[Aulirophile]

Originally Posted by Eomer

Well, do you realize that the three original series (Macross, Masters, and Next Generation) were actually not even a contigious series? They were all originally released in Japan as unrelated shows, I believe. But then they added scenes, removed stuff, changed character names, dialogue, and so on to make them one long contigious series in the US. That's why the mech designs vary so much from one series to the other (and each involves a completely different alien race).

The Sentinels was really the first of the series that was created from scratch as part of the Robotech saga. I could be totally wrong on the above, but that's what I've read in the past.



Yes, I think they were. Now, I was in about grade 5 when I read the Macross and Sentinels book series, along with the final book that tied them together with the Masters and Next Generation series (which I never read, and come to think of it I never really saw the animated series for them either). So I can't guarantee that they're awesome books. They're pulp sci-fi really, the writing's probably not the greatest (but better than Dan Brown), but the storyline for the Sentinels was actually extremely good I thought. I'd say it's easily worth picking up the five books, along with Closing the Circle (or whatever the final book was called). They're not very long reads, and like I said the overall story is quite good. And quite a bit of fucked up stuff happens. It's a damn shame that the series was never completed, but in some ways I can see why. It's quite a bit darker than the Macross saga (not sure about Masters or NG).

I'm aware, yeah. Carl Macek is the guy who did all the editting/writing when they got brought over to the US and made them one big series. He's the one who said he wanted to add a bunch of stuff to Southern Cross to have it make more sense and keep the mech designs consistent. Which is why I think redoing it would work so well, because you could fix all the weird shit about the stories and just have this awesome intergalactic war that slowly builds up through four generations. ^.^