Vince Grant: remarkably young for his age

[robotech_master]

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So here we see that Vince Grant comes from the state of America. I suppose geography lessons are not considered all that important when you're battling over entire star systems…

But the funniest thing to me is that his age is given as 36. That would mean Vince was born in 2008, fathered Bowie at the ripe old age of 5, and was all of 14 when the SDF-3 headed for deep space in 2022.

On the other hand, he does look remarkably well-preserved for the late-40s-to-early-50s age that he technically should be in 2044. Relativistic travel slowing the aging process? A result of exposure to protoculture radiation and shadow-dimensional fields? (After all, if they can increase bust size dramatically in the female, perhaps they just cause slower aging in the male? Oh, but wait—that wouldn't account for Rick Hunter, who looks about a million years old now.)

Incidentally, the tiny text at the top of the screen is, as nearly as I can make out, "Note that you need a verification code that will be sent to your e-mail to be able to activate your user…" So we find that the Neutron-S missiles are actually detonated by web forum registration software.

Props to Darkwater from The Unofficial Robotech Reporter for pointing the age and state things out to me.

Oh, and by the way, any Robotech fans who don't read the robotech.com message boards and so forth, check out Space Station Liberty to see what future shows I've got scheduled. There's some good ones coming up. I've also posted a couple of pre-recorded shows lately.

Comments

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Actually. "state" in the sense of "state-run business" does mean nation. And America is a state in that sense. "United States" is actually a descriptor for "America", like "People's Republic" is for "China".

[robotech-master.livejournal.com]

True. But it's still an awkward construction, as you'd expect it to be Nationality: and/or "USA" instead of "America".

[kensuke-aida.livejournal.com]

Well considering that Earth had the crap kicked out of it, I would assume that by this point U.S. had surrendered the last of its sovereignty to the central world government. It that sense the United States doesn't exist and the "American state" is now an administrative zone of the UEG.

As for the age thing, this precisely what I was talking about. If you introduce a pre-established character or link a new one to a pre-established one, you run the risk of introducing these continuity errors. HG is simply not doing the level of research that is necessary.

- John

[autodidact97.livejournal.com]

Interesting point you bring, actually. I wonder what Tommy Yune has to say about this. lol.

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