Alpha Strike wrote:so what did ya think of it Reggae?
Honestly...I could tell that it had potential, but the delivery wasn't as complete as it could have been. I was actually ok with the new characters--Maia was forgettable as the tough female fighter jock archetype, and Janice annoyed me, but Marcus and Alex were done well.
As for the animation, most of the CG was good, and certainly told the story--I had a hard time not judging it against Macross Zero, though. The cell animation seemed to waver between excellent and standard, moreso of the latter as the movie went on.
As for the story itself--it feels like they were trying to cover too much ground while allowing for retcons in previous canonical plot points. For example, it would have been cool to see Scott's freedom fighters (all the more so because Lunk's APV is seen at one point). It was a let-down in that we didn't see much of Rick or the SDF-3, which was used as a selling point of the DVD. Ditto the use of the Haydonites as the ones who defoliated the Invid homeworld, which had always been established as being done by the Zentraedi. I know that Harmony Gold can't use any Macross references because of Big West's injunction against them, but still...
That said, however, I bought it, and while I'm ambivalent about it, I can't say that I regret owning it.
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