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Destroy All Podcasts DX Episode 57 - Macross Zero

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El oh el @ giant

El oh el @ giant menstruating vagina.

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Posted by GogDog on 31 May, 2008 - 21:59
Well, the thing with Macross

Well, the thing with Macross having all this cool technology in 2008 is because most of that tech came from the Macross crashing in 1999, right? So obviously their timeline would differ from ours.

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Posted by GogDog on 31 May, 2008 - 22:13
Fill up your truck for 11$!!!

Speaking of predictions of the future from the 1980s:

I got bored and watched part 7 of the Bubblegum Crisis "Double Vision" yesterday. As the truck with the crab mecha is driving up to the G&B building in the beginning of the show, it stops for gas. The driver pays with a 10$ bill and a 1$ bill. Maybe gas prices go down in 2038?

Going back to the original Macross series, I don't think anyone owned a personal computer and they definitely didn't use cellphones. I haven't seen Macross Zero, so I don't know if they went back and put those in.

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Posted by account15 on 1 June, 2008 - 07:55
I absolutely LOVED Macross

I absolutely LOVED Macross Zero. It's in my top 3 Macross series.

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Posted by Mike on 31 May, 2008 - 23:02
I'm not a cranky pants.

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

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Posted by Destroy All Pod... on 1 June, 2008 - 09:15
Future Good

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

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Posted by Destroy All Pod... on 1 June, 2008 - 16:29
I don't mean to bee an ass,

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

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Posted by GogDog on 1 June, 2008 - 17:31
Obtuse?

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

-J

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Posted by Destroy All Pod... on 1 June, 2008 - 16:31
live it up now...

Well, if Macross Zero is happening right now (2008), then you better live it up while you can. 98% of us will be dead in 2010 when episode 27 of the original Macross happens.

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Posted by account15 on 1 June, 2008 - 08:03
So for the HK subs for the

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.

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Posted by Daikengo on 1 June, 2008 - 09:46
We read that for the

We read that for the lulz.

-Andrew

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Posted by Destroy All Pod... on 1 June, 2008 - 15:00
Yeah

That was the joke! The letter was ridiculously long!

-Jeremy

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Posted by Destroy All Pod... on 1 June, 2008 - 16:32
VF-0 with another plane on top... GENIUS!

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.

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Posted by ..NXS.. on 2 June, 2008 - 10:48
Yeah, I am aware of the idea

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

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Posted by Destroy All Pod... on 3 June, 2008 - 16:40
I think macross zero was the

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.

Transformer and other robot art by me on my DA site blitz-wing.deviantart.com

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Posted by Blitz on 3 June, 2008 - 06:18
I'd say Michael's a fair bit

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

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Posted by Mike on 3 June, 2008 - 19:52
Huh?

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

-Jeremy

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Posted by Destroy All Pod... on 3 June, 2008 - 21:24
Same and same....

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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Posted by ..NXS.. on 24 June, 2008 - 09:54