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Topic ID: 144
Message ID: 37
#37, RE: Fly Girls: Yoru no Majou
Posted by CdrMike on Sep-26-14 at 06:06 AM
In response to message #35
>The magical girl thing is clearly profit-taking; I mean, don't get me
>wrong, I will buy that figuring of 109 dressed up like a German witch,
>because yes please, but retelling the original series is
>clearly them just wanting to make some quick cash, like Evangelion
>1.11
or the first of the two Arpeggio movies.
>
>Avalon 17 is not happy about that, by the way; it technically fulfills
>TV Tomodachi's contract to provide them with original Fly Girls
>programming, but New Avalon's audience is a lot less accepting of that
>sort of retreaded materiel than they are in the Co-Prosperity Sphere,
>where those sorts of things are an accepted part of the production
>process.
>
>On the plus side, it is clearly funding the post-Contact wars project
>and possibly other things as well.

I guess it could always be worse. We could have ended up with End of Fly Girls instead and spent 2 hours watching what happens when a head writer goes off his happy pills.

>This isn't to say we won't eventually get there, of course. The War of
>Corporate Occupation is already acceptable to satirize, at least in
>certain ways; in 2409 Springtime for Largo won two Tony awards.

I'm still not convinced that wasn't an attempted flop that happened to see release at the most fortunate of times. I mean, seriously, Largo dancing?

>F-14, F-16, and A-10 have of course appeared briefly already in Jet
>Age
, but the updated designs do indeed look hot. They're holding
>back F-22 as long as they can, as well, and rumors abound there are
>going to be some space superiority fighters as well; Z-95 Headhunters,
>being cheap and available in bulk, were used extensively for orbital
>interdiction during the Contact Wars, and I for one would love
>to see her show up.

Great thing for the writers and animators is a lot of the aircraft of the era were getting spaceworthy reboots, like the SF-14. Though not all, like poor little Harrier. No matter how hard Boeing and BAe tried, they couldn't convince anybody that vectored thrust was still a good idea when antigravs made the scene. Wait, who am I kidding? It wasn't that great of an idea even before antigravs.