tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-493731413032664332024-03-05T14:27:06.548-07:00White PhoenixAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13674812220136996835noreply@blogger.comBlogger175125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49373141303266433.post-23277123734318863532018-05-28T15:39:00.000-06:002018-05-28T15:42:21.741-06:00What If Apollo Never Died? Part 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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WHAT IF APOLLO NEVER DIED? Part 2: Hitting Their Stride</h2>
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<i>A few Author's Notes before we begin. I mentioned the names of several astronaut crews in the last post (<a href="http://whitephoenix06.blogspot.com/2017/05/what-if-apollo-never-died-part-1.html" target="_blank">which you can find here</a>) but things get somewhat conjectural as we get to this post's Apollo 16 (what would have been Apollo 18 in real life). These crews are based on the flight rotation system that Deke Slayton laid out so they SHOULD be the crews that would have flown, but we can't be totally sure. Also, I failed to mention the Skylab crews in the last post. Many astronauts, especially the scientist-astronauts that were hired in 1967, gradually realized chances to fly were becoming more and more scarce and left the program or had to wait for years until the Space Shuttle was operational. In this timeline that wasn't a problem so the first group of scientist-astronauts were promised moon flights at the earliest opportunity. The other scientist-astronauts would mainly fly to Skylab first before getting a shot at the moon. For completion's sake, I'll post the Skylab crews now.</i></div>
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<i>Skylab 2 (SL2): Pete Conrad (who really did fly the first manned Skylab mission), Karl Henize, William Lenoir</i></div>
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<i>Skylab 3 (SL3): Alan Bean (again, really did fly this mission), Donald Holmquest, Robert Parker</i></div>
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<i>Skylab 4 (SL4): Jim McDivitt, Joe Allen, Philip Chapman</i></div>
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<i>It should be noted that these are all actual NASA astronauts, however, once we start getting past a certain point, I won't worry as much about who would have stayed and who would have left and who would have joined. That's a little bit too much speculation.</i></div>
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<i>One last note, the Skylab 4 crew was the first all-rookie Apollo crew. </i></div>
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<i>Lastly, I'm going to assume for the most part that the majority of these missions will go according to plan; space travel is a dangerous business and not everything ends up alright in the end. But for the sake of brevity, we will assume that most of these missions won't have any major Apollo 13-type glitches. And now, on with the show!</i></div>
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This year was when plans that had been set in motion, some as far back as 1967, began to mature. In February, the third Skylab crew returned to Earth, completing the tour of duty for America's first space station, although it was predicted to not fall back to Earth until later in the decade. Just two weeks later, Saturn IB SA-209 boosted a new spacecraft into orbit for its shakedown run. This was the first of a new series of lunar modules, designed and built by Grumman Aerospace to expand the capabilities of Apollo. Based on designs first conceived of before Neil Armstrong even set his boots on the Moon, Grumman came up with three new designs originally called the LM Taxi, LM Truck and LM Shelter respectively. Now the modules had been rechristened the Advanced Lunar Module (ALM, pronounced A-lem), the Lunar Cargo Lander (LCL, pronounced El-cell) and the Lunar Surface Module (LSM, pronounced el-sem). The initial versions of the ALM and LSM would allow astronauts to stay possibly up to two weeks on the Moon's surface, while the LCL was basically a slightly upgraded LM Descent Stage with a cargo pallet on top instead of the manned Ascent Stage. It would be able to land a variety of payloads on the surface for the astronauts to use including large drills, cranes, new Lunar Rovers and/or miscellaneous supplies.<br />
This flight , Apollo 18/B2, was the first test flight of the ALM, to see if could function in the space environment, go dormant for one week and then be re-powered and separate its stages as if it were on the moon.<br />
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Things were relatively quiet until late April when the second Skylab space station, officially named Skylab II (SL5), was launched on April 25. The station's launch went much smoother than the first, with no damage to any of the structures including the new telescope mount above the docking tunnel. The launch vehicle was the first of the new lot of Saturn V rockets that had been purchased. Von Braun and his team weren't remaining idle and had been kept busy finding new ways to improve their moon rocket. This resulted in the second lot being eventually broken up into three lots of five. The first five rockets, numbers AS-516 to 520 were of the same type as the rockets previously used, no major alterations. The second lot were known by the internal designation of Saturn V MLV (modified launch vehicle). Numbers AS-521 to 525 would have stretched first stages equipped with the new F-1A rocket engines. These engines would generate 1.8M lbsf. of thrust each, for a grand total of 9M lbsf at liftoff. The second stage would also be modified, lengthened by about 41 inches but with the same five J-2 engines. The third stage would be strengthened but would otherwise be normal. This version of the Saturn V would be capable of putting a larger amount of weight into Earth orbit but only 3 tons more to the Moon. Still, with the way the new LMs were configured, this would likely be enough.<br />
The last lot of Saturn Vs would receive a new designation: Saturn V-B. They would not only incorporate the new modified first stage but would use a whole new engine in the second and third stages, the HG-3, which had begun test firings in 1971. The Saturn V-B, with F-1A and HG-3 engines would be able to put roughly 90,000 lbs more into Earth orbit and a full 42,000 extra pounds to the Moon. There was even hopeful talk that the first few V-Bs might be used for a manned Mars mission...<br />
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On May 1, the Skylab 5 (SL6) crew was launched on SA-211 (SA-210 was still being reserved as the Skylab Rescue launcher, semi-permanently parked at Pad 37B), consisting of John Young, Story Musgrave and William Thornton (with this, all of the second group of scientist-astronauts had flown). They would open Skylab II with a 90-day stay on the station and even be visited by a second astronaut crew a month and a half in. This was partly to gather as much medical data on long-term space travel as possible and also to use up the last few Saturn IB rockets quickly. Another improvement coming to the program was the Saturn IC, which would have the same S-IVB-200 stage as the IB but the first stage would be something that hadn't been seen in the program before: a monolithic, 260-inch-wide solid rocket motor for the first stage.<br />
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North American Aviation had also been hard at work during this time. They were the designers and builders of the Apollo CSM and had taken a lot of flack for what happened concerning the Block I Apollo which had ended up killing Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee. However, the Block II spacecraft had been performing beautifully and now they aimed to build an even better Apollo: the Block III. This version of the CSM would first fly on June 14, when the all-rookie crew of Karol Bobko, Robert 'Bob' Crippen and Joe Kerwin visited Skylab II. Their Skylab 6 (SL7) spacecraft was what North American called the Block IIIA Apollo. This version was optimized for work in Earth orbit and was specifically designed to be able to stay dormant for long periods of time while docked to the station. It was equipped with only one fuel cell, augmented by a pair of solar panels and super-efficient batteries and new consumables and propellant tankage. The dormancy capability also dovetailed into the Block IIIB version, which, as you might have guessed, was designed for Moon exploration. The maiden flight of a new version of the Apollo spacecraft called for an extra touch of ceremony and the crew named their ship the <i>Argo, </i>after the constellation and mythical ship.</div>
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The visiting crew would stay for three days, retiring at night to their CSM and once Joe Kerwin, who was trained as a physician, checked out the Skylab 5 crew, the Skylab 6 crew undocked from the station and returned to Earth. Later that month, SA-213 would propel the first LCL into Earth orbit for an unmanned test, Apollo 19/B3, which it passed with flying colors. Since the LCL had no astronaut-carrying capability, one fantastically successful test flight was enough to confirm its space-worthiness. As the summer of 1973 wound down on August 30, SA-214 would loft the first LSM into Earth orbit. The mission objective for this flight, Apollo 20/B4, would be to evaluate if the new LSM could start up, maneuver, ignite its engines, then go into "surface mode" for two weeks. Unfortunately, NASA lost contact with the LSM 3 days into the mission and it was mandated that one more test flight be flown before it was used.</div>
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The US's old rivals in the Kremlin weren't dormant either. Though in later years they would claim that they had never been trying to beat America to the Moon, in reality the Soviet Union built their own super rocket to take Cosmonauts to the Moon, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_(rocket)" target="_blank">the N1-L3</a>.</div>
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In real history, the N1 failed all four times it was test-launched. That, combined with the US landing on the Moon in 1969 (the second N1 failed about 2 weeks before the real Apollo 11), led to the cancellation of the program.</div>
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In our timeline, despite severe POGO oscillations (vibrations from top-bottom along the axis) that threatened to shake the rocket apart, the fourth N1 flight in November 1972 was successful, causing wild celebrations in the Soviet space program. Though the government was already allocating funds to the Salyut space station project and interplanetary probes, they tentatively agreed to have a fifth (and final) test launch in May, 1973. If this was also successful, the N1 would be declared fit for use.</div>
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Now the time had come. Perched upon launch pad 110 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the N1 rocket designated 8L was ready to go. Even though this was considered a test flight, the rocket itself was an N1F, the definitive flight version of the vehicle, incorporating all the knowledge gleaned from the previous four test flights and their failures. Additionally, it had 10% greater liftoff mass due to the use of super chilled propellants and a new suite of engines in the first stage.</div>
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The countdown for the launch lasted for about 80 hours as the Soviet engineers tested, re-tested and triple-tested the systems to make sure that everything would go right. They watched, some literally biting their fingernails, in the blockhouse as the countdown ticked down to 30 seconds... then 20... then 10 and... IGNITION! The 30 engines in the first stage belched out fire and smoke as the rocket slowly began to rise off the pad. It continued to fly, arcing over to align with its course into Earth orbit and beyond, though many in the blockhouse, including Sergei Korolev, did not relax until 3 days later when the fifth stage of the rocket fired to arc its payload, a fully-functional but unmanned Soyuz spacecraft and the LK lunar lander around the moon and out into inter-solar space.</div>
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In the real world, Sergei Korolev had died due to surgical complications in 1966. In this timeline, he did not and continued to shepard his moon rocket project, though the previous three failures of the four N1 launches had nearly had his hated rival, Valentin Glushko, replace him.</div>
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But now, the N1 had finally proven itself, at least tentatively, so the Soviet Moon program could finally proceed. On July 20, 1973, the moon-optimized Soyuz, officially known as the Soyuz 7K-LOK, was launched with two cosmonauts onboard by a Proton-K rocket into Earth orbit. The LOK was too heavy for the regular Soyuz rocket to launch, so they used the Proton, which had once been unreliable but now had become a workhorse for the Soviet program. The mission was given the official designation Soyuz L1. The Cosmonauts spent 8 days putting the new spacecraft through its paces and also depressurized the orbital module so that one of the Cosmonauts could also test the Krechet spacesuit, that would be used on the Moon. Despite some minor glitches, the spacecraft was declared ready for lunar missions.</div>
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<b><u>A Little Competition</u></b></div>
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The resurgence in the Soviet lunar program meant that a strange convergence occurred around the Moon in November of this year. In the US, the Apollo program was getting ready to enter the next phase of its explorations, the K-class missions, which would involve the aforementioned ALM, LCL and LSM.</div>
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Out at Kennedy Space Center, for the first time ever, two Saturn Vs stood sentinel on the launch pads, AS-516 and AS-517. AS-516 would launch the new Block IIIB Command Module <i>Castor </i>and its ALM <i>Pollux </i>towards lunar orbit but before that AS-517 would lob an LCL named <i>Conestoga </i>directly to the chosen landing site, the Aristarchus crater. Transient Lunar Phenomenon had been observed there, particularly on Apollo 9's landing mission, and it was time to go check it out. On October 28, AS-517 thundered forth from Pad 39B and its S-IVB third stage fired <i>Conestoga </i> directly to its landing spot three and a half days later. A week after that, November 4, the three astronauts of Apollo 21 (K1) arrived at launch pad 39A to begin their mission. Those astronauts were Fred Haise, Bill Pogue and Owen Garriot. Haise, as has been mentioned, was the Lunar Module Pilot on the ill-fated Apollo 11 mission (real-life Apollo 13) and had been robbed of a chance to walk on the Moon, but not this time. </div>
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But strangely enough, as their Saturn V rocketed away from KSC on the morning of November 4, another spacecraft launched from Baikonur, also heading for the Moon. This was a modified Soyuz spacecraft known as a Soyuz 7K-L1, specifically designed to do one thing and one thing only: fly two Cosmonauts around the Moon and back to Earth. And so it was that Soyuz L2 and Apollo 21 ended up flying together, relatively speaking (the two spacecraft were about 100 miles apart). The two crews exchanged greetings, some occasional jibes, stories of their families and experiences as pilots and astronauts and generally got on pretty well with each other. This would lead to some thawing in the Cold War, at least between the two space programs. It also provided incentive for America to keep its lead.</div>
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As Soyuz L2 arced back to Earth, Apollo 21 entered lunar orbit and then sent the ALM <i>Pollux </i>down to the landing site, Haise and Carr performing a pinpoint landing almost exactly one mile from the LCL <i>Conestoga. </i>This was thought to be a safe enough distance so that debris kicked up by the ALM's descent engine wouldn't damage the LCL and its cargo.<i> </i></div>
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The LCL not only contained extra oxygen and supplies for the astronauts, but also a larger Mk. II Lunar Rover and a large drill used to obtain deep core samples of the lunar crust. Haise and Carr spent five days, the longest so far on the Moon, experimenting with the drill, and searching for the elusive Transient Lunar Phenomenon. Although they didn't find anything conclusive, there were enough strange readings to perhaps warrant a return to Aristarchus in the future. They might have been able to stay longer but the ALM and LCL were not carrying their full loads as they had been designed for the more powerful Saturn V variants.</div>
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Back in September, the next space station crew, Skylab 7 (SL8) blasted off from Pad 34 on the AS-215C Saturn IC. The new 260-inch solid rocket first stage, officially called the SRS-I, had an effect on ignition, as astronaut Rusty Schweikart described, like 'being kicked by a horse.' Despite the abrupt liftoff, the Saturn IC delivered Schweickart, C. Gordon Fullerton and Bob Overmyer to Skylab II for a 120 day stay. They carried with them a new module in the shroud connecting their CSM to the Saturn IC second stage, the Payload Module. After S-IVB shutdown, they separated the CSM from the shroud and docked with the PM, just like on a lunar mission. They then docked the PM to one of Skylab II's outboard docking ports, undocked from the SCM and docked to the forward port. </div>
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The Skylab 7 crew were visited on Halloween by the Skylab 8 crew (SL9, SA-216C), consisting of Gerry Carr, Don Lind & Paul Weitz, who returned to Earth on November 3, just before the launch of Apollo 21. Schweickart, Fullerton and Overmyer returned to Earth on New Year's Day, 1974.</div>
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By this point in our fictional timeline, the Apollo program has begun to fully mature. The year started off with the Skylab 9 (SL10) crew arriving at the station for a 150-day stay, which would end the station's primary lifespan. They would be visited by two, two-astronaut crews at Day 50 and Day 100 respectively. The crew for SL10 consisted of Henry Hartsfield, Dick Truly and Don Peterson. The mission launched on March 1, 1974 on the SA-2.</div>
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Earlier, in February, two rockets had been launched from Cape Canaveral and Vandenberg AFB. One was a Saturn IC, SA-217C, with a Centaur stage mounted on its S-IVB stage and the other was a new Titan IIIE expendable rocket. The two rockets had launched a pair of Communications satellites to a semi-stable orbit at the Earth-Moon Lagrange point 2. The Lagrange points are areas of space in the orbital system between the Earth and Moon where objects could orbit without being unduly influenced by either body. The L1 and L2 points are located in front of and behind the Moon respectively, the L3 point directly opposite the Moon and the other side of Earth and the L4 and L5 points are located at equidistant positions on the Moon's orbital path to the relative left and right of the Moon. </div>
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Also in February, Apollo 22 (D2) was launched on a Saturn IC rocket (SA-217) from Pad 37B. This was the second test flight of the LSM, which was made possible by the increased thrust of the Saturn IC (3.5Mlbsf. compared to the IB's 1.5Mlbsf.) The IC's payload to LEO (Low Earth Orbit) had been increased from 46,000 lbs to 75,000 lbs, which allowed it to boost a 35,000 lbs. Block IIIA CSM and the 31,000 lbs. LSM into orbit together. The crew of Alan Bean, Charlie Duke and Robert Cripen put the LSM through its paces over the course of two weeks and proved that it could do what it was designed to do and that the previous failure had just been an anomaly.</div>
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Apollo 23 (K2) began on April 15, with the Saturn V AS-519 lofting an LCL (this one with no name) to the chosen far side landing site, the Tsiolkovsky crater, using a a radio/radar beacon that had been launched by a Delta I 2910 rocket. Three days later, AS-518 lifted off from pad 39A with the Apollo 22 spacecraft, <i>Enterprise & Voyager, </i>and the crew of Stuart 'Stu' Roosa (who had been the CMP on the Apollo 12 mission with Alan Shepard and Ed Mitchell), Paul Weitz and Jack Lousma. Roosa and Lousma landed 1.1 miles away from the LCL, just like Apollo 21 had done, but with a certain amount of fanfare befitting the first landing on the far side. Roosa and Lousma's Mk. II Moon Rover had been further improved with an RTG (Radio-isotope Thermal Generator) and a tank for onboard oxygen, allowing the two astronauts to not only spend more time roving outside their ALM but for the walkback limits to be relaxed. (the walkback limit was a mission rule that stated that the Lunar Rover could not travel further from the lander than the astronauts could walk back and the limit decreased as the astronauts used up their oxygen and cooling water). This proved handy when Roosa and Lousma hit an unexpected drop during their driving and tumbled over it. Two of their rover's wheels were broken and they would have to walk. They took on oxygen from the rover's surge tank and then used their buddy hoses, not so much because their suits were damaged (although Lousma's gold visor was shattered) but because of mission rules. After a 3.5 mile bouncing jog, they arrived back safe and sound to <i>Voyager</i> and finished their mission without the rover.</div>
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On April 20, The Skylab 9 crew hosted their first week long visitor crew of Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan, (Skylab 10/SL-11/SA-218C)who brought with them another Payload Module for the station and both crews reported that the station was functioning at 100%. On May 9, the second visitor crew of Bill Anders and Bruce McCandless visited the station (Skylab 11/SL-12/SA-219C) and after the evaluations they made and with input form the NASA flight surgeons, after the long-term mission of Skylab 9 ended, NASA decided that only one, maybe two, of the astronauts of the long-term crew would stay for months at a time, in case of health issues. When the Skylab 9 crew returned to Earth, using Skylab 10's CSM, they were weak enough that they had to be helped out of the capsule. This occurred on July 29, ending Skylab II's primary mission. However, NASA wasn't going to get rid of it just yet. On September 7, the crew of Skylab 12 (SL-13), Dick Gordon and Joe Engle, returned to Skylab II for a short, 14-day mission to evaluate the chances of re-powering the station after primary mission end. They also carried with them a solid fuel propulsion module in the spacecraft adapter on their S-IVB, which they docked to Skylab II's forward port. This module was used under remote control after the crew left to boost Skylab II into a higher orbit that was calculated not to decay until around 1984, give or take a couple of months. Wether it actually would be re-occupied or used as the base for a much larger space station was up in the air, however. </div>
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The flight was not without its share of close calls. The POGO oscillation returned during the launch into Earth orbit and the Cosmonauts reported more strange vibrations when they fired the fourth stage to send themselves off to the Moon. After arriving, there was a pressure valve problem that prevented them from depressurizing the orbital module of the Soyuz so that Leonov could spacewalk to the LK lander. The lander had an electrical short that filled the cabin with smoke, causing Leonov to have to depressurize and then repressurize in order to clear it. Another problem was the choice of landing site. The Soviet authorities had decided that the site of the first Russian landing had to be in the Mare Moscoviense aka Sea of Moscow. there was just one problem with that though. The Sea of Moscow was on the Farside of the Moon. Which meant that they would have to use the new American communication satellites at the Earth-Moon L2. And of course the systems were incompatible. For the first four lunar orbits of Soyuz L5, they were out of touch with their mission control and at least one accusation was fired across international phone lines of the Us government and NASA trying to interfere with the first Soviet landing. But at last, the problems were sorted out and Alexey Leonov was given the go ahead to attempt the landing. </div>
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The next day, Leonov was able to launch from the lunar surface without problem and though there was a little difficulty getting the lander and the Soyuz to rendezvous with each-other, they were able to meet up, dock and Leonov returned to the capsule with his precious cargo of samples from the Mare Moscoviense. The two Cosmonauts ended up being feted through the streets of Moscow and other cities around the Union. But even as their landing was celebrated, there was still some doubt about the Soviet lunar program. As it stood, they could only send a single Cosmonaut to the surface, have said Cosmonaut bounce around for a few hours and collect a few meager samples. Extra equipment would have to be launched on separate rockets and there was doubt that the Politburo would fund two N1 launches at the same time. The Americans, at this time, were planning possible lunar bases, so the novelty of a Cosmonaut wandering around on his lonesome would quickly wear off. They were going to have to catch up to the US, if for nothing else, than to maintain parity with their rivals. Rocket designer Korolev knew what that would entail. The Soviet program was going to have to conquer liquid hydrogen.</div>
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It's that one Princess SD Gundam... thing. Sorry, i don't know SD Gundam stuff.</div>
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ZA CHAMP-DA</div>
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Not sure what this one is off the top of my head.</div>
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And this will be our Mystery Girl© for this series.</div>
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When I first heard the opening chords to this song I was like, "Holy crap this is going to SUCK."</div>
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And they start with a shot of Nanami's chest, of course.</div>
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Calling it now: There will be a beach and/or onsen episode where she will get put in a bikini.</div>
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A RIVAL has appeared</div>
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Mysterious hoodie is mysterious.</div>
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ERMINE Rommel-san</div>
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I shall call him FOX BOY</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "SF Optimized", system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.12px; text-align: left;">OK, Banrise.... I know you'll never actually do this but can we please get rid of the rule that says girls can only pilot cutesy and/or SD gunpla? Now, there's nothing wrong with SDs in and of themselves, especially in a series based on Gunpla, but it is a problem when they keep getting assigned to the girls.</span></div>
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Case in point</div>
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I shall call him GLORFINDEL</div>
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POSING!</div>
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Muh eyes glow.</div>
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This guy, Magee, reminds me a lot of Bobby from Macross Frontier</div>
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THE SUN IS BEHIND ME NOW.</div>
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Hmmm, wonder what this flower motif means?</div>
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A custom GN-X for the bad guys</div>
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Oni guy. Yeah, they haven't given a name for him yet</div>
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MANLY HEADBUTT</div>
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I really like Yuuki's GM-III</div>
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Villain line-up</div>
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Hero line-up</div>
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OK, let's do this</div>
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I'm pretty sure that's a foul</div>
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And where the heck's the goalie?</div>
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Suddenly Momoka gets scary</div>
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This reminds me of that Star Trek: Voyager episode 'Scorpion' where there was a similar pile of dismembered Borg.</div>
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The Beast of Possibilities</div>
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She's a cute onee-chan</div>
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Looks like there is a ghost in the machine</div>
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Case of Gundam Wing models including the Tallgeese.</div>
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Destiny, Er, the concept, not the Gundam.</div>
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Nanami onee-san is a little thin on Gundam knowledge</div>
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Well that was random</div>
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Riku already has a collection</div>
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Have we mentioned she's cute?</div>
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Now we will take the forms of these Gundams and move undetected amongst the earthlings though we be robots from the planet Cybertron.</div>
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Starting the Newtype Naked Space© early</div>
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Hey' it's Monique Cadillac.</div>
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You can barely see him but Patrick Colasour from Gundam 00 is about to walk into frame.</div>
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Don't make me start an ass counter gag.</div>
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Magee is a bro.</div>
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Dark History Screening? FINALLY, ALL SECRETS WILL BE REVEALED.</div>
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LOOKS LIKE THIS GBN HAS PLENTY OF AWESOME MISSIONS</div>
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Firing beams</div>
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Why'd they have to go and ruin the Leo by putting that huge, goofy eye on it?</div>
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A little Itano Circus for flavoring</div>
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It has a giant hole through it! How is it still moving?!</div>
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A fated meeting</div>
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Admittedly this is a really dumb and naive way to get tricked. Way to go, Riku.</div>
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Don't make faces like that, your face will freeze.</div>
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Shouldn't his legs be off?</div>
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Nice planning, Yuuki.</div>
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So Dodge had about three or four seconds to react there and somehow he still gets shanked?</div>
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A Dom Scouser or something.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13674812220136996835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49373141303266433.post-76622593387137969932017-07-18T14:00:00.000-06:002017-07-18T14:00:15.078-06:00MACROSS MEGA MARATHON | EPISODE 36: Farewell To Tenderness<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Iconic Scene: Minmay bids farewell to Hikaru and Misa and the love triangle is resolved... somehow.<br />
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Quotable Quotes: "When I find my reason for singing again, I'd like to come with you on your ship."<br />
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And so Super Dimension Fortress Macross ends. This last third of the series was much more mixed than the previous thirds. The setup and world-building of the Reconstruction Arc is good but the characters, specifically Hikaru, Misa and Minmay leave much to be desired.<br />
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For a more comprehensive review of the series (sort of, I wrote it back in 2011) see these previous posts--<br />
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<a href="https://whitephoenix06.blogspot.com/2011/03/do-you-remember-macross-part-1.html">Part 1</a><br />
<a href="https://whitephoenix06.blogspot.com/2011/04/do-yo-remember-macross-part-2.html">Part 2</a><br />
<a href="https://whitephoenix06.blogspot.com/2011/04/do-you-remember-macross-part-3.html">Part 3</a><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13674812220136996835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49373141303266433.post-33108261185396483552017-07-18T08:00:00.000-06:002017-07-18T08:00:22.852-06:00MACROSS MEGA MARATHON | EPISODE 35: Romanesque<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Also, this episode is where Minmay gets a lot of hate for trying to break up Misa and Hikaru... except that never happens at all. It's Hikaru who blows off his date with Misa to be with Minmay. And seriously, if I was on a date and my date's douchebag manager showed up and threw a glass of water in her face and basically treated her like a slave, he'd be slammed up against the wall faster than you can say "Hollywood Hulk Hogan."<br />
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This is also the only episode where we see these Unification Wars-era non-transforming fighters, the Unified Forces F-203 Dragon II and the Anti-UN Alliance MiM-31 Karyovin. You can read more about them at the <a href="http://www.macross2.net/m3/masterlist/masterlist-index.html" target="_blank">Macross Mecha Manual</a></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13674812220136996835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49373141303266433.post-43563631377253486712017-07-17T04:51:00.000-06:002017-07-17T04:57:02.099-06:00MACROSS MEGA MARATHON | EPISODE 31: Satan's Dolls<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13674812220136996835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49373141303266433.post-69825792724139683192017-07-10T13:30:00.000-06:002017-07-10T13:30:09.731-06:00MACROSS MEGA MARATHON | EPISODE 30: Viva Maria<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13674812220136996835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49373141303266433.post-77783504031606095702017-07-10T12:30:00.000-06:002017-07-10T12:30:00.686-06:00MACROSS MEGA MARATHON | EPISODE 29: Lonely Song<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13674812220136996835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49373141303266433.post-54736744463101826132017-07-10T12:12:00.002-06:002017-07-10T12:13:33.666-06:00MACROSS MEGA MARATHON | EPISODE 28: My Album<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Quotable Quotes: So even out in this wasteland, new life can grow?"<br />
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The places are set, the roles cast, the deep breath before the plunge is taken. Exedol finally gets to meet directly with the command staff of the Macross, Misa, Hikaru, Max, Millia, Minmay and, unfortunately, Kaifun. Although, I do have to laugh uproariously at how even though this seems to be the exact kind of thing that Kaifun would want, i.e. the military sitting down with one of the leaders of their enemy to talk rather than fight, he remain so self-righteously stubborn about it all. He's even the first one to give up and declare things hopeless when the Bodol Main Fleet shows up! What a little pissant.<br />
Anyway, even though it looks like the Britai/Laplamiz fleet will be calling a ceasefire with the Macross, it doesn't much matter as the massive bulk of the Bodol Main Fleet shows up in Earth orbit. Pants to be darkened.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13674812220136996835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49373141303266433.post-8677877734108597552017-05-16T00:06:00.000-06:002017-05-16T15:31:42.043-06:00MACROSS MEGA MARATHON | EPISODE 25: VIRGIN ROAD<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The various problems with this episode have been elaborated on at length by <a href="https://gubabablog.wordpress.com/2015/12/27/the-great-macross-rewatch-26-virgin-road/" target="_blank">Richard Clark</a>, so I'll just say that I really am not surprised Max and Milia have problems in their marriage in Macross 7 considering how "whirlwind" their romance is here. Seriously, it goes from attempted murder to matrimony in like five minutes.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13674812220136996835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49373141303266433.post-14316924645135443792017-05-15T12:00:00.000-06:002017-05-16T00:06:05.836-06:00MACROSS MEGA MARATHON | INTERLUDE THE SECOND<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13674812220136996835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49373141303266433.post-43008589728651334132017-05-15T06:00:00.000-06:002017-05-15T06:00:48.331-06:00MACROSS MEGA MARATHON | EPISODE 24: GOOD-BYE GIRL<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13674812220136996835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49373141303266433.post-28191021533294086062017-05-14T23:01:00.000-06:002017-05-14T23:01:21.164-06:00MACROSS MEGA MARATHON | EPISODE 23: DROP OUT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13674812220136996835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49373141303266433.post-21317010984896281652017-05-12T10:00:00.000-06:002017-05-14T22:59:02.602-06:00MACROSS MEGA MARATHON | EPISODE 22: LOVE CONCERT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The thing that stood out to me the most about this episode was that this was the first of many, many stupid things that Kaifun will do. Since we're talking fiction I have no compunctions against saying that I kinda hope lots of people got their stupid selves killed listening to him. Oh who am I kidding, he'd just blame it on the military.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13674812220136996835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49373141303266433.post-70635820108969082912017-05-10T22:02:00.000-06:002017-05-12T02:07:26.421-06:00MACROSS MEGA MARATHON | EPISODE 21: MICRO-COSMOS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Another link in the chain leading to what would have been the finale. Minmay and Kaifun's movie Shao-Pai-Long premieres... and somehow Britai and Exedol are able to watch it? What the heck? Last I checked, movies, especially in the 1980s, weren't broadcast. Maybe they are doing it on this occasion so all the crew of the Macross can see the premiere even if they're not actually there? Hikaru can't stomach the sight of Kaifun getting his incest on and runs into Misa (literally) and they get to have another moment. Given that Macross The First retconned in references to the Vajra, I'm actually not surprised that Britai and Exedol can believe that the miclones have the power supposedly demonstrated in the movie. They'll pass this along to Bodolza and it'll lead to his decision to attack Earth.<br />
Incidentally, Shao Pai Long is my least favorite Minmay song, initially because it simply had something to do with Kaifun but now... I dunno I can't really point to anything specific, I just don't like it as much as some of her other songs like Silver Moon, Red Moon and My Boyfriend is a Pilot.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13674812220136996835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49373141303266433.post-68225294656776170852017-05-09T17:49:00.000-06:002017-05-10T22:02:15.633-06:00MACROSS MEGA MARATHON | EPISODE 20: PARADISE LOST<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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And another good build to the plot here. After the last episode where the characters are beat down with the hopelessness of their situation, it begins to spread to the civilians as well but they take a more optimistic view of it. With the Zentradi, Loli, Conda and Warera have begun their tenure as the Heralds of Culture, spreading it amongst the fleet.<br />
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Global has to break the news to the Macross's civilian population and his heartfelt speech helps to deflect some of the anger that might come his way and the way of the military crew as well as Minmay's speech and song, probably more on Minmay's part more than Global. Incidentally, the scene where Kaifun pats Global on the back... considering his attitude before now, after and during the after war arc makes me consider this action to be wholly out of character. Must have been a hiccup on the part of the writers' minds or somesuch. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13674812220136996835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49373141303266433.post-41921205999592889502017-05-08T19:00:00.000-06:002017-05-09T17:53:30.998-06:00MACROSS MEGA MARATHON | EPISODE 19: BURST POINT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Now THIS is a twist. Hot on the heels of Roy's death comes the death of Kakizaki and not JUST that but the final dashing of the hopes of getting the Macross's civilian population off the ship. This was a good place for this as we're nearing the end of the second third of the show and Macross was originally supposed to end eight episodes from now. It's time that the characters got kicked down and kicked again before they can rise back up. Hikaru has now lost not just his squadron leader but his sempai and now his wingman. Misa is depressed over various things, Minmay is being driven into exhaustion and generally there is an air of hopelessness. Certainly doesn't help that the UN Spacy brass has decided that a ship full of both thousands of their soldiers and thousands of civilians needs to be their sacrificial lamb.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13674812220136996835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49373141303266433.post-87584850187000372792017-05-08T09:00:00.000-06:002017-05-09T17:53:41.161-06:00MACROSS MEGA MARATHON | EPISODE 18: PINEAPPLE SALAD<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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What else can be said about this episode except that it likely had a bigger impact here in the west than it did back in Japan. Sempai characters dying is not something new to anime (just looks at Ryu Jose from Gundam) and indeed the trope of mentor characters dying so the hero can stand on his own feet is about as old as stories themselves.<br />
The one thing I do have to wonder about this episode is, why did Roy do what he did? Why go to Claudia's instead of the hospital? My theory is that he figured he was bad enough off that there was as much a chance of dying on the operating table as surviving and if this was his time to go, might as well spend it with his lady love than being cut open by the docs.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13674812220136996835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49373141303266433.post-89915670179113995962017-05-07T09:00:00.000-06:002017-05-09T17:53:53.598-06:00MACROSS MEGA MARATHON | EPISODE 17: PHANTASMS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Back in 1989, as the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation wrapped up, they did a clipshow as the season finale called Shades of Grey. A somewhat appropriate title as the episode involved flashing back to a lot of the worst moments of seasons 1-2 of TNG (and there were a LOT of those). The flashbacks were presented as a kind of coma dream that they were giving Riker and the same sort of thing happens in this episode. Even though it comes just two episodes after the last clipshow, it's presented with new footage that makes for a surrealistic dream of Hikaru's. One thing to note is that in the dream, Dream Kaifun says that he won't let Minmay date anyone from the military. Hikaru doesn't hesitate in ripping off his flight suit to reveal his old civilian flight suit underneath. However, two years later when Minmay herself asks Hikaru to quit the military... he hesitates and ultimately doesn't go through with it.<br />
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If you want to be reminded of how bad Shades of Gray was, here's SF Debris' video review of it!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13674812220136996835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49373141303266433.post-39811241914023361012017-05-06T23:00:00.000-06:002017-05-09T17:54:06.217-06:00MACROSS MEGA MARATHON | EPISODE 16: KUNG-FU DANDY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Personally, this episode is one of the worst, not in a general sense but just that it focuses so much on new character Lynn Kaifun. I hate Kaifun. I really, really, really, REALLY hate this guy. I HATE this sanctimonious, smug, self-righteous, John-Travolta-In-Saturday-Night-Fever-Imitating, hypocritical dandy!!!<br />
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But then again, you’re supposed to hate him, even staff members hated this guy (I suspect that might be why his role in the franchise is continually reduced; they don’t even feature him in the pachinko footage at all). As other people have pointed out, the primary problem with Kaifun is his pacifism. Not that pacifism is inherently bad or anything (although thanks to Gundam Wing I can now spell pacifism backwards…) but Kaifun just spouts off some good-sounding ideas mixed with a bunch of complete bullcrap such as “soldiers only join the military because they like killing.” Which is then immediately undercut by Misa, Claudia and the bunnie's discussion on why they didn’t join the military for that reason. Everyone is just in a bad mood this episode, I suppose it’s because Kaifun spreads misery and ruin wherever he goes. Oh and to top it all off, why did even Misa have to get caught up with this guy and nearly kill Hikaru? And even though she admits to herself at the end of the episode that Kaifun is not Riber, she’s still going to be mooning over him for several episodes more. ARGH!<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13674812220136996835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49373141303266433.post-46892213162816966542017-05-06T19:30:00.000-06:002017-05-09T17:54:16.912-06:00MACROSS MEGA MARATHON | EPISODE 15: CHINATOWN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The waters are beginning to get even more choppy here. Misa and Captain Global deliver their report about the Zentraedi fleet to the UN Spacy bigwigs, who seem remarkably reluctant to believe said report. Global and Misa also find out that the story the brass spun about the Macross's disappearance was that it was destroyed along with the city and all of South Ataria Island and now they won't let the civilians off the ship. This seems to be a very strange attitude to take because their explanation is that they didn't want to cause a panic by revealing the earth was under the attack of alien forces. But doesn't everyone already know that aliens exist? When the Macross crash landed back in 1999 it was not exactly subtle. As a final F-you, Misa's father, who is also one of the bigwigs, gives her a note telling her to get off of the Macross. On the one hand, I can understand why he wouldn't want his daughter in such a dangerous situation. On the other hand however it seems, again, cold-blooded of him to not give two damns about the tens of thousands of civilians on board Macross but want to make sure that his own daughter is safe. Newsflash genius: your daughter's in the military and if you didn't want her to be in danger you should never have let her join!</div>
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