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Folks who pay more attention to these things than I do have decided today is the 25th anniversary of Transformers. Funky. To celebrate, I will now write a long, pointless, and probably not very interesting entry about it!
( But what are your thoughts on robots? )
SLIGHTLY MORE INTERESTING PART OF ENTRY NOW. In an ideal world, I’d take this opportunity to link some old G1 (ie, the original cartoon from 1984 and on) episodes, or maybe some Animated (the most recent incarnation, which is amazing and full of love). Sadly, I cannot find the opening episodes from Animated or the … uh, “best” episodes of G1. (Part of this is, I admit, laziness due to my being a bit tired.) HERE IS WHAT I CAN OFFER!
( Links! )
……Actually, you know what I think the best thing about Transformers is?
No matter what lunacy the fandom makes up, canon can pretty much always - ALWAYS - top it. <3 <3 Crossovers? CANON. Interspecies relatonships? CANON. Transformers becoming humans, gay robots (well, technically. Debatable, depending), more alternate realities than you can shake a stick at (including a mirror-verse), time travel (and more animation errors than you'd think possible)? ALL CANON. Horrors too great for any words to ever explain? CANON (Do not look too closely at his tongue. Or perhaps, do, and understand the … I don’t even know. I don’t think Kiss Play can really be understood.) (WHY, JAPAN. WHYYYYY.) …G1 has an entire episode dedicated to a character being committed to an asylum (he’s a Decepticon, and it ends about as well as you’d expect, really). Both hopelessly endearing and unbelievably CREEPY AND HORRIFYING characters! Also: A MILLION CONTINUITY ERRORS. But that just means even more room for everyone to play.
BASICALLY: I ♥ my fandom.
( But what are your thoughts on robots? )
SLIGHTLY MORE INTERESTING PART OF ENTRY NOW. In an ideal world, I’d take this opportunity to link some old G1 (ie, the original cartoon from 1984 and on) episodes, or maybe some Animated (the most recent incarnation, which is amazing and full of love). Sadly, I cannot find the opening episodes from Animated or the … uh, “best” episodes of G1. (Part of this is, I admit, laziness due to my being a bit tired.) HERE IS WHAT I CAN OFFER!
( Links! )
……Actually, you know what I think the best thing about Transformers is?
No matter what lunacy the fandom makes up, canon can pretty much always - ALWAYS - top it. <3 <3 Crossovers? CANON. Interspecies relatonships? CANON. Transformers becoming humans, gay robots (well, technically. Debatable, depending), more alternate realities than you can shake a stick at (including a mirror-verse), time travel (and more animation errors than you'd think possible)? ALL CANON. Horrors too great for any words to ever explain? CANON (Do not look too closely at his tongue. Or perhaps, do, and understand the … I don’t even know. I don’t think Kiss Play can really be understood.) (WHY, JAPAN. WHYYYYY.) …G1 has an entire episode dedicated to a character being committed to an asylum (he’s a Decepticon, and it ends about as well as you’d expect, really). Both hopelessly endearing and unbelievably CREEPY AND HORRIFYING characters! Also: A MILLION CONTINUITY ERRORS. But that just means even more room for everyone to play.
BASICALLY: I ♥ my fandom.
