![]() According to a later movie, Orion the engineer also died in the final ep of the 2nd season (Much to my sadness, I liked him). He died destroying the power center on the Comet Ship (In fact, none of the Marines they brought aboard survived the season). Knox had returned in another fighter, it was dubbed in. Just as a clarifying point for my faithful readers, though one of the crewmembers reported that Sgt. After hearing that, I didn't feel so bad about missing the 3rd season. (While at a meeting for my high school band, I came across several of the 'cool kids' singing the theme song together.) In my area only the first 2 seasons were shown, but my wife reports that she not only got just the first, but it didn't include the final episode where they return to Earth, never mind the whole Comet Empire season. Considering that American animation seemed to be following the same rules that American comics were following (No death, sex, excessive violence, excitement, things of interest, plot development, etc) it isn't really a surprise that so many of us rushed home to watch it. This marked it apart from anything else being shown 'for children' at this point. There were several episodes where bodies were seen, if not the causes for their deaths. I am certain that Sandor shot the encroaching Gamilon, but too late to prevent Nova from being hit. ![]() In the actual ep, Sandor and Nova both turn to see the Gamilon enter, but we never actually see him, and Nova ends up wounded for no readily apparant reason other than the aforementioned gas. In it, a Gamilon was rushing into the cargo bay where Nova was trying to activate the CosmoDNA (The Gamilon boarding party was using a radioactive gas) Starsha had given them and Sandor was protesting that it might not be safe. Looking at the coming attraction scenes made me realize that some editing was done in the last episode of the 1st season. Only the 'Robotech' series came close, and that one suffered from trying to combine 3 Japanime series into one. Compared to the pitifully slaughtered 'Battle of the Planets' (Gatchaman, later re-translated into G-Force which managed to be better) or anything American animated series were planning on doing (He-Man, Bravestarr, etc ad nauseum), this series really shone. The characters were exceedingly well realized with backstories and CHANGES to the characters as their characters developed. ![]() It was only slightly cut for American audiences, leaving out only the actual deaths of characters (Mostly redshirt types, excepting Captain Avatar) when they were shot, blown up, or other. ![]()
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