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                                             May 9, 2007

The writers have a problem:                             SEVEN_NOT_PLUS

It's all about Spirita.  The
alien psychic vampires are
after it, and rather than shoot
missles, Basarra insists on             Though at one point, there's a
*giving it to them*.  And for           suggestion that Mylene's
some reason, this causes them           experiments with the new sound
to retreat...                           energy booster gadgetry is
                                        attracting the aliens: it causes
To get this to work, they               the awakening of the Grabil.
have the aliens babble
about "abnormal chord-c
spirita".
                                                         Attraction/
                                                         repulsion?
So the fix is that it's
all about spirita, but                                   That works well
there's different *kinds*                                enough,
of it, and something                                     thematically --
about Basarra's causes                                   maybe it's the
problems for them.                                       central issue
                                                         here, in this
                                                         tale of song and
                                                         violence --

One of the "protodevlin"                                 But they also
complains that "the beauty is                            need to get it
too intense", which fits the                             to work with
theme of the series a little                             the story logic.
better.

                            
  One possibility: the "abnormal     
  chord-c spirita" line, as well     
  as the Macross line about          
  "sound weapons" are both           
  misconceptions on the part of      
  the characters.                    
                                   
  Perhaps neither side quite       
  understands (or is willing to    
  admit?)  what's going on.                                March 5, 2010
                                   
     Bassara is a pacificst:        (This is clearer, watching the series
     he's literally reaching        from the beginning. The only thing that
     out to the enemy.              confuses really is Basara's image: brash,
                                    overbearing, obnoxious-- he doesn't seem
       "Listen to my song!          like a peacenik.)
        Stop fighting, and
        listen to my damn song!"
                                                             
  There are suggestions               In the episodes I've seen,     
  (but only suggestions)              he's trying unbeknowst to      
  that Basarra's song is              his cohorts to revive one      
  undermining their will              of the "bad guys": Sivil.      
  to fight:                                                             
                                              (Some notes on wikipedia          
    The second bananna                        indicate that the plot heads      
    henchmen complain that                    in the unsurprising direction     
    "their activity levels                    of an alliance with Sivil...)     
    are declining".                                                             
                                                                               
    There's a blank, suddenly
    vulnerable expression on
    the face of the blonde
    host body that lord
    geplenitch (or whatever) 
    occupies...

                                 Though on the other
                                 hand, we see it
                                 inspire Lieutanent
                                 K. the commander of
                                 diamond force, on to
                                 acts of heroic,         SEVEN_HEARTS
                                 suicidal devotion...
        A black character,
        by the way...
                                       So, maybe it's not
          GUNGA_DIN_SYNDROME           all hippy-trippy
                                       rock for peace.


                                                 After all, the
                                                 band calls
                                                 themselves
                                                 "Fire Bomber".

                                                    But maybe they have
                                                    a different kind of
                                                    "fire" in mind.


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