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 Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 6:57 pm
Good argument.
Gender and Sex differences.
Yet, what would satisfy any sort of argument. Is for people to not get so worked up over something that irks them in a certain fandom. For people to respect others opinions in a fandom -- when they're not even real. Yes, they're something someone loves dearly and that person has their own personal opinion on how it should go just like the next. I see no reason to get all up and arms over something I cannot change. Just to get my opinion out? I don't care if people share my opinion or not -- I respect how others view theirs, in fandoms.
<3
I respect others opinions.
My opinion is mine and yada yada, no one elses -- can be shared.
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Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 7:52 pm
I don't want to talk about what offends me.
But it's raunchy,
and doesn't make sense.
I mean, seriously, have any of these people paid attention in their biology class?
In fact, I created a pretty funny comic about it. But it was funny in an innuendo kind of way.
But I can't respect the people that read it, just as I can't respect people who drink, who do drugs and do other senseless things that have no purpose. If you can't get excited over an awesome toy and instead of enjoy it; make it make out with your Barbies, you have some issues that need to be looked over. Hopefully by a professional.
But yes, the raunchy and doesn't make sense stuff boggles my mind.
Other than that, I can support a loving relationship between two bots.
But at the same time, I don't like it being on popular sites, for parental guard reasons, you think your child is looking up Transformers. Slips on deviantArt to where two of their favorite characters are in a pose that doesn't seem mature to dev-art artists but uh, is mature to a five year old.
Which gets into "should the parent censor the child or the admin censor the site" which IDRC to get into.
How seriously to I take the series? I don't really know, I've hung around with children all my life and the boys love talking to me about Transofmers so I've started to take it as a child takes it, it's hard to explain. It's like not for serious seriousness. As for the fandom, I really have to laugh at it, I mean, half the fandom believe that Ratchet is the crotchy old guy who throws wrenches at people when he was really a bot used to a party life then torn into a war where he watches everyone he ever love get torn apart in front of him and when he finally thinks he's fixed them all, Megs comes back and destroys them. What a lovely life he's living, yes little fans I understand, after hearing his depressing and dire life that you would go and make it something comical and happy. TEE HEE!
Ah, comic books.
Trends in Fandom and Franchises? No offense to anyone likes them, but any storyline made in Japan just irks me. Whereas in the UK and US versions, the characters develop, have problems, have conflict then adjust their thinking, therefore resolving the problem and winning one for the Autobots, Japan does not. They all have issues, every single one of them, and they don't get over it very quickly,ex: instead of Mirage trying to talk it out before a fight, he refuses to fight at all, and he talks through his moral dilemma and never fights. In the US version, he is defensive, even as the Decepticon begins his own undoing, and is a good fighter.
Cannon? If you're talking about relationships or even storylines, no, I'm not. I like to see OC's and 'bots together. I know how the 'bots react to one another, I want to see something new and exciting.
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Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:37 am
Noxious Weed But I can't respect the people that read it, just as I can't respect people who drink, who do drugs and do other senseless things that have no purpose. But at the same time, I don't like it being on popular sites, for parental guard reasons, you think your child is looking up Transformers. Slips on deviantArt to where two of their favorite characters are in a pose that doesn't seem mature to dev-art artists but uh, is mature to a five year old. Which gets into "should the parent censor the child or the admin censor the site" which IDRC to get into. So you can't respect people who read it. Isn't that a little... extreme? And internet censoring opens and entirely new can of worms that are all wriggly and gooey and BAD. I won't get into a giant argument about it, because it's off topic, but there are these things they make for parents that let them control which websites their child can go to. I think that's the better option, rather than filtering the entire internet.
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Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:44 am
Meirelle So you can't respect people who read it. Isn't that a little... extreme? And internet censoring opens and entirely new can of worms that are all wriggly and gooey and BAD. I won't get into a giant argument about it, because it's off topic, but there are these things they make for parents that let them control which websites their child can go to. I think that's the better option, rather than filtering the entire internet. No not really. I don't respect Bush, I don't respect my manager, but I still would treat them nicely. Me taking something to the extreme would be to go around arguing with them all the time. As for the internet thing "IDRC (I don't really care) to get into it." Quotin' myself here.
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Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 5:33 pm
How seriously do you take the series / franchise?
I take it seriously enough to make each incarnation something to give an honest try. Transformers are my passion, and each time some new news comes my way there is a giddy feeling that makes me hunger for more. As for the execution of the series, each is taken seriously enough for a first run-through to try and fully understand the dynamics presented.
How seriously do you take fandom?
I may be one, but there are actually people that get slagging angry at this?! I appreciate most aspects of the intellectual property, but think that with any fanbase, there are those that take things a tad too far.
Is there anything in fandom that pisses you off / makes you FANGRY? Oh yes, such as when people forget that this is all fantasy anyway and getting rage over it does only one thing- make them look ridiculous.
What new trends in fandom / franchises do you wish were never born?
Overuse of Gestalts. In the beginning a specific team had to be made for a gestalt. With the oncoming of Energon and Minicons, such an interesting gimmick is no longer the exception, but the rule.
Are you strictly cannon, or allow for a little variation here and there?
Variation is required! While the continuation of a storyline/timeline is nice, to see such iterations from say G1 to the Bayformers is as interesting as any series up against Shattered Glass. I love to see new imaginings.
Only cannon pairings for you, or are you a little bit deviant? ;D
To be fair, I do not really pay much attention to any pairings. Only some *ahem* inappropriate material is on my computer for sheer entertainment. I enjoy things that are 'wrong' a great deal. twisted
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Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 6:34 pm
Magni Prime What new trends in fandom / franchises do you wish were never born? Overuse of Gestalts. In the beginning a specific team had to be made for a gestalt. With the oncoming of Energon and Minicons, such an interesting gimmick is no longer the exception, but the rule. But that isn't anything new at all. Minicons weren't anything but Nebulans with alt modes, and the Energon Autobot combiners were just bigger Landcross components.
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Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 6:48 pm
yet the teams were sparse, relatively speaking. Despite the multitude of 'masters', such were not every member of the blasted army. Headmasters, Targetmasters, and Powermasters were not every single individual.
Minicons were designed to attach to every single character, in some cases each other. In energon virtually every person seemed able- if not required -to combine for any decent power level.
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Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 7:41 pm
True, they were all subsets of the toyline, but they were pretty much concurrent. In the later part of G1 the figures might not all have had the same gimmick, but the gimmick was "everybody has a gimmick".
And in Energon it was only a subset of the line. It was only a bunch of Autobots. The Decepticons didn't do it, and the Basic class figures of both factions didn't do it either.
Now that I think of it, weren't there about as many Headmasters as there were Energon shirt/pants style combiners? And Headmasters could swap partners too.
*edit* Not that I'm saying you can't hate it, everybody's got their peeves, but it doesn't make sense not to go all the way back to when it started.
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