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Driven Back To Fandom
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?
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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If you want to give it a try, I've been watching the first season of Rescue Bots on Netflix with my boys, and while the designs and art style make me want to claw my eyes out, it is in fact delightfully whacked in a way that really reminds me of G1. Plus LeVar Burton voicing Dr. Green is a delight!
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Rescue Bots!!! <333 Dr. Greene! Flobsters! Squooshy grump Heatwave! Dear Chase! Boulder! Blades! <3333333333 Seconding the rec; if you can bear past the animation and that the show is aimed at much younger kids than TFP... I have the beginnings of notes for an epistolary fanfic about Dr. Barranova! <33333333333
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Kade either gets better or easier to ignore, I'm not sure which. XD
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Health issues played a lot in things too, leading me to lose interest in a LOT of things because I just couldn't cope.
Yeah, I need to give RB another go. Like with TFP, I got half-plus the way through S1 when life got in the way and I never got back to it. It's really cute and some of the stuff is just ridiculous even by G1 standards (especially that ep with the flying lobsters or whatever they were). Heatwave's attitude in general bugged me, as did Kade's, and their subsequent interactions were kinda hard to watch. I'm sure they both got better as the series went on - there were hints of it even in what I saw. And LOL yeah, I remember when Doc Greene was first intro'd, it drove me nuts bc "who is that?! I know that voice!" So that was fun. ^,^
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And... can the flobsters in Rescue Bots really be that much sillier than the surfing Autobots in G1? :)
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LOL point. XD
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