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Bad News To Wake Up To
I got up this morning contemplating posting a thought or two about finally getting to see the first episode of the new series of Doctor Who. (To abbreviate: there were changes in many ways as expected, but also continuity; I'm interested in what's to come but wondering if some of that comes from having followed the opinions of someone able to deal with the various controversies that seem to get whipped up over just how the stories for the various "companions" get wrapped up.) Then, though, I saw news that Carl Macek had died of a sudden heart attack, and that weighed more on me. Some of that unpleasant surprise might have come from his having done a podcast interview with the Anime News Network just a few months ago... but I balanced old thoughts that his different projects through the decades weren't always continued successes with the thought that he did keep working, and remembered that before I was able to "follow up" on Robotech by moving into the larger world of anime, I had been able to stay interested in its story for a decade, and I'm still able to mull over it now.
I was also reminded of when I heard years ago that Brian Daley, one half of the duo who had written the Robotech novels under a pen name, had died. It was on a Robotech mailing list whose members tended to have issues with the differences between the series and the novels, but an effort was made to hold down unpleasant comments. Imagining various people reacting in similar ways to then, I'm recalling again a thought I had that just because hypothetical cases can be stated of how anime fandom could have waxed in North America without Robotech, that can't be made to deny that Robotech did have an impact...
I was also reminded of when I heard years ago that Brian Daley, one half of the duo who had written the Robotech novels under a pen name, had died. It was on a Robotech mailing list whose members tended to have issues with the differences between the series and the novels, but an effort was made to hold down unpleasant comments. Imagining various people reacting in similar ways to then, I'm recalling again a thought I had that just because hypothetical cases can be stated of how anime fandom could have waxed in North America without Robotech, that can't be made to deny that Robotech did have an impact...