Talk:Rick Hunter
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[edit] Re: McKinney De-Canonization
I know I'm not alone among Robotech fans in saying that if Shadow Chronicles greatly diverges from the story put forth by McKinney, then it had better be a damn GOOD story or I will continue to ignore it. The reason so many fans like McKinney's novels despite their "de-canonification" is because they make good stories and offer a lot of believable insight into the motives and thoughts of the characters.
And personally, I don't understand why Harmony Gold would license the McKinney books and then turn around and say we're now supposed to forget about them. They ought to have more respect for their fans than that. It's kind of like how Rick Berman and Brannon Braga threw out thirty years of established Star Trek universe lore, much of it approved by Roddenberry and Fontana, to create the completely different world of Star Trek: Enterprise. Playing fast and loose with the established world of your story is an excellent way to offend your audience and destroy suspension of disbelief.
[edit] Style
The writing style of this entry doesn't seem appropriate for Wikipedia -- there's an in-universe rather than out-of-universe approach. There's no reference to the character's appearances in other media. In contrast, the entry for the Macross analogue to the character, Hikaru Ichijyo, is written in a style more consistent with Wikipedia standards.FixerMX 19:36, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
