Can we contemplate the world-building implications in Transformers Animated when Sentinel gives all his little bootcamp victims their names? Please? I’m squinting suspiciously.
Did they not have names before?? Do you not get an official name until you get official military training??? You get an army nickname and that who you are forever, no takebacks. Bumblebee is a bumbler one time in front of Sentinel and that’s his life forever now.
The funniest character development I have ever experienced as a human being is my feelings about Kicker. You know, Kicker of Transformers: Energon fame. That Kicker.
Highschool me hated that guy. He nearly got me to stop watching. He made me so mad every time he did anything on screen. You’d think the abysmal dubbing would be what would have stopped my glorious quest to watch every single piece of transformers media I could pirate, but no. Twas the teenaged angst-cloud specialboi with glowy hair and an attitude problem the size of mars. I perservered, however, and carried this dislike deep in my heart for what I expected to be the rest of my days.
Then I decided to rewatch the Unicron Trilogy a few years ago. For reasons. And, guys, Kicker is now my specialest little guy. He is doing so well considering what he had to deal with!! His dad lowered him down a hole with god at the bottom with nothing but a dinky little flashlight to his name. Hes been hung out of spaceships at the tender age of 10 for scientific purposes. He’s been provisionally raised by giant mechanical beings because his dad was too busy with science to deal with him. He’s the resident magical energon Geiger counter against his own will. No wonder he’s always being such a punk. Someone help my little guy.
What does this have to do with my character development? Unclear, hopefully something about getting better at that whole Empathy thing. Mostly I think I took an industrial-sized chill-pill. Moral of the story is rewatch old shows at your old peril cuz you’ll discover that past you was a stone-cold jerk.
Next up on Alarming TFA Implications: the constructicons follow Bumblebee’s leaky oil trail back to the base after they taste said oil. They are planning to drink whatever is at the end of the trail, and that thing is—unbeknownst to them—Bumblebee. Yes yes xenobiology techno-anatomy etc etc, but I feel like we’re crossing a line here.
I gotta say, having Jake and Nog blundering through classic video game side quests in a desperate attempt to make money in the background of Kira coming to the horrible, crushing realization that she is the government sure was a choice.
I’m watching a tragic old black and white film that should by all rights have me in tears, but some unhinged person has set it to the Yakety Sax soundtrack.
So, fun thing about Weyoun. I am A). faceblind and B). The unfortunate owner of auditory processing issues, so I—through a combination of not noticing he was the same dude every time and missing all mentions of his situation—didn’t figure out the guy was identical clones for literally the entire series.
In fact, I only figured it out when I saw a post about it a few months ago, which forced me to recontextualize every single thing I knew about him.
Every time I think about whatever is happening with Dr. Robotnik and Agent Stone I become physically unwell. I don’t know what to do with them.
I want to put them in a jar and shake them. I never want to read any fic about them. I want to go find a clip compilation of them and let it cycle for hours. I’d pluck out my eyes if I ever saw them kiss. I want to fall down a tag rabbit-hole about them and gaze at fanart for days. I’ll never type anything about them in any search bar ever.
Paramount plus, while blatantly extorting me for money so I can watch My Shows, has the decency to give me language options. They have pretty much all of the treks in French, German, and Spanish, which, yay! Some language options for the folks.
Pros: I can watch my little people run around in French and feel productive about language practice
Cons: the French dub has given Sulu the strongest accent I have ever heard, and it Feels Strange
