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I am the anti-Darkwater. Where he is civil, I am crude. Where he is popular, I am not. Thank you. Now read.
BRODIE75
Hey, some impossibly nice person might actually send me Shadow Chronicles from Australia. I have yet to contact the guy but if its true. Wow. I really admire the fandom now. In fact, it's making me kind of guilty, (not because I trash the fandom, because I don't... really.) I feel like borrowing someone's credit card, ordering the frickin' DVD, and just hope that the post office is efficient enough not to get the darn thing lost.
In any case, thanks for the offer Brodie!
THIS I GOTTA HEAR!
Hmm. While I was listening to Robotech_Masters shows (which don't contain any Shadow Chronicles spoilers, thank goodness) he mentioned one of his future guest who goes by the name of Barbara Goodson. Now I could be mistaken, but she appears to be the voice actress to Marie Crystal! WOOOOOOW!! Hey man! That's so cool! I really like Mar- I mean, I really like the voice actress who played her! That's amazing! Way to go Master!!
Just to set the record straight, I am not obsessed with Marie Crystal. Okay, you reading that? I am not. It just so happens I make an inordinate amount of fan art about her... and that my profile's icon in Roboteh.com happens to be Marie. No, no it's simply not like that.
Like all fans I'm... I'm... erm... a Lisa fan! Yeah! Everyone's a Lisa Hayes fan! Who the hell would want to be a Marie fan? It's not like she's the main character in any Saga is she?
SOMEONE HATES STDIO MMG ART?
O rly? I mean, oh really? Well, apparently, if you are to look at my recent collection of fan art, you will notice certain art pieces getting a 1 star rating by at least one of voters. Now, it wouldn't be so bad if the art piece in question is actually ugly, but in my opinion, the ones that do get one star are unjustified. Now, I'm not telling you guys to check it out for yourself. You don't have to. That place is dead anyway.
What I'm saying is, this is a case of someone intentionally downgrading the rating of my art. I mean, c'mon, my stuff can't be as bad as some of the traced stuff I've seen on that place. A two or three stars would've at least shown that you acknowledge the effort I put into making fan art (since there is a serious lack of a comment page in the art gallery)
Now I can only imagine a few things, a vengful Kevin McKeever (AHAHAHAAHA, I seriously doubt he even reads my blog!), an art afacionado who has a degree in Fine Arts and hates fan art in general, or someone who just despises my work (cool!). For now, I will designate you, Hater #1.
TESTING THE WATERS
Darkwater is showing considerable influence and power in the Robotech.com as of late. The man had the muscle to stop the deletion of a thread called "Is Robotech.com suppressing posts that are critical of RT:TSC?"
The thread was originally posted by Rossi, who came to the conclusion that certain trigger-happy moderators have been deleting certain threads which contain the words SHADOW CHRONICLES and SUCK together. Darkwater concluded that Harmony Gold probably doesn't want newbies of the site to be exposed to longtime fans complaining that the movie isn't that good. So far, Darkwater has been able to keep the thread alive for more than 24 hours, and as such would be under watch by the Commanders of the boards for the time being.
For those who want to unload any unsavory comments about Shadow Chronicles, please, don't hesitate to post your rants free of fear at Robotech_Master's site (no not the guy who made Space Station Liberty) in his message boards at:
RDF HQ Message Boards
http://p081.ezboard.com/frdfhqcommunicationscenterrobotech
As an aside, I think this just sucks. What the Captains or Commanders should do is make a sticky thread with a heavily euphemisimed (wow, a new word) title like "What didn't you enjoy about Robotech: Shadow Chronicles" to along with the 200 million "Wow Shadow Chronicles rocked/cool/amazing/masterpiece/perfect/excellent" threads. Don't you agree?
Keep things civil in this proposed CRITICISM THREAD, and at least there would be some great constructive feedback rather than 'overtly fanboy rantings'.
TALKSHOE MARATHON
The Masters Saga is always ignored. At least
we have Dana Sterling to forget our woes.
(Robotech_Master, a.k.a. Chris Meadows must've found the 125x125 icons I made for him too amateurish, but the guy hasn't said that to me so... okay. Whatever, at least that's what I expected)
I've been having some 'Talkshoe Marathons' recently because I seem to have unlocked a lot of free time. I've been listening to two interviews - one with a long-time Robotech fan Dave Dietriech and another with Lisa-Hayes voice actor Melanie McQueen.
I have to say, the geek talk is just weirdly fun. I just find it soooo odd (in a good way) whenever Brooklyn Red Leg would suddenly speak up to defend the Southern Cross Saga. I mean, hehe, is it me or do I 'hear' the frustration (or amusement) of the Masters when Brook goes, "No... no, that's wrong. That's stuff from the novels - Leonard wasn't... blah blah". I think that's great because I myself am a staunch fan of the Southern Cross Saga thingy. I mean, the way I see it, there's just too many Macross and NewGen fans. I like those shows enough (but I kinda dislike a bit NewGen, but I liked Macross a lot too which as you know, prompted me to make a fanfilm about it) but Southern Cross is just a show I learned to love. It's hard to explain, especially for someone with Macross/NewGen biases, but that's it.
Southern Cross is a show which doesn't get the attention it deserves and that's kinda what I want to do in the near future. Something related to that universe anyway - because in Meadow's Talkshoe show, there are always these fantastic and great story ideas being thrown around about Southern Cross- far more interesting than what I've been hearing about Shadow Chronicles.
Stay tuned! I will come out with a 'formal' plan that would discuss certain details about my upcoming Webcomic!
