#Source Material

[mochifiction]

I’m totally not back for some Late Night Transformers One discourse…who said that…I wanna address something I’ve seen in some of the feedback for the film that, I don’t know, irks me…? One of these things is the fact that “Orion is an asshole” or “immature and stupid” and therefore people don’t like him. I don’t know how to say this, but…he’s like that in a lot of continuities. Orion, in most variants, is a smartass. He has a mouth which gets him both a platform and also in trouble. He also has a habit of seeing short-term solutions to long-term issues. These are things that have existed for a long time, and I think those who have been calling him unlikeable or an ass haven’t seen his variants in the source material. People who also expected him to be a data clerk and throwing a fit about the fact that he’s not also need to realize that it’s a COMIC FRANCHISE. You won’t get the same story every time, and to expect a new continuity to fall back on the sole continuity YOU want is honestly insane. If we regurgitate the same narrative over and over again, the franchise loses originality. Audiences for other franchises have also voiced disdain when their favorite pieces of media get repetitive. This is also a reminder to people that Orion Pax and Optimus do not have the same exact personalities. That’s the whole point and why some people grieve Orion’s absence. To expect him to be the likable gentle giant we know as Optimus Prime right away is an impossible demand to be met. Not only that, but this isn’t even the film relying on one version of Orion, but a mosaic of them all.

I also saw people saying D-16 switched on Orion way too quickly. I’d also argue here that other continuities did similar behavioral changes. In Aligned, Megatronus literally turns his back on him and abandons him at the Council meeting. The behavior is shockingly abrupt, which hurts Orion because he didn’t understand what he could have possibly done wrong. I’d also argue that, in this film, you see multiple times where D-16 is irritated with Orion’s sense of almost immature and irresponsible justice. It’s subtle but then leads to a quick snap. The behavioral change is supposed to be jarring. You’re supposed to feel like it comes out of nowhere.

I am half asleep writing this so I can make another in-depth post when I’m more alive, but I just wanted to remind people they only had an hour and forty minutes to display how a civil war occurs. That’s very hard to do as someone who studies and writes about revolutions and anti-colonial resistance. With the time they had, it was a good job. I only pray people read the source material before giving CinemaSins-esque critiques as well. No Transformers film is perfect. This one definitely wasn’t trying to be.

[wanderingcritter]

nobody talks about the struggle of having a kintype from a source that's actually just horribly cringy

it's like

"hey this piece of media is a really integral part of my identity as an individual and has had a big influence on my life, it means a lot to me and is one of my favorites :)"

"oh cool we should watch it then!"

"... no"

[radiantrookie]

Trailer vs Games

[violetmuses]

Hot Take??? 👀 🔥

Am I the only one who doesn't really like writing Canon anymore? 🖊

If you really think of Armando's MAIN storyline, there's only two ways to write his character or create something:

Following that BB3 plot with Armando leading the cartel with his mother Isabel.

Following the BB4 plot regarding that entire movie.

I've written so much work recently that everything feels overdone. 🥺

Or maybe my writing just isn't that creative. 📖

Any suggestions? 💭

- V. 💜

[blacksunrequiem]

Imagine Feyd with that typical fashionable jewellery-adorned headdress in the Dune universe. I'M FROTHING~

Source: V Man Austin Butler F/W 22 Digital Cover Credits for this picture: Austin Butler (Model), Collier Schorr (Photographer), Stephen Gan (Editor), Gro Curtis (Fashion Editor/Stylist), Johnnie Sapong (Hair Stylist), Holly Silius (Makeup Artist), Greg Krelenstein (Casting Director) Brands in this picture: Ludovic de Saint Sernin

[mistofstars]

Tatort Saarbrücken - Links

Hello :)

Weil jetzt bestimmt viele (noch mal?) die Filme sehen wollen kurz vor dem nächsten Spatort... :)

Keine Ahnung, wann die runter geschmissen werden, zieht was ihr könnt xD

https://archive.org/details/1-das-fleissige-lieschen

https://archive.org/details/2-der-herr-des-waldes

https://archive.org/details/3-das-herz-der-schlange

[breethenecromancer]

GOD I LOVE WHEN PEOPLE DRAW CHARACTERS ACCURATELY TO THE SOURCE MATERIAL!!!

I LOVE WHEN PEOPLE DRAW CHARACTERS WITH A CANE OR A CRUTCH LIKE IN THE SOURCE MATERIAL!!

I LOVE WHEN PEOPLE DRAW BONE STRUCTURE OF THE CHARACTERS FACE AND BODY AS CLOSE AS THEY CAN TO THE SOURCE MATERIAL!!!

I love when PEOPLE STOP DRAWING WOMEN CHARACTERS WITH HUGE TITS FOR NO REASON

[spaceintruderdetector]

I Corsari Di Alcibiade (Vol. 1..5, Denise-Filippi-Liberge, Lanciostory 2010-2011) : AA.VV. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

[gretasworld]

❤ MariaCard

[aspparticune]

Anyone else ever have that moment where you’re watching something for the first time and you’re just vibing but then suddenly one line stands out to you and you know you’ve never heard it before but you’ve definitely encountered it before because those exact words in that exact order are just so familiar and then the epiphany hits you and you’re like “Oh my god.”

“That’s the source material of the incorrect quote.”

[pinklemonslices]

sometimes returning to the source material can just be so beautiful

[radiantrookie]

Who is the GUN Commander

[violetmuses]

To everyone writing Logan,

Thank you. 🖤

[blacksunrequiem]

The OG ice-fire eyes that @vulpine-spectacle has cleverly described and given to her version Feyd-Rautha in "Echoes in Our Blood".

"Feyd-Rautha’s eyes are a pale shade of gray-blue akin to a sheet of ice, yet inflamed by rays of sunlight peering through it. Around each iris is a mosaic of cerulean and crackles of ember. It is a dance of fire against ice, crackling together and forming something dangerous. Eurydice has never seen such eyes before." — Chapter 17, “Echoes in Our Blood” by Vulpine_Spectacle on AO3

Austin Butler for the Los Angeles Times in November 2022 Photographer: Brandon M Young Photo editor: Brandon Choe Photo assistant: Brendan McLean Grooming: Jamie Taylor Styling: Sandra Amador

[icarus-in-blues]

dyed in blue

[iconuk01]

Icon_UK watches the debut of Bakuage Sentai Boonboomger

Or "Burst-Acceleration Team BoonBoomger"

Well, this was... a trip (apporpirately enough for a series whose themese are racing and cars)

In the first episode Taiya, a cool, good looking (if a trifle smug) guy in a very snazzy red car (and wearing a lot of red because branding is everything)

shows up at a fancy wedding where the bride, named Mira, is clearly reluctant, and the groom is a bit of a dick, and basically grabs her and races away in the car with her.

Turns out he's a courier, who has been hired by her real boyfriend to abduct her from the wedding. It's not stated outright, but it looks like she was being forced to marry the son of a big time gangster, an idea supported by the number of shades and guns that suddenly appear as the red car is chased by a number of cars. Truth be told, Mira doesn't look too pleased about being delivered to her boyfriend either, which Taiya notes, but says nothing about as it's her business.

Mira is, understandably, in a bit of a panic, what with the wedding/not wedding abduction/rescue and being pursued by gun wielding gangsters

Her mood is not helped by the sudden arrival of a couple of mechanical looking aliens,

driving what appears to be self aware monster truck, which ploughs through the gangsters cars like they were skittles, and which Taiya not only recognised but reveals his car has got some unusual features to escape from, like the ability to launch itself backward into the air for a couple of miles to escape the aliens, who are fascinated by Mira's wedding dress (Hey, we all have our little obsessions)

Deciding that she needs at least a change of clothes, Taiya takes her to a boutique, which he casually buys the entire stock of, and tells Mira to help herself to a new outfit. That's cool, but a little OTT, verging on the creepy, but he seems sincere.

Mira selects a rather pink outfit for herself (Ooooh! Foreshadowing?) whilst Taiya has a chat with someone over comms who turns out to be Jou, a rather strait laced type in an impeccable suit. (There's also a curry obsessed robot in the background of wherever Jou is, who is important, but let's leave that to one side for now)

Then the aliens show up again and in a truly inspired moment of weirdness, turn Mira's wedding dress into a Monster of the Week whose deep voiced battlecry, as they smother everyone within range with wedding dresses is, according to the fansub I watched, "Get Hitched!!" (Which actually sounds like a pretty good expletive when said properly... or improperly)

Taiya changes into Boon Red.

and does some fancy fighting with the aliens and their grunts, which impresses Mira more than a little.

Boon Red hands Mira off to Jou to take to the airport instead, which he does.

Then, in my favourite moment of the entire episode, about halfway there, Mira basically says, "Stuff this, I am tired of being driven by other people and of getting no say in my fate", and sneakily presses the "Fly backwards a couple of miles" button so that the car flies back into the middle of the battle, to Jou's annoyance.

There she tells Taiya that she wants to fight too and "I want to deliver MYSELF to where I want to be" which is a pretty cool way of saying she wants her autonomy, so more power to her.

Impressed by her decisiveness, Taiya agrees, giving her a BoonBoom Changer of her own, so she can become Boon Pink, and to the surprise of nobody watching this far into the episode, Jou is Boon Blue.

There's a lot more after that, with robots and what appears to be a Hot Wheels videogame level before combining into the Mecha form we've been waiting for and taking down Wedding Dress monster

Full marks to whichever designer decided that the ideal weapon to equip a giant robot, which is going to be fighting mechanical monsters a lot, is a giant screwdriver.

Things go boom, (see what I did there?) and the episode ends with Mira explaining to her rather dull (and not overly bright by the sound of it) actual boyfriend that she's not leaving with him, she's becomign a Boonboomger instead, whether he likes it or not.

As Taiya (being very smug again) notes to Jou whilst watching this exchange "The delivery was made, but the package was redirected to BoonBoomger", which is either stretching an analogy to breaking point, or completely undermining the "Self determination" arc of Mira's story.

All in all, this looks like it's going to be one of the sillier sentai in a while, and whilst I have a fairly low tolerance for that, let's see where it goes.

Alas though, I'm afraid that I just cannot get past how ridiculous those helmets look.

I can see what they're going for of course, but the spoked tyres/hubcap look would probably make a better chest design than a helmet one. The tyre moulding sticks out in front of the actors faces by several inches and looks clumsy unless they're looking right at you.

Aside from the fact that Boon Orange looks like either a showerhead or the handset of an old landline telephone, the lack of a coherent pattern to the styling annoys me.

I mean, look at OhRanger (aka Power Rangers Zeo)

They all share the concept of geometric shapes that increase in the number of sides involved as you go up the apparent chain of command: Pink is a circle (which has one side), Yellow is two parallel lines, Blue is a three sided triangle, Green is a four sided rectangle, and though that should mean Red has a five sided pentagon, I can see why they went for a five pointed star instead. Also, their Sixth Ranger has a symbol which has both six "points" and is also the kanji for "King", so that has a consistency to it.

Likewise MagiRanger (Power Rangers Mystic Force), has a pattern linked to the characters age order (they are all siblings in MagiRanger)

Green, the first born, has one horn on each side of his Minotaur emblem

Pink, the second oldest, has wings with two segments on each side of her Fairy emblem.

Blue, the third oldest, has three flukes on each side of the Mermaid tail emblem

Yellow, the fourth oldest, has four feathers visible on each wing of the Garuda emblem

Red, the youngest, has five feathers on each wing of his Phoenix emblem

And their mother, whose magic is connected with snow and ice, has a six pointed snowflake as her emblem, so it's continuing the pattern, albeit in the opposite direction.

But BoonBoomger has no pattern that I can see

Red has five spokes

Blue has three spokes

Pink has six spokes

Black has eight spokes

And Orange hasn't even got spokes, but seven holes instead

There's no logic or pattern to them that I can see and it irritates me more than it should.

Oh well, let's see how it goes with the next episode!