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Robotech 1x41 'Half Moon' FULL LENGTH Reaction & Review
🕑 Added 2024-10-05 14:19:16 +0000 UTCThe one where we learn how much Bowie means to Dana. Loving this leg of the series!
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Fury Roll
Thank you for the kind offer, my friend! I may very well take you up on it but I'll need to wait a bit until I cycle through LoVM and Agatha. Plus Lower Decks and Arcane are returning in the next few weeks. Going to need to stop sleeping if I want to watch all the things I want to watch :D
Chris Huston
This was a fun rewatch. π It helps that βHalf Moonβ is a damn good episode.
aspectsAK
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Griffen
I like Robotech as a whole, including Masters, but even I when rewatching the series will often skip Masters every other time. When I watch Masters I always forget it's better then I remember. I think it's the pacing. Macross and Next Generation just feel faster. The plot moves day to day. Masters, is a stalemate in the same region and feels like it drags a bit. Like WWII Blitzkrieg vs WWI's Trench War. Countries fell rapidly in WWII where in WWI years are spent over the same field. That's what Masters kinda feels like. Especially to a kid.
aspectsAK
Surprised Greg didn't say "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quick smoking." when he saw all the cigarettes in the ashtray.
Ken Cheng
Finally, on the issue of the SDF-1 ruins site and New Macross City. After Khyron's final attack ("To the Stars"), the United Earth Forces leadership (likely Rick, Lisa, Leonard, Emerson, Breetai, Exedore, and perhaps a few others) ordered the area sealed off. There were two reasons for this: first, the area really was dangerously irradiated and unsafe for people to be in for extended periods of time. Second, the UEF kind of had a vague awareness that some important Protoculture-related device (the matrix that makes Protoculture) was in there, but they hadn't identified or located it, and didn't want unauthorized parties to find it first. The Global Military Police (GMP) is primarily responsible for keeping interlopers out of this area.
Fury Roll
Excellent point, my friend!
Ken Cheng
Another factor that might have influenced the relative unpopularity of MASTERS in the 80s, other than the valid observations you offered, is that during that time, much of the audience was probably not accustomed to seeing a girl as the lead character of an action/adventure series. I mean...who else had audiences seen in that mold? Wonder Woman? She-Ra? Badass female action characters, especially as lead characters, were still a new concept in the 80s and not everybody was ready to embrace. I believe Dana was one of those characters who broke through, in a sense.
Ken Cheng
The third part of ROBOTECH is officially designated THE NEW GENERATION, though many fans refer to it as THE INVID INVASION or THE INVID WAR. That would have been spoilery had you not already watched THE SENTINELS and learned what the Invid are. The Masters themselves continually hint at the impending Invid Invasion throughout the second saga.
Ken Cheng
Their relationship somewhat parallels that of Roy Fokker and Rick Hunter, though there's much less of an age gap (Roy had good ten years on Rick; Dana might be a year older than Bowie). They do relate to each other almost like siblings, however.
