The narrator's voice is not only annoying, and often unneccesary, but also gives out wrong or contradictory information.
For example, in one episode, the narrator talks about Dolza's "ultimate goal" of destroying Earth. WHAT? This never came up until at least 6 episodes later, and clearly had not been in his mind until then.
Thenthere's the scene where Minmei goes home to visit her family and is reuinited with Kyle. The family refuse to allow her to return to the SDF-1, until Kyle says she should be able to make her own decisions, and, he'll go with her to make sure she's alright. So in the next episode, the narrator says her family INSISTED that Kyle go with her. WHAT?
Of course, the series has far more problems than that. Trying to forcibly connect 3 unrelated series was a mistake. EVERY time a reference to one of the other series crops up in MACROSS, it's like fingernails on a chalkboard. it just feels so WRONG.
Like in "Reconstruction Blues", where Rick is thinking to himself, and mentions The Robotech Masters. WHAT??? Where did that come from at all?
Or in "The Messenger" when Exedor casually mentions "retrieving the Protoculture factory"-- and NOBODY reacts to it. At all. Of course. They can't. In the orignal version, it DOESN'T EXIST.
But on top of that, I just watched "The Robotech Masters". That's why I checked out the IMDB today. It's listed as following "Reconstruction Blues". NO WAY. Everty single element of these 2 episodes screams that "The Robotech Masters" takes place immediately before "Reconstruction Blues", not after. The long stretches of focus on the immmeidate aftermath of total destruction; the beginnings of Zentadi going renegade and wanting to return to warliek ways; Kyle becoming a bigger jerk; and Minmei visiting her family, then heading to Granite City for a concert... where she was in "Reconstruction Blues". On top of all the problems this series has (to anyone sane watching it), HOW can they possibly run 2 episodes like that backwards-- and WHY is it listed that way on this site?
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doctorcrimedog
11 years ago
Because that's the order they aired in. If it was some transposition error, it was made in Japan, because the Japanese episodes aired in the same order.
I've often thought that the real test of how much someone likes a particular property is the extent to which they're willing to overlook its shortcomings. Robotech is a real challenge in that area-the show meant a lot to me as a teen, but even then I knew I was having to just ignore lots of problems: the overused and often incorrect narration, the awful Minmei music, people saying "huh" way too much, the sound guy who thought the audience needed to hear Sean Phillips say "Out with her Don Juan, where else?" echoed thirty times, the ever-shifting definition of Protoculture (the "power of love!" Miriya claims around episode 30 or so...or, you know, some kind of plant-energy), and so on. I do remember Carl Macek once said that the production schedule on the show was only two days per episode-scripting, recording, the whole shebang, so I guess some bad continuity and other such issues are understandable. As someone who works in video production, I have to say such a pace sounds positively nightmarish.
-There is no such word as "alot."
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heishiro
11 years ago
Don't go blaming the original series. In Macross Protoculture has only one meaning and Macross and Southern Cross were two completely different and unrelated series, so you can't really say they have continuity errors between them.
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doctorcrimedog
11 years ago
And when did I say otherwise? OBVIOUSLY I'm referring to continuity errors in the Robotech version. I never said word one about protoculture being confusing in the Japanese version. I'm quite thoroughly familiar with how the American show came into being. You seem to have read my previous post really quickly and completely missed the point of my reference to the Japanese version.
-There is no such word as "alot."
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