Thankfully, Dracula's castle didn't escape the eclipse this time.

In retaliation, President Trump threatens to nuke the moon.

This just in: ISIS claims responsibility for the eclipse.

Which left like a hundred disappointed middle schoolers.

Where I'm located got 95% eclipse. Which lacked a worthwhile climax. I really should have driven into it, but I planned on going to my science teacher wife's school thing that got cancelled last minute.

I was considering trying to get the day off for it and driving down south to the US far enough that I could see the total eclipse, but after looking into it it seems like there's another total eclipse coming up in 2024 where the totality will be visible just 45 minutes south-west of me, so I figure I'll wait it out

don't worry, social media didn't.

shoot... I forgot all about the eclipse.

lewd

i wanted a peek at the sun's peak too.

Just caught a peak of the 'bitten' sun. COOL!!

I got my cereal box eclipse viewer ready. Hopefully these clouds part...

well I'm supposed to be permanently sealed in a dimensional rift today so I've gotta stay on guard

Any of you nerds going outside today?

"Would have been?" Isn't he still on the Batgirl thing?

It probably wouldn't be worse but it sure would have been really samey to everything else he's done.

i am still not convinced he could do a worse job with Batgirl than Bruce Timm already did.

The thing to remember about Madman is that they are often more enthusiastic than they are reliable.

Yeah, I'm pretty surprised.

This stuff I think. http://www.vulture.c...-hypocrite.html

The what now?

This news about Joss Whedon sure was a thing to wake up to.

To back up to the original question about Scramble City's existence in regards to the English-language cartoon continuity, the pack-in comic that came with the Australian DVD boxed set released by Madman did feature a timeline of events that included a point in history titles "Scramble City", so that comic may at least want us to "pretend" that Scramble City happened in the cartoon continuity. But then again, that same comic also used the Marvel Comics' asteroid crisis as the true reason for the Ark's launch, and included the Beast Wars as being unambiguously part of this timeline, so make of that comic's timeline what you will.

And unlike Takara's JG1 that has been steadily evolving and passing itself down from writer to writer in more-or-less smooth transition, anyone going back now to Hasbro's G1 does feel a bit more like changing history rather than reviving or continuing it.

Editors at Fun Pub didn't feel it was right to try to "fix" or otherwise change or alter other writers' works. Which is why everything Fun Pub-written became its own stream (Animated was written by the same creative team as the show, so it's one of the very few stories still set in its original continuity). So rather than write words into the original creative team's mouths, Wings only sought to offer one possible solution to the Constructicons weirdness.

Too bad there weren't that many Wings stories. On the other hand, JG1 is still continuing with stories!

Wings is obviously not cartoon continuity, but is heavily indebted to it.

Basically what my original point was that continuities based on the original cartoon but not actually a part of it have used what Pennpenn originally said.

I get what you mean, but the wording is awful. It's not possible for Wings to "alter" or "destroy" something it was never part of, nor really interacted with.

It didn't "alter the existing continuity". It's an entirely new one that left the cartoon's continuity exactly as it ever was.

didn't it take the original cartoon continuity but change parts of it to make a new continuity? i said i'd have preferred it stayed within the original cartoon continuity instead of altering the existing continuity. thats what i would have done. stories would have been written around the existing stories.

Wings can't "destroy it even further" when it was never the cartoon continuity in the first place.

The problem is that it isn't really fixable without redoing it from the ground up. Or going into insane retcons and rewrites, which A) is about the same thing, and B) is kinda Takara's thing.

I find its better to fix a broken continuity than to destroy it even further.

The cartoon couldn't even stay consistent with the cartoon, so why worry when something else can't, either?

I never connected with the whole "Wings is similar to the cartoon continuity but several things are different" thing they had going on. they should really have done it so that it stayed in continuity with the cartoon but focused on the off-screen events prior, during and after the cartoon stories.

Not like it's ever relevant anyway.

I mean, it doesn't make sense otherwise, regardless of how official particular fiction is.

Wings is officially not really cartoon continuity, though.

@Pennpenn: There is some fiction that does actually use the whole "they were rebuilt on Earth" explanation. The Fun Pub Wings stuff comes to mind.

Oh absolutely

point is, the cartoon's continuity was hugged to begin with.

My brain usually parses that as "Constructicons built him on contract or something so weren't evil then, and Megatron meant rebuilt in Heavy Metal War". Yeah it's a stretch, but whatever

Just like the evil constructicons built Megatron then turned good and then were robosmashed back to evil and then somehow built on Earth.

Though to be fair, Japanese continuity itself did not reconcile how Dinosaurer was destroyed in the 1980s and rebuilt in 2010 until the Unite Warriors manga of 2017.

Also, Scramble City has Trypticon in existence while the English version had Trypticon built in 2005 in season 3.

English and Japanese dubs of the cartoon are officially different continuities from each other, so...

Is Scramble City canon or in continuity with the U.S. 80s Transformers cartoon despite not being dubbed?

Make it a link instead of just pasting the URL.

If I could post youtube links without them becoming videos in the box, I'd link to the "parrot singing 'Let The Bodies Hit The Floor'" video.