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Post by damianmagecraft on Dec 3, 2013 8:10:33 GMT
Watching the series again out of nostalgia...
just one question...
How in the hell did a gun happy nut like Ota get past the Psych evals to be be a cop let alone be allowed to pilot a Labor in the first place?
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Post by rockwolf66 on Dec 3, 2013 9:43:13 GMT
Well...apparently when the targets don't shoot back he's an amazing marksman. Plus there are times when you really do want a guy who will run up and kick down a door to a room full of badguys and Ohta has about the right personality for it.
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Patlabor
Dec 3, 2013 23:07:18 GMT
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Post by damianmagecraft on Dec 3, 2013 23:07:18 GMT
Hey Jaymz have you thought about writing up the labors from the series?
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Post by MacrossMike on Dec 3, 2013 23:56:47 GMT
Watching the series again out of nostalgia... just one question... How in the hell did a gun happy nut like Ota get past the Psych evals to be be a cop let alone be allowed to pilot a Labor in the first place? Eh... just like here in America, every now and again a crazy one slips past the psych-eval. I know one (retired) Japanese police officer who makes even Ohta look positively well-balanced. Really batty gal, not a gun nut like Ohta, but believes in alien abductions and crop circles and all kinds of paranormal bullcrap. I've heard her opine that everything from 9/11 to petty crimes in her prefecture were the work of aliens or mind control implants or so on. My personal suspicion on that front is that Ohta was probably allowed to slide by even with a marginal psych evaluation because he'd volunteered for duty at SV2, which was not exactly a prime posting. As unattractive as the show makes a posting to SV2 look, you'd have to be crazy to want to work there... and both Ohta and Izumi fit the bill. Either that or some enterprising soul at Shinohara Heavy Industries bent someone's ear in the hopes that a hothead like Ohta would earn 'em some good test data on the Type-98AV/AV-98 under "extreme" conditions. |
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Post by MacrossMike on Dec 3, 2013 23:57:52 GMT
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Patlabor
Dec 4, 2013 0:34:01 GMT
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Post by damianmagecraft on Dec 4, 2013 0:34:01 GMT
Well that covers the Ingram...
But what about all the other labors?
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Post by Jaymz on Dec 4, 2013 3:42:46 GMT
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Post by MacrossMike on Dec 5, 2013 0:42:24 GMT
Well that covers the Ingram... But what about all the other labors? All told, there aren't that many combat-capable labors out there in all of Mobile Police Patlabor... mostly just the handful owned by the Police and the JSDF. On a quick leaf-through of the Patlabor books I've got on hand, if we exclude that borderline super robot from the dream episode, there's the five combat-ready police labors (the Taisyo, Ingram, Peacemaker, Python, and Clash Buster), the JSDF's four (Atlas, Helldiver, HAL X-10, and Samson), Russia's Doshka, and seven Schaft one-offs. Most of 'em are just slight variations on each other. That's covering both timelines though, some exist only in one or the other, and many are variations on other listed models. Most of 'em even have very similar specs and performance, so it'd be almost like the VF-1 variant entries... one mega-article, then a bunch of little variations. EDIT: Among police labors, it looks like the only real changes in performance are increases in the deadlift capacity and the caliber of the small arms they carry... and even then, the only real time that changes is between the AV-98 and AV-0. The AV-02's basically got the same profile as the original AV-0. |
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