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Jun. 24th, 2016
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Jun. 24th, 2016 08:02 pmWatching Robotech II: The Sentinels for the first time in many many many years. It's always felt wierd to me as being "almost" Robotech, but I couldn't put my finger on why. It's not a terrible show by any means. The continuity is (mostly) spot on. The animation is really good in some spots (although really bad in others).
I think I figured it out there - everyone is so damned...well...cheery. This is okay with characters like Lisa and Minmei as well as Max and Rick. Cheery Breetai is...wierd. Cheery Miriya is some sort of pod person, to the point I think she's even a different voice actress and nothing like the Zentraedi amazon she was in Macross.
I seem to remember reading the final "movie" edit was REALLY rushed as it was done hot on the heels of cancellation while they still had production money. Maybe that's it. Or a different voice director.
Still would have loved to see the production finished up. Or read all the scripts. Or raid the Harmony Gold USA archives.
(If I hadn't spent an hour trying to get myself out of a sandpit on the way through Los Angeles, I did plan on buzzing the HG offices...I was only six miles away at the closest. :) )
I think I figured it out there - everyone is so damned...well...cheery. This is okay with characters like Lisa and Minmei as well as Max and Rick. Cheery Breetai is...wierd. Cheery Miriya is some sort of pod person, to the point I think she's even a different voice actress and nothing like the Zentraedi amazon she was in Macross.
I seem to remember reading the final "movie" edit was REALLY rushed as it was done hot on the heels of cancellation while they still had production money. Maybe that's it. Or a different voice director.
Still would have loved to see the production finished up. Or read all the scripts. Or raid the Harmony Gold USA archives.
(If I hadn't spent an hour trying to get myself out of a sandpit on the way through Los Angeles, I did plan on buzzing the HG offices...I was only six miles away at the closest. :) )
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Jun. 24th, 2016 09:05 pmJenn's Thought Process:
"Oh, what a lovely outfit. I bet if feels lovely on the skin. The colors are nice, and the cut is really cute and--"
"You would look ridiculous in it. Your shoulders and lack of waist will blow the seams out. That lovely neckline? You don't have a neck. And even if you DID find it in your size, all you'd get is a lot of stares, giggles and you remember those guys who laughed at you at the bus stop, and then came back around to get a pic? The guy who spit in your food? The screaming kids yelling at you in the bathrooms? So, yeah. Just put on your jeans, your pullover shirt and sneakers, like you do everyday. Cause the pain of androgyny is way less than the pain of mockery."
"--yeah...you're right. I don't even flinch when I'm misgendered anymore."
"Good girl."
"Oh, what a lovely outfit. I bet if feels lovely on the skin. The colors are nice, and the cut is really cute and--"
"You would look ridiculous in it. Your shoulders and lack of waist will blow the seams out. That lovely neckline? You don't have a neck. And even if you DID find it in your size, all you'd get is a lot of stares, giggles and you remember those guys who laughed at you at the bus stop, and then came back around to get a pic? The guy who spit in your food? The screaming kids yelling at you in the bathrooms? So, yeah. Just put on your jeans, your pullover shirt and sneakers, like you do everyday. Cause the pain of androgyny is way less than the pain of mockery."
"--yeah...you're right. I don't even flinch when I'm misgendered anymore."
"Good girl."
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Jun. 24th, 2016 10:39 pm"Will we be barred from the Eurovision Song Contest?"
Sophie from Peterborough, who asks the question, need not worry. We have consulted Alasdair Rendall, president of the UK Eurovision fan club, who says: "All participating countries must be a member of the European Broadcasting Union. The EBU - which is totally independent of the EU - includes countries both inside and outside of the EU, and also includes countries such as Israel that are outside of Europe. Indeed the UK started participating in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1957, 16 years before joining the then EEC."
Sophie from Peterborough, who asks the question, need not worry. We have consulted Alasdair Rendall, president of the UK Eurovision fan club, who says: "All participating countries must be a member of the European Broadcasting Union. The EBU - which is totally independent of the EU - includes countries both inside and outside of the EU, and also includes countries such as Israel that are outside of Europe. Indeed the UK started participating in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1957, 16 years before joining the then EEC."