;) - Now with running commentary!

[mimi_sardinia]

The more I see of him, the more I like Wreck-Gar, and the more I see of Blur the more I like the batshit crack pairing I came up with in my exile.


Doesn't change anything of my fondness for Rodimus though, but I am getting a better idea of the relationships between him and several of the others.


I don't like Marissa Fairbourn's accent though. ETA: She must die. Really.

Oh and the Quint scientist is rather a font of exposition.


ETA 2: I think they missed a few details in Dark Awakening - a few details that make it easier for me to ignore a detail I'm not overly fond of. Case and point, Hot Rod/Rodimus is the same size as Optimus when they fight. I got the distinct impression that Roddy's upgrade also upgraded his size... o.Õ

And so far I have little problem with Wheelie and Daniel - as long as Wheelie doesn't go as squeaky as he was in one of the early parts of FFoD, luckily he hasn't been that squeaky since that episode (it was FFoD 2 or 3).

ETA - The Revenge: I really hate the human bodies in Only Human. They're tubby, and so very damn Eighties. And Roddy is supposed to good looking. And apparently said human bodies can grow hair - Springer was bitching about needing a shave.

Though I do like the scene where Mags and Arcee are faced with their original bodies.

Springer you lazy putz! Never repaired yourself? By Primus... o.Ô

ETA - Bride of ETA: Ehh, I'm hardly impressed with Primacron either. Ask me some time about my personal resolution of Primus origin and animated continuity.

I do kinda like that Call of the Primitives has someone is out to get rid of the twit.

ETA - Son of ETA: I wish Grimlock would wear his humanoid form more.

ETA Family Values: I haven't seen much evidence lately of Rodimus Prime being all that emo, he only really complains about leadership once, in Dark Awakening, which is appropriate because he gets what he thinks is a chance to relinquish it. Then again, I haven't yet watched The Burden Hardest To Bear or Return of Optimus Prime - the other two stories where Roddy loses the matrix (though Return is the only voluntary one), and I've been skipping a fair few so maybe I've missed something... but I am suspecting that any emo he's reputed to have is like a lot of emo characters - more fanon than anything canon.

Comments

[jazzymegster.livejournal.com]

So is it worth investing in this to see if it's as good as I remember?

(I was woobling about watching my boxset of Dungeons and Dragons, and decided that's the reason I've not sat down and watched despite having had it for 2 years. I also have this issue with Thundercats, but more on the Transformers scale, since I loved both of those to itty bitty pieces as a kid).

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

The worst of my issues with Transformers is a combination of a couple of issues - the fact that I love Roddy, and the fact that all the old Eighties feel is rather cheesy.

And I hate Marissa's accent, though I do like Sky Lynx's.

Really, the worst of it is love of Roddy - and Magnus for that matter. I want porn for them.


Oh, and Grimlock is kinda cute while he's smart, though I still wish he'd wear his humanoid form more often - he looks better in it than as the daft dino he is.

[jazzymegster.livejournal.com]

The Eighties feeling is what mainly has me worried, I think. But I might be able to get over that pretty quickly.

All sounds good though :) (apart from Marissa's annoying accent though)

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the whole Eighties thing isn't so bad. Hell, I think it's one of the fun parts of Transformers - getting into all the cheesy Eightiesness of it. Besides, better the Eighties than the Seventies - the Seventies were the decade style forgot.

On a whole, I hate fake accents - I hate fake Aussie accents with a passion (my accent, I don't like hearing it abused - but then I also find that New Zealander accents grate because they're so similar but just different enough to sound like someone is talking wrong), I disliked the Doctor Who Dalek double episode in series 3 because of all the bad New Yorker accents, and Marissa Fairbourn's bad upper class English accent is terrible. Sky Lynx's accent is rather fake too, but there's just something about it that I like.

[jazzymegster.livejournal.com]

Argh, not the Seventies! *shudders* ;)

Yeah, I can understand that about fake Aussie accents - I hate fake British ones (especially when the actor can't decide where in the UK they come from, and their accent skids all over the place). It's something that gets me about House - Hugh Laurie does a terrible American accent, and it's as if no-one's noticed! (Either that or they think he's so awesome he can do no wrong. Feh!).

I shall bear this in mind when I start watching...(mind you, got to get hold of the dratted things first!)

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

An interesting point on accents - the first time I watched the new Transformers movie, I spent half the movie trying to figure out what was wrong with Maggie's voice before I realised she was the only Australian accent in a movie full of American ones.

I'm so used to hearing American (Hollywood) accents that to throw an Aussie in the mix it came off really weird to my ears, and it seems that it's only Aussie accents that throw me like that. The problem doesn't exist in an Australian production - that all Aussie accents - but in something American, especially since I wasn't at all familiar with the actor - it'd probably be different if it was a well-known Australian actor... and it seems to apply only to Aussie accents too - if it'd been say a British accent thrown into the mix then it probably wouldn't have had me boggled like that.

[jazzymegster.livejournal.com]

Mmm, know what you mean - I had the same thing happen with Lost - I thought Claire's accent was fake at first (noooo, the actress is Aussie, and I've never heard her natural accent before). As you say, bunch of Aussies, doesn't bother me (I love Farscape and it doesn't bug me then).

It's probably that everyone is so used to Americans and Brits cropping up in movies that we don't really give it any thought. But evidently we're so unused to hearing an Aussie accent in that mix, and that's why it sounds weird to us. If that made any sense? (You know, if I knew what the hell I was really talking about, I'd write meta about this, but I really don't).

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

I think it may be a matter of how many Aussie actors who work overseas assume other accents to fit into the setting they are playing - there's a good few rather well known Aussies around, both in TV and movies, who do mostly American characters so we don't usually hear their Australian accents.

So, outside Australian productions, Aussie accents are rare things in entertainment. Plus Americans are rarely ever good at imitating Aussie accents.

[jazzymegster.livejournal.com]

*nodnod* I think you're right. Like Julian McMahon totally had me fooled (and still does on occasion) and, as I said, the actress who plays Claire in Lost (her name escapes me).

Plus Americans are rarely ever good at imitating Aussie accents.

I've never heard one try, but I could believe it. I've heard some terrible accents faked by Yanks, so it doesn't really surprise me that none of them can do a convincing Aussie.

Also, OT, but is that Lightning in your icon? (Apologies if I've asked you that before).

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

No, it's Shelke in the icon.

[jazzymegster.livejournal.com]

Ah. D'oh!