Episode #31 Khyron's Revenge
The animation looks pretty rough. I know these last episodes were tacked on but it does look unusually rough here at the beginning.
In the second scene the Masters decide on their ultimate fate: to spend the 15 years to travel to Earth (meanwhile developing one of the Zor clones along the way). This major story point was probably above the heads of kids back then but what did they care?!
The mechanical animation of this episode is rough but the character animation is really good.
Rick is a short dude but the Mayor of New Detroit looks like a midget compared to him!
Oh crap, there's Kyle again! What, Khyron is wearing the same clothes? Sheesh.
New Detroit gets EVERYTHING it deserves! Ha!
Rick's Left Wing pilot looks funny.
With every one's use of the term Protoculture (i.e. Protoculture chamber) it seems the populace knows about this mystic material.
Gloval goes on this imaginary tale about how Protoculture came about. It's totally wrong but whatever. Now I realize that as far as the cartoon goes, that is the story and it was only additional materials that turned that story on it's head.
I find the whole conversation by all the RDF guys pure speculation and totally unnecessarily. It seemed like a lot of time filler.
When Kyle takes off in the car with Minmei in the back seat he hands something to her and says 'here, hold this'. I wonder what that was...
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Episode #32 Broken Heart
The battle scene a the beginning is kinda strange. They use strange terms and Lisa looks different.
What the heck is Lisa doing right there in the middle of the action?
The Zentraedi riding on the Battlepods look cool.
When the bad guys attack the concert hall why don't the Zentraedi in the audience fight back? They are warriors. It appears that if you give up the warrior lifestyle you become a weak and feeble.
Khyron talks about wanting to leave the planet while in the comic he longs to rejoin the Masters.
When Rick jumps into his jet during the Star Saver operation the cockpit is WAY over sized! It's huge!
Where did Khyron get chicken legs THAT big?! I wonder if you could put a regular sized chicken leg in a sizing chamber... That would solve the world's starving masses!
Those forks that make up Kyle's and Minmei's cage have gaps big enough to crawl through.
The lighting of the cigarette with the auto cannon is great. However that Zentraedi is waring a completely different uniform.
Azonia rides her mecha like a true lady; side saddle.
I can't believe that Khyron's little troop could hold up against that many MAC II Monsters.
Rick's Guardian takes the lid off Minmie's prison but then a few moments later we see him rip if off again.
At the end Minmei has to run a looooong way to get to Rick. She seems to be running forever.
Rick super leaps into his Guardian.
What's with Lisa's look at the very end of the episode? Strange...
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Episode #33 A Rainy Night
Sure Claudia... tea... sure it is... lol.
I freeze-framed the shot where Rick is climbing out of his Veritech. Something didn't look quite right. What looks like the 'head' lasers are way too high on his plane. They are on the side of the body. In fact his debarking ladder goes between the lasers... strange.
Vanessa's thought about Lisa being hung up on Rick is very perceptive. Rick seems genuinely surprised when Vanessa tells him Lisa is in love with him. Is he THAT dense?!
Rick's curtains are very transparent, he better not run around the house naked.
Lisa sure puts that Burgundy away. This is a very adult scene in a kids show. I wonder if any parents just happened to be watching when this scene happened (and I wonder what they thought)?
Claudia (in her remembrance of her waiting for Roy when he shows up with a carload of girls) looks at her watch in a strange way. She looks at the inside of her wrist. This is how I used to wear a watch (back before phones took over). I didn't wear them because of Claudia! My brother used to wear his that way and I did followed his lead)
When Claudia remembers giving Roy back his presents you can see the 'under construction' SDF-1 in the background!
When Roy meets Claudia outside in the rain he seems to have grown up from earlier in the day when he looked WAYYYYYY younger.
Claudia and Lisa are both earring fuzzy green house slippers.
It seems in the future phones got bigger, Claudia's is pretty big.
Rick's uniform changes color while he and Lisa walk home... its Robotechnology!
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Episode #34 Private Time
I always thought that when Lisa is chewing that little squiggle line looks funny.
I'm sure that map she looks at can clue me in to where the show's creators placed New Macross but I can't bother to find it out.
Rick is such a BUTT HEAD! Why would you do that??!!!! The book makes Rick a bit less jerk-like with his thoughts of quickly getting back to Lisa, but the Rick from the show just ditches Lisa... jerk!
Lisa has the patience of a rock! I'd have left a half hour after Rick didn't turn up.
The piano player just replays the same song after we come back from checking in on Lisa.
Oh no... Kyle! Rick just lets him be an ass to Minmei, what a wimp.
When Rick drinks he is the kind of person who is a 'sad drunk'.
Communication officer Mitchell is the Velma of Robotech.
The Zentraedi shooting at tiny humans is gruesome!
The Zentraedi shoot at Rick's Gladiator and the bolts do nothing! It's like Rick has the power to make the useless Gladiator a real fighting machine.
The character art changes in this episode from shot to shot. It looks like different companies worked on this episode.
Cooking?! Lisa made sandwiches... that is not cooking.
Rick has the AUDACITY to wrap his new 'cheater scarf' around Lisa! J E R K!!!
Kyle says Minmei is going to sing her latest hit 'We Will Win'. Uhhhhh 2 issues:
1.) The music that starts up is Stagefright.
2.) We Will Win was first performed over 2 years ago! Latest hit?! We call that 'A HAS BEEN'.
Kyle finally leaves! Woooohoooo! Its sad but at the same time... its party time!
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Episode #35 Seasons Greetings
How is it Khyron started in the snow and now he is in the Amazon?
Zentraedi working on the ship? I thought they couldn't fix anything?
Evil Santa giving out black balloons!
Whoa, it's a black pilot! The RDF finally stopped being racist (or something)...
You can tell this animation team did the first episodes. The character's have their original looks.
Rico, Konda, and Bron's booth is labeled Toys, Plastics. Which brilliant marketing minds thought that would entice kids? Perhaps the former spies did it, they might not know what might work.
What's up with Rick's apron? And look, he is wearing those popular fuzzy slippers.
In Rick's apartment you can see that little radio he used to have back on the SDF-1, remember when he was in the hospital and he was listening to Minmie on it?
Claudia runs to the bar to drink to Roy's memory... Ut oh, Lisa runs into relationship problems and hits the bottle!
Minmie in Rick's shirt, sitting in bed looks HOT!
The animation is great in this episode!
Hey, the store clerk has the same radio as Rick.
The radio report (which takes place 'late into the night') says that the first attacks took place six hours earlier. If you remember they attacked on Christmas morning... Its Robotechnology!
The moment of spirituality in this episode WOULD NOT BE ALLOWED in a cartoon now-a-days.
There's the SDF-1 (being lit up with Christmas lights), but where o where is the SDF-2?
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