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MetaFour
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(Old Master)
18th Aug, 2017 06:26:50 PM
Sounds like Negative Continuity. (Or a Snap Back, if it's a one-time thing.)
I didn't write any of that.
I was just watching Robotech, and in episode 5 when Macross does it's transformation half the city is destroyed. Yet in episode 7 it's back to it's ship config and you get the feeling that the city isn't even damaged. You'd expect the ship to stay in robo form since the transformation would no doubt do even more damage. But here, it seem after making such a fuss over the ship transforming the first time, the story seems content to say, 'Oh, that doesn't happen anymore.'
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