Macross δ #12 — A Week Without Idols

June 19th, 2016

 

A week without goddamned anything. Again.

Re:Zero post may be a little late due to some social stuff… and the remarkable amount of antipathy it's created for itself with that extended horrendous last arc. Or not. My personal schedule is in flux at the moment, although my fatigue with it is not.

Impressions:

After the big cliffhanger last week being the only thing that happened, this week's going to be intense, right? Of course not. We're going to begin with a slow invasion, zero shots fired, just obnoxious singing, as everyone gasps over the power. Following that, it's time for a mission briefing! And then a status update. And then more briefings! And then teenagers sitting on the deck with apples, talking about their feelings! And then more teenager crap. But wait, the alarm finally sounded that it's time for something to happen, which means that it's time for an extended launch sequence aaaaaand the episode's over. With a particularly insulting declaration that "it's begun." No, Macross. Go cock yourself with a halibut for this godawful episode.

So that's two episodes in a row now where the only thing to happen are "large thing launches into space." This episode didn't even have an obnoxious idol concert. How are you going to sell your CDs if you're not constantly shilling them? Congratulations, Macross. As this season winds down, you're managing to match Re:Zero in sheer bloody minded refusal to do goddamned anything or have a single goddamned thing happen. 

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5 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Germanguy says:
    June 19, 2016 at 9:12 am

    Well, at last their Giant Macross is still capable of flying into space, i was afraid they took some things out of it to create the outpost. But seems not like it

  • algorithm says:
    June 19, 2016 at 10:46 am

    I (slighthly)dared hope that we’d get an action packed two parts mid season climax after the endless flow of nothing that came before, surely all the budget saving must go somewhere right? Sure this is Satelight and they’re mostly cheap, but Frontier came out like 9 years ago and delivered on the action and craziness while putting lots of money into their pockets. Money that obviously didn’t go into making a popular franchise worth the time anymore. I’m done. Good luck for the rest, god knows you’ll need it.

    • Opulent Rag says:
      June 19, 2016 at 2:23 pm

      [I (slighthly)dared hope that we’d get an action packed two parts mid season climax after the endless flow of nothing that came before, surely all the budget saving must go somewhere right?]

      Of course it did, look at all that crisp cgi that just throws itself at you with realism. Look at all the diverse character designs with “cool” looking dudes and all the pretty waifus and not to mention the “totally awesome” alien races.

      Fuck me, they’ll make their money back with merchandising, and that’s just the shit part of the industry.

  • Opulent Rag says:
    June 19, 2016 at 2:15 pm

    Gaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwd! I know the previous Macross series weren’t exactly award winners, but fuck me this one was shit balls. I’m completely convinced that this whole series was made to sponsor and shill idol crap and wank pillows.

  • arknoir says:
    June 21, 2016 at 5:07 am

    I’m here for the eventual evil purple sheryl death.

    will say this crap motivated me to play MACROSS VF-X2 again.