Evil Midnight Lurker Wrote:So white-haired girl is actually a genderflip of one of the original pilots...?SORT of. What was believed at first was that she was a gender-flip of Yamamoto. Who in Star Blazers you knew as Hardy. He's the one who had the constant hair over one eye. (Later in the 90s the official Star Blazers comics gave him a full name of Jefferson Davis Hardy. Obviously playing on his whole "southern" accent that the Westchester dub team gave him.)
Well her family name is still Yamamoto. But apparently she's the SISTER of the same character - who in this version died off-screen before the series began.
Just my personal speculation, but I think one possible reason (but not the only one) for doing it this way is to defuse speculation about whether or when she would die. The original Yamamoto died in combat against the Comet Empire (taking a missile meant for Kodai by interposing his Cosmo Tiger in the way.) This happened in both the movie and series versions (in the series using the exact same animation from the movie). (This was obviously cut from Star Blazers, as were many of the other character deaths.)
Well he's already gone now. And with the role taken by his sister, Yamamoto Akira, the writers are more free to do whatever they feel is needed. This works both ways BTW - she might not be killed in the Comet Empire story (assuming the new series gets that far). But then again, the writers are free to kill her off in THIS story. So yeah - I'd say some characters have plot armor (Kodai, Yuki, Shima, etc) and others most definitely do NOT.
Quote:Dr. Sado's behavior is much less entertaining in a more realisticDuring the warp? Sure. But I see it kinda like M.A.S.H. Like Hawkeye and crew, I think he only considers himself "on duty" when he actually has patients or is anticipating them. And then he snaps to and gets properly to work. (And if he needs a few minutes on short notice to sober up/purge his system, he's got nurses now for triage.) Hey - I'm not saying I approve. I'm just rationalizing. >.>
setting. Drunk on duty and ignoring basic safety precautions? BAD
DOCTOR! BAD! *whack*
Quote:I love the way they talk about "shores" and "seas" and so forth.I wonder if that's literal or a translation bias? If this were being converted to Star Blazers, I'd wager that might get toned down/eliminated. Then again - wet navy in space. I remember at the end of My Youth in Arcadia as Harlock sneers at the transmission of the Earth President about how now that Harlock and the other "troublemakers" have left the planet, they are free to create their own paradise (under the aegis of the Illumidas occupiers).
Harlock: "Dance all you want on your small Earth, we have all of space as our sea!"
So yeah. Willing to cut them some slack/suspend my disbelief for that.
Quote:And the floating continent gets a halfway believable explanation!Yeah, I liked that a lot! There's all kind of subtle touches like that in the new series!