The first quarter of Macross Plus was just bad: no sympathetic character in sight. Aside from being unpleasant, everyone is cartoonish, from behavioural patterns down to the facial features (I can only cut some slack for Myung).

With no hope for help from characters, show leans heavily on gadgets, which are mostly repulsive and annoying. Evils of VR and AI? Please. At least they had decent aerial footage in the Hollywood flick "Final Mission" (perhaps better than in "Top Gun"). Gizmo obsession indeed.

I can go on, but the biggest letdown is that the pieces of the original Macross that I remember were much better. IIRC, they had some kind of Simon-Kamina relationship, bridge bunnies, Zentradi, etc. But Plus offers nothing save a bunch of ugly jerks.

Animation is sure pretty in Plus, but it's not enough.

Since the series is so short, I'm going to sit it out, but I'm really not happy about it.