天下制覇

Yarr. Our Geneva Conventions are based on the Pirate Code.

Impressions:

Good lord. Did we really begin this episode by dragging them in front of the royal court and chatting with them about how great singing is? Well, it's cheap to do, only involves talking heads, and we haven't masturbated enough to the greatness of pop idols, so of course we did. Meanwhile, that one red-haired guy continues to have the decorum of a goddamned four year old. Everyone else is happy to simply stand there impassively (and cheaply) while he angrily screams at how the prisoners of war don't 100% share their world views while the guards stand around like trees. And then they decide to execute them by making them walk the plank. It would seem there is no level of stupid to which this cannot descend.

The second half (more like last five minutes) was a little more of what I'd think people expect from Macross, which is to say actual idol masturbation and half-assed dog fights. I'm a little confused as to why they didn't take out literally the entire enemy military forces while they were defenseless after rescuing the three morons, but we've established they're all morons long ago. The only things of note to actually happen is that one of them took a glancing shot from a sniper (and it's all Freyja's fault!), and Mikumo went into another one of her naked astral trances, which means, uh… something something super duper magic song of destiny.