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The official continuity for Macross is kind of odd (the notion that the original series is how if happened, but the movie is what it looked like AND the movie is a movie from the actual universe being a particuylarly interesting bit of handwaving).
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If that means what it looks like it means, that's so weird...
-- Bob
It is a bit weird.
Here's how it goes: There's the Real World (hereinafter referred to as RW), then there's the Macross World (MW). In MW, there was a movie made entitled Do You Remember Love, which was a historical drama that told the story of Space War I, which in RW was the movie Macross: Do You Remember Love, which was the movie version of the television series Superdimensional Fortress Macross.
In MW, Do You Remember Love is a historical drama in much the same way as Patton is in the RW. However, the historical accuracy of it in the MW is somewhere between Pocohantas and Band of Brothers here in the RW. It has "real" historical characters, doing some of the things done in history, but it's mostly just a mish-mash that must have pissed off a lot of history-buffs in MW.
But, here in the RW, the character designs and mecha designs were so much better quality (arguably, by me that is) than the television series', that it was decided that they would be the official designs for all future Macross projects. A bit of retroactive continuity (herein after referred to as retcon by all geek comicbook fans, or even being Byrned by the particularly geeky and bitter) here. So in Macross Plus, when we see the SDF-1 Macross, it's the design from the movie. As well, when we once again see Exedol in Macross 7, his character design is the one from the movie.
Yet all events are as depicted in the television series.
So, in summary: Movie Designs, Television continuity, The Movie is a Movie in MW.
But here's something that might be interesting: for most people in the MW, they know the events of the Movie because it was very popular, to the degree that when a new movie/t.v. special is being made within the MW that they used the storyline from the Movie (e.g. Hikaru takes Minmay for a ride in his Valkyrie).
-murmur the fallen
Who says: "Byrned? Oh, I kill me."
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The official continuity for Macross is kind of odd (the notion that the original series is how if happened, but the movie is what it looked like AND the movie is a movie from the actual universe being a particuylarly interesting bit of handwaving).
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If that means what it looks like it means, that's so weird...
-- Bob
It is a bit weird.
Here's how it goes: There's the Real World (hereinafter referred to as RW), then there's the Macross World (MW). In MW, there was a movie made entitled Do You Remember Love, which was a historical drama that told the story of Space War I, which in RW was the movie Macross: Do You Remember Love, which was the movie version of the television series Superdimensional Fortress Macross.
In MW, Do You Remember Love is a historical drama in much the same way as Patton is in the RW. However, the historical accuracy of it in the MW is somewhere between Pocohantas and Band of Brothers here in the RW. It has "real" historical characters, doing some of the things done in history, but it's mostly just a mish-mash that must have pissed off a lot of history-buffs in MW.
But, here in the RW, the character designs and mecha designs were so much better quality (arguably, by me that is) than the television series', that it was decided that they would be the official designs for all future Macross projects. A bit of retroactive continuity (herein after referred to as retcon by all geek comicbook fans, or even being Byrned by the particularly geeky and bitter) here. So in Macross Plus, when we see the SDF-1 Macross, it's the design from the movie. As well, when we once again see Exedol in Macross 7, his character design is the one from the movie.
Yet all events are as depicted in the television series.
So, in summary: Movie Designs, Television continuity, The Movie is a Movie in MW.
But here's something that might be interesting: for most people in the MW, they know the events of the Movie because it was very popular, to the degree that when a new movie/t.v. special is being made within the MW that they used the storyline from the Movie (e.g. Hikaru takes Minmay for a ride in his Valkyrie).
-murmur the fallen
Who says: "Byrned? Oh, I kill me."