She wants to know why the bad guys love the green color so much. Any help guys!?!Always interesting to hear the POV from someone who is completely unfamiliar with a show when seeing it for the first time. Glad it hooked her.![]()
Well for Space Battleship Yamato it was a little bit more political on the Japanese production side. The broadcaster didn't like that the enemy looked human right down to the color of the skin. They wanted to be sure the audience knew who the evil aliens were so they asked that the skin color of the Gamilas be changed so that the kids watching would be able to tell who the bad guys were instantly. That's also when they introduced the pure Gamilas as opposed to the 'second class citizens' of the Empire.It’s an old Sci-fi trope. Every “empire” has its own color palette to differentiate themselves from each other in a fight. Wars does it, Trek does it, B5 and so on.
Be Forever Enterprise-D…on Veridian. Hey, the Yamato’s saucer was toast so they had to use that one…Well, it kind of was, when they inexplicably put an E-D-like saucer in the middle of Yamato's hull (along with riveting on a pair of Harlock-Arcadia wings):
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