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Current Mood: disappointed

Best part of the Transformers movie?  The Last Airbender teaser trailer. 

1 - Megatron takes orders from no bot.

2 - What kind of name is "The Fallen" anyway?

3 - Why would a human understand Cybertronian better than say, a CYBERTRONIAN?!  Especially when all the Decepticons use the Cybertronian subtitles?

4- Whatever happened to Cybertron anyway? 

5- For the most part, when Transformers die, THEY STAY DEAD.  Their sparks are released to the Well of All-Sparks, leaving their bodies an empty pile of scrap metal.  If you want to bring a pile of scrap metal to life, it requires a Spark. 

6 - Energon is not a spark.  It's a shiny glowy crystal that after processing, is fuel for the transformers.  It has never been known to grant miracles or bring robots back online. You mine it from the ground, just like any crystal. 

7- Why are almost all the characters introduced in the first movie off-screen 90% of the time and replaced by characters we don't know? 

8 - Who the heck were those red and green robots that were running around the whole time?  Were they even named?  I know there's a pair of autobot twins called JetFire and JetStorm, but they both *fly*.  Also, the old Decepticon plane is named JetFire in this movie. Never seen one transformer *eat* another like that...  These two comic relief characters, y'know, to provide comic relief... from all the rest of the Comedy movie.  The only thing this movie has are bad jokes and explosions.  And the other bot is Bumblebee, who don't talk. 

9 - How does a single Transformer teleport or "transwarp" without a transwarp engine?  Or assemble an invisible Space Bridge in seconds, that doesn't kill all the humans? 

10 - They go to the trouble of actually characterizing a Decepticon, StarScream, but are inconsistent about it.  And why can't he hit the broadside of a barn?  And why all of a sudden does he have distinctive otherworldly stripes that can positively ID him as StarScream, as opposed to how he looked in the first movie, like a US-Airforce jet?  HE IS NO LONGER A ROBOT IN DISGUISE IF YOU CAN FIGURE IT OUT BY LOOKING AT HIM! 

11- Even Soundwave was in the movie.  For about a total of five minutes.  He hi-jacked a satellite, and.. apparently, gave birth to Cheetor?  WTF?  He didn't even get to fight or do anything. 

12- RC was in the movie for about five minutes too.  About long enough that we know it's RC, but nothing else about her, and then she dies. 

13-  I thought the name of the movie was Transformers, not Shia Lebouf and these loser humans who hang around him.  The humans are better characterized than the robots are. 

14-There are so many great characters and plots they *COULD* have used in this movie, but they just recycled the same plot and even scenes from the original movie.  Also, instead of using established characters we already know about, they invent all these tiny transformers and other technology never introduced before. 

15-They seem to reference the Beast Wars, but only long enough to completely erase that story and write their own more explodey version. 

16- "Only a Prime can defeat the Fallen."  "Prime" is a rank.  It's unusual to find so many Primes in one place, and hard to believe there's only one left in the whole universe.  With Optimus out of commission, I assumed at the very least, one of the autobots would've stepped up and/or become promoted to Prime and assumed command.    

17- Since almost no autobots can fly, looking for autobots in the air and space museum?  = Bad Idea. 

18- For the rare moments when the robots are given the opportunity to talk and have character, it's so hard to understand them through all the explosions.  And why is it that when a truck transforms, it turns into a four-story robot? 

19-The credits reference the inspiration by the Transformers action figure toys.  That explains a lot.  It's like someone gave somebody 10 million dollars, the words "Space-Bridge", "All-Spark", "Energon", "Optimus Prime", "Megatron", and the person just threw all the words in a blender with a bunch of cuss words and explosions and hoped the geek culture would throw their money at it.  Oh how funny!  Robots who swear like sailors!  As well as gross sexual and body humor!  These low-brow attempts at humor really undermine the core fan-base who came to watch a good movie with plot and characterization to the level of the original series and movies.  I do hope we get to play the opening scene in China in the video game.  They shot at Bethlehem Steel, very near where I grew up.  How often can you blow up your hometown? 

geministar01 wrote:

Oct. 11th, 2008 11:23 am (local)
It took me a while to think up good ones for you, since we talk so often...^.^'

1. What got you into anime in the first place?
2. Why do you use Nefertimon as your 'logo'?
3. When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
4. What is the last novel you read?
5. Do you ship anything? Like, in any fandom, is there a pairing that you really, really support?

1) Well, my very first animes when I was a real little kid back in the 80's were the ones on Nickelodeon - "Noozles" "Grimm's Fairy Tales Classics" "The Adventures of Little Koala," as well as Voltron.  Great stories and characters, a few other things I can remember but I can't remember the name of.  Fast-forward through the Disney Afternoon, Kids WB, and Power Ranger days to Pokemon.  After that, My best bud Hillary showed me "Princess Mononoke" and later, "Magic Knight Rayearth," "Slayers," "Fruits Basket," "Escaflowne," ".hack//sign," "Wolf Rain,"  "Revolutionary Girl Utena," "CCS"-subtitled. She forced me to watch all of Gundam Wing and Vampire Hunter D - the movies twice!  -_-  We also played Siskel and Ebert with sample dvds and first episodes determining an anime's worthiness.  Couldn't get into FLCL or Evangelion.  Got into Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh on my own when they came around, though I managed to totally addict Joe to Yu-Gi-Oh who enjoyed pwning people in Pokemon.  That brings me up to around High school days, and my first years of community college. Amelia from Slayers was my first cosplay at Big Apple Anime Fest in 2003.  Then I joined my anime club at Penn State "PSAO" and learned about a few more things.  Big fan of free anime, so most of what I know comes from American network tv dubs, Hillary, or my club.  So, what was the question again?  Oh yes, even back in my single-digit years, I could tell the difference in styles between American and Japanese animation and usually watched both pretty equally.  Ah, Saturday morning cartoons back in the good old days, you kids today cartoons don't compare with what we had mate!  I watch shows for good plot. 

2.) Well, my two fav animes of all time, they really hit me, leave me with emotional jaw-dropping moments and plot twists, great characters and imaginative stories are Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh.  So I thought, what was the one character, or digimon, that could best represent both?  Well, Nefertimon of 02 is a sphinx and a digimon, and sphinxes come from, well, are associated with Egypt.  Interestingly enough, Nefertimon is a symbol of Light, whereas the Millenium Items of YGO are symbols of Darkness.  So I thought the Puzzle and Nefertimon would represent Balance, not only between my two fav animes, but between Light and Darkness.  Also, I love winged kitties.  How can you not?!  My AOL icon is labeled as a "Cat Fairy."  There's even a cute but weak Yu-Gi-Oh card called Neko-Gal which is again, a winged cat.  Hmm, mebbe I should draw that for an avatar someday.  Not as cute as Nefertimon though.  Yugi and Kaiba would prolly have Wizardmon and Monodramon for partners. 

3.) Ooh, good question.  You can prolly guess I was even more scatter-brained when I was younger.  I loved cooking with Mommy, so when I was at the library I took out lots of cookbooks, and watched lots of cooking shows.  Early on, I thought cake-decorating would be for me, art + food!  Since then, I've gone to college for Hotel Restaurant Management and met what I believe is a fair sampling of so-called "food-people."  I have determined from this research that all chefs are crazy.  Every single one.  They may look normal, but give it time, the more you get to know them, the crazy will reveal itself to you.  It's bigger in some than others, but if you meet a chef who isn't crazy?  He is clearly new, and will fail until the crazy develops.  But I digress.  I remember watching the circus on tv as a kid and had a brief time where I wanted to be the chick who rides the elephants.  I loved all the costumes she wore, and well, she made it look easy! 

4.) Wow.. the last novel I read..  Eee.. I'm a bit ashamed to say since I got into Manga, my traditional book-reading has waned.  Not from lack of interest or desire, I have a moderate-tall stack of books waiting to be read next to my bed.  More from lack of time.  Prolly most recent of course, HP7, you couldn't keep me from that no matter what.  But I've also read Fahrenheit 451, Catcher in the Rye, Stranger in a Strange Land, Johnnny Tremain, The Autobiography of Malcolm X...  Absolutely hated being forced to read "The Natural" and "All Quiet on the Western Front."  Thank Hod someone took mercy and made equally bad movies of those.  My stack to be read contains Peter Pan in Scarlet, the three Peter Pan "starCatchers" series, All the FullMetal Alchemist novels besides #1, the last three DiaDem books, the .Hack//legend of the twilight bracelt manga, The 13th Reality by James Dashner, InkHeart by Cornelia Funke, a handful of books *about* Harry Potter, and a book or two from Silver Ravenwolf.  Oh!  Last semester, we had to read the novel "The Cuckoo's Egg" by Cliff Stoll.  Coulda been worse, coulda been better. 

5. "Ship"?  How does one "ship" as a verb?  You mean, to support a pairing?  If someone presents a pairing and you answer, "Okay," is that "shipping"?  Is that truly a verb?  Well, I guess I usually support cannon pairings.  I ship Joe/Mimi, Kenyako, Ryo/ki, I support Takari as cannon, but enjoy Daikari and the occasional KenKari.  Lessee if I can think of anything a bit more controversial..  Tohru/Kyo, Wisp/Brian, Yugi/Tea, Yami/Mana, Joey/Mai, Haseo/Atoli, Ed/Winry, Roy/Hawkeye, Kataang, Sokka/Suki, Sokka/Toph, (cause he's such a catch) Zuko/Mai, Um, what else ya got?  Kouji and Ruki and Kouichi and Alice would be interesting together. 

Anywho, Thanks for the interview!  ^_^