speaker@umcp-cs.UUCP (09/18/83)
I believe that the third season HAS been released and I won't spoil the ending for you... it's pretty good. I think the animation was rather crude in the series as a whole. The Japanese seem content with limited animation and I just don't see why. One question: Wan't the Empire in the second season called "The Common Empire" and not "The Comet Empire?" I always thought this was an allusion to dirty red communism. -- - Speaker speaker@umcp-cs speaker.umcp-cs@UDel-Relay This must be hell...all I can see are flames... towering flames!
jph@whuxlb.UUCP (09/19/83)
#R:umcp-cs:-262600:whuxlb:9100017:000:179 whuxlb!jph Sep 19 08:58:00 1983 My wife said that it was the "COMET EMPIRE". She (and the kids) watch it religiously. Do you know the times for the stations in the NYC area for the new releases of Star Blazers?
mae@aplvax.UUCP (09/20/83)
Where has anyone out there seen the third season in English? I didn't think any markets had picked it up yet, though I had heard it was done. I've seen 23 out of 25 episodes but only in Japanese. The animation is crude in the first series but gets better with each season. The movies are really spectacular - lots of multiplane animation used in battle sequences. But then even the crudest recent Japanese animation looks good compared to what passes for animation now for American tv. To correct a bit of confusion - The Empire in the second season of Star Blazers was the Comet Empire. It had absolutely nothing to do with communism - Emperor Zwordar was an absolute ruler, disregard the American version calling him a prince. Comet refers to the fact that the city/military base that housed the seat of government was built on an asteroid and traveled surrounded by a white force field that streamed out behind it. This looked like a comet entering a planetary system so the intended victims didn't know what was really coming until too late. It was referred to as either the White Comet or the Comet Empire. Mary Anne Espenshade ...!seismo!umcp-cs!aplvax!mae