>Predictably, the purists are raising a fit over this, but after The
>Jet Age, I think their whining is sort of baseless. Not that I
>don't love Zero and P-40's antics or Me-109's fits of melancholy, but
>it's time to move on and let those characters rest. We're only moving
>ahead half a century, it's not like the new series is set during the
>Corporate Wars.
>
>Plus, have you seen the character art for F-14? Yowza.

I'll grant you that there's plenty of room for new characters as the timeline advances. And yes the prelim designs for F-14 are pretty damn amazing. I'm just not convinced that the Post-Contact Wars are a good era for a Fly Girls series.

The Post-Contact Wars are kind of a mess, unlike the Second World War where there's a pretty clear delineation on who's on whose side and where the boundaries are. It's the same reason that Cold War-era Fly Girls material tends to be kind of a niche product in the fandom: everybody likes the girls, but the story gets muddled.

Honestly I think most of the 21st Century is kind of a wash for inspiration. It really did kinda suck hard for Earth. (There's a consistent rumor that TV Tomodachi is going to defrost Yoshiyuki Tomino do to Fly Girls: The Hundred-Day War but they've been saying that about war projects since at least 2350.) If they're going to move the era up (and they certainly seem determined to do it) they might as well skip to one of the Kilrathi Wars instead.

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Mr. Fnord