Quote:Well, my suggestions would be to watch Macross Plus, which takes place a good few decades after Macross (and is awfully cool), and Macross Zero, which takes place during the war briefly mentioned at the beginning of Macross (and which is visually at least one of the best anime I've ever seen, and so far is very well written).
And Doug in there would probably have a breakdown from all the loss of life. Other Macrossi? Don't know them. Yet.
Macross II is best avoided at all costs. Most people don't like to discuss it.
As for Macross 7, some people like it, others don't. Personally, I thought the concept of the 7 was fine, but otherwise I really didn't care for the series at all. Except that the toy sales helped fund Macross Plus.
Anyway -- this is hardly the first time a Macross step has been proposed. I don't think it would really work well.
My suggestion last time, and I'll stick with it, is to assume that there were survivors on Earth of the big Zentraedi attack, who escaped destruction due to being isolated and too primative to stand out. Little backwater villages in S or SE Asia I think, so that 1) there can be a language barrier precluding Doug from easily ascertaining what happened exactly; 2) if we slightly break the helmet on arrival, it'll be difficult to fix, forcing Doug to work in ways that to him are unconventional; 3) the local environment having had a few years to recover might be dense jungle that hid the survivors but makes getting out difficult and provides hiding places for Zentraedi survivors still fighting the war; 4) it's far enough away from the Macross or anything of importance that Doug will get rescued; 5) it keeps Doug from realizing what happened so as to avoid the horrible realization that aliens wiped out most of humanity.
Whether it's possible to draw on Mac Zero for this remains to be seen. There's definately useful elements, but it'll hinge on how the plot proceeds.
Anyway, I think it might be interesting to see a step that involved less full-blown superheroing, and which while somewhat of an SI fic does avoid placing the SI character anywhere close to the action in the world, much less a chance change things.