In response to Dav's most recent post
Mar. 25th, 2006 09:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sethrakBeen meaning to post about this for a while.
For the record, Robotech's version of Minmei is why I have "stabbling Minmei" as one of my LJ interests.
It is thus far a unique interest. ::preens::
Now that they're follwing the original storyline, she comes across as slightly less of a manipulative skanky ho, and more of a complete naive twit who wouldn't get a guy's overtures if she got whacked with a clue-by-four the size of a sequoia.
I mean, come on! A man gives her his newly awarded medal, as a desparation move to avoid her wrath for being late getting her a birthday gift - late because he was helping to save the lives of everyone on board, again, and how does she respond?
"Oooooh, shiny thing! Don't know what it is, but what do I care? It's shiny! Yay!"
No appreciation for the depth of that gift at all. I so wanted to throttle her.
She does the same thing in Robotech mind you, just comes across as more "I am deliberately denigrating this special gift so as to keep you further in my thrall, flailing helplessly to please me somehow".
One of the biggest improvements so far has been the alteration in Roy's character. Evidently, the people in charge of Americanizing Macross into Robotech back in the 80's were so desperate to save America's youth from Roy's blatant skirt-chasing and lechery, that they turned him into a creepy pedophile with unsavory intentions towards Rick.
How this was an improvement in their eyes escapes my comprehension.
The overall plot seems to flow better, too. It's a pity they couldn't do something about "Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, my boyfriend is a pilot", but I don't think anything could have saved that song. Not anything that wouldn't have incurred the almighty wrath of the fanboys, anyway. ^_^
For the record, Robotech's version of Minmei is why I have "stabbling Minmei" as one of my LJ interests.
It is thus far a unique interest. ::preens::
Now that they're follwing the original storyline, she comes across as slightly less of a manipulative skanky ho, and more of a complete naive twit who wouldn't get a guy's overtures if she got whacked with a clue-by-four the size of a sequoia.
I mean, come on! A man gives her his newly awarded medal, as a desparation move to avoid her wrath for being late getting her a birthday gift - late because he was helping to save the lives of everyone on board, again, and how does she respond?
"Oooooh, shiny thing! Don't know what it is, but what do I care? It's shiny! Yay!"
No appreciation for the depth of that gift at all. I so wanted to throttle her.
She does the same thing in Robotech mind you, just comes across as more "I am deliberately denigrating this special gift so as to keep you further in my thrall, flailing helplessly to please me somehow".
One of the biggest improvements so far has been the alteration in Roy's character. Evidently, the people in charge of Americanizing Macross into Robotech back in the 80's were so desperate to save America's youth from Roy's blatant skirt-chasing and lechery, that they turned him into a creepy pedophile with unsavory intentions towards Rick.
How this was an improvement in their eyes escapes my comprehension.
The overall plot seems to flow better, too. It's a pity they couldn't do something about "Zoom, zoom, zoom, zoom, my boyfriend is a pilot", but I don't think anything could have saved that song. Not anything that wouldn't have incurred the almighty wrath of the fanboys, anyway. ^_^
