After growing up with Robotech, The Macross Saga, with all the backstory, beautiful musical score, constant drama mixed with the occasional funny moment, and everything else that made it wonderful (not including Minmei's voice
), I thought that the original would be even better.
EEEEEEEERNK! WRO~NG!!!!The show had almost NO backstory, aside from "In the year 1999, an alien spaceship landed on Earth," and ten years later the Zentron show up out of nowhere, saying... hey, let's check this planet; oh look! there's a ship down there, let's go chase it around the galaxy. At least in Robotech, they had a REASON to go look for it - to get it back after Zor sent it to Earth and use it against the Invid.
The music was terrible, and several times when there should have been dramatic music to make the scenes more intense, THERE WAS NONE! Maybe the only thing I liked about the audio in that show was Minmei's songs.
The other thing I loved: Oh yes, the ship was taken command of by the UN, so OF COURSE 99% of the crew is going to be JAPANESE!!! NOT FRIGGIN LIKELY!!! At least in Robotech there was more of a diverse group. Some were from Canada, or the US, or England - even Emil Lang, from whom I get my name, was from Germany, and Captain Gloval was Russian! Thank you, you overly nationalistic, xenophobic, and unimaginative Japanese creators, for once again stroking your egos by saying that only your people and maybe two Americans are capable to piloting an alien spaceship. At least Star Trek had Chekov and Scotty, and Spock wasn't even human entirely!
To add insult to injury, the story was originally meant to be a "light-hearted, comedic war show."
NO! BAD JAPANESE WRITERS! That show reaked of pain over lost comrads, strong anti-war overtones, angst from unrequited love, and even the origin of humanity and what it means to BE human; and you're going to try and make that into a comedy!? Apparently, they didn't realize they had a powerful Anime classic in the making until about 3/4 of the way through.If you loved Robotech, The Macross Saga, do not, I repeat, DO NOT get the original Super Dimensional Fortress Macross... I suggest Macross Plus, Macross II, or Macross Zero over this; maybe even Macross Seven. Perhaps it's okay if you've never seen Robotech, but if you have, STAY FAR, FAR AWAY!
, another mistake.....that movie was pure garbage.
. I now remember how everyone was so obsessed with going to see the movie, including myself 
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