SDF Macross ep. 3: Space Fold
Again there’s nothing too different about this episode. I did listen to the song the whole way through instead of skipping it this time though! Not sure I love it tbh.
So in this episode they actually get off the dang planet and into space, that’s fun. Rick is outed as a civilian when Roy has to go back to pick him up. Now Rick does say the ‘who’s this old lady’ line about Lisa... And ROY agrees with him à la ‘LOL he thinks you look old too.’ What a dick. (He also continues to make horny comments about Minmay,a 15 year old girl. Again guys remember he is VERY MUCH A TAKEN MAN lol.) But while Minmay does say something about ‘women like her’ she does NOT comment on Misa’s age in this version...
Breetai and Exedore are hanging out watching & trying to decide what to do. Breetai decides to cut off the Macross from the other Earth ships. I think in Robotech the ARMD platforms were already destroyed by this point, but they’re still going here... but not for long :v
Roy brings Rick and Minmay back to Hikaru’s fanjet plane that he rescued; Rick angsts about the Zentraedi that he killed, because when you kill someone that looks human it’s bad, but if they’d been lizard people it would have been okay I guess? Roy leaves them while he goes out to fight some more.
So now one of the ARMD platforms and some other ships gets blown up and Global makes the questionable decision to... pretend to land on Ataria (Macross) island, then fold at the last minute. Somehow this is going to trick the enemy and...? Stage 3: profit. So they start descending back into the atmosphere, which is lucky for Hikaru because he is an idiot who has just opened the airlock so that he can fly Minmay back to the island.
And then... Space Fold! The music is oddly upbeat for what’s happening, with chunks of a city literally being ripped out of the earth and such but what do I know.
Breetai and Exedore:
So now it turns out that Macross is not on the other side of the moon like they’re supposed to be, AND they have a bunch of city floating in space next to them. The Bridge crew:
Seriously guys how did NO ONE THINK THIS MIGHT BE A BAD PLAN
Rick and Minmei fly back into a hole in the ship made by a leftover battlepod, so, that was pointless. For some reason this is very funny and they laugh a lot?
Next episode is called ‘Lynn Minmay’ so I’m sure it will be... something.
