Macross Retrospective: Macross 7 Parts 1-3

[@DecultureReviews]

I have to admit that since I have made these videos my hatred for Macross 7 has cooled quite a bit. I no longer hate it but I still don't like it overall. The TV series, the Encore and Dynamite 7 OVAs are still among my least favorite things in the franchise but The Galaxy is Calling Me theatrical episode is actually quite good despite me cracking jokes at its expense. I think that if the show were shortened by about 15 episodes to pick up the pacing, make Basara as likeable as he is in The Galaxy is Calling Me, and not abusively overuse Planet Dance (and use the other songs far more often) then it could have been a better show. I guess my bile came from the fact that I was just sick and tired of watching it. Which would explain how I kind of fluctuated in opinion on Basara as this went along. Were I to do this again, I would try to be far more fair to it than I was then because all things considered Macross 7 isn't terrible (despite what I say at the end) It just could have been a hell of a lot better.

[@furagnar]

Exodol is green big head guy because Do You Remember Love is canon and SDF Macross is not.

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Shoji Kawamori doesn't really care about a concrete canon in Macross. He said that all the movies and TV series are dramatizations of the real events that happened in the Macross timeline.

[@FolkenSRK]

Macross 7 was such a joke.

[@PrinceGastronome]

It would have been super %$&#ing funny that when you replaced that song with another better song, you instead replaced it with My Time To be A Star from Robotech. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. :P

[@DecultureReviews]

That....actually would have been fantastic. Wish I thought of that.