Recent content by lastmaximal

As with many other baffling things, it's just $$$. The rich are betting big on artificially sentient tulips and taking us all along for the ride (including by requiring this in every context they can cram it into) with the bag already stapled to our hands for when it inevitably goes belly up...

Probably a Commander class Overload, given the way the first two superweapons went.

It also speaks to how militaristic and oppressive the Decepticons are (echoed in the aesthetics of the toys); they've turned the Mini-Cons into integrated weapons, while they're still comparatively, uh, autonomous with the Autobots.

More Amalgamous than Amalgamous.

Love it, but let's bring that to the Personal Canon thread so this new theme can thrive here.

I have often wondered the first thing myself. The available footage probably would support it, as it gives copious "raw" material for a massive cutdown and reworking akin to how Saban reworked and restitched Zyuranger into MMPR. Revisiting that series more recently with an eye toward production...

It's like seeing old friends. Yes, I have no friends.

It would only be sad if you didn't share them. These are giving me life right now.

Just one minor tweak... Done!

The problem is twofold. One, the series sucks. Two, as with so many things, the discourse around the series has gotten cluttered with parroted jokes and ideas from people who haven't actually watched it and whose commentary is performatively marching along with the understood accepted fandom...

Hi Error, I'm dad

I would watch a highlight reel of fights from Prime, absolutely.

Unabashed fan of the Cybertron theme here. But that's not surprise to anyone who's seen me discuss Cybertron. I don't even need the voiceover for it; just the chill beat is nice. It's entirely serviceable as background music for the transformation sequences (it does help that they threw in...

Of these options, Beast Machines was the most ambitious for wanting to tackle conceptual themes. The problem was that this flew in the face of the characters' reality, resulting in protracted debates that ate up time that should've gone to fighting to topple Megatron. Also, the writing wasn't up...

It's easy to make something look well-proportioned and clean if it doesn't have to transform. I've seen so many silly comments like that about the new Action Edition Optimus Prime. "Blokees should make transforming ones! Imagine what that would look like!" Well, kiddo, it wouldn't look like that...