Driven Back To Fandom

[sakon76]

As it began, so shall it begin again. I've been largely absent from DW and LJ, and have shifted my blogging to my quilting blog at https://tinkerstitch.blogspot.com/. But now I'm back, because my typing into the void there won't do a thing for my fandom needs, and Tumblr is crashing and burning as a platform, like LJ before it.

Today, Wonderful Husband dragged me to see Bumblebee. Partly, I think, because he's worried about me and knows that my love for Transformers is a deep and abiding one.

(Which is why I stopped watching the Bayverse movies after Dark of the Moon. That was the point at which they went from "not good, but interesting" to "this is bad, you cannot make me watch any further.")

But I'd heard good things about it, so I was mildly jazzed, and these last two weeks with him taking time off have been the first times we've gone to see film movies since... Black Panther. Good heavens, has it really been nine months? I guess it has. So last week we went to see Spiderman: Into the Spider-verse (loved it!), and this week we went to see Bumblebee.

(And, no, we don't really watch movies on TV. It takes energy and two hours of the kidlets not getting up to see what Mummy and Daddy are watching. Which is why I still haven't seen most of the Marvel'verse.)

But Bumblebee was... wow. It was honestly a love letter to the original series. And to all of us girls who weren't supposed to play with the boys' toys (both literal and metaphorical, though not in this case sexual). I have FEELS about this movie and I need to spend some time thinking about it. Wonderful Husband and I debated whether or not this can even be part of the Bayverse. The continuity cracks between it and the first film are wide and deep. Yet at the same time it clearly was intended to be part of it. And Bayverse has always been riddled with continuity cracks. (Kind of embarrassing when a 1980s cartoon series has better continuity than the multi-billion-dollar Hollywood blockbuster franchise based on it.)

So, any of my TFs peeps still around and alive and interested in talking about Bumblebee?

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[tainry]

Oh I would love to talk and talk about Bumblebee!!!! Just went to see it for a second time last night! <3 Still good second time! o^___^o

Have you watched any of Lindsay Ellis' meta on youTube? It's from a film school person's perspective but also a Transformers Fan perspective so there are technical things re film which I don't know about but which do help me understand some directorial/editing decisions better - even if I don't agree with them always, from a fan POV - and also she's funny and wry and wants to find something salvageable...even when there isn't. u.u

Anyway! Opening sequence! For a second I actually wondered if we were going to see Wheeljack and Bumblebee smuggling energy rods into Iacon like right out of G1! XD We did get to see Wheeljack for a split second at least!!!! <333 And Arcee! (Poor Cliffjumper! Again! At least he didn't get turned into a mindless zombie this time!)

I am never made happy by "The Touch" but it was amusing to hear it here - an actual nod to previous TF incarnations! And oh my gaaaah I bweed so hard when Bee was driving away across the Golden Gate and came abreast of Optimus!!! <333333333333333333333333333333333333333333 GLEE! GLEE GLEE GLEE! And Optimus 'old friend'ing people and putting his hands on shoulders and CHARLIE GETS TO HUG BEE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! So good. ::snuggles into::

OK, I have a guest over so while there's lots more to eeee over, I'll restrain for now... ::hugs!:: Got your card! Thank you! <3 <3 <3 I have been the opposite of organized this year but I do hope to get cards out at least...eventually............... o.o;;;

[dragondancer5150]

FWIW, I'm still kinda around. Not active in TF-dom atm (kinda been driven out of it in a sense) but I still love G1 (and TFA). I hear ya on the live action movies, though. I was not overly thrilled with the first movie (it focused too much on the humans for my taste, like if "The Secret Life of Pets" focused primarily on the human owners rather than on the animals themselves), and I was done after the second, only seeing the third because everyone else was and I wanted to be able to participate in the chatter. Will never bother with #s 4 or 5 and have been ambivalent at best about this newest one, even though Bee is one of my top fave characters (cuz not a fan of Bay!Bee). But...maybe I'll see it after all. Once it's out of theaters and I can just rent it on Amazon or YouTube or something.

[playswithworms]

*tackleglomp*

Helloooooo!!! <3 I know I see you on tumblr sort of, but that's not the same. I bet movie watching time is hard to come by! Glad you got to see Into the Spiderverse - I've been hearing lots of good stuff about it, so that's next on my list.

I watched the Bayverse to the sad end, but yeah, Dark of the Moon was a good stopping point. You didn't miss anything! And yes, yes, yes, Bumblebee!!! *jumps up and down* I finally saw it just before Christmas and I want to go see it again. I followed the plot the whole way through and wasn't confused and clueless!! Robots I could tell apart!!! That first part on Cybertron was so awesome, OMG. Heroic awesome Optimus!! I liked the humans! The romance subplot was unsmarmy!! The girl gets the robot/cool car!!! Bee is kickass! Family is frustrating but everyone is trying, and they all come through at the end! Optimus at the end!! :D

If I have to have a nitpick, the whole mom coming home after Bumblebee trashed the house and instead of going "OMG we were robbed"...somehow concluding that her daughter did it? And then jumping to an argument about Charlie getting over her dad? I couldn't quite swallow that one. And then Charlie doing the cool dive at the end was cool, but...was she going to just bodily haul Bumblebee up from under 15 feet of water?

[darkdanc3r.livejournal.com]

We're still here! Still watching for you to update, too, but that's less important.

I think it was said that Bumblebee was supposed to be a reboot, not part of the actual Bayverse, and I'm all for that!