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#0, Space Battleship Wha?
Posted by Gryphon on Sep-09-15 at 00:38 AM
Since someone mentioned it in the Cantata for Warships thread, I just thought I would mention that - going straight back to the original Star Blazers dub I loved as a kid - the original Space Battleship Yamato premise has never actually made the slightest bit of sense to me. I simply can't stretch credulity far enough to encompass the idea that the best option, or even a viable option, for constructing a starship was to use the 254-year-old wreck of a twentieth-century battleship. I mean... what? Sure, I mean, if you have a character who is the god of mecha and he's not really paying as much attention as he should be to what he's doing, yeah, but in a straight-up sci-fi story?

I can kind of accept that the situation was desperate enough at that point that nobody really hesitated at the whole desecration-of-a-war-grave thing, but just from a practical standpoint, the whole idea is wack. I mean, all the other incomprehensible things about making a starship out of a sunken WWII battleship aside, there's not likely to be much left of the wreck by 2199.

Loved the show as a kid, respect it for its significance to the history of Japanese animation now, but... yeah. Makes no dang sense at all.

--G.
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