pirx wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 6:20 am
There is no point in having it otherwise than spoiling who is Lady M:
The irony there is that it doesn't actually do THAT either... the "M" in "Lady M" is revealed to mean:
Megaroad-01.
So we're never given any actual indication of WHO it is, and indeed neither the nominal protagonists (Xaos) nor the nominal antagonists (Heimdall) are aware of the identity of "Lady M". All they know is where "she" is.
pirx wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 6:20 am
I did not figured it out sooner because i kept using Misa's Robotech name - Lisa Hayes instead of Misa Hayase.
Of course Misa is Lady M! Not Minmay obviously.
In fact, the movie never even HINTS at Lady M's actual identity... only where they are. It's unlikely it's either of them, and since it's an alias based on the name of the location they live rather than their actual identity there is no guarantee that "Lady M" is even female (since ships are referred to with feminine pronouns) or that their name contains an "M".
pirx wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 6:20 am
Unfortunately dimension fault did not let them pull it through. Which IMO was biggest disappointment in entire movie. Teasing it through entire Delta and then showing us middle finger - X-Files style. Nothing gets resolved.
Really, it was about par for the course for
Delta... lots of meaningless buildup and no payoff, and Xaos are only the protagonist because the film's got Protagonist Centered Morality in full effect. (At one point, a member of Delta Flight even acknowledges that Lady M is no better than the movie's villain.)
pirx wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 6:20 am
I could not figure out are they using same VF-31s or upgraded models (VF-33s?)
Some plot points from Plus - virtuoid idol use+Ghost AI fighters
The movie actually does answer that question, albeit as part of a larger conversation that is interrupted for fanservice.
Xaos's VF-31 Custom "Siegfried" units were outclassed by Heimdall's Sv-303 Vivasvat unmanned fighters, and took a lot of damage in combat with them on Windermere IV. Because Delta Flight's mothership, the carrier Aether and the greater Macross Elysion, are still being repaired in the wake of the recently-concluded war between Windermere and the New UN Government the ship that evacuates Delta Flight from Windermere is a different ship from a different branch of Xaos (Listania's Macross Gigasion) they have few or no spare parts for the customized Siegfrieds.
Makina and the Macross Gigasion's maintenance teams are forced to repair Delta Flight's custom VF-31s using parts from the trial production VF-31A Kairos in order to get them flying again, and make some modifications to their Fold Wave systems to improve their performance a bit further.
The new custom type is renamed VF-31AX Kairos Plus.