![]() Yes, that's right, the fascist militant antagonist B.D. We also see Southern Cross fighters that aren't invented until halfway through that series showing up in this alleged prequel, and the same stock footage used for the "cloning of Zor" bits dropped into the later Macross episodes gets used again for the "cloning of B.D." part of this film. (I say "supposedly" because the Robotech Masters start off by mentioning how "the masters that came before us failed to recover the blah blah blah," as if to imply that it actually came after the Southern Cross series, just to help smooth out our sense of comprehension.) The fact that one of their ships is brought down on earth and the Masters themselves speak to the head of the earth military makes one wonder how our heroes manage to completely forget that they've met, fought, and defeated these same enemies when they show up in the TV series. Supposedly taking place between the Macross and Southern Cross series, we have the Robotech Masters showing up five years before they "finally reach earth" AGAIN at the start of Southern Cross. It could be expected that the resultant film would bear little or no similarity to the original Megazone 23, but it also utterly fails to fit into the continuity of Robotech. Not only that, but the footage as it's seen to be edited in the Megazone part 2 prologue is edited differently in Robotech: The Movie itself, and by "differently" I mean "much worse.") (Note: the english dub of Megazone part 2 that was dubbed by Harmony Gold for the Japanese market and has been floating around for ages contains this extra footage at the beginning, even though it cannot possibly fit into the continuity of the original story. You'd think-or wish-that they'd had the sense to make some new footage bridging this character gap. The design sense was radically different between the two anime, as well, and of course characters from the two shows never interacted, even though Harmony Gold had about ten minutes of new animation made for the ending-since Megazone had originally ended on a cliffhanger, and its sequel had completely different character designs, they needed to wrap things up somehow, after all. One of the components, Megazone 23, was shot on 35 millimeter the other, the Southern Cross series, was on 16 millimeter. Here, we have two unrelated anime intercut, and it shows. With the original show, the three series that comprised it were seen in succession. ![]() "A" Robotech movie, maybe, but not THIS Robotech movie. Robotech: The Movie might've been okay in concept, but the actual execution was awful. For what it was, Robotech was way ahead of its peers. Joe and the Thundercats weren't cutting it for me in the entertainment department.
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