Boaz wrote:
James Boren wrote:
Harry's Gold Sumo can indeed change it's face. There is a scene late in the
series where the change is animated. Maybe the silver Sumos are lacking that
feature?
The mecha in Turn-A are designed to have a lot of gimmicks that are ignored
or barely touched on in the animation.
There's surely some secret about SUMO that's not (yet) explained in TAG.
Other than the face-changing, there's also an episode mentioning how the
SUMO cockpit is compatible as Turn A's own cockpit.
There're all together way too many "secrets" in Turn-A. The human and
political stories involving the characters on screen are great, but
the back (black) history and the mecha background are a ROYAL mess.
The early episodes hinted at so many secrets that never paid off. Ok
so I liked the ending, but if I watch the series a second time (or the
movie version) I am sure to get pissed off by all the mumble jumbles
about the mechas and the mystical legends because I know the ending is
about something else all together. By comparison, Macross may have a
more cheesy ending but all the loose ends are tied off.
Too bad we'll never see Turn A Space. Maybe there'd be some more secret
revealed by then.
Blah! Enough! The problem isn't the lack of a sequel to tie up the
loose ends, it's Tomino's habitual creation of loose ends. If Turn A
Space got made, we would be getting 5 new unrevealed secrets for every
old secret revealed. Turn-A isn't new, one mother of all loose ends
was the fate of Char in Z. A naive viewer might expect CCA to resolve
it, but instead of revealing Char's post-Z outcome and activities, we
got a whole new set of mysteries such as Psyco-frame.
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Dr. Core
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