I'll be honest when I say the singing stuff has always made it difficult for me to take Macross seriously. Maybe it's because I never got too deep into the series. It first hit me when I was watching Macross Zero and everything seemed like all hard, sciencey stuff, then the island lady starts singing and I can't decide if this is magical fantasy or sci-fi...and I ignore the possibility of it being both, because I didn't have it rubbed all over my eyeballs at the very beginning. I suppose I have a bit more wiki trawling to do, but it seems like the guy who made Macross couldn't decide between having a world that ran on mana juice or supertech and stuck 'em together (because sufficiently advanced tech is indistinguishable from magic) without a thorough explanation. I suppose my suspension of disbelief holds up during the heat of the moment, but after the fact, I start to look back and wonder...

I can deal with magic and sci-fi being one and the same, but I think I just have some deep seated beef with singing being the way that magic is worked (words of power!? What is this travesty!).