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jecca_mehlota) wrote2009-11-06 12:32 pm
jecca_mehlota) wrote2009-11-06 12:32 pm
Don't roll farther than this!
NaNo? What NaNo? (LIE. I’ve been working on it. I just also have been raging over Maine pulling a California – WTF, MAINE – and powering my way through ReBoot.) WHILE WE’RE ON THE SUBJECT of my watching ReBoot, I am going to talk about it now.
This post is kind of long, by the way. Man, someday I am going to start making a bunch of reasonable length posts about things, instead of waiting until it’s all over and then BRAIN DUMPING all over the place. It would be more coherent, more readable, and probably less likely to scare people off.
Small disclaimed added to beginning to post after rereading post prior to actually posting said post (instead of making it a post-post post I'LL STOP NOW): I use the word “annoy” several times here, and all of it refers to aspects of the show in question. Maybe this makes it seem like I am complaining a lot or do not actually like it. Do not be fooled. I am far more likely to find things that annoy me (and attempt to figure out why they do) for things I like! (If I do not like something, I may rant and be angry about it, but that is different.) Eventually I get over these most of these things, but it is a very long, slow process. Do not mistake all of my griping here for anything other than a strange expression of glee and adoration.
Okay, so. At some point, I apparently learned to recognize voice actors. Their voices, I mean. Some names. Not most.
BECAUSE DEAR LORD Tigatron the pacifistic nature-loving white tiger as a crazy killer virus was just… weird. And I kept picking out Garry Chalk (or, as my brain registers him, Optimus Primal from Beast Wars) and Scott McNeil (primarily a Rattrap-esque voice, but I think I caught Dinobot at least once). And apparently (I had to look this one up to confirm it, but I did pick up on it) when they changed Bob’s voice actor, they got the guy who did Cheetor. So. Yeah.
(…though apparently they changed Enzo’s voice actor like five times and I never really noticed any of those. Uh.) (Actually, I was curious, and if I go from the first episode to the last episode of season 3, there's an obvious change, but since you haven't seen Enzo for a while, it's maybe not as noticeable.)
Also, the music cues kept tripping me up, too. WHY DO YOU SOUND SO SIMILAR, SHOWS. Also, haha, no shadows until season 3. I should look up the dates, but I’m pretty sure they’d fall near each other.
(ALSO I took delight in seeing Beast Wars – or Beasties, as it was called in Canada, and I can’t decide if that would make Primal’s speech at the end of the opening two-parter more or less groan-inducing or if it would stay the same, regardless – being displayed as the show coming up next.)
Something has been bothering more than it probably should. I remembered Rocky the Rabid Raccoon, but I could not remember my thoughts on it/him. I found those games stupid this time through, but all I can recall is that I felt strongly about them before. Did I find them annoying then, too? Or did I think they were genuinely amusing? I was never a big fan of Looney Tunes, but that doesn’t really mean anything. I don’t even know why this is bothering me. IT JUST IS. Rararar.
CONFESSION: I never actually saw all of season 4! I saw half of the first part and bits of the second part, so I knew just enough to be horribly confused.
Once I had my own computer and access to that internet thing, I went poking around and found out the basic story of season and thought it sounded interesting, at least, but the series ended with season 3 for me. Having now seen season 4 (completely and in order, whoo, bonus), I have decided season 3 is still the stopping point. There is some really neat stuff in season four, but the ending – well, okay, there wasn’t one, and things got weird in the last couple episodes and… I don’t know. It was sadly unsatisfying. I’d probably need more time to dwell on it before I could say anything intelligent about it. I just watched it last night, what do you want from me.
And okay so there’s that comic but I haven’t read it and am not sure if I will since apparently they kill a couple characters I like and that’s just unacceptable.
But, anyway, yeah, I have finally rewatched it and I still love it. (RELIEF. Part of me was very worried I would watch it and be like, ‘wtf this is terrible nuuuu whyyyy’, or something.) Possibly I love it more? It is hard to say. I was able to catch a few more references this time through, at least. SO MANY. So wonderful. (I think my favourite is all the BSnP stuff. The 'no crashing through windows' thing is actually pretty funny, and it made no sense at all when I was younger. What did he even say? What was that supposed to mean?! And now I know.)
Actually, I have stumbled upon a bit of a puzzle. While I really like seasons 1 and 2, a lot of the major characters annoy me! This is especially true in the first season, with my opinions of them improving through the second season. I remembered that I always thought Bob was kind of an idiot and that Enzo irritated me, so I sort of wonder why I watched it as much as I did (and then I remember it’s because it’s awesome and it’s hardly the first time I watched something despite one or more character/s being annoying). But I thought that was me being a kid, you know? I don’t know. But rewatching it, it happened again. I adore the more minor characters! (I always did, really.) But the major characters – especially Bob and Enzo – really annoyed me. They didn’t always annoy me, of course, and it (usually) wasn’t anything major, just more of a frustrated, WHY ARE THEY IDIOTS thing. And usually it was an amused sort of frustrated. This paragraph is getting away from me
(I think it may just be that season one is kind of... I HESITATE TO SAY NOT GOOD, but it really kind of isn't? I love it anyway but, compared to two and especially three, it just. Isn't. For the longest time, I did not know the first episode was the first episode. It's all very... stand alone. You can take almost every episode from season one and shuffle the order around and pretty much nothing changes, which is too bad. I understand it is not entirely the fault of the writers, but that won't stop me from writing a paragraph about it.)
Maybe this time it was because I knew about season 3 and just wanted to get to that stage of things faster, I don’t know, BECAUSE MAN, SEASON 3 is like the best thing ever. (Fun fact: my brother and I watched this show on Toonami, which cut the show opening and replaced it with their own little montage of clips from the show, so when they lost the game, we didn’t see the little clip in the beginning that showed us they’d grown up, and they didn’t actually speak in the game that the next episode opened in, so we were so confused when they won the game and emerged as adults? What is going on?! … I think I’d seen the first one, Bob’s “I come from the net to this blahblahblah blah” talk, once, but I had never seen any of the others. I was very surprised to discover more existed and that they were, in fact, the show’s opening. Go figure.)
OH OH WEIRD LITTLE THING I actually had known there was a ride! Because I was in Las Vegas (and actually stayed at the Circus Circus!) while it was there. But we couldn’t go on it because it was broken down and there was much heartbreak (my mother and brother were also fans of the show). So it is pretty cool that they have that on the site, as well.
So. I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED IN MAINFRAME WHILE WE WERE OFF FOLLOWING EVENTS ELSEWHERE. Oh, well. (I also want Matrix and AndrAIa as teenagers LOST IN GAMES, but we didn't get that, either, did we. Season three just needs to be longer than it is.)
And actually it turns out I don’t have much to say about season three other than that EVERYONE IS AWESOME AND I LOVE IT. As much as Enzo annoyed me, I do not hold it against Matrix (oh, er, I don’t bother with the “young” descriptor obviously. If I ever felt I needed to, I would, but just using Enzo and Matrix has worked for me so far). And AndrAIa was always awesome, but now she is awesomer. Though, weirdly, the hopping across systems via games storyline felt longer before. Maybe because I watched the episodes over time instead of just charging through them all at once. I don’t know. BUT SO COOL. Yes. And I like Ray. And I adore season three Bob, but I don’t really know why. He’s not even in it for much, and he is still, you know, kind of an idiot (HEY NO IT’S OKAY they probably have no idea who I am, I’m just gonna run around all over the ship before remembering to take this helmet off haha. Though, at the same time, it was more important that they get AndrAIa back up than taking time to explain things right off, but it seemed like he was moving for some sort of greeting when Glitch went back and anyway moving on). About the only way I do not like him more is the voice actor change, and that’s more because I don’t really notice the difference most of the time. It’s there – for example, the inflections are different – but I only really noticed when Bob (voice actor #2) and Not Bob (voice actor #1) spoke at the same time. Or on the occasions when VA #2 went for a higher tone and my brain would go THAT SOUNDED LIKE CHEETOR. (…Because it was.)
I guess I could just say that I like things better after everything’s gone to hell for everyone. HOORAY.
…But, yeah, in my opinion, Moth-eaten Bob > Season 1+2 (though mostly 1) Bob. Because I find season 1+2 (though again mostly 1 and this is a long title for someone) Bob a bit annoying (and, petty though it may be, I have never liked, and probably never will like, that haircut). That season 3 can do no wrong (not entirely true) may also be a factor. Matrix! And AndrAIa! And Frisket! Hopping across systems via the games! I think the point I was trying to make somewhere in here is that MAN DID THEY REALLY HAVE TO PUT BOB BACK TO HIS ORIGINAL APPEARANCE? And apparently they did, but I don’t have to like it. So there. Stupid code. (Or maybe I just felt like saying that, ‘cause there wasn’t really any buildup to it, was there.)
(I think part, or maybe even most, of what annoys me most about it is that it just seems… cheap? I mean, there was a whole point in there about how Not Bob was better because looking at him didn’t remind Dot – maybe the others, too, just going by some of their comments – of the fact that everything went wrong for a while, there. And then, oh! He looks like Bob again! Hooray! Hello, Bob! Welcome back, Bob! We love you, Bob! IT SHOULD NOT BE THAT SIMPLE. Oh, look, we can just pretend all this crap never happened now! Yaaaay!) (Considering how much I don’t particularly care for Bob at the beginning of the series, this complete change of sides on my part is weird. I keep stepping back and going, man, this is bizarre. And I know if I hopped back to season 1 again he’d be annoying again. GET OVER YOURSELF I would probably shout at him a little.)
(I do not know why I am calling him “Moth-eaten Bob”, by the way. Maybe the marks all over his face and neck. This started sometime Wednesday and has refused to go away, so I’m going along with it in the hopes that it will get bored and move on. Is it better or worse than Glitch Bob? They wouldn’t even know what “moth eaten” means, and it doesn’t actually fit. BRAIN WHY.)
(LOOK MORE PARENTHESES)
…Actually, the second half of what they made of season 4 ticked me off. EVERYONE STOP BEING WEIRD. And mean. And accusing Bob of acting different and strange when all you’re doing is ignoring him for the guy who looks like Bob used to.
“Oh, Glitch Bob, it’s totally okay if you’re a copy! And we know you’re kinda having some identity crisis and insecurity problems, but we’re just gonna go hang with Bob now. The other Bob. You know, the one who looks right? The one we just call Bob? So we hope that’s cool with you.”
“Gosh, why is Glitch Bob acting so odd and depressed lately?”
“Ehh, who cares?”
At least they all felt bad about it after. But, protip, guys (especially you, Dot, with your indecision and angsting and surely other people had a problem with how very not like Dot that was)? Continuing to avoid him afterwards, even if for an entirely different reason, is really not any better. HE NEEDS A HUG (which is a phrase I have found myself thinking with alarming frequency these days. It started back with Crisis Core, I think), not for the lot of you to be ignoring him! (I mean, just, argh. That whole scene at the wedding and they all just stand there and it’s like, okay, yeah, maybe you don’t know what to do, but wasn’t he supposed to be your friend even if he was the copy? And you’re just gonna let him walk off like that? REALLY? At least Enzo tried to make an argument for him, but everyone else…) (And, while we’re at it, here is another tip for you: while, sure, Megabyte could be anyone, he is probably not the null-with-a-mechsuit. Though I will allow that the DRAMATIC NULLFACE shot was amusing.) (Also, while we're on the subject of whatsisface Dot and Enzo's father - WELLMAN - he sounds funny. Also, you know, just the general hilarity of their father being a mass of nulls, aside from when he is a null in a suit.)
(And seriously, shouldn't they have noticed... something, maybe, I don't know, that he apparently had forgotten most of everything about games and encouraged outright cheating? SHOULD THAT NOT HAVE BEEN A CLUE THAT SOMETHING WAS WEIRD? Matrix, really. Or how about when he goes all violent at the wedding and attacks Bob? Really? That really seems like something Bob would do? I'll be the first to admit Bob's personality in season one kind of sets me off, but personality clashes are kind of grossly different from being an ass. Thank goodness Glitch has some sense and could set the record straight, even if I don't entirely approve of the end result. Code retrieval is important, but - but we already had this paragraph, so I'll stop here.)
… Actually, the more I think about this whole thing, the more it makes me angry. (Also why did Dot think sending Enzo to follow Matrix’s footsteps of being lost in the games in the hopes that he would be able to come back to save them was AT ALL a good idea? *see comments for a little more on this) (Also I am so sad that they killed Hexadecimal because she is amazing and I adore her.) I AM GOING BACK TO THE FIRST THREE SEASONS OF AWESOMENESS NOW.
HOORAY OTHER SYSTEMS AND CHARACTERS, AND MATRIX AND ANDRAIA AND FRISKET AGAINST EVERYTHING. The return of the Saucy Mare and her crew! The whole thing in the Web! And how can you not love a season that ends with a musical recap, anyway? I am fairly certain it is not possible.
…WAIT WHAT DO YOU MEAN, PAGE FIVE. Oh geez I am shutting up (for) now.
Edit:
This entry will probably continue to grow as I keep coming back to add more things to it. (I have added stuff above the edit mark, too, I just don't feel like marking it all.)
FIRST: since I apparently forgot to mention how hilarious amazing it is that Matrix's RAGE was capable of curing him of Daemon's infection. It is also slightly terrifying.
AND while I am here, it also cracks me up that Ray will apparently eat anything, since we see him eat the... wriggly things on the ship that no one can ever get used to, and he seems to accept one (or more?!) of Hex's biscuits (made out of Megabyte's minions). Mouse stops him from eating too much of that, at least, because, eugh, creepy. Not that he'd know. (I love all the little things that just go on in the background that have no actual relevance to anything and are just the characters interacting nonverbally. And there is so much of it!)
Also nulls are adorable, since I didn't say that, either. But they are. Somehow. I have no idea how. THEY JUST ARE.
MORE SEASON FOUR: I kind of like this proposed explanation here. Also, my brain has asked, wouldn't it be neat if the events of the second part of season four stretched on a lot longer than they did (for whatever reason - we would of course not have to watch all of it) and Not Bob sort of starts to lose himself in his role, to the point that he sort of forgets he actually isn't, the result being that when he is finally revealed, or remembers, or whatever, he is just as horrified as everyone else? It makes absolutely no sense from... pretty much every standpoint, ever, but I think I like the wide-spread mental trauma that would ensue.
MORE: I don't like most all of season four, but I do kind of like Daemon. I do not know. I don't mind the first four episodes, I guess. Though she first gets mentioned in season three, even if not necessarily by name. (Do they use her name? Now I can't remember. I will probably end up checking.)
More editing: the above isn't entirely true. I do kind of like Daemon, but YEAH I JUST. Don't like season four. HOW DID IT GO SO WRONG. I keep meaning to stop thinking about it, why do I keep coming back to this. Argh. Self, you probably can't make it make sense. Please stop trying, it's giving us a headache.
(SELF picking and choosing canon isn't how it goes in most places! Transformers has been a bad influence on you, hasn't it?)
But seriously if they'd just not bothered with the last few seconds of, um. What was the title. The last episode with Daemon in it. I think things would have been better if they'd done it that way. Yes. The Daemon Rising storyline may stay, until the last, like, two seconds before the credits. How about that? Compromise. You guys still get to have season four and I don't have to deal with My Two Bobs having happened.
What happened to Scuzzy, anyway? Do we know? I know we saw him in 'Firewall' but the, beyond being the little word marker during the song at the end of season three, I don't think we see him again.
This has nothing to do with anything, but Daemon's appearance kind of reminds me of that... whatever she is, from World of Warcraft, I think? Maybe it's not that elf-thing, but she reminds me of something and it is bugging me.
ALSO (oh god this is getting out of control) - yes, more on the WTFery that is season four - their flashbacks don't entirely match up? Maybe they do. I am not sure. It seems kind of contradictory in some places, maybe. Or maybe I'm just crazy.
I am pretty sure my OCD is to blame, here, but I keep going back to My Two Bobs in the hopes that it will either suddenly make more sense or at least stop making me so angry. Neither is working. Actually, it almost makes me angrier each time. Brain, I hate you a little bit sometimes.
In conclusion, my department at work appears to be attempting self-destruct this week, but at least it means I get more hours.
…Aaand I just saw the date on the entry and it occurs to me that oh my god you guys I have been playing FFXI for SIX YEARS. What have I been doing with my life. I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL WHEN THIS MADNESS STARTED. (For the purpose of this exclamation, please ignore that I’ve graduated, uh, three times since then, held jobs, and am still employed and living away from my parents now.)
This post is kind of long, by the way. Man, someday I am going to start making a bunch of reasonable length posts about things, instead of waiting until it’s all over and then BRAIN DUMPING all over the place. It would be more coherent, more readable, and probably less likely to scare people off.
Small disclaimed added to beginning to post after rereading post prior to actually posting said post (instead of making it a post-post post I'LL STOP NOW): I use the word “annoy” several times here, and all of it refers to aspects of the show in question. Maybe this makes it seem like I am complaining a lot or do not actually like it. Do not be fooled. I am far more likely to find things that annoy me (and attempt to figure out why they do) for things I like! (If I do not like something, I may rant and be angry about it, but that is different.) Eventually I get over these most of these things, but it is a very long, slow process. Do not mistake all of my griping here for anything other than a strange expression of glee and adoration.
Okay, so. At some point, I apparently learned to recognize voice actors. Their voices, I mean. Some names. Not most.
BECAUSE DEAR LORD Tigatron the pacifistic nature-loving white tiger as a crazy killer virus was just… weird. And I kept picking out Garry Chalk (or, as my brain registers him, Optimus Primal from Beast Wars) and Scott McNeil (primarily a Rattrap-esque voice, but I think I caught Dinobot at least once). And apparently (I had to look this one up to confirm it, but I did pick up on it) when they changed Bob’s voice actor, they got the guy who did Cheetor. So. Yeah.
(…though apparently they changed Enzo’s voice actor like five times and I never really noticed any of those. Uh.) (Actually, I was curious, and if I go from the first episode to the last episode of season 3, there's an obvious change, but since you haven't seen Enzo for a while, it's maybe not as noticeable.)
Also, the music cues kept tripping me up, too. WHY DO YOU SOUND SO SIMILAR, SHOWS. Also, haha, no shadows until season 3. I should look up the dates, but I’m pretty sure they’d fall near each other.
(ALSO I took delight in seeing Beast Wars – or Beasties, as it was called in Canada, and I can’t decide if that would make Primal’s speech at the end of the opening two-parter more or less groan-inducing or if it would stay the same, regardless – being displayed as the show coming up next.)
Something has been bothering more than it probably should. I remembered Rocky the Rabid Raccoon, but I could not remember my thoughts on it/him. I found those games stupid this time through, but all I can recall is that I felt strongly about them before. Did I find them annoying then, too? Or did I think they were genuinely amusing? I was never a big fan of Looney Tunes, but that doesn’t really mean anything. I don’t even know why this is bothering me. IT JUST IS. Rararar.
CONFESSION: I never actually saw all of season 4! I saw half of the first part and bits of the second part, so I knew just enough to be horribly confused.
Once I had my own computer and access to that internet thing, I went poking around and found out the basic story of season and thought it sounded interesting, at least, but the series ended with season 3 for me. Having now seen season 4 (completely and in order, whoo, bonus), I have decided season 3 is still the stopping point. There is some really neat stuff in season four, but the ending – well, okay, there wasn’t one, and things got weird in the last couple episodes and… I don’t know. It was sadly unsatisfying. I’d probably need more time to dwell on it before I could say anything intelligent about it. I just watched it last night, what do you want from me.
And okay so there’s that comic but I haven’t read it and am not sure if I will since apparently they kill a couple characters I like and that’s just unacceptable.
But, anyway, yeah, I have finally rewatched it and I still love it. (RELIEF. Part of me was very worried I would watch it and be like, ‘wtf this is terrible nuuuu whyyyy’, or something.) Possibly I love it more? It is hard to say. I was able to catch a few more references this time through, at least. SO MANY. So wonderful. (I think my favourite is all the BSnP stuff. The 'no crashing through windows' thing is actually pretty funny, and it made no sense at all when I was younger. What did he even say? What was that supposed to mean?! And now I know.)
Actually, I have stumbled upon a bit of a puzzle. While I really like seasons 1 and 2, a lot of the major characters annoy me! This is especially true in the first season, with my opinions of them improving through the second season. I remembered that I always thought Bob was kind of an idiot and that Enzo irritated me, so I sort of wonder why I watched it as much as I did (and then I remember it’s because it’s awesome and it’s hardly the first time I watched something despite one or more character/s being annoying). But I thought that was me being a kid, you know? I don’t know. But rewatching it, it happened again. I adore the more minor characters! (I always did, really.) But the major characters – especially Bob and Enzo – really annoyed me. They didn’t always annoy me, of course, and it (usually) wasn’t anything major, just more of a frustrated, WHY ARE THEY IDIOTS thing. And usually it was an amused sort of frustrated. This paragraph is getting away from me
(I think it may just be that season one is kind of... I HESITATE TO SAY NOT GOOD, but it really kind of isn't? I love it anyway but, compared to two and especially three, it just. Isn't. For the longest time, I did not know the first episode was the first episode. It's all very... stand alone. You can take almost every episode from season one and shuffle the order around and pretty much nothing changes, which is too bad. I understand it is not entirely the fault of the writers, but that won't stop me from writing a paragraph about it.)
Maybe this time it was because I knew about season 3 and just wanted to get to that stage of things faster, I don’t know, BECAUSE MAN, SEASON 3 is like the best thing ever. (Fun fact: my brother and I watched this show on Toonami, which cut the show opening and replaced it with their own little montage of clips from the show, so when they lost the game, we didn’t see the little clip in the beginning that showed us they’d grown up, and they didn’t actually speak in the game that the next episode opened in, so we were so confused when they won the game and emerged as adults? What is going on?! … I think I’d seen the first one, Bob’s “I come from the net to this blahblahblah blah” talk, once, but I had never seen any of the others. I was very surprised to discover more existed and that they were, in fact, the show’s opening. Go figure.)
OH OH WEIRD LITTLE THING I actually had known there was a ride! Because I was in Las Vegas (and actually stayed at the Circus Circus!) while it was there. But we couldn’t go on it because it was broken down and there was much heartbreak (my mother and brother were also fans of the show). So it is pretty cool that they have that on the site, as well.
So. I WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED IN MAINFRAME WHILE WE WERE OFF FOLLOWING EVENTS ELSEWHERE. Oh, well. (I also want Matrix and AndrAIa as teenagers LOST IN GAMES, but we didn't get that, either, did we. Season three just needs to be longer than it is.)
And actually it turns out I don’t have much to say about season three other than that EVERYONE IS AWESOME AND I LOVE IT. As much as Enzo annoyed me, I do not hold it against Matrix (oh, er, I don’t bother with the “young” descriptor obviously. If I ever felt I needed to, I would, but just using Enzo and Matrix has worked for me so far). And AndrAIa was always awesome, but now she is awesomer. Though, weirdly, the hopping across systems via games storyline felt longer before. Maybe because I watched the episodes over time instead of just charging through them all at once. I don’t know. BUT SO COOL. Yes. And I like Ray. And I adore season three Bob, but I don’t really know why. He’s not even in it for much, and he is still, you know, kind of an idiot (HEY NO IT’S OKAY they probably have no idea who I am, I’m just gonna run around all over the ship before remembering to take this helmet off haha. Though, at the same time, it was more important that they get AndrAIa back up than taking time to explain things right off, but it seemed like he was moving for some sort of greeting when Glitch went back and anyway moving on). About the only way I do not like him more is the voice actor change, and that’s more because I don’t really notice the difference most of the time. It’s there – for example, the inflections are different – but I only really noticed when Bob (voice actor #2) and Not Bob (voice actor #1) spoke at the same time. Or on the occasions when VA #2 went for a higher tone and my brain would go THAT SOUNDED LIKE CHEETOR. (…Because it was.)
I guess I could just say that I like things better after everything’s gone to hell for everyone. HOORAY.
…But, yeah, in my opinion, Moth-eaten Bob > Season 1+2 (though mostly 1) Bob. Because I find season 1+2 (though again mostly 1 and this is a long title for someone) Bob a bit annoying (and, petty though it may be, I have never liked, and probably never will like, that haircut). That season 3 can do no wrong (not entirely true) may also be a factor. Matrix! And AndrAIa! And Frisket! Hopping across systems via the games! I think the point I was trying to make somewhere in here is that MAN DID THEY REALLY HAVE TO PUT BOB BACK TO HIS ORIGINAL APPEARANCE? And apparently they did, but I don’t have to like it. So there. Stupid code. (Or maybe I just felt like saying that, ‘cause there wasn’t really any buildup to it, was there.)
(I think part, or maybe even most, of what annoys me most about it is that it just seems… cheap? I mean, there was a whole point in there about how Not Bob was better because looking at him didn’t remind Dot – maybe the others, too, just going by some of their comments – of the fact that everything went wrong for a while, there. And then, oh! He looks like Bob again! Hooray! Hello, Bob! Welcome back, Bob! We love you, Bob! IT SHOULD NOT BE THAT SIMPLE. Oh, look, we can just pretend all this crap never happened now! Yaaaay!) (Considering how much I don’t particularly care for Bob at the beginning of the series, this complete change of sides on my part is weird. I keep stepping back and going, man, this is bizarre. And I know if I hopped back to season 1 again he’d be annoying again. GET OVER YOURSELF I would probably shout at him a little.)
(I do not know why I am calling him “Moth-eaten Bob”, by the way. Maybe the marks all over his face and neck. This started sometime Wednesday and has refused to go away, so I’m going along with it in the hopes that it will get bored and move on. Is it better or worse than Glitch Bob? They wouldn’t even know what “moth eaten” means, and it doesn’t actually fit. BRAIN WHY.)
(LOOK MORE PARENTHESES)
…Actually, the second half of what they made of season 4 ticked me off. EVERYONE STOP BEING WEIRD. And mean. And accusing Bob of acting different and strange when all you’re doing is ignoring him for the guy who looks like Bob used to.
“Oh, Glitch Bob, it’s totally okay if you’re a copy! And we know you’re kinda having some identity crisis and insecurity problems, but we’re just gonna go hang with Bob now. The other Bob. You know, the one who looks right? The one we just call Bob? So we hope that’s cool with you.”
“Gosh, why is Glitch Bob acting so odd and depressed lately?”
“Ehh, who cares?”
At least they all felt bad about it after. But, protip, guys (especially you, Dot, with your indecision and angsting and surely other people had a problem with how very not like Dot that was)? Continuing to avoid him afterwards, even if for an entirely different reason, is really not any better. HE NEEDS A HUG (which is a phrase I have found myself thinking with alarming frequency these days. It started back with Crisis Core, I think), not for the lot of you to be ignoring him! (I mean, just, argh. That whole scene at the wedding and they all just stand there and it’s like, okay, yeah, maybe you don’t know what to do, but wasn’t he supposed to be your friend even if he was the copy? And you’re just gonna let him walk off like that? REALLY? At least Enzo tried to make an argument for him, but everyone else…) (And, while we’re at it, here is another tip for you: while, sure, Megabyte could be anyone, he is probably not the null-with-a-mechsuit. Though I will allow that the DRAMATIC NULLFACE shot was amusing.) (Also, while we're on the subject of whatsisface Dot and Enzo's father - WELLMAN - he sounds funny. Also, you know, just the general hilarity of their father being a mass of nulls, aside from when he is a null in a suit.)
(And seriously, shouldn't they have noticed... something, maybe, I don't know, that he apparently had forgotten most of everything about games and encouraged outright cheating? SHOULD THAT NOT HAVE BEEN A CLUE THAT SOMETHING WAS WEIRD? Matrix, really. Or how about when he goes all violent at the wedding and attacks Bob? Really? That really seems like something Bob would do? I'll be the first to admit Bob's personality in season one kind of sets me off, but personality clashes are kind of grossly different from being an ass. Thank goodness Glitch has some sense and could set the record straight, even if I don't entirely approve of the end result. Code retrieval is important, but - but we already had this paragraph, so I'll stop here.)
… Actually, the more I think about this whole thing, the more it makes me angry. (Also why did Dot think sending Enzo to follow Matrix’s footsteps of being lost in the games in the hopes that he would be able to come back to save them was AT ALL a good idea? *see comments for a little more on this) (Also I am so sad that they killed Hexadecimal because she is amazing and I adore her.) I AM GOING BACK TO THE FIRST THREE SEASONS OF AWESOMENESS NOW.
HOORAY OTHER SYSTEMS AND CHARACTERS, AND MATRIX AND ANDRAIA AND FRISKET AGAINST EVERYTHING. The return of the Saucy Mare and her crew! The whole thing in the Web! And how can you not love a season that ends with a musical recap, anyway? I am fairly certain it is not possible.
…WAIT WHAT DO YOU MEAN, PAGE FIVE. Oh geez I am shutting up (for) now.
Edit:
This entry will probably continue to grow as I keep coming back to add more things to it. (I have added stuff above the edit mark, too, I just don't feel like marking it all.)
FIRST: since I apparently forgot to mention how hilarious amazing it is that Matrix's RAGE was capable of curing him of Daemon's infection. It is also slightly terrifying.
AND while I am here, it also cracks me up that Ray will apparently eat anything, since we see him eat the... wriggly things on the ship that no one can ever get used to, and he seems to accept one (or more?!) of Hex's biscuits (made out of Megabyte's minions). Mouse stops him from eating too much of that, at least, because, eugh, creepy. Not that he'd know. (I love all the little things that just go on in the background that have no actual relevance to anything and are just the characters interacting nonverbally. And there is so much of it!)
Also nulls are adorable, since I didn't say that, either. But they are. Somehow. I have no idea how. THEY JUST ARE.
MORE SEASON FOUR: I kind of like this proposed explanation here. Also, my brain has asked, wouldn't it be neat if the events of the second part of season four stretched on a lot longer than they did (for whatever reason - we would of course not have to watch all of it) and Not Bob sort of starts to lose himself in his role, to the point that he sort of forgets he actually isn't, the result being that when he is finally revealed, or remembers, or whatever, he is just as horrified as everyone else? It makes absolutely no sense from... pretty much every standpoint, ever, but I think I like the wide-spread mental trauma that would ensue.
MORE: I don't like most all of season four, but I do kind of like Daemon. I do not know. I don't mind the first four episodes, I guess. Though she first gets mentioned in season three, even if not necessarily by name. (Do they use her name? Now I can't remember. I will probably end up checking.)
More editing: the above isn't entirely true. I do kind of like Daemon, but YEAH I JUST. Don't like season four. HOW DID IT GO SO WRONG. I keep meaning to stop thinking about it, why do I keep coming back to this. Argh. Self, you probably can't make it make sense. Please stop trying, it's giving us a headache.
(SELF picking and choosing canon isn't how it goes in most places! Transformers has been a bad influence on you, hasn't it?)
But seriously if they'd just not bothered with the last few seconds of, um. What was the title. The last episode with Daemon in it. I think things would have been better if they'd done it that way. Yes. The Daemon Rising storyline may stay, until the last, like, two seconds before the credits. How about that? Compromise. You guys still get to have season four and I don't have to deal with My Two Bobs having happened.
What happened to Scuzzy, anyway? Do we know? I know we saw him in 'Firewall' but the, beyond being the little word marker during the song at the end of season three, I don't think we see him again.
This has nothing to do with anything, but Daemon's appearance kind of reminds me of that... whatever she is, from World of Warcraft, I think? Maybe it's not that elf-thing, but she reminds me of something and it is bugging me.
ALSO (oh god this is getting out of control) - yes, more on the WTFery that is season four - their flashbacks don't entirely match up? Maybe they do. I am not sure. It seems kind of contradictory in some places, maybe. Or maybe I'm just crazy.
I am pretty sure my OCD is to blame, here, but I keep going back to My Two Bobs in the hopes that it will either suddenly make more sense or at least stop making me so angry. Neither is working. Actually, it almost makes me angrier each time. Brain, I hate you a little bit sometimes.
In conclusion, my department at work appears to be attempting self-destruct this week, but at least it means I get more hours.
…Aaand I just saw the date on the entry and it occurs to me that oh my god you guys I have been playing FFXI for SIX YEARS. What have I been doing with my life. I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL WHEN THIS MADNESS STARTED. (For the purpose of this exclamation, please ignore that I’ve graduated, uh, three times since then, held jobs, and am still employed and living away from my parents now.)