Quote:I still say there ought to be a way Kodai can look to the side with magnification withoutI don't know why, but I get the impression that he just LIKES using the handheld binocs. Nobody else seems to use them. It may be just a personal thing with him?
having to look completely away from his main displays. All it needs is
a small subsidiary screen or two beside or maybe just above the main
Tactical monitor. Oh, well....
They do seem to be a high tech item themselves and not just a set of lenses. Maybe they're almost as good at Mark 1 eyeball enhancement as the ship sensors? Maybe he just wants a personal view and doesn't want to take time and resources away from the sensors/tactical ops guy? (I think that's "Eager" to use the Star Blazers name for him - the slightly portly guy in the green on white who sits on the far right next to Sandor and Nova).
Quote:"Teron" weapons can't get throught Gamila shields, eh? Boy, was he out of touch with reality.Well to be fair - they'd just spent an entire war fighting against the "Terons" and up until Yamato, the Earth ships could NOT get through Gamilas shields. At least at any kind of range. I seem to recall that the Yukikaze in it's final run in the first episode was able to do some damage at near point-blank range. And missiles seemed to work too.
Quote:Mmmm. The enemy officer viewing a "Come home soon" message from his cute daughter is a nice "humanizing" moment.Yup - that was good. Also the fact that his officers are loyal to him out of respect apparently. And I liked they mention they all miss working for General Domel who if you don't know, was the original name of General Lysis. And the condescending asshole who was their immediate superior was "Geru" who in SB was named "Volgar" and is just as unpleasant in the original as he is here.
Schultz and Ganz though are - as you point out - actually somewhat sympathetic. They're "punchclock" villains. They have no personal animosity apparently with the humans, they're just doing their job, as unpleasant as it is. That's NOT how they were in the original, where they were far more "cartoonish" and cardstock villainous. I like these changes a LOT. They add a lot of depth to a series that already had a lot to begin with.
One of the more interesting bits was Schultz apparently wishing the "Terons" had just surrendered like his people did so they could all go on living.
WHAT? You mean that was actually any kind of OPTION at some point? Or is Schultz just out of the loop on the big plans for Earth?