[QuarianRex]

Holy Bitterness Batman! Try not to judge it too harshly. While it may not live up to the expectations we have now try to remember the time in which it was made. TV has gotten a lot smarter over the decades. Have you ever tried watching the reruns of your favourite childhood shows? The Dukes of Hazzard? MacGyver? V? Three's Company? At the time these shows were some of the best/edgiest/funniest things on TV. What are they now? ****e, all of it. By todays standards at least. And this is actual TV.

The cartoons and japanimation of the time was even worse. Grandizer, G-Force, Blackstar, and Thundarr the Barbarian. Horrible, horrible shows by any standards. Flat characters, repetitive animation, slow-witted dialogue, and ship crews that are collectively smart like rock.

Now among these dregs (which were still some of the coolest things to grace the eyes of an eight year old) there was Robotech. Now here were cool transforming robots coupled with a pretty advanced (comparatively at least) love/war story. It wasn't the same good vs. bad, badguy gets-away-to-repeat-scenario-with-slightly-different-dialogue-next-episode sort of thing. It was a show that demanded more of its audience, even if its audience was primarily prepubecent boys. It was a great thing for the time. And it was only the first third of the entire series (the other parts being Southern Cross and Invid Invasion).

That being said, I have to agree that it is somewhat... disapointing by todays standards. I sat down and rewatched the entire Macross series toward the end of high school and I was slightly dissillusioned. Try to watch such things while surrounded with the heady buzz of nostalgia. You know, the same thing that allows people to say that Citizen Kane was the greatest movie ever made without choking on their own words.