Oh, boy it got dusty around here. Let me just wipe this thing off... Where were we?
Season 1, Episode 16 - Kung Fu Dandy
The Episode opens w/ the bridge crew complaining about the UN's decision. And well they should! Not every keen on how the show seems to show them as harpies annoying the Captain though...
How easy would it have been for Hikaru to just not fly Kaifun back with them? Seemed that would have solved his, and Minmay's, problem right there. A touching homecoming. Then we cut to the mini Zentradi who don't know how they feel about food. And are breaking into a shop to get some plastic food. Its going to be funny when they dont have any money to pay for all the food they're about to order and eat...
Cut back to the bridge crew who are going to Minmay's restaurant, which is bumping cause all of Kaifun's friends are celebrating his return. No one on the bridge seems to think this is a big break in the security they were just told about by the Captain. Just that Kaifun is cute. Oh and I guess Kaifun is giving Misa PTSD, maybe because he looks like her ex?
Kaifun is a pacifist? Now his decision to maroon himself on a military base makes even less sense! I guess, he doesn't know yet though? Security on this base really sucks. Then Minmay puts her foots right in her mouth saying "why arent you happy this military hating stranger came here" right before asking the TV be turned on so that she can watch herself on it. But its interrupted by what Im guessing is the news that no one can leave. Yup. And now everyone is real angry again. Quick, Minmay sing something to make everything better again. Nope, the folks are now attacking the bridge crew and Hikaru. This isn't going to go well, is it? bet Capt. Global wishes he had just left everyone in space now, doesn't he? Yup, it's a riot. And despite Kaifun being a pacifist he seems pretty capable in a fight, with his own friends who came to this party to see him again? Who needs enemies when you have friends like that?
Oh he knows "Chinese Kung Fu" everyone seems very impressed. Hikaru mostly seems upset that Minmay thinks it was amazing. Fuck the way Minmay just says so cheerily that Kaifun hates military people. Are any of these people real? Are they just robots?
Hardcut to the Zentradi fleet with Kamijun being as unruly as ever. Global calls an Alert and wants Misa back. The regular defense forces of Earth... Don't really do anything? Just complain about Macross. As if the Earth forces weren't the ones to put it back together and activate it? Misa is having trouble focusing on her job thinking about Kaifun or maybe her ex? Anyway it is having a negative effect on her ability to do her duties. (A side note this show is not great on the portrayal of women front. Ive said that before but man its real bad in this episode.) Oh the UN launched some missiles. They had no effect. But Kamijun isn't going to attack the planet so this must be a run on the Macross only. Valkyries launch. They also had no effect. Ah, Kamijun's plan is to get the Macross back into space. They've boarded it and now Hikaru is distracted from his job because Minmay likes her cousin so much.
A lot of Valkyrie pilots are dying. And now a second Zentradi force has arrived. And they're only targetting Kamijun and his forces. These are the Lady Zentradi. And then he retreats but not before dropping off something. And then doing a suicide run on the Macross? Hikaru starts chasing one of the Lady Zentradi fighters. The Macross prepares a Daedulus attack that punches through the enemy ship, and then releasing hordes of missiles. Some of which hit Hikaru's valkyrie. What what a cluster this whole operation is, for everyone it seems. The Zentradi ship is destroyed. Oh the something he dropped off was his ship. Still a cluster. They're no retreating on some pods they had prepared beforehand.
Misa gets confined to quarters for being bad at her job. And really needs some therapy. Some serious PTSD it seems. Hikaru is located floating in the ocean and is rushed to a hospital.
End Episode.
Seems like a lot was happening in this episode! Minmay is awful but then aren't all teenagers? Misa has some serious issues that I doubt will get worked through at all. And the Zentradi don't seem to care about operational costs!