>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 like how you can still clearly tell that she's related to Hellcat and Wildcat.

>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.

It wouldn't be as bad as Fly Girls: The Fog Incident. There'd be no goddam point to that at all. :)

Kidding aside, World War V would work. It was long enough ago now that it's acquired the requisite "retro cool" patina, it had very distinct good guys and bad guys (on the topmost level), and a lot of the aircraft involved had character. That's a critical piece of the original show's success and would be completely lacking in, say, WWVI. (All the characters in a WWVI-themed Fly Girls revival would be surly robotic drones; it'd be like watching an episode of the original where all the characters were V-1. Meeeh.)

>(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.)

Oh merciless Grodd, that would be horrible. Every episode would be as depressing as Target: Schweinfurt Again!, but somehow even less exciting.

>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.

The first running joke would be that none of the girls on either side could remember which one it was.

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