Watching "Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles" made me all sorts of nostalgic for the old shows. So I pulled out the third series, which had the original attack on Reflex Point.
This is probably my favorite series besides the Macross saga. A base on Mars has launched an invasion force to take back Earth. It ends in disaster -- the vast majority of the force is wiped out by the alien Invid. Scott Bernard, one of the only survivors, gathers a small band of freedom fighters and battles his way across the continent to Reflex Point, the Invid's main base. If it can be taken out, humans can reclaim their home.
There were things I loved about this show -- the mechas are some of the best of any in Robotech, Rook is hot and deadly, and Lancer (Yellow Dancer) is ten times cooler than Minmae ever *thought* of being. He's a better singer, too. And you've got to love how the spokes on his Cyclone turn into hand blasters.
There's a good ... desperate feel to their quest, too. They argue, they've got to scrounge for supplies and weapons, and they battle hostile humans as much as they do the Invid. The battles are small groups of mechs -- more personal than the major space battles that came before. And the story doesn't seem to have as much filler as the earlier series did.
OK, so Mint is fricking annoying, but she's not too much of a focus. I can handle that -- the rest of the story is classic.
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