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Summary: Ugh...
Review: I'm gonna keep this real short, this is the worst of the three robotech series. It is way to psychodelic for me.If you are a user of illegal substances, maybe you'd find this good, but I never have, wouldn't encourage it for this piece of poo.
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Summary: MMMM-
Review: LA SEGUNDA SAGA DE ROBOTECH, PARA MUCHOS FUE UNA ETAPA TRANSITORIA EN DONDE LOS ESCRITORES ENCONTRARON PROBLEMAS YA QUE ESTA SAGA FUE UN POCO CONFUSA Y LA HISTORIA MUY LENTA. PARA MI EN PARTICULAR ES UNA SAGA CLAVE PARA ENTENDER LA RAZON DE LOS MAESTROS ROBOTECH DE ATACAR A LA TIERRA, POR QUE LOS ZENTRAEDIS FUERON LOS PRIMEROS EN LLEGAR, Y LA CLAVE DE LA FLOR DE LA PROTOCULTURA PARA LOS INVIDS. COMO YA DIJE ES UNA SAGA MUY LENTA EN LA HISTORIA. ADEMAS EL USO DE TANQUES ROBOTECH NO FUE DE MI AGRADO. ESTE DVD NO TIENE LEYENDAS EN ESPAÑOL.
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Summary: The best of all three robotech series
Review: The Southern Cronss reveals all the secrets of this amazing saga.
Rating:
Summary: Definitely not a Must-See-Show
Review: To begin let me tell you something about Robotech: Robotech was created by taking three Anime that were not in any way related (Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Southern Cross and Mospeada) and creating a single series - Robotech - from them. This is because back then there was a minimum length for shows to be aired on US-TV and Macross was too short...
As you can imagine continuity is not easy to be achieved in such a project... You could drive several battletanks through the plot holes
Southern Cross (here called "The Masters") does not reach the quality of Macross by a long shot. Even disregarding the fact, that the editors were faced with the difficult task of fitting the series after the storyline of Macross, the show is quite cheap. Battles are uninspired and frequently footage is used two or three times during a single combat leading to repetitions. (If you've seen the same bioroids explode for the fourth time you'll know what I mean...) Tranformations of the good guy's mecha are done just to look cool (and it doesn't). There is no tactical reason whatsoever to change configuration three times, all the while fighting the same enemies in the same environment (Actually I found myself hoping the bad guys would exploit such stupidity and pop some of them.)
The characters are pale and only Dana Sterling (Her name was changed to imply she is the daughter of two characters from Macross, though that girl had green hair, while SC-Dana is a typical blonde.) gets any amount of screentime at all until into the second half of the series.
The second half surprisingly gets a little better with less copied scenes and more time for secondary characters, saving the series a two-star-rating from me.
As to the differences between the original Southern Cross and Robotech - The Masters (Don't worry I include no major spoilers):
First of all, for those of you that were wondering why earth is looking a little strange, SC is not set on the earth but on a colony world named Glory. (By the way, Glory had two suns, all shots that show both at once were edited or taken out of the show.) This explains why there are almost no battleships on the planet itself and all of them "return from deep space" (i.e. reinforcements from earth^^)
In SC Zor is just what the others believe him to be - a brainwashed human soldier.
And finally, what happens in the end is really a good thing in SC! I guess they cut all the cheering out to make it seem like a catastrophe^^
Definitely not a Must-See-Show...
Rating: 
Summary: Not as good as Macross Saga
Review: While the Robotech story is original, full of action, and human emotion; the second act was lacking many of the things that made the first one so irresistable. There is no hint of intelligence until well towards the end of the story and it only makes the involvement of the famous "protoculture" all the more confusing. Despite these problems, I did enjoy this era in the robotech story, but it sure didn't have the feel of a real military background that I found so appealing in its first act.
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