>Hmmm...SURELY giving to the very unstable man with extreme BPD and an inferiority complex a state of the art machine will be a good idea!
>>23882462Sorry wrong pic.
It's those half Zentraedi man you can't trust them, especially around our soft boned human womenfolk.Unrelated but if any single half Zentraedi women are reading this I have a friend who is interested
>>23882462Exactly. That was the point. The powers that be wanted the YF19 and YF21 to fail because they wanted to push the Ghost. They chose an unstable man under medication and a rogue incapable of following orders. They didn't count that despite them being the worst candidates you could think of considering their issues heart and love would triumph. That's the whole point of Macross Plus; with Guld, with Isamu and with Myung, ultimately the human heart proves itself better than AI's prowess.And Millard is the one who gets it. He protects Guld by hiding his issues and allows Isamu to steal the plane. The three dysfunctional adults with a horrible past are the ones who triumph against the flawless AI. That's the reason they are broken, and the reason they are unlikable, because they need to be in order to deliver the point. I'm pretty sure Max could've easily dealt with the Ghost if he was around and then go back to fuck Millia as if it were yet another Tuesday, but if they used the perfect pilot to obliterate the AI it would've defeated the whole point of the series.
>>23882462Its not like that was public knowledge or anything. Crazy people don't really stand out till they start going crazy.
>>23883581Max would have absolutely trashed the Ghost while speaking on the phone with Milia about their next dinner date(or arguing with her, depending on their marital status at the time, since in 7 they were divorced).
>>23883602The top brass knew. In fact when Millard suspects something and asks for Guld's info they give it to him.
>>23883703That woulda been after Millia was elected mayor, IIRC their marriage was very good up to that point but the conflict between military and civilian needs ended up bleeding into their relationship ;_;
>>23883725Plus is in 2040, 7 departs in 2045. The Macross 7 departed in 2038. Was Millia elected mayor as soon as it departed, or later?Regardless by 2040 all of Max and Millia's 7 girls were born, in fact Mylene was already 9.
>>23883735Sorry, I meant "Plus is in 2040, 7 takes place in 2045, but Macross 7 departed in 2038".