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The episode of Beast Wars where Dinobot beats down every darned member of the Decepticons and dies in the process was incredible. I don't think I cried, but I came awfully close.
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quote: I don't actually like hard scifi and I am perfectly willing to suspend some disbelief, but you have to give me SOMETHING. Let's take X-men for example (not the third one). It was very enjoyable to watch. Plausible...hell no! They throw in some mumbo jumbo about DNA and evolution but if you set that aside, you've got a great movie with some decent action about outcasts struggling for acceptance and about the fear people have of things that are different - more powerful.
I don't know, I think you can do the same thing with Transformers. It was very enjoyable to watch. Plausible...hell no! They throw in some mumbo jumbo about a war that raged for years and the Autobots and Decepticons, but if you set that aside, you've got a great movie with decent action about robots who protect mankind because they believe that mankind is inherently worth fighting for and saving, that humanity is worthy of being saved which shows an optimism and joy about humanity that is embodied in how the humans rise up to fight themselves--very powerful.
I think you have to see Transformers in that light and suspend your disbelief about the robots themselves because inherently, the movie is about humanity and a sort of humanistic philosophy that is interesting.
I really liked it...
Oh and I had the toys when I was a kid...really good stuff. But lets not spread that around...
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It would have had more posts had the word "rape" been in the title instead of the body of the thread.
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quote:So then, is Hot Rod just some annoying punk kid who got lucky and became the leader of the Autobots, or was it fate? If Hot Rod hadn’t caught the Matrix, would Ultra Magnus have been able to activate it?
The Matrix flashed because it got DROPPED.
Ultra Magnus could have opened it... if he'd used the finger holds!
quote:I also enjoyed Beast Wars. There’s an episode where one of the Decepticons has his brain scrambled (probably from an EMP or something) and goes around claiming to be Wonko the Sane. Clearly, any children’s show that subtly references The Guide wins.
Actually, a prominent Transformers fan named Ben Yee (he actually registered beastwars.net, but then gave it to Hasbro and changed his site to bwtf.com had Wonko the Sane as his screen name on the newsgroup alt.toys.transformers.
The story editors of Beast Wars, Bob Forward and Larry DiTillio, used to read that newsgroup and put that reference in as a nod to Ben Yee.
Of course, he clearly chose his screen name based on the Hitchhiker's Guide, so it still comes back to the Guide.
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