Daily Archives: April 12, 2021

Story Pile: Robotech

It is challenging to know one of your favourite things is so aggressively mediocre.

ROBOTECH - INTRO ORIGINAL

This music, this opening, set the standard in my child mind for what epic truly represented. This opening that starts with a clearly damaged, recovered piece of footage, then switches constantly between different arcs of the story, showing characters who, at the start of the series aren’t even born. Three generations of a narrative collected in the opening, and in an 85-episode show, screened weekly if I got to catch all the episodes, some of these story beats were a literal year away.

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