I was curious, and wanted to ask if there is any Transformers media you enjoyed in terms of writing, and what your last iteration you saw of the franchise itself?
I will always have a soft spot for G1, especially the movie and the subsequent third season. Theyâre goofy as hell, but I still love them.
Beast Wars has the highest highs, I think. The animation hasnât aged well, but I love the story and the characters.
I loved Transformers Animated. It didnât reach the heights of Beast Wars, but it didnât hit the lows, either. It was much more consistent and very endearing.
And Transformers One was great!
Comic book-wise, I loved Simon Furmanâs work in the 80âs. His run in the UK and then the last half of the G1 comic.
Thatâs what Marvel has done to me. Outside of âThe Spectacular Spider-Menâ and the occasional thing here and there (Godzilla vs Fantastic Four was fun)⊠I am just indifferent to it all.
I know that Tom Brevoort thinks an angry reader is an engaged reader. But eventually that burns out. And it has with me. I no longer care.
Havenât I answered this at least several dozen times?
Letâs start with the contenders, shall we?
Is it cheating to list Indiana Jones as a contender? Nah⊠itâs easy enough to ignore the fourth and fifth atrocities (I might be unfair as I never saw the fifth one). âRaiders of the Lost Arkâ is a great movie that is followed up by two good, fun (but not great) movies.
âBack to the Futureâ is fantastic and consistent across the board.
âAlienâ and âAliensâ are PERFECT! But âAlien 3â sucks⊠and things got even worse after that.
âThe Godfatherâ? Well, see what I wrote above. Two perfect movies followed by a monstrosity.
I absolutely despise âThe Return of the Jediâ.
Iâd list âToy Storyâ but it didnât stop.
My feelings about âThe Hobbitâ are complicated and mixed. There are things I love about them and things I loathe about them - theyâre the most frustrating Iâve listed. But theyâre better prequels than other prequels I could name. Much better.
I like âThe Dark Knight Trilogyâ. A lot, even. But Iâm not one of those people that think it and Nolan are the second coming.
You all know Iâm going to say âThe Lord of the Ringsâ. I mean, all three were filmed at once which provides a consistency that the others canât have. Itâs not a 1:1 adaptation, but the choices made when translating one medium to another were logical, made sense, and I agreed with. Itâs just⊠it still makes me cry at times, even twenty years later.
Itâs âThe Lord of the Ringsâ and nothing else comes close.
A Russian prankster glued a massive portrait of President Vladimir Putin to the inside of a residential elevator. He then placed a camera in the elevator to record peopleâs reactions.
Holding up snarky signs doesnât seem to be working.
For me, it isnât about whether this action is appropriate or not. Itâs about how this kind of action is inevitable.
Iâm going to let Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. explain in a quote no one seems to post during his annual holiday.
âIt is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear?â
If you only speak up about a supercharger catching fire and ignore the unheard, you are prioritizing a thing over people.
I vote we stop calling it inflation at all. Seize the language. Itâs price gouging, not inflation. Inflation is a nebulous concept that invokes feeling of being too complex for the layman, a struggle as old as economy itself against a beast no one has ever truly slain.
Price gouging is the truth of it. And it makes it very clear who is to blame, and what must be done to end it.
Can confirm this works wonders. Australia is in a cost of living crisis rn and the two major supermarkets are a big part of it, as they pretty much have a duopoly on not just the grocery shopping market, but a bunch of others considered to be essential (things like fuel). They are trying to blame their price rises on inflation, but the media recently started reporting it as price gouging (which it is), and it got the average person pretty worked up, better than blaming inflation did.
Can anybody give these old-ass Democrats protest lessons? Theyâre acting like theyâre still living in pre-2015 politics when the GOP gave a shit and wasnât deranged.
A member gets up and starts shouting: All get up and shout with him.
Donât walk out: MAKE them carry you all out, not shutting up the entire time. Iâm serious, go limp, be dead weight.
Putinâs Puppet says a provable lie: Everyone chant âLIEâ in unison for a solid minute instead of holding pitiful little signs in front of a man who canât read above a 3rd grade level.
Have someone who knows ASL sitting with you, interpreting everything in full view.
If youâre gonna hold signs, make them BIG like youâre actually trying to do something. Have them in multiple languages.
Make other signs that say clever or cutting things that will make him rage for days. âDOESNâT OLD TRUMP LOOK TIRED?â or âPUPPET PRESIDENTâ or âEVERYONE IS FACT-CHECKING THIS SPEECH TRUMP DIDNâT WRITEâ or âTHE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHESâ or his current tanking approval rating next to a laughing emoji.
Make a stink every day in congress, throw as many bills as you can on the floor even if they go nowhere, look like youâre trying.
Have someone, idk maybe someone you actually want to boost for President in 3 gd years, be your voice of opposition in the media, loudly complaining and telling the facts, every single day. Let the people know youâre there!
How hard is this? Thereâs probably better suggestions than mine if they actually hired seasoned protestors or behaviorists/psychologists or even the biggest teenage troll they can find on a messageboard.
The Emperor Has No Clothes. So fucking act like it.
Being a Jew in America right now is so bizarre. The presidentâs right hand man endorses a far-right German party that wants to remove Holocaust memorials and ban the sale of kosher meat, members of the ruling party are doing nazi salutes at rallies, and standing members of congress openly repeat conspiracy theories about the Rothschilds and Jewish space lasers. Then you see a news article about antisemitism and itâs like âwe need to do something about all these college students protesting mass killings.â
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