Buy Ampicillin Without Prescription http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2008/08/09/macross-frontier-11-16-the-rise-and-rise-of-ranka-lee/ Get decultured Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:52:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 Buy Ampicillin Without Prescription http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2008/08/09/macross-frontier-11-16-the-rise-and-rise-of-ranka-lee/#comment-45467 blissmo Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:56:38 +0000 http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/?p=704#comment-45467 @Martin: I can picture Brera becoming a good guy because he seems to care for Ranka a lot, and is soon going to worry over her more than the mission. I dunnoes, I just get the feeling, and that he and Alto will battle it out over protecting Ranka and all. Hope so, anyway! <abbr><em>blissmos last blog post..<a href="http://yukan.dasaku.net/kure-nai/the-yukan-podcast-episode-1/" rel="nofollow">The Yukan Podcast, episode 1</a></em></abbr> @Martin: I can picture Brera becoming a good guy because he seems to care for Ranka a lot, and is soon going to worry over her more than the mission. I dunnoes, I just get the feeling, and that he and Alto will battle it out over protecting Ranka and all. Hope so, anyway!

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]]> Buy Ampicillin Without Prescription http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2008/08/09/macross-frontier-11-16-the-rise-and-rise-of-ranka-lee/#comment-45466 Martin Mon, 11 Aug 2008 23:40:52 +0000 http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/?p=704#comment-45466 @IKnight: I love the way that music pervades all Macross shows, but seems to add new meanings every time. In Frontier it seems to affect fold waves somehow but we don't even know the origins of the Vajra yet so I'm keeping an open mind on its role in this particular outing until the end. Here's hoping Ranka 'finds her voice' in every sense...the end of ep #18 showed her singing again after the battle, but using 'her' own words instead of the lyrics Grace gave her - that was a really powerful scene. @Crusader: speaking of my next Frontier post...poor Sheryl. Honestly, it gets worse and worse for her - there really does seem to be a bit of social commentary about the transience of fame here. Alto does seem to have a lot more sensitivity than the token hero though...which would probably make another post on its own. I can see this blog being too Frontier-centric in the coming weeks if I'm not careful, what with the OST review being in draft format already! Point taken with Macross 7. I'll make an effort to check it out after Frontier finishes...believe it or not, I haven't actually seen it yet. @IKnight: I love the way that music pervades all Macross shows, but seems to add new meanings every time. In Frontier it seems to affect fold waves somehow but we don’t even know the origins of the Vajra yet so I’m keeping an open mind on its role in this particular outing until the end. Here’s hoping Ranka ‘finds her voice’ in every sense…the end of ep #18 showed her singing again after the battle, but using ‘her’ own words instead of the lyrics Grace gave her - that was a really powerful scene.

@Crusader: speaking of my next Frontier post…poor Sheryl. Honestly, it gets worse and worse for her - there really does seem to be a bit of social commentary about the transience of fame here. Alto does seem to have a lot more sensitivity than the token hero though…which would probably make another post on its own. I can see this blog being too Frontier-centric in the coming weeks if I’m not careful, what with the OST review being in draft format already!

Point taken with Macross 7. I’ll make an effort to check it out after Frontier finishes…believe it or not, I haven’t actually seen it yet.

]]> Buy Ampicillin Without Prescription http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2008/08/09/macross-frontier-11-16-the-rise-and-rise-of-ranka-lee/#comment-45464 Crusader Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:11:22 +0000 http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/?p=704#comment-45464 I quite like your idea that Macross Frontier and Macross Plus were criticism about the music industry. Given the totality of Sheryl's fall from the charts it really does hammer home how talent doesn't always win out and how even a strong talent like Sheryl could not cope in the industry without Grace. Same thing with Ranka when Elmo was desperately trying to spread her gospel. Like IKnight I agree that it's interesting how in the first SDF music was generally a good thing in that it mellowed out the Zentradi from their warlike ways, now its quite inverted in that the Vajra are being serenaded into the path of a death ray. Now that I think about it when Ranka was looking for approval from Alto-hime about singing Grace's Aimo it kind of highlights how little Alto-hime actually understands Ranka. For hime it was about duty, but want Ranka wanted was to be true to herself and not butcher her precious song for the purpose of exterminating bugs. I wonder how Macross 7 fits into the musical critique thing though... I quite like your idea that Macross Frontier and Macross Plus were criticism about the music industry. Given the totality of Sheryl’s fall from the charts it really does hammer home how talent doesn’t always win out and how even a strong talent like Sheryl could not cope in the industry without Grace. Same thing with Ranka when Elmo was desperately trying to spread her gospel.

Like IKnight I agree that it’s interesting how in the first SDF music was generally a good thing in that it mellowed out the Zentradi from their warlike ways, now its quite inverted in that the Vajra are being serenaded into the path of a death ray. Now that I think about it when Ranka was looking for approval from Alto-hime about singing Grace’s Aimo it kind of highlights how little Alto-hime actually understands Ranka. For hime it was about duty, but want Ranka wanted was to be true to herself and not butcher her precious song for the purpose of exterminating bugs.

I wonder how Macross 7 fits into the musical critique thing though…

]]> Buy Ampicillin Without Prescription http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2008/08/09/macross-frontier-11-16-the-rise-and-rise-of-ranka-lee/#comment-45461 IKnight Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:32:40 +0000 http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/?p=704#comment-45461 Now you bring it up, the relationship between the various Macross stories and the real-life music industry is an interesting one. <em>Plus</em> was a quiet comment on the manufacturing of stars - an artificially intelligent idol is the logical conclusion of the trend (Hatsune Miku, anyone?), and I thought that was the more interesting side of Sharon Apple. (Before she got down to the business that occupies all threatening AIs in soft sf: wreaking serious havoc.) <em>Zero</em> had music as something magical, tying humans to the natural world, and <em>SDF</em> had music as the ultimate form of psychological warfare. You're quite right to pick out the use of 'Aimo' as a weapon as significant and saddening. I wonder if <em>Frontier</em>'s taking the music-as-weapon premise of <em>SDF</em> and saying 'Wait, if it's a weapon, isn't it a tool that can be used for good or ill, like any other weapon'? Anyway, good, thought-provoking post as always. You're not the only one that wants one of those cellphones, I'm sure. <abbr><em>IKnights last blog post..<a href="http://animanachronism.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/moe-mao-and-a-mobile-suit/" rel="nofollow">Moe-Mao and a Mobile Suit</a></em></abbr> Now you bring it up, the relationship between the various Macross stories and the real-life music industry is an interesting one. Plus was a quiet comment on the manufacturing of stars - an artificially intelligent idol is the logical conclusion of the trend (Hatsune Miku, anyone?), and I thought that was the more interesting side of Sharon Apple. (Before she got down to the business that occupies all threatening AIs in soft sf: wreaking serious havoc.)

Zero had music as something magical, tying humans to the natural world, and SDF had music as the ultimate form of psychological warfare. You’re quite right to pick out the use of ‘Aimo’ as a weapon as significant and saddening. I wonder if Frontier’s taking the music-as-weapon premise of SDF and saying ‘Wait, if it’s a weapon, isn’t it a tool that can be used for good or ill, like any other weapon’?

Anyway, good, thought-provoking post as always. You’re not the only one that wants one of those cellphones, I’m sure.

IKnights last blog post..Moe-Mao and a Mobile Suit

]]> Buy Ampicillin Without Prescription http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2008/08/09/macross-frontier-11-16-the-rise-and-rise-of-ranka-lee/#comment-45460 Martin Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:14:51 +0000 http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/?p=704#comment-45460 @Peter S: I have to say that Ranka's version of that song was better. :P iirc Cheryl had a troubled early life and the way that Grace brushed her aside makes me feel slightly more sorry for her. It's not my inner Cheryl fanboy speaking there, honest! ¬_¬ @blissmo: I'm beginning to wonder if the Vajra are artificially-engineered creatures, made by the Bad Guys of the series, whoever they are. I'm finding Brera quite annoying at the moment actually, partly because I still don't know whose side he's on, if any. @Kabitzin: Ai-kun seems to be connected to the Vajra in some way so perhaps the cellphone is some form of new species too. It is skilled at concealment and its communication skills are second to none...quite a dangerous critter that shouldn't be underestimated really. @Peter S: I have to say that Ranka’s version of that song was better. :P iirc Cheryl had a troubled early life and the way that Grace brushed her aside makes me feel slightly more sorry for her. It’s not my inner Cheryl fanboy speaking there, honest! ¬_¬

@blissmo: I’m beginning to wonder if the Vajra are artificially-engineered creatures, made by the Bad Guys of the series, whoever they are. I’m finding Brera quite annoying at the moment actually, partly because I still don’t know whose side he’s on, if any.

@Kabitzin: Ai-kun seems to be connected to the Vajra in some way so perhaps the cellphone is some form of new species too. It is skilled at concealment and its communication skills are second to none…quite a dangerous critter that shouldn’t be underestimated really.

]]> Buy Ampicillin Without Prescription http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/2008/08/09/macross-frontier-11-16-the-rise-and-rise-of-ranka-lee/#comment-45458 Kabitzin Sun, 10 Aug 2008 07:34:47 +0000 http://www.concretebadger.net/blog/?p=704#comment-45458 Everyone else's cell phone is sooo boring, though. I wonder if perhaps Ranka's cell phone is also experimental! It would be quite the twist if it turned out that Ranka isn't actually special... just her phone is. <abbr><em>Kabitzins last blog post..<a href="http://www.seaslugteam.com/archives/2008/08/10/rd-senno-chosashitsu-06/" rel="nofollow">RD Senno Chosashitsu 06</a></em></abbr> Everyone else’s cell phone is sooo boring, though. I wonder if perhaps Ranka’s cell phone is also experimental! It would be quite the twist if it turned out that Ranka isn’t actually special… just her phone is.

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I don’t think Sheryl’s out of the game yet. I think she’s going to have a lot to do, singing and otherwise, when the Big Stuff happens.

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I might also retract my criticism of the OST soonish though. Aimo still makes MANLY TEARS sting my eyes but the record as a whole has just left me dumbfounded on the first listen. *_*

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