RIP Peter Cullen
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I vomited some feelings onto social, but it reads like a rehash of HOOKS' wonderful piece, so I'll just nudge you to go read that instead.
I may need a short break from social because I am getting irrationally angry at all the generative AI art tributes.
I may need a short break from social because I am getting irrationally angry at all the generative AI art tributes.
Seeing it at BotCon that year must have been wild. I didn't get to do that, but I did get to see it on preview night, July 2. I'm sure it was mostly diehards in the audience. It got the most raucous ovation I've personally seen at the end of a movie. Prime didn't even finish his speech before it started. Right around the time he dropped the "more to them than meets the eye" line people started going nuts. They couldn't hold it in anymore.
Greatest TV Dad:
Although I will say that Bandit Heeler is giving him a run for his money.
I debated Photoshopping something fitting into the sky, but I decided against it. This says it all well enough.
That is indeed one of the first I considered. There are quite a few shots that would be very nice. But this way we can each imagine what works best for us. Or just leave it blank and let the emotion breathe, like the original did.
Feel free to make up one that speaks to you the best, this is just where my mind immediately went.
Feel free to make up one that speaks to you the best, this is just where my mind immediately went.
I ran out of time to look for a better link (such as from the institution itself -- thanks, YouTube search). Can anyone point to one?
Worse. I don't think any amount of fan outrage is going to bring him back this time.
This news had me numb for all of yesterday. Ended up closing out the day watching Transformers Prime: Beast Hunter - Predacons Rising. Something about it just felt... right, somehow. Got a little choked up hearing him speak at the end.
He was such an influence on me in various ways, and I always think about what he said his brother told him when auditioning for Optimus Prime: "Be strong enough to be gentle." I love "til all are one," but that one strikes me as more profound.
I wish I'd gotten to meet him. I tend to imagine one of the characters in my "Legends of the Halcyon Era" stories with his voice, and write his dialogue with that in mind, as if it were Cullen performing the lines. I wish I might have had the chance to hear him to recite one.
Living where I do, and having occupied the same overall economic bracket all my life (comfortable and blessed for here, but not so that I can just hop on a plane to meet my heroes at conventions halfway across the world ever), I long ago kinda made my peace with these encounters simply always being out of reach. I mean, I'd never even be able to attend a Botcon or SDCC at all (let alone one they were at), and I know this even now. I knew long ago that I would never meet Peter Cullen, Jason David Frank, Kevin Conroy, Beverly Cleary, Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, Rob Reiner, and more (even those still living, who I won't name because f you death, leave them alone) and give them the seven-millionth bit of thanks from some rando their work meant a lot to. The best I could do was "maybe someday".
So to some degree, permanently losing that opportunity stings a bit less. But now, even the small comfort of knowing they're out there doing their thing and hopefully living good lives, is inevitably gone. We're so (rightly) caught up in making our own journeys that it's easy to forget that everyone else is getting older along with you, and dealing with health stuff across all those years just like you are.
And this is sobering in a whole new way. As hollowing as this death is (and all of them have been to various degrees), this is just one more unsolicited reminder that we all have something and someone to lose and never get back, and that it's GOING to effing happen. Optimus Prime's death was the first thing to teach me this lesson 40 years ago, and I live and love my people in a deep, existential fear to this day, because wouldn't you know it, life just keeps hammering it home person by person.
We won't all get to meet and thank our heroes and people who meant a lot to us from such a distance. But there are people in our lives who do mean a lot to us, and we can thank them and value them right now. Love the people you love and make sure they know it, while they're around to.
So to some degree, permanently losing that opportunity stings a bit less. But now, even the small comfort of knowing they're out there doing their thing and hopefully living good lives, is inevitably gone. We're so (rightly) caught up in making our own journeys that it's easy to forget that everyone else is getting older along with you, and dealing with health stuff across all those years just like you are.
And this is sobering in a whole new way. As hollowing as this death is (and all of them have been to various degrees), this is just one more unsolicited reminder that we all have something and someone to lose and never get back, and that it's GOING to effing happen. Optimus Prime's death was the first thing to teach me this lesson 40 years ago, and I live and love my people in a deep, existential fear to this day, because wouldn't you know it, life just keeps hammering it home person by person.
We won't all get to meet and thank our heroes and people who meant a lot to us from such a distance. But there are people in our lives who do mean a lot to us, and we can thank them and value them right now. Love the people you love and make sure they know it, while they're around to.
The first part is from the ending of the Transformers Prime movie, Predacons Rising. I'm guessing the rest, about it being time to come home, is also from TFP, but I don't know exactly where offhand.
Yup, first part is from TFP.
The final line for the coming home part, I believe, is slightly edited from the ending of The Last Knight.
The final line for the coming home part, I believe, is slightly edited from the ending of The Last Knight.
Orson Welles did nothing wrong.
Funny enough, he did. Almost to the point where Orson Welles was almost killed by Lucy Ball's husband Desi Arnaz, but that is another story.
I wonder if he felt that way about the whole , "Give me your face!" line.