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That happened kind of fast...
Feb. 5th, 2008 05:51 pmNot that long after I got just a little excited about Robotech returning to (cable) television on the "Space" channel, and four weeks after the series started showing there, I've discovered that it's been shifted in the schedule from 5 in the afternoon to 11 in the morning, when it would seem that just about anyone who would actually be watching the show would have to record it for later viewing. A gloomy part of me started wondering if the series will even run its full length, much less repeat... and then, I happened to remember that two decades ago, back around the time when Robotech was first on the air, one of my local television stations would show its cartoons at noon, and I would get my parents to set the VCR to tape them. Nostalgia, it seems, trumps depression.
Another thought that I had was that, showing two episodes a day five days a week, the channel had at least got through the "Macross Saga" part of Robotech. That, though, started me wondering about whether anyone would draw grander conclusions from that. Some Robotech fans seem to adhere to as fixed a party line of acceptance and rejection as some Star Wars fans seem to, and that line is to look with approving eyes at "The Macross Saga" but more or less look down on "Masters," the second segment of Robotech created by tricky dubbing of a second anime series. I suppose my mild and accepting mind just doesn't like to reject things, as I once became interested in the declarations of a few Robotech fans that, in fact, the real core of Robotech as a story is in "Masters," where the eponymous controllers of the Zentraedi and real drivers of the story meet their fate, setting up the more generally approved of (but not stand-alone, at least so far as those fans thought) third part of Robotech, "The New Generation." I suppose that to my mind, if you're going to see any merit to Robotech itself (what with a new, faithful dub of Macross itself), it should be viewed as an improvised unit and not just as one anime series stretched out to make it more saleable in syndication. Of course, those fans at times seemed at times to take a very dry approach to the whole series, and a lot of people who made a noisy point of disliking "Masters" also made a noisy point of disliking its characters...
Another thought that I had was that, showing two episodes a day five days a week, the channel had at least got through the "Macross Saga" part of Robotech. That, though, started me wondering about whether anyone would draw grander conclusions from that. Some Robotech fans seem to adhere to as fixed a party line of acceptance and rejection as some Star Wars fans seem to, and that line is to look with approving eyes at "The Macross Saga" but more or less look down on "Masters," the second segment of Robotech created by tricky dubbing of a second anime series. I suppose my mild and accepting mind just doesn't like to reject things, as I once became interested in the declarations of a few Robotech fans that, in fact, the real core of Robotech as a story is in "Masters," where the eponymous controllers of the Zentraedi and real drivers of the story meet their fate, setting up the more generally approved of (but not stand-alone, at least so far as those fans thought) third part of Robotech, "The New Generation." I suppose that to my mind, if you're going to see any merit to Robotech itself (what with a new, faithful dub of Macross itself), it should be viewed as an improvised unit and not just as one anime series stretched out to make it more saleable in syndication. Of course, those fans at times seemed at times to take a very dry approach to the whole series, and a lot of people who made a noisy point of disliking "Masters" also made a noisy point of disliking its characters...