Southern Cross, actually, WAS improved, being the only one noticeably changed. The original series was actually quite lame.Daremo wrote:I can't say Macross was notably improved by Macek and company, Southern Cross sure wasn't, Genesis Climber Mospeda was mostly left alone. The shame of it all is, Robotech was actually a really good story, and probably would have made a really good original show.
Macross, the plot, the characterization, both intact. The change in the Protoculture was the only significant change (the origin of the SDF-1 wasn't major, being purely a macguffin) that wasn't strictly naming - and the actual Protoculture's role was shuffled onto the Robotech Masters, with little actual change, just as the Supervision Army was replaced with the Invid (that was pretty much just a name issue, since the Supervision Army was entirely non-specific in the TV series, though the equivalent from the Macross movie-verse, the Meltrandi, was quite specific).
This latter, actually points out another humorous thing about the 'maceckre' claim - the Macross movie, Do You Remember Love?, actually changes the story far more than Robotech does - the Zentradi and Meltrandi are the same species (an offshoot of the Protoculture) fighting a literal war of the sexes; Roy Fokker's death happened at a different point, under different circumstances; the Earth was COMPLETELY destroyed by the Zentraedi attack; the Hikaru/Minmei/Misa love triangle never happened because the Hikaru/Misa relationship timeline was accelerated, and Minmei (an insufferable bitch from the start) became the stalker, not Hikaru; Max Jenius joined the Meltrandi rebels (including his getting demicronized and piloting a female power armour, rather than a VT), rather than Milya joining the humans, etc.
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