And yes, the show is to long for it´s own good. But when thinking on how they rushed things with Macross Frontier in the latest eps well I´m kinda glad they didn´t do that in Macross 7.

I don´t know what is worse: Have a show rushed or to long.

At any rate, I’m enjoying it but it’s way long, and I’m desiring an end soon.

Then we have a boring part where the city Hall gets captured and Basara is the only way for defense. When the protodeviln start appearing the show gets better and it ends in quite a satisfying way.

Yes, I did enjoy most of the songs that were played. Thinking back when Basara lost his voice and Mylene almost got eaten and he plunged himself into the fiery mouth to save her, only to be healed by her singing and then kicking some protodeviln butt was so cool.

So while it should have been way shorter to make it a better show I still can´t complain that much. Bad VHS quality isn´t good though

But yes, I have made it to Sound Force (and its even more incredibly awesome counterpart, Chiba Song Units), and I’m really sincerely and un-ironically enjoying it. It’s really a lot of episodes to get through before something becomes awesome, but I think crazy-ass Dr. Chiba might just make up for it.

I’m not sure why it seems like the technology for all this scientific and exacting use of music as a weapon seems to have been lost between Seven and Frontier (not to mention the Fold Boosters that Diamond Force used but somehow SMS had to re-invent), but perhaps by the end I’ll have figured that out.

On taste, well, it’s just disconcerting, because I have a perception that I like what is “good”, but then there’s these other things out there that I also recognize as also “good” but I don’t necessarily like them and I may, in fact, hate them, but they’re “good” because I can’t actually say they’re “bad” because “bad” is objective and it’s merely my opinion.

brain exploding please watch for discarded neurons

(On an unrelated note, I’ve yet to see anyone around my campus with any kind of discernibly good taste in music. This, however, is probably because they, like me, are incognito.

I have managed to read Nick Hornby and I don’t really care for him. I suppose on at least one level that puts me in your boat. I don’t know what music or anime you’re supposed to like, but frankly I’d much rather hear a dissenting opinion on…. pretty much anything, I guess, than just reinforcement of the norm. Why bother?

Listening to at least a couple of those aforementioned artists has gotten me lumped in the weird, stupid, or pretentious piles before, and being in a band that desperately wanted to be Merzbow got me banned from a few venues, but whatever. If you enjoy things for your own reasons, then they are the right reasons.

Plus, your taste, for better or worse, was a very strong factor in me pursuing Macross 7 for this third time — which was, in fact, the charm.

@otou-san: I have the world’s worst taste in just about anything, surely you’ve realized that by now. I don’t like the bands I’m “supposed” to like in the Japanese music scene (especially the scene in the United States, and “the scene in the United States” covers quite a lot of variety, none of which I fit into at all), I don’t like the anime I’m supposed to like (either in Japan or the U.S.), and I don’t even like the books I’m supposed to like (I found M.T. Anderson’s Whales on Stilts! to be far better written and plotted than Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay but that’s because I lack quality detectors).

I don’t really know what the hell that has to do with anything, let alone Macross 7, but, uh, I’m not entirely sure Fire Bomber sounds anything like Judas Priest? I didn’t like Judas Priest last I checked (except for one song, maybe), but I don’t know anymore.

It doesn’t help that I already had the “why don’t I like these things that people say are really good? why do I like these things that people say are really bad? do I actually like these things I say I like?” phase tonight, and it’s still floating around.

@otou-san: Nirvana’s Bleach: Better than Shonen Jump’s Bleach.

@Jason: So that’s what Cute-thulu looks like?