Driven Back To Fandom
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sakon76As 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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Date: 2018-12-30 06:16 am (UTC)For the opening sequence, I gasped in happiness, turned to my husband and whispered "THIS is what I wanted Bayverse to be!" So much happiness.
And, yes, poor Cliffjumper! The moment I saw him I knew who he was and that he was not going to make it. I flashed to that memorial video they did for him at the last Botcon I went to. :)
Was that supposed to be Optimus? I thought it was just supposed to be a nod to his G1 design, because I thought this was a prequel to Bayverse and it would be about 20 years before the arrival happened, but then there are so many continuity cracks that I'm no longer sure....
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Date: 2018-12-31 04:13 am (UTC)Yesss! <3 Cybertron is instantly recognizable, even has the torn-apart sections below just like G1...
Yeah, continuity between this and Bayverse is dubious at best. Consensus seems to be that Hasbro wants to be able to play it both ways - it's either a prequel or a softish reboot. Simmons is a junior agent here, there's a Sector 7 headquartered under Hoover Dam, but...the timeline doesn't make a lick of sense. The timeline in strictly Bayverse doesn't make any sense either, though Captain Continuity aka John Barber took a stab at it and managed to string things together...sort of.
It's a prequel if it doesn't do well enough to make more along this line. It's a reboot if it makes enough money. Sigh.
I'd rather think of it as a reboot; closely related but a separate universe. There were seven more Autobots coming down there at the end, with Bee and Prime setting up camp and waiting for them... (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*: ･ﾟ✧
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Date: 2019-01-02 06:40 am (UTC)no subject
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