tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338557.post5826823786802463856..comments2023-08-18T04:37:47.001-04:00Comments on Byzantium's Shores: chronicling the misadventures of an overalls-clad hippie: Space Battleship YamatoKelly Sedingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10704114189919711467noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338557.post-86474673490465376142012-03-27T06:21:55.598-04:002012-03-27T06:21:55.598-04:00It looks like a battleship because it is a battles...<i>It looks like a battleship because it is a battleship.</i><br /><br />Ahhhh! Yeah, that was lost in translation for the movie.Kelly Sedingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10704114189919711467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338557.post-84407037011154793552012-03-26T14:08:48.596-04:002012-03-26T14:08:48.596-04:00What Scotty said.
One of the great, great pleasu...What Scotty said. <br /><br />One of the great, great pleasures of this movie for me was that it was quite faithful to my memories of <i>Star Blazers</i>, right down to the uniforms, the montage of mechanical changes that lead to the firing of Yamato's wave-motion gun, and even (as weird as this sounds) the general look of the blaster fire that comes from the big deck guns. It was in many ways the cartoon come to life, and I found myself remembering things from when I was ten that I haven't thought about in years -- including a lot of things that weren't specifically related to the show, just kind of the milieu in which I saw it, if that makes sense.<br /><br />I think you'd probably like <i>Star Blazers</i>, Kelly. You should check it out when you get a chance...Jasonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11001416935247782462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338557.post-66852999875996693122012-03-26T10:42:01.978-04:002012-03-26T10:42:01.978-04:00And the series is available on netflix...And the series is available on netflix...LC Scottyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09372776060364698141noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3338557.post-50447528945469606082012-03-26T10:41:29.768-04:002012-03-26T10:41:29.768-04:00It looks like a battleship because it is a battles...It looks like a battleship because it is a battleship. I don't know how much they went into in the movie, but in the series (TOS?!?) humans lived underground due to the poisoning of the Earth by the Gammalons. The Yamato, a WW2 era battleship (roughly the same size and capability as the Bismark, IIRC in real life), is reached from underneath and retrofitted while sitting on what was the seabed.LC Scottyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09372776060364698141noreply@blogger.com