fought a grand battle, even getting re-outfitted for the second wave attack. In a way, Alto out Gar'd Ozma, getting all of the best shots in. Much rancorous yelling done by all.
The medley of their hits approach to Sheryl & Ranka's duet battle songs was interesting if somewhat confusing... I mean here they are doing both different songs at the same time as well as singing together on the same song all at the same time... I wasn't sure what to make of it, but the characters onscreen didn't seem to mind much. What I didn't get though was, are all of the Vajra now at the beck and call of Ranka? There's no queen left. right? A big opened plot hole left by that one... maybe the subs will be more enlightening in this aspect.
I did like the way Ranka got to slap Sheryl back to center and then cure her... I was one of many to call that one early, but I didn't expect that she'd simply do a kind of Psychic Surgery movement on the virus... Sort of like "Here you go, you need these down HERE to use them properly.... There you go Sheryl, don't you feel more healthy and powerful instead of DEAD now? OK, Let's sing, shall we?" It was a very metaphysical scene with their astral bodies making things all good... But pretty much Ranka made Sheryl just like her, so does that mean that she can "control" the Vajra in the same way Ranka does now? Sounds like trouble for the populace whether either one gets sad over Alto...
In the end, I TOTALLY didn't get the whole purpose of Blirer in the whole series... I mean the guy never left his train room, had only limited scenes and influence, never micronized, and other than warning Wilder about the folding of SMS into NUNS, did nothing! And then he's looking forward to meeting..... Minmay!?!?! WTF??? Talk about an open ended subject! And people are complaning about the LT? What's with this big Zentradi guy, huh? Can anyone explain why we needed him? There's GOT to be a resolution to this guy in the movie... and this fact leads me to believe that the movie was part of the plan all along.
Anyway, despite all of the dangling participles l really enjoyed this episode and series, but I'd still prefer a second season to a movie. But being a movie I do expect the quality will be kicking hard!
Hints anyone?
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