glitterboy2098 wrote:DhAkael wrote:Whatever...
If everyone would just shut up and accept
EITHER O.S.M. or Robotech (HG script bible) and let it REST, then there'd be no problem.
fixed for you. [...]
Er... just puttin' this out there, but you DO realize that the OSM
is the
Robotech "script bible", right? That's the way it's been since the word "go" in '85, and the OSM's influence over
Robotech has only grown with time. The official stats are OSM-derived, to the extent that if one took out the minor typos and the bits where the uRRG idiots didn't want to accept that there are such things as animation errors, the two would be virtually indistinguishable. The only area that isn't almost exclusively OSM derived is the Masters Saga, and correcting that to match what's actually said in the show would... wait for it... take it closer to the OSM.
It's not surprising, really. After all, Harmony Gold never intended to make something separate from the original shows when they were making the series, and the collective experience of decades of failed experiments and customer feedback proves definitively that
Robotech has never been, and will never be, an entity separate from the original three shows used in its creation. They learned the hard way that trying to put distance between
Robotech and the original
Macross,
Southern Cross, and
MOSPEADA means putting distance between
Robotech and what made
Robotech even remotely interesting to begin with. Harmony Gold has known for ages that what the fans want isn't a stand-alone RT series, they want more stories featuring the familiar characters, mecha, and settings of the original three shows. They did their best to deliver that, and hit roadblocks created by their limited rights to the material every time. The only time they dared try an all-original
Robotech with no ties to the OSM (
Robotech 3000), it was the most abysmal failure the franchise ever experienced.
Anyone who thinks
Robotech is an entity separate from the originals, and could stand alone without the OSM is just kidding themselves.
glitterboy2098 wrote:HG may have used OSM for some of the gross details, but ultimately it bears as much relevance to robotech as a copy of the
Jane's Recognition Guides have for
Ace Combat.
Not quite... it'd be more correct to say that the OSM bears as much relevance to
Robotech as the creator's notes, player's guide, and walkthrough for a video game would to a re-release of the same game with a little bonus content... kinda like
Ace Combat 2 and
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy, to borrow your specific example. (I'm actually playing the latter right now.)