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jecca_mehlota) wrote2007-06-20 01:26 am
jecca_mehlota) wrote2007-06-20 01:26 am
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Alive!
We made it safely there and back!
Tomorrow I will upload a giant post that rambles on about it all. It will probably be friends-locked because I will probably feel the need to spam images (and perhaps a few video clips, depending on my mood) and I'm not sure how my friends and family feel about me putting them up for every and anyone to see.
We stopped on the other side of the border to poke around (we usually do), and we ended up in a massive Wal*Mart. No Alternators (well, no, of course not), but I encountered a fellow Transformers fan in the toy aisle! (This was a first for me! The only people I know who are Transformers fans are people I have converted.) He pointed me towards a store over some other way and they had a few Alternators (no Ravage or Rumble, no surprise). That they had any was amazing, though seeing another Meister wasn't much of a surprise. But they had three Mirages! That was surprising. Liz bought the Meister and one of the Mirages.
I read books!
This one, which was actually a lot better than I'd expected it to be. (Especially considering the author. erm.) If everyone is characterized in the movie as they were in the book, I'll be very happy!
Prime seems like his... normal Prime-like self. Ironhide was great, Ratchet was great, Bumblebee was great... (Ironhide actually strikes me as similar to IDW's Ironhide - but that's a good thing!)
I don't know why Ratchet's unable to repair Bumblebee's vocalizer. I'm sure there's a story behind it somewhere that I just haven't managed to catch yet (or isn't out yet, or whatever). Ratchet's actually kind of like a mesh between G1 Ratchet and G1 Wheeljack! He's their medic, of course, but he appears to spend a lot of time tinkering around with things. I think that is awesome. He's also the guy they leave on the Ark when the rest all hop off to fight. Better interface with the controls, which of course makes sense if he's always messing around with them! Hee.
Bumblebee is, of course, mute. He can still communicate, just... not verbally. Can I reiterate that one more time? I won't. He's very curious. Very good at exploring and gathering data, too, apparently. He outmaneuvers Starscream for a while, which is pretty impressive.
Jazz really threw me at first. He talks - they all speak using ... precise words. For whatever reason (I cannot pin it down. I have tried and tried), he reminded me quite a lot of Prowl, which was rather... bizarre. (I adore Prowl, I am very sad he is not in the movie, but it's Jazz. Jazz is... really, really not Prowl.) As soon as he got away from the consoles and his workstation and all, he was Jazz. Not as skilled as G1 Jazz, actually, they kept referring to him as 'young.' I kind of liked that, because he did remind me some of G1 Jazz (again, once they got him away from the consoles), and I can see movie Jazz maturing to something similar. (I wouldn't object at all if he does not, of course. This is Transformers: The Movie '07, not Transformers: G1 redux. I still like that the characters can match up to their namesakes at least a little.)
As for the Decepticons, well. Starscream? Is Starscream. Starscream as we always knew him to be. Conniving, manipulative, scheming, power-hungry, ruthless... Man! He was fantastic.
Blackout's apparently rather mutinous. I didn't get much from Bonecrusher (HE HATES EVERYTHING! His toy bio says so! :D)
I liked Barricade. He's calm, cool, and very logic-oriented.
I was surprisingly fond of the humans. ... I usually like the human characters in Transformers, but in the beginning of this book, it felt a bit like things were dragging. Nothing picked up until the Decepticons came into things, so I was worried I wasn't going to like any of them. They really grew on me!
Basically everything that could go wrong goes wrong in this book, but it works out pretty good. It all ends okay, too - for the most part. Curse you, emotionally manipulative story. Cuuuurse yoooou.
But, that all said! I cannot wait for the movie! Augh! Just over a week! BOTCON, WHY ARE YOU NEXT WEEK AND NOT THIS WEEK?
I also read this one. ... Three times. Oh, God, I am such a hopeless Zahn fan. He's my favorite sci-fi author. (Also, it is a book with a lot of Thrawn in it, and there is NO SUCH THING as too much Thrawn. I would read a book solely about Thrawn and I would grin the entire way through it. I adore that character so much. SO MUCH. He is crazy observant and a military genius and just augh awesome. WORSHIP HIM.)
This actually had a lot of Thrawn in it. It's about Outbound Flight, too, of course, though we already know how that goes (as it's hinted at in Zahn's original trilogy - Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command, and later explored in Survivor's Quest). It explains a lot - how Thrawn got in with the Empire (I'll admit, I'd been curious), C'baoth, Lorana's story...
It hints at the Yuuzhan Vong! I adore them! I should not. They are crazy and would kill me by launching me into a sun. They would also destroy my laptop, because it is nonliving. Infeedels, and all. Still! They are so crazy-awesome!
Hints at other things, too. Vagaari. But the Yuuzhan Vong! HEARTS.
Thrawn is a genius. I cannot say that enough. The things he can tell about a person and their race just by looking at an example (or two) of their artwork is amazing. His plans are fantastic and they work and how does he foresee those things, honestly?
Oh, and Jorj Car'das comes into play.
The only problem here is now I need to reread Survivor's Quest because I recognized several names - especially those of some of the Chiss (Chaf'orm'bitrano, hey? Wanna say I remember Thrass' name popping up somewhere, too), and why do I remember having heard Lorana's backstory before?
Not that rereading Survivor's Quest is a real problem, I mean. Just. Now I need to.
I adore my copy of Survivor's Quest, even though it is hardcover and I generally do not like those, because it is signed to me by Timothy Zahn! It wishes me a happy birthday, too. It brings me entirely too much glee.
Most all the characters in it are not in any of the movies. Obi-Wan and Anakin appear here and there, and sure I enjoy those parts, too, but I am so completely enamored with Zahn's characters - especially the Chiss, especially Thrawn - that I just don't care.
It was actually kind of terrible reading this book because I know what happens. I know what happens to Outbound Flight, I know what happens to the people on it, I know what happens to Lorana, and I know what happens to Thrawn, and augh it was rather heartbreaking at times.
C'baoth's actions weren't as surprising as they should've been, really.
In conclusion:
afskddjfnge Thrawn
Anyway, I suppose I will need to take the next several days to slowly catch up on whatever happened while I was away from the internet. Wheeha.
Also, I have been unable to consistently speak English for the last three or so days, so if there are random Not English words in here, I am very sorry. I think I caught them all, but augh. Brain.
Tomorrow I will upload a giant post that rambles on about it all. It will probably be friends-locked because I will probably feel the need to spam images (and perhaps a few video clips, depending on my mood) and I'm not sure how my friends and family feel about me putting them up for every and anyone to see.
We stopped on the other side of the border to poke around (we usually do), and we ended up in a massive Wal*Mart. No Alternators (well, no, of course not), but I encountered a fellow Transformers fan in the toy aisle! (This was a first for me! The only people I know who are Transformers fans are people I have converted.) He pointed me towards a store over some other way and they had a few Alternators (no Ravage or Rumble, no surprise). That they had any was amazing, though seeing another Meister wasn't much of a surprise. But they had three Mirages! That was surprising. Liz bought the Meister and one of the Mirages.
I read books!
This one, which was actually a lot better than I'd expected it to be. (Especially considering the author. erm.) If everyone is characterized in the movie as they were in the book, I'll be very happy!
Prime seems like his... normal Prime-like self. Ironhide was great, Ratchet was great, Bumblebee was great... (Ironhide actually strikes me as similar to IDW's Ironhide - but that's a good thing!)
I don't know why Ratchet's unable to repair Bumblebee's vocalizer. I'm sure there's a story behind it somewhere that I just haven't managed to catch yet (or isn't out yet, or whatever). Ratchet's actually kind of like a mesh between G1 Ratchet and G1 Wheeljack! He's their medic, of course, but he appears to spend a lot of time tinkering around with things. I think that is awesome. He's also the guy they leave on the Ark when the rest all hop off to fight. Better interface with the controls, which of course makes sense if he's always messing around with them! Hee.
Bumblebee is, of course, mute. He can still communicate, just... not verbally. Can I reiterate that one more time? I won't. He's very curious. Very good at exploring and gathering data, too, apparently. He outmaneuvers Starscream for a while, which is pretty impressive.
Jazz really threw me at first. He talks - they all speak using ... precise words. For whatever reason (I cannot pin it down. I have tried and tried), he reminded me quite a lot of Prowl, which was rather... bizarre. (I adore Prowl, I am very sad he is not in the movie, but it's Jazz. Jazz is... really, really not Prowl.) As soon as he got away from the consoles and his workstation and all, he was Jazz. Not as skilled as G1 Jazz, actually, they kept referring to him as 'young.' I kind of liked that, because he did remind me some of G1 Jazz (again, once they got him away from the consoles), and I can see movie Jazz maturing to something similar. (I wouldn't object at all if he does not, of course. This is Transformers: The Movie '07, not Transformers: G1 redux. I still like that the characters can match up to their namesakes at least a little.)
As for the Decepticons, well. Starscream? Is Starscream. Starscream as we always knew him to be. Conniving, manipulative, scheming, power-hungry, ruthless... Man! He was fantastic.
Blackout's apparently rather mutinous. I didn't get much from Bonecrusher (HE HATES EVERYTHING! His toy bio says so! :D)
I liked Barricade. He's calm, cool, and very logic-oriented.
I was surprisingly fond of the humans. ... I usually like the human characters in Transformers, but in the beginning of this book, it felt a bit like things were dragging. Nothing picked up until the Decepticons came into things, so I was worried I wasn't going to like any of them. They really grew on me!
Basically everything that could go wrong goes wrong in this book, but it works out pretty good. It all ends okay, too - for the most part. Curse you, emotionally manipulative story. Cuuuurse yoooou.
But, that all said! I cannot wait for the movie! Augh! Just over a week! BOTCON, WHY ARE YOU NEXT WEEK AND NOT THIS WEEK?
I also read this one. ... Three times. Oh, God, I am such a hopeless Zahn fan. He's my favorite sci-fi author. (Also, it is a book with a lot of Thrawn in it, and there is NO SUCH THING as too much Thrawn. I would read a book solely about Thrawn and I would grin the entire way through it. I adore that character so much. SO MUCH. He is crazy observant and a military genius and just augh awesome. WORSHIP HIM.)
This actually had a lot of Thrawn in it. It's about Outbound Flight, too, of course, though we already know how that goes (as it's hinted at in Zahn's original trilogy - Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command, and later explored in Survivor's Quest). It explains a lot - how Thrawn got in with the Empire (I'll admit, I'd been curious), C'baoth, Lorana's story...
It hints at the Yuuzhan Vong! I adore them! I should not. They are crazy and would kill me by launching me into a sun. They would also destroy my laptop, because it is nonliving. Infeedels, and all. Still! They are so crazy-awesome!
Hints at other things, too. Vagaari. But the Yuuzhan Vong! HEARTS.
Thrawn is a genius. I cannot say that enough. The things he can tell about a person and their race just by looking at an example (or two) of their artwork is amazing. His plans are fantastic and they work and how does he foresee those things, honestly?
Oh, and Jorj Car'das comes into play.
The only problem here is now I need to reread Survivor's Quest because I recognized several names - especially those of some of the Chiss (Chaf'orm'bitrano, hey? Wanna say I remember Thrass' name popping up somewhere, too), and why do I remember having heard Lorana's backstory before?
Not that rereading Survivor's Quest is a real problem, I mean. Just. Now I need to.
I adore my copy of Survivor's Quest, even though it is hardcover and I generally do not like those, because it is signed to me by Timothy Zahn! It wishes me a happy birthday, too. It brings me entirely too much glee.
Most all the characters in it are not in any of the movies. Obi-Wan and Anakin appear here and there, and sure I enjoy those parts, too, but I am so completely enamored with Zahn's characters - especially the Chiss, especially Thrawn - that I just don't care.
It was actually kind of terrible reading this book because I know what happens. I know what happens to Outbound Flight, I know what happens to the people on it, I know what happens to Lorana, and I know what happens to Thrawn, and augh it was rather heartbreaking at times.
C'baoth's actions weren't as surprising as they should've been, really.
In conclusion:
afskddjfnge Thrawn
Anyway, I suppose I will need to take the next several days to slowly catch up on whatever happened while I was away from the internet. Wheeha.
Also, I have been unable to consistently speak English for the last three or so days, so if there are random Not English words in here, I am very sorry. I think I caught them all, but augh. Brain.