Comments on: Destroy All Podcasts DX Episode 57 - Macross Zero

Same and same....

..NXS.. — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:54:36 -0400

characters all the time... Ozma is Roy, Princess(alto) is Hikaru, Michel is Max. Off course there is a twist to them, Michel is kinda bitchy and Princess (alto) is more depressed than 'i dunno what am i doing here' hikaru.

that;s why i love it, in the end.....

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Huh?

Destroy All Podcasts DX — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:24:32 -0400

What are you talking about? Michel is way too femmey to be like Roy. Ozma is clearly our Roy surrogate.

-Jeremy

I'd say Michael's a fair bit

Mike — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:52:31 -0400

I'd say Michael's a fair bit different from Roy.

Yeah, I am aware of the idea

Destroy All Podcasts DX — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:40:59 -0400

Yeah, I am aware of the idea that it's not a new idea. I just love the jury-rigged nature of the VF-0. I also think the VF-0 plus the Ghost looks really cool. Otherwise I wouldn't have the toy.

-Andrew

I think macross zero was the

Blitz — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:18:41 -0400

I think macross zero was the 2nd macross thing I've seen (the first being macross plus that I really liked)I wasn't won over with the story but I didn't care much I just liked it for the Roy moments and the robots. I sorta wish they would of just made it a show about Roy he was far more interesting then that other guy. saying that Frontier seems to have his zentrati copy cat in the show with Michael Blanc so I might get what I wish for from him.
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VF-0 with another plane on top... GENIUS!

..NXS.. — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:48:23 -0400

Andrew, the idea of that is as old as the Nazis...
In the last times of the 3rd Reich (circa 1944), somebody there thought of filling an old bomber with TNT, attach a manned (smaller) fighter plane on top, use the bomber engines to fly to the target, have the pilot on top of the fighter realease the bobmer at full speed at the target, and fly back to base. That helped them against the Russians, at the end of the war, when they blew up a couple of bridges leading to Berlin, slowing the reds for like...mmm./.... two days.

Here goes an image of the crazy looking Mistel:

http://www.aeronautics.ru/archive/wwii/photos/gallery_005/Mistel%201%20-%20Bf%20109F%20&%20Ju%2088.jpg

In my opinion, the VF-0 with the ghost on top looks nice, I love its profile.

..NXS..
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I don't mean to bee an ass,

GogDog — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:31:09 -0400

I don't mean to bee an ass, but you're acting rather douche-y.

Well

Atom — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:58:32 -0400

Well again, mediocre in YOUR opinion. I generally don't take much stock in it as I mentioned in my first post.

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Yeah

Destroy All Podcasts DX — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:32:30 -0400

That was the joke! The letter was ridiculously long!

-Jeremy

Obtuse?

Destroy All Podcasts DX — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:31:34 -0400

The problem is not so much that the ending is obtuse. It's more that the ending is stupid and dramatically unfulfilling.

-J

Future Good

Destroy All Podcasts DX — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 17:29:35 -0400

A mediocre show does not become a good show because another series five years later tries to explain its badly executed ending.

You can't give it a pass because someone tried to clean it up later.

-Jeremy

We read that for the

Destroy All Podcasts DX — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:00:56 -0400

We read that for the lulz.

-Andrew

Zero Movie could make it better

Atom — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:25:00 -0400

I agree that a movie version could tighten it up a bit, though I would need to re-watch the series to be able to discuss the finer points of the arguments. It's been a good year since I watched it.

I'm not suggesting a pass for it being used in Frontier but a wait and see as far as if it comes full circle or not. If what Jeremy says is correct and Zero was a test bed/test reel to get Frontier going maybe the creators knew going into Zero they would call back to events in it when Frontier got going.

I would disagree with you on the Macross 7 statement; I personally found what little of 7 I could get through pretty too far removed from what I found attractive in the Macross franchise as far Science Fiction goes. If Frontier devolved into that level of camp I would be pretty disapointed.The fan service Frontier does devolve too as far as the woman in the show go is at moments borderline for my taste. While Frontier does have a "good" sense of humor it is not campy, I expect it to get rather thoughtful and seriously executed when we get to the "meat" of what is going on in the bigger scope of the story.

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So for the HK subs for the

Daikengo — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:46:13 -0400

So for the HK subs for the original Getter Robo, Michiru is called "Man", which is pretty funny I guess.

I watched Macross Zero about 2 years ago or something. I don't remember liking it all that much, the only thing I remember liking was Akira Kamiya returning and some of the mech designs.
And yeah, it'd do a lot better as some kind of compilation movie.

Oh yeah, if you're gonna read out feedback, at least pick out ones that AREN'T THE LONGEST THING EVER WRITTEN.

I'm not a cranky pants.

Destroy All Podcasts DX — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:15:34 -0400

I'm not a cranky pants. :(

My own take on the ending is that it's not as obtuse as Jeremy makes it out to be. Although, I'm not sure if we should give it a pass just because of what Frontier is doing with the concepts now. Zero could stand to be a little tighter. I wonder if an actual movie version is in the works. Probably not though, since Plus got a movie because it was written to be a movie. I can only hope Frontier's take on Zero is just as funny as 7's take on DYRL. Maybe they'll use that rooftop VF-1 to represent the VF-0 haha.

-Andrew