Funnily enough, I managed to both despise Dana and be happy that she wasn't the cool-as-ice legacy character who would bring greatness to the family name.
I had picked up on the second part of your opinion from things I'd seen you post, but not the first... oh well. Maybe traces of "hybrid angst" crept into the novels at points, but they also worked in a good bit of "separation issues" as well.
As far as "how their lives played out in the original," I did find myself wondering a little as I rewatched Southern Cross if I was getting a sense of "things suggested but not quite developed," specifically whether there were hints of that classic science fiction idea of "emotions denied!", but no more, and noticing how members of "broken triads" were being stuck in out-of-the-way places, but again no more delving into the idea.
As to Bowie and Musica (what was her original name? Muselle?) it's again one of those moments of serendipity: she's one of a triad of green-haired alien women who fall for the pretty male hero, even if they're initially on opposing sides. Such a coincidence is kind of scary.
Actually, she's "Musica" in the Southern Cross subtitles as well, but her fellow clones are "Muselle" and "Musiere." To some extent, this difference from Robotech had me thinking her fellow clones were somehow "less important," but I then wondered if this was more just my reaction to two names being changed and one not, and originally it was just supposed to mean "they're all supposed to be just the same." (And I do get the impression that both Musica's fellow clones are shot in the last episode and she's only able to talk to one of them, but maybe that plays off of a feeling I had in reading "The End of the Circle" that there was a bit too much of a sense of the two survivors now being "parts of a broken whole.")
I suppose I can think Bowie seems to become quite smitten with Musica, and also gets into trouble with his own side for it, but it still may not be the same thing. Maybe this amiable interest is just the result of looking into the booklet in the DVD case, and noticing that Musica's Japanese voice actress also played the lead female role in the baseball anime "Touch," which I've seen... then, I also saw (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=282) she played the lead role in "Gunbuster" as well.
So far as I've figured things out, my personal theory about Robotech: Masters is that the "ordinary" Bioroid pilots are "androids" and the "citizens" are "clones." Now, a number of ideas about "the original Masters" are bouncing around in my head...
The novels also made the point of resemblance between Louie and Exedore at one point, suggesting it was a deliberate effort on Louie's part. I suppose it's easy enough for me to remember that now...
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Date: 2009-07-25 10:24 pm (UTC)I had picked up on the second part of your opinion from things I'd seen you post, but not the first... oh well. Maybe traces of "hybrid angst" crept into the novels at points, but they also worked in a good bit of "separation issues" as well.
As far as "how their lives played out in the original," I did find myself wondering a little as I rewatched Southern Cross if I was getting a sense of "things suggested but not quite developed," specifically whether there were hints of that classic science fiction idea of "emotions denied!", but no more, and noticing how members of "broken triads" were being stuck in out-of-the-way places, but again no more delving into the idea.
As to Bowie and Musica (what was her original name? Muselle?) it's again one of those moments of serendipity: she's one of a triad of green-haired alien women who fall for the pretty male hero, even if they're initially on opposing sides. Such a coincidence is kind of scary.
Actually, she's "Musica" in the Southern Cross subtitles as well, but her fellow clones are "Muselle" and "Musiere." To some extent, this difference from Robotech had me thinking her fellow clones were somehow "less important," but I then wondered if this was more just my reaction to two names being changed and one not, and originally it was just supposed to mean "they're all supposed to be just the same." (And I do get the impression that both Musica's fellow clones are shot in the last episode and she's only able to talk to one of them, but maybe that plays off of a feeling I had in reading "The End of the Circle" that there was a bit too much of a sense of the two survivors now being "parts of a broken whole.")
I suppose I can think Bowie seems to become quite smitten with Musica, and also gets into trouble with his own side for it, but it still may not be the same thing. Maybe this amiable interest is just the result of looking into the booklet in the DVD case, and noticing that Musica's Japanese voice actress also played the lead female role in the baseball anime "Touch," which I've seen... then, I also saw (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=282) she played the lead role in "Gunbuster" as well.
So far as I've figured things out, my personal theory about Robotech: Masters is that the "ordinary" Bioroid pilots are "androids" and the "citizens" are "clones." Now, a number of ideas about "the original Masters" are bouncing around in my head...
The novels also made the point of resemblance between Louie and Exedore at one point, suggesting it was a deliberate effort on Louie's part. I suppose it's easy enough for me to remember that now...