I think one of the things that I appreciate the most is that Sheryl does not dress like a refugee from an 80s music video. The Bandannas and the fringe . . .
(Also, pointing out the S&M current in the military was pretty sweet).
Anyway: Macross vs. Baen re: military ranks and uniforms. I think it works in Macross because, well, because of it's timeline. It's like:
Macross-Earth, everything was Cold War until a giant alien spaceship crashlanded and destroyed a bunch of cities. People go ape-shit and start a global civil
war until World Federalism reigns supreme (as, you know, it should). And it's basically the Western world's military structure as descended from, I
believe, the French military (I may be wrong here) and it continues on on Macross-Earth, even as they start up space military.
And then the Zentradi come and blow up the planet and it's only the Macross which survives. And so there's only one military for humanity and it's
based on the same old Western military structure.
But the Webber books, and the Moon books, seem to just have people on alien planets acting like it's 1952 in space with girls. There's kind of a
cultural disconnect. I dunno, maybe I'm being unfair.
Anyway: Macross Frontier: I'm interested as to what the point of having SMS is in the plot. It's certainly showing the increased importance of
Corporate Mercenary Armies (I refuse to be euphemistic about them) once again in the real world, but I wonder what plot purpose it serves. Certainly it would
be easier for Alto to join SMS than the UN Spacy. Maybe that's it. Although the way they contrasted the funeral for the spacy pilot and the sms pilot . . .
maybe there's something deeper going on.
-Murmur
--Oh, and I flipped through Von Neumann's War by John Ringo and some other dude. It is terrible.
(Also, pointing out the S&M current in the military was pretty sweet).
Anyway: Macross vs. Baen re: military ranks and uniforms. I think it works in Macross because, well, because of it's timeline. It's like:
Macross-Earth, everything was Cold War until a giant alien spaceship crashlanded and destroyed a bunch of cities. People go ape-shit and start a global civil
war until World Federalism reigns supreme (as, you know, it should). And it's basically the Western world's military structure as descended from, I
believe, the French military (I may be wrong here) and it continues on on Macross-Earth, even as they start up space military.
And then the Zentradi come and blow up the planet and it's only the Macross which survives. And so there's only one military for humanity and it's
based on the same old Western military structure.
But the Webber books, and the Moon books, seem to just have people on alien planets acting like it's 1952 in space with girls. There's kind of a
cultural disconnect. I dunno, maybe I'm being unfair.
Anyway: Macross Frontier: I'm interested as to what the point of having SMS is in the plot. It's certainly showing the increased importance of
Corporate Mercenary Armies (I refuse to be euphemistic about them) once again in the real world, but I wonder what plot purpose it serves. Certainly it would
be easier for Alto to join SMS than the UN Spacy. Maybe that's it. Although the way they contrasted the funeral for the spacy pilot and the sms pilot . . .
maybe there's something deeper going on.
-Murmur
--Oh, and I flipped through Von Neumann's War by John Ringo and some other dude. It is terrible.