Comments on: Macross Review - 82,5/100 http://psgels.blogsome.com/2009/05/05/macross-review-825100/ An anime blog covering a large variety of series, both popular and underrated. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:58:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Ana Coppola http://psgels.blogsome.com/2009/05/05/macross-review-825100/#comment-13225 Sat, 09 May 2009 01:01:53 +0100 http://psgels.blogsome.com/2009/05/05/macross-review-825100/#comment-13225 It's an alternate retelling of the story. Totally worth a watch, in my humble opinion. It’s an alternate retelling of the story. Totally worth a watch, in my humble opinion.

]]> by: psgels http://psgels.blogsome.com/2009/05/05/macross-review-825100/#comment-13224 Fri, 08 May 2009 23:36:11 +0100 http://psgels.blogsome.com/2009/05/05/macross-review-825100/#comment-13224 Ana Coppola: Do you remember Love? Wasn't that supposed to be a recap-movie, or am I confusing things right now? Ana Coppola: Do you remember Love? Wasn’t that supposed to be a recap-movie, or am I confusing things right now?

]]> by: Ana Coppola http://psgels.blogsome.com/2009/05/05/macross-review-825100/#comment-13223 Fri, 08 May 2009 22:48:08 +0100 http://psgels.blogsome.com/2009/05/05/macross-review-825100/#comment-13223 Have you watched the "Do You Remember Love" movie? If you didn't then I strongly suggest that you do. Have you watched the “Do You Remember Love” movie? If you didn’t then I strongly suggest that you do.

]]> by: Chris http://psgels.blogsome.com/2009/05/05/macross-review-825100/#comment-13196 Fri, 08 May 2009 08:08:12 +0100 http://psgels.blogsome.com/2009/05/05/macross-review-825100/#comment-13196 I grew up on this show when it aired on tv back in the 80's. As a kid, watching Rick's plane transform into a robot for the first time was one of the most amazing things I had seen. Haha! Good times! I grew up on this show when it aired on tv back in the 80’s. As a kid, watching Rick’s plane transform into a robot for the first time was one of the most amazing things I had seen. Haha! Good times!

]]> by: Shippoyasha http://psgels.blogsome.com/2009/05/05/macross-review-825100/#comment-13189 Thu, 07 May 2009 01:35:27 +0100 http://psgels.blogsome.com/2009/05/05/macross-review-825100/#comment-13189 The weird, rushed feeling of the original was a bit strange. Pacing really was all over the place, ESPECIALLY when crucial things happened. And that triangle romance was as stock as it can be, even if it was decades ago. As for Macross Frontier, I loved and I love J pop. lol. But strangely, it followed the bit of the rushed and scattered pacing of the original. At least it lived up to the tradition. The weird, rushed feeling of the original was a bit strange. Pacing really was all over the place, ESPECIALLY when crucial things happened. And that triangle romance was as stock as it can be, even if it was decades ago.

As for Macross Frontier, I loved and I love J pop. lol. But strangely, it followed the bit of the rushed and scattered pacing of the original. At least it lived up to the tradition.

]]> by: Howling-kun http://psgels.blogsome.com/2009/05/05/macross-review-825100/#comment-13187 Wed, 06 May 2009 23:00:37 +0100 http://psgels.blogsome.com/2009/05/05/macross-review-825100/#comment-13187 Macross F sucked. And I like J-pop. Macross F sucked. And I like J-pop.

]]> by: Dan http://psgels.blogsome.com/2009/05/05/macross-review-825100/#comment-13186 Wed, 06 May 2009 20:31:17 +0100 http://psgels.blogsome.com/2009/05/05/macross-review-825100/#comment-13186 I disagree with you regarding the animation quality. Despite the poor image quality, an aspect that was recognized by the masses even back in the day, the animation itself is quite detailed and excellent. To this day, watching Roy failing to hold up the microphone stand in the first episode is one of my favorite scenes to watch simply because of how well executed and realistic it was, little else compares. I'm even willing to say that it's better than Frontier's 2D animation. The only thing that the latter really has going for it is crisp picture quality and an extremely large pallate of colors. I disagree with you regarding the animation quality. Despite the poor image quality, an aspect that was recognized by the masses even back in the day, the animation itself is quite detailed and excellent. To this day, watching Roy failing to hold up the microphone stand in the first episode is one of my favorite scenes to watch simply because of how well executed and realistic it was, little else compares. I’m even willing to say that it’s better than Frontier’s 2D animation. The only thing that the latter really has going for it is crisp picture quality and an extremely large pallate of colors.

]]> by: steveberry http://psgels.blogsome.com/2009/05/05/macross-review-825100/#comment-13178 Wed, 06 May 2009 04:19:40 +0100 http://psgels.blogsome.com/2009/05/05/macross-review-825100/#comment-13178 Yeah, loran16 beat me to it-- the original ending was the defeat of the zentradi, thus the very rushed Max romance. Supposedly there were a whole bunch of other scenes planned, in general-- Rick setting his circus jet on fire, etc etc. IMO, the last 10 eps are not bad, but not quite up to the quality of the first 25, which are largely stellar. During the 1 or 2 times that I rewatched the show over the last 5 years or so, I have just stopped at the end of ep 25. That's the emotional high point for me. As for the music, the pop has not aged well at all, but there are few tunes she sings that I liked-- the one, for example, when ::spoiler:: the SDF-1 is leaving earth ::spoiler::. Still, I agree that what's really kept the show alive is two things-- 1) the social complexity and moral ambiguity of the Zentradi, and 2) the romance between hikaru and misa. Yeah, loran16 beat me to it– the original ending was the defeat of the zentradi, thus the very rushed Max romance. Supposedly there were a whole bunch of other scenes planned, in general– Rick setting his circus jet on fire, etc etc.

IMO, the last 10 eps are not bad, but not quite up to the quality of the first 25, which are largely stellar. During the 1 or 2 times that I rewatched the show over the last 5 years or so, I have just stopped at the end of ep 25. That’s the emotional high point for me.

As for the music, the pop has not aged well at all, but there are few tunes she sings that I liked– the one, for example, when ::spoiler:: the SDF-1 is leaving earth ::spoiler::.

Still, I agree that what’s really kept the show alive is two things– 1) the social complexity and moral ambiguity of the Zentradi, and 2) the romance between hikaru and misa.

]]> by: loran16 http://psgels.blogsome.com/2009/05/05/macross-review-825100/#comment-13176 Wed, 06 May 2009 02:11:31 +0100 http://psgels.blogsome.com/2009/05/05/macross-review-825100/#comment-13176 One thing macross the original series did especially well was the fact that the love triangle seemed to come about naturally, and wasn't something expected immediately. Upon first watching the show, its not until roughly 13 episodes in that you even get that the show is going to set up a love triangle including Misa. And it's believable. As opposed to Alto-Sheryl. (Of note, the pacing concerns had to do a lot because of the budget of the show...the show was originally going to be 30+ episodes, then they told them to cut it down to 25 episodes and then after it started to succeed they put the episodes back in the schedule. So rather than flush things out and end with the victory over the large zentraedi fleet in episode like in episode 25, they added a post victory arc. :-/ Great series nonetheless, and i'm glad you went back to it. Sure Minmay's songs are abit dated, but that's kind of to be expected. One thing macross the original series did especially well was the fact that the love triangle seemed to come about naturally, and wasn’t something expected immediately. Upon first watching the show, its not until roughly 13 episodes in that you even get that the show is going to set up a love triangle including Misa. And it’s believable. As opposed to Alto-Sheryl.

(Of note, the pacing concerns had to do a lot because of the budget of the show…the show was originally going to be 30+ episodes, then they told them to cut it down to 25 episodes and then after it started to succeed they put the episodes back in the schedule. So rather than flush things out and end with the victory over the large zentraedi fleet in episode like in episode 25, they added a post victory arc.

:-/ Great series nonetheless, and i’m glad you went back to it. Sure Minmay’s songs are abit dated, but that’s kind of to be expected.

]]> by: helen http://psgels.blogsome.com/2009/05/05/macross-review-825100/#comment-13173 Tue, 05 May 2009 21:30:56 +0100 http://psgels.blogsome.com/2009/05/05/macross-review-825100/#comment-13173 "Even taking the upcoming movie into account, it never really seemed to know where it wanted to go and while it definitely had some good points, it also just kept getting stuck at an endless love triangle with a bunch of unimpressive lead characters and villains." couldn't have said that better myself “Even taking the upcoming movie into account, it never really seemed to know where it wanted to go and while it definitely had some good points, it also just kept getting stuck at an endless love triangle with a bunch of unimpressive lead characters and villains.”

couldn’t have said that better myself

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