that makes sense bc it would've been better to end it at 13.
this thing so freaking dragged out after episode 10. prior to that everything was moving at a good pace.
I disagree with this because the scene with Messer being powered up through song and Var was a precursor and foreshadow to the Tuning which has been the focus of the later recent episodes where Kaname is the first on screen instance of Tuning. From then on out they continue to hint and work towards that until they spoonfeed it to you. We just never find out exactly what it is until later.
I'm not going to make a final judgement on pacing until the last three episodes, but it hasn't been terrible. It could be better.
Freyja is also nowhere near being treated with the same loser status and vitriol that Ranka gets in Frontier. The amount of Ls she takes compared to the kind of character she is is insulting to how fun Freyja is as a protagonist when you compare them.
From understanding how production is run, changing the pacing from a shorter production to a longer one 4 episodes in, 1/4-1/3 of the original pacing, doesn't mean that the series is stretched out at all. By that point they were still storyboarding the plot and cutting the original story script to work, nothing was really set in stone.
Macross Delta has a lot of French, American, etc. animators and producers working on it so you can personally tweet someone like Romain to see if he can answer a question in regards to that.
The pacing really isn't that poor and Frontier is still paced much more poorly than Delta. Nearly everything in Macross Delta happens because of a plot point known as Fold Bacteria from the Vajra, but they could have just as much introduced everything in Delta without needing to reference the whole stupid Grace O Connor human consciousness networking and space beetles shit going on in Frontier.
Maclog has been pretty positive about the series so far. I don't know what your site you follow but the general outlook so far hasn't been as deviled and hated as what some of you and your communities follow.
Edit: the top part was only for you David, everything else is just a general response to how I see english fans seeing the series so far. I really won't make any hard judgement until the landing because this series will probably be some bullshit if the ending ends up being something Grace O Connor/MacGalaxy tier stupid.
