Rian is a dude. It was a joke. He's the main man here on the forums so I thought i'd poke at him a bit. You know, try and get a response?
Ah well, guess he's busy.
The movie was awesome, totally the next step in Robotech. I really hope it does well enough that someobody picks it up for a series. If you get to watch it (or buy the DVD when it comes out in February) go in thinking of it as the pilot episode of a new TV series. The CG could be a little more polished when it comes to the veritechs but most of the other ships looked fine. The animation on the characters is drawn, not CG, so you can take comfort in that.
After the screening we had a Q&A session with one of the writers ( a freelancer whose done mostly Nickelodeon cartoons) and Kevin, a marketing exec from Harmony Gold. the first thing out of Kevin's mouth, and his primary concern in this venture, was "Did we rape anyone's childhood?" When no-one spoke up he said it was a job well done then. We did the right thing and talked to them about Kumoricon and while I talked up some of the otaku present (I'm pretty sure we SOLD the guys from Tillamook) Vallie spoke with Kevin. It seems that he's been to Kumoricon and asked us to have Sean talk to him. I'm pretty sure that we've got the contacts we need there if he knows our Relations guy by his first name already.
