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This is very exciting.

Holy shit. I may need to change my trousers.

Never a fan of the series, but that does look cool.

All I can say is when they fire up the main cannon it's gonna be time for a new set of shorts.

O.M.G.

Help me. I can't get the theme song out of my head...

fighting with the Gamelons, we won't stop until we've won...

Scotty is a die-hard Starblazers fan...but do we really need to learn Japanese to see the live-action version?

*dub dub dub dub*

Elfgirl wrote:Scotty is a die-hard Starblazers fan...but do we really need to learn Japanese to see the live-action version?

I presume you can read English, though . . .

Nice! Can't wait to see it. The old dude looks looks just like the Captain (Capt Avatar?)

Wait...

Was that - noo. Holy crap! That's the SDF1, isn't it?

jacob Raver, sinTempter wrote:Wait...

Was that - noo. Holy crap! That's the SDF1, isn't it?

Sadly, no. The SDF1 is from Robotech: Macross. Unless there's something in the pic above I can't see because the image won't load.

The Yamato is the battleship in Starblazers (Battleship Yamato, in the Japanese language version). As in, the Yamato, from the second world war - the largest and most powerful battleship ever constructed. Of course, that record would have been beaten if battleships were still built after the second world war but, oh well, damned impressive nontheless. It did take an attack by 400 planes to sink her.

That looks exactly like the SDF1 and Captain Gloval...

...do all animes have those clones?

jacob Raver, sinTempter wrote:That looks exactly like the SDF1 and Captain Gloval...

...do all animes have those clones?

It looks nothing like the SDF-1.

SDF-1


Yamato

Montresor wrote:

Elfgirl wrote:Scotty is a die-hard Starblazers fan...but do we really need to learn Japanese to see the live-action version?

I presume you can read English, though . . .

I didn't see subtitles in the trailer...? And I hate reading subtitles - you miss all the action!

dub dub dub dub...

Elfgirl wrote:
I didn't see subtitles in the trailer...? And I hate reading subtitles - you miss all the action!

dub dub dub dub...

Ahh, well, you'll probably have a bit of a wait anyway. The trailer would be for the Japanese language versions, and it can sometimes take two or three years before an English subtitled version is done. But I'd guess they'd be banking on the show's international popularity and will already have subbed versions in the pipeline.

Your right, Mont, doesn't look the same, my bad. Still, the Cap looks nearly the same as Gloval.

jacob Raver, sinTempter wrote:Your right, Mont, doesn't look the same, my bad. Still, the Cap looks nearly the same as Gloval.

True, but they both look like a cliche of an old sea captain. I think they were both just playing to norms.

They've added new trailers since the original one.
Here's one, anyway:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXR1iuUgoas&feature=related
Mega-cool to hear the Argo/Yamato theme in modern symphonic; a downer to hear Aerosmith singers sticking their faces into the story - but I addressed that problem on the discussion on soundtracks for SRD (I forget where that thread is).

I'm a lifelong Starblazers fan, even though I really only cared for the stuff that was translated - the first two series (Iscandar and the Comet Empire) - I tried watching the Bolar Wars, but it was so poorly done, and so much of it just repeat ideas, that I quickly dropped it.

If they keep a human focus it'll probably be enjoyable - although I cringe at the insistence on making Nova a kick-butt warrior - hopefully they have enough sense to not change the original formula much.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMcrep48Wz0

what was wrong with that theme - much better than aerosmith's abortion of a song.