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  1. JB0
    In fairness, in Dark of the Moon, The Fallen is dead and Megatron's spirit is broken. Hell, he needs a peptalk from a squishie to even work up the gumption to try and shoot Optimus again. The mighty Megatron, so lost that he's reduced to moping in the corner, a coward lacking the spinal motivators to act on his designs. Even STARSCREAM had more nerve than that! It's kind of a low point for the character. I almost felt bad for the poor guy.
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    Because it's destiny. The fates of Earth and Cybertron are inextricably linked, and have been since 1984. Clearly, this should've been considered before they imploded Cybertron, as it means the Earth is now doomed in no uncertain terms. I didn't see it a a contradiction. Transformium is what their bodies are made of, but the Allspark is what imbues that shell with life, reason, and soul. Without the ability to infuse machines with a spark, transformium constructions are just that: machines. ... Which makes the sparkless Galvatron problematic, but less so than he may at first appear. I am going to claim he's not, strictly speaking, alive. But there's enough data recorded that Megatron's thought processes can be emulated by the lifeless machine that is Galvatron. It's artificial intelligence. (I still think he's highly problematic. While his sparkless sentience can be worked around and justified, it was a bad narrative decision that causes a lot of trouble with the whole premise.)
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    I could make a guess or two, but the best explanation is probably to make teenagers feel superior to the nominal parental figure. Those kids sure showed him! Did what they wanted, flaunted his rules, then threw higher rules in his face to shut him down YEAH!
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    My name is JB0, and I endorse this message.
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    Especially since they use the big complicated explanation instead of just "Dude. Age of consent is 16 here. Now suck me Lucky Charms!"
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    1:1 or GTFO!
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    If I don't get Crazimus Prime headhunting quintessons, I will be deeply disappointed. ... I mean, more disappointed than I usually am with this subfranchise.
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    The story I heard was it was a dispute with Cartoon Network over money.
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    I did that with Slag. I mean, he was a robot AND a triceratops(the best dinosaur). Life didn't GET any better. He even followed me into the pool and the bath tub. ... So did Voltron's blue lion(the plastic one the characters sat in), but that was because it was SUPPOSED to get wet. The cartoon showed it underwater ALL THE TIME, it was CLEARLY a water toy!
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    Not gonna lie, I may make the effort to find this one. I don't rightly care that Trypticon is a plastic brick(like every other toy of the era). He's a giant robot T. Rex You said you've got a T. Rex?! triple-changer that other Transformers can live in. And that's just friggin' awesome.
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    I wanted a Combat Mode Sari toy. No joke.
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    YES! We get a likable and interesting squishie character, so they can the show just as her story arc kicks into high gear.
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    And it's all very funny when you consider initial reception was "omg ugly also why are they fighting crime and not decepticreeps worst show ever"
  14. JB0
    " They add that this is not just another traditional Chinese knock-off. It's actually the only officially licensed Star Trek building on this planet." What.
  15. JB0
    You're not alone on the Animated love.
  16. JB0
    It wouldn't be Fate if everyone didn't talk too much. Nasu desperately needs an editor.
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    I can't understand why. Spielberg is a smart man most of the time.
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    Basically, the tech is so advanced that anything you can think to do IRL is probably done on a Valk?
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    Well, the VFs have to carry enough consumable thruster fuel for a good engagement, because they operate in space where the thrusters aren't augmenting flaps. And by appearances, they fuel them space-ready even for ground-based airshows.
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    I understand all the words, but together they make no sense.
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    Makes sense. The thruster nozzles are probably made of a shape-memory alloy, so they can fold flat when not in use.
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    As I recall, Babylon 5 has a Gunstar-inspired fighter, too. Reason enough to watch it right there. Incidentally, I just rewatched Last Starfighter because why not. Every scene around the asteroid segment seems to be rendered in low-detail(perhaps for scheduling, perhaps to free more processing time up to draw the asteroid itself), but the biggest problem shot is later. The closeup of the Death Blossom panels opening is a very low-detail shot, and that's one that NEEDS to be badass. There's some trouble with their lighting in some shots(as the command ship crosses the frontier, shadows "skip" from poly to poly instead of gliding smoothly), but the fact that much of it is in space helps prevent that being a large issue. And again, I think that's due to the detail level. The dramatic shots of the Gunstar in the hanger have none of those issues. (It even self-shadows as it launches!) And on a less effects-oriented note, the scene with the arcade machine "unmasking" the assassin scared the hell out of me as a kid. I thought it was killing the dude and turning him INTO an alien. Also, the remaster has very aggressive despeckling. To the degree that the stars on the side of the arcade cabinet flicker in some shots, and completely disappear in others. Sadly, Universal's never gonna give this movie the A-list treatment, and the remaster is still WAY better than the old DVD release was(film damage EVERYWHERE).
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    I think the old CG still works for the most part, albeit not necessarily in the original intent. I think it feels kind of right that a movie about a kid who became a hero by being good at arcade games has effects that look like they were lifted from a video game(insanely-high resolution aside, it was rendered at 3000x5000 in 36-bit color. You can't do that on your TV, even if it's a UHD display. And BluRay can't deliver it if you could.) The bigger problem to me is the lower-detail shots really stick out. Of particular note is a few clips where a laser bolt is traveling mostly perpendicular to the screen. Once you can see it mostly end-on, the * shape of the actual model used for the bolt becomes visible and it ceases to look like a cylindrical beam. If it was possible to get the old data and re-render everything at max detail, I'd love to see that. It'd be a nice balance of faithful and upgraded. But then, I doubt the data files are still available. And even if they are, you'd need a renderer that actually understands them.
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    "[set Contents] ... -Annoyingly confident face" I find this description hilarious.
  25. JB0
    I said awesome, not practical. It's implied there's more attitude thrusters than are usually drawn. The ones used for VTO showed up in DYRL, under the cockpit of all places.
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