I'm not even certain if I have my own opinion on the three "returning characters" in Macross 7, as I really only buckled down into the series after I'd become well acquainted with your own opinion... Perhaps I just tried not to think about them that much. However, I did actually watch the first five episodes of the series on their own a while before, and it did bother me slightly just that Max and Milia had "split up"... although I might have had a thought or two that "their" (so to speak) "togetherness" in the Sentinels novels sometimes seemed a little too warm and fuzzy for me. (On the other hand, I also had ambiguous thoughts about how much trouble Miriya seemed to be having getting along in "The Zentraedi Rebellion" after an impression that she had done fine for herself in the novels published previously...)
Probably, you're not missing very much by having skipped the remaining bits of Macross 7. Now, in the later episodes of the series I kept telling myself "it's the add-on technology that actually makes his 'song' mean something" and "maybe 'song' is just convenient shorthand for 'inner resolve towards a non-extermination resolution' or something"... although I wasn't exactly fond of what seemed a trace of "get behind or get out of the way" in the storytelling. "Success at last through never changing one's approach" might not bother me quite as much, but I'm still not quite fond of that either.
(I suppose I did think on getting through the series that I could now seek out your detailed criticism of the "Protodevlin" at last, and to at least some degree want to see it...)
All things considered, I do find myself liking Azumanga Daioh more than Lucky Star... I may have heard almost the same suggestion about the latter that displeased you, although I suppose it didn't have the same impact on me.
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Probably, you're not missing very much by having skipped the remaining bits of Macross 7. Now, in the later episodes of the series I kept telling myself "it's the add-on technology that actually makes his 'song' mean something" and "maybe 'song' is just convenient shorthand for 'inner resolve towards a non-extermination resolution' or something"... although I wasn't exactly fond of what seemed a trace of "get behind or get out of the way" in the storytelling. "Success at last through never changing one's approach" might not bother me quite as much, but I'm still not quite fond of that either.
(I suppose I did think on getting through the series that I could now seek out your detailed criticism of the "Protodevlin" at last, and to at least some degree want to see it...)
All things considered, I do find myself liking Azumanga Daioh more than Lucky Star... I may have heard almost the same suggestion about the latter that displeased you, although I suppose it didn't have the same impact on me.