#g1 episode 7

[g5mlp]

The future of MLP Generation 5

An MLP marketing video published by the Mexican company Panadería Licensing has been circulating. This video claims that in 2025, the MLP brand is to be rebooted with a "Ponyverse" show featuring "our most iconic characters", possibly both G4 and G5.

However, we also were told by a reliable source that this plan may already have been cancelled, and that "G5 is dead". Apparently, there might not be any MLP content in 2025, and it may not be long before My Little Pony: Tell Your Tale ends.

What's been going on with G5?

Last June, a different source provided us with the 2024 Franchise Overview presentation. As it envisaged, Tell Your Tale became the only pony show in 2024, and its second season began with a weekly schedule. A few of the toys that were shown have been released. There was even a statement that content had been greenlit for 2025.

However, at the end of February 2024, Hasbro abruptly changed course. After multiple unexplained delays and scheduling mishaps, Tell Your Tale settled on a bi-weekly schedule instead. Hasbro hasn't promoted G5 on social media at all, and has instead posted about G1/G4 brand collabs. Hasbro also hasn't licensed either of the G5 shows to TV networks or ad-supported streaming services, as they had originally planned to.

What new information do we now have?

The "Ponyverse" presentation tells us:

A "Ponyverse" series would have replaced Tell Your Tale as the main MLP show.

Hasbro wanted G4 to be a bigger part of the brand. G5 is still nowhere near as popular as G4, and its media hasn't been received as well. It seems like "Ponyverse" would have literally combined the "most iconic characters" of G4 and G5 into one show, somehow.

The new show might have been rushed if it had actually been made. It would only have been in development for around 18 months before the first episode was released, which is roughly what Make Your Mark got, and we all know how Chapter 1 turned out.

After the presentation was posted in our Discord server, our source clarified to us:

The "Ponyverse" project has already been cancelled. It was probably briefly real, though.

G5's ending soon, and there's not much Tell Your Tale content left to be released. In fact, they said we'd be "lucky" for the second Tell Your Tale special to be published (four were planned). Hasbro, therefore, must have chosen to prematurely end production of the show.

There won't be any major new content until 2026. This would give Hasbro and the animation studio a bit more time to develop a new show.

Our source has previously provided accurate information about upcoming MLP content, and we have no reason to believe that they are making this up. However, we have no way to independently confirm this information; it may be incorrect, and it may become outdated if Hasbro changes their plans again.

What's going to happen now?

As our source stated, there's no reason to expect that there will be any more Tell Your Tale specials.

It's not clear when Tell Your Tale season 2 will end, but here are some possibilities:

Episode 23. This is likely the last episode that has been added to the season 2 YouTube playlist. The videos are in pairs: one for the Tell Your Tale channel and one for the My Little Pony Official channel. (Click the ⋮ button and then "Show unavailable videos" to see private videos.)

Episode 35. This is the last episode for which we have actual evidence of its existence. In March, the Lil Critter Workshop artist Vian Teow uploaded a bunch of Tell Your Tale backgrounds to his portfolio. Two of the files' names indicate that they are for this episode ("mlp235"), and that they were finished on February 5 and February 7, 2024.

Episode 48. If all of the planned episodes (according to the "328 minutes" number from 2023) were actually released, then this would be the final episode. This now seems increasingly unlikely to happen.

There are several comics left to be released in the Maretime Mysteries and The Storm of Zephyr Heights miniseries, and the Bridlewood RP game on Roblox is still in beta. Other than that, though, there doesn't seem to be much left for G5. I imagine people are already drafting their video essays about how it all went wrong.

[heartsandsparksshipweek]

Come on down for another installment of Hearts and Sparks ship week! It will be hosted on August 26th to September 1st, 2024!

Day 1: Drive-in / Freedom

Day 2: Secrets / Wishes

Day 3: Picnic / Shattered Glass

Day 4: Their Song / Touch

Day 5: Changes / Sleep

Day 6: Distance / Fireworks

Day 7: Missing / Alternate Universe

Make sure to get the signature of your favorite Cybertronian/non-Cybertronian ships! Link to the Q and A!

(Screenshot from G1 season 2 episode "Auto-Bop)

[aeonmagnus]

In a great way to close the first “Transformers Day”, the official Hasbro Pulse YouTube account have treated us with an interview with Frank Welker & Peter Cullen, the voices of Optimus Prime & Megatron.

This would be the last of the interviews with the voice talent from the Transformers 40th Anniversary Celebration Table. Mr. Cullen and Mr. Welker need no presentation for the Transformers community, being one of the most beloved and respected original G1 voice actors.

The official Hasbro Pulse YouTube account have treated us with an interview with Michael Bell, the voice of G1 Prowl.

Mr Bell is well remembered as Prowl’s voice in the original G1 cartoon, and he also voiced some other Transformers characters like First Aid, Brainstorm, Sideswipe, Swoop, Scrapper and more.

On this 7:12 minute interview, Mr.Bells shares his thoughts about what made G1 so special, his performance as Prowl and other characters and his favorite role, some G1 behind the scenes memories and more!

Following the interview with Gregg Berger, the voice of G1 Grimlock, now we are catching up with another great interview with Dan Gilvezan, the voice of Bumblebee. 

Mr. Gilvezan talks about what makes G1 so special that still brings fans today, the reasons why Bumblebee is so popular, and his experience and special moments working in the original G1 cartoon.

The official Hasbro Pulse YouTube account have just treated us with an interview with Gregg Berger, the voice of G1 Grimlock.

On this 9:37 minute interview, Mr. Berger talks about his experience in the G1 Transformers table read, the Transformers impact in pop culture, his comments on how he worked in Grimlock’s voice in the original G1 cartoon and some behind the scenes stories.

The official Hasbro Pulse YouTube account have treated us with an interview with Paul Eiding, the voice of G1 Perceptor

Mr Eiding is well remembered as Perceptor’s voice in the original G1 cartoon, and he also voiced some other non-Transformers characters like Deceptitran.

On this 7:46 minute interview, Mr. Eiding talks about the popularity of G1 by the time he joined the cast, how he came up with Perceptor’s voice, his memories working in the G1 show, and his experience coming back to voice the first G1 episode in the 40th Anniversary table read.

The official Hasbro Pulse YouTube account have just treated us with an interview with Frank Todaro, the voice of Starcream.

Following the legacy of Chris Latta, G1 Starscream’s voice, Mr. Todaro took the role as the voice of the Decepticon Seeker during Machinima’s Prime Wars Trilogy, Netflix War For Cybertron trilogy, and he was also part of the 40th Anniversary table read.

On this 7:2 minute interview, Mr. Todaro talks about how he prepared and differentiate from the multiple roles he played, what he took from Chris Latta’s original portrayal of Starscream, his best memories, how it feels to be part of the history of Transformers, and his experience during the table read event.

The official Hasbro Pulse YouTube account have treated us with an interview with Arif S. Kinchen, the voice of Jazz (RID 2015).

Arif S. Kinchen became part of the Transformers franchise voicing Jazz in the Robots in Disguise 2015 cartoon, and more recently, he took the role as the voice of G1 Jazz in the 40th Anniversary table read.

On this 5:21 minute interview, Mr. Kinchen shares his thoughts about his experience in the table read, his fondest memories of the original G1 cartoon, how he felt working on the franchise and its impact in so many people.

[bat2pony]

Through a bunch of digging, Reddit posts from years ago, and the MLP wiki, I have made a watch list of all canon content from all generations, including movies, series, specials and shorts! I can’t guarantee it’s flawless, but it exists. Feedback is appreciated 🙏

I also have lists of the special episode titles I might post at some point. I am filling my brain to the BRIM with cartoon horses.

Gen 1

Special: Rescue at Midnight Castle

Special: Escape From Catrina

G1 The Movie

My Little Pony n’ Friends Season 1

My Little Pony n’ Friends Season 2

Gen 2

No official G2 content

My Little Pony Tales Series (technically not G2 but kinda)

Gen 3

Early Releases:

A Charming Birthday

Dancing in The Clouds

Friends Are Never Far Away

My Little Pony: a very minty Christmas

My Little Pony: The Princess Promenade

My Little Pony Crystal Princess: The Runaway Rainbow

My Little Pony: a Very Pony Place

Revamps:

My Little Pony: Pinkie Pie’s Special Day

My Little Pony: Meet The Ponies

My Little Pony: Starsong and the Magic Dance Shoes

My Little Pony: Rainbow Dash’s Special Day

My Little Pony: Twinkle Wish Adventure

Once Upon a My Little Pony Time (2 eps)

Over Two Rainbows

So many Different ways to Play

Gen 4:

[includes both Friendship is Magic and Equestria Girls]

[In Timeline order]

season 1-3

Equestria Girls movie

season 4

EQG rainbow rocks prequel shorts

EQG rainbow rocks movie

EQG rainbow rocks encore shorts

season 5

EQG friendship games prequel shorts

EQG friendship games movie

season 6

my little pony baby flurry heart's heartfelt scrapbook shorts

EQG legend of everfree movie

my little pony rarity's peek behind the boutique

season 7

EQG special Dance Magic

EQG special Movie Magic

EQG special Mirror Magic

EQG summertime shorts

my little pony the movie

EQG forgotten friendship movie

EQG better together season 1

EQG choose your own ending Season 1

EQG Forgotten Friendship

season 8

EQG rollercoaster of friendship

my little pony the best gift ever

my little pony the best gift ever shorts

EQG spring breakdown

EQG sunset's backstage pass

EQGbetter together (season 2)

my little pony shorts

my little pony: rainbow road trip

season 9 (end of FiM)

MLP Hello, Pinkie Pie! Series

EQG choose your own ending season 2

equestria girls holidays unwrapped

Friendship is Forever

Pony Life eps and Stop Motion Shorts

My Little Pony: Pony Life

[Pony Life is a side-series, it doesn't follow the FiM timeline]

Gen 5:

MLP: A New Generation movie

MLP: Make Your Mark series

MLP: Tell Your Tale series

[sillyprettyfairy]

MH G3 ASK GAME 🦇🖤

Rules: Reblog if you'd like your followers to send numbers/questions from this list to you! Anyone can reblog and don't forget to have fun~

How did you feel about G3 when it was first announced/rolled out vs. now?

2. Which G3 character (new or rebooted) is your favorite?

3. Which G3 doll is your favorite?

4. Are there any aspects of G3 you dislike?

5. Is there a line or idea for a line that you'd like to see in a G3 release?

6. Which G3 pet is your favorite?

7. Favorite G3 parent(s)?

8. Which episode of the G3 series is your favorite?

9. Which G3 song (from the show or character songs) is your favorite?

10. What's your favorite piece of fan content that's been made for G3 (customs, art, videos, etc.)

11. Any G3 ships you'd like to see?

12. Are there any canon relationships (platonic or otherwise) in G3 you enjoy or don't enjoy especially?

13. How do you feel about the live action movies?

14. You have been given the chance to design the G3 version of one G1-introduced character. Who do you choose?

15. Is there any G3 merchandise you own or want to own?

16. If you could steal the wardrobe of one G3 character, who would you choose?

17. Is there a G3 character you feel deserves more attention?

18. What kind of monster what you be in G3? Would you be a teacher, a student, or an alumni?

19. Which G3 power (moon claw, witchcraft, dream powers) is your favorite? Which would you want?

20. Random character headcanon!

[transformers-mosaic]

Transformers: Beast Wars - Second Chances - Page 2

Originally posted on February 2nd, 2011

Story - Curt Lunsford Pencils - Ryan Miller Inks - Jake Isenberg Colours - Ray Fromme Letters - HdE

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wada sez: Starscream’s ghost returned in the Beast Wars episode “Possession”; here, he’s back again, and he finds the dead body of Terrorsaur, who was last seen turning into a Transmetal as he fell into lava inside the Darksyde in “Aftermath”. Terrosaur’s actual toyline-only Transmetal toy is used for the character’s design. In case you didn’t know, Ryan Miller is prominent fanartist TGPing, who achieved popularity in recent years with his stunning watercolors of Beast Wars characters and toy-accurate G1 characters, and managed to sneak in a couple of covers for IDW before they closed up shop. His work here reflects his toy-accurate approach, as Starscream has been drawn specifically as his Masterpiece body for some reason. This was originally going to be Page 7 of the comic, but was bumped up earlier; according to a later comment by Shaun Flaherty: “Starscream's Page 2 originally occurred much later, but as we assembled the pages, it seemed to interrupt the natural flow of the "Beast Wars" characters' stories, so we sort of squeezed it in near the beginning. I feel comfortable with the idea that he's watching the events unfold along with the audience until an opportunity presents itself for him to intervene on his own behalf, but it is a long time between when the seed is planted and its payoff.” See the original script below, as well as Curt’s “Writer Spotlight”.

Second Chances Page 7

Panel One

(Shot of a twinkle in space.  This doesn‘t have to be very large)

TEXT BOX:  Maximals…

TEXT BOX:  Predacons…

Panel Two

(Shot of a grey and red blur flying toward the Predacons ruined base/ship.  This also doesn‘t need to be that large)

TEXT BOX:  Tremble in fear…

Panel Three

(Reveal of Ghost Starscream, screaming out loud above the ruined Predacon base/ship in a triumphant pose.  Starscream‘s spark is pulsating and clearly visible inside of his chest)

Starscream:  Starscream has returned!!!!

TEXT BOX(Lower right hand corner):  …

TEXT BOX(Lower right hand corner):  Where is everyone?!

Panel Fopr

(Shot of Transmetal Terrorsaur‘s arm, “encased“ in cooled lava.  It’s grasping toward the air, very similar to what we saw when Terrosaur was going into the lava during the episode “Aftermath”.  Starscream can be seen hovering in the air above)

TEXT BOX:  Hmm, what’s that?

Panel Five

(Shot of Ghost Starscream entering into the ground around the arm.)

TEXT BOX:  Looks like someone forgot one of their toys.

Panel Six

(Shot of Transmetal Terrorsaur “clawing” out of the ground.  It should be done in a way that the reader doesn’t quite know exactly what it is yet)

SOUND EFFECT:  Crrrack…

TEXT BOX:  Huh, seems a little broken…

Panel Seven

(Reveal of Trasnmetal Terrorsaur,   He’s in a “cool” pose, but is very heavily damaged, maybe even blackened somewhat.  Somewhere near his feet we can see the remains of McDonald’s Transmetal Scorponok if the artist wishes)

Starscream:  …but that doesn’t mean it won’t be fun to play with!

Beast Wars.  I think for me, it’s the series that sort of kept the Transformer spark in me alive.  However, it’s also kind of a weird series, as I keep it segregated in my mind from the rest of my Transformers.  Allow me to explain: Being born in ‘85, by the time I was old enough to remember, Transformers was off the air.  But there was the semi-local video store, hand-me-down and a few new Transformer toys, some G1 episodes of my own, various “Action Cards”, and a very cool big brother to help fill in my imagination.  So even though I didn’t get to see G1 firsthand, I can honestly say that Transformers was definitely a part of my early childhood. But, in hindsight, I’d say Beast Wars played a very integral part in keeping me with Transformers.  Ya see, I didn’t have cable/satellite until I was 12.  Therefore, my knowledge of G2 was sketchy at best, and I only got a whole nine figures from the line when I was a kid, all Decepticons oddly enough.  However, my awesome big brother was in college at this time, and he came home on the weekends, and he usually brought me home a tape of cartoons I couldn’t see otherwise.  It was through this method that I saw that unforgettable commercial... “In the beginning, there was the beast.  But it’s more than meets the eye, it’s a robot in disguise!”  I saw it, and said to myself “Hey, Transformers, cool!”  So I watched the commercial a few times, and immediately wanted Dinobot.  However, he wasn’t first Beastformer, that honor goes to McDonald’s Manta Ray.  It took a little while for my brother to find out when Beast Wars was airing and start taping me episodes, but in the meantime I again took up renting G1 episodes from the library and getting a few Beast Wars figures in the process.  Because of this, I was mystified the first time I laid eyes on Gorilla Optimus Primal and T-Rex Megatron.  “That doesn’t make sense, they’re supposed to be a bat and a crocodile!” When I finally did get to see some select, mostly first season episodes of Beast Wars, I immediately recognized it as a good show.  As I learned the characters, I collected a few more figures, though not too many.  Years later I realized that, barring Snapper and the McBeasts, all the characters I got when I was “a  kid” were from the show!  Of course, oddly enough, I always kept my Beast Wars in a box by themselves.  Once in awhile they’d have adventures with my other Transformers, Super Heroes, G.I. Joes, etc., but for the most part they stayed separate. Anyway, even though I got satellite in ‘97, it wasn’t until around ‘99 that I finally got to see Beast Wars in it’s entirety when FOX re-aired the series.  If I recall correctly, I watched it every day it was on, and loved every episode. Time went by.  I watched the first season of Beast Machines, but wasn’t really impressed at the time.  The DreamWave comics came out, Rhino released certain episodes of G1.  This, and a very cool bootleg lot containing all G1 and CG Beast Wars/Machines episodes my brother bought, firmly cemented me into the realm of the Transformers.  I was here to stay. But what does that have to do with Beast Wars?  Well, in that lot there was a “commercial” tape that had various commercials and U.S./Japanese intros to nearly every Transformers series at the time (up to Car Robots).  It was through this that I learned about Beast Wars II and Neo.  I was intrigued.  Suddenly I wanted to know more about those characters and that Universe.  Well, for a long time that was my only knowledge.  When I finally got the Internet, I looked into Beast Wars II and Neo, though I’ve yet to see either of those series with the exception of a couple fan-dubbed episodes and the BWII Movie on YouTube.  But I did learn about all these cool non-show Beast Wars characters, and I wanted more. So for the longest time, I kinda ignored the Beast Wars CG series.  In my mind, it was done, and everything about those characters had been told.  I eagerly awaited the DreamWave Beast Wars series once I saw it would star non-show characters (though we all know what happened there), and I loved IDW’s “The Gathering”.  But I still had little interest in the original Mainframe Beast Wars cast.  I’d seen the show through a few times by this time, and the show had lost some of it’s original luster.  The Beast Era was over, it was all about G1 homages.  Therefore, when new Beast Wars material surfaced, I was more interested in new Beast Wars exploits, with new non-show characters. Then I received the invite to join what would become BEAST WARS: Second Chances.  I, of course, wanted in on writing the story because, heck, Mosaic is a really fun project and I’d been itching to co-write something.  So I took another look at the series.  When we got into the nuts and bolts of things, I started to realize again why I liked those characters to begin with and I looked at the Beast Wars show in a new light.  It was still good, but I started to see things I hadn’t seen before.  There were aspects of characters that could still be explored and stories yet to be told.  The magic is back and now I look forward to hunting down figures from the show I never got.  Surprisingly, Dinobot II is among them (you’ll all find out why soon enough). So all in all, I’d say Beast Wars is kind of a weird area for me.  I don’t know if I’ll ever be as enamored with it as much as G1 or Animated, but Second Chances has certainly rekindled my love for the series as a whole. -- Curt Lunsford

[decepti-thots]

Headcanon: G1 Ultra Magnus is a former Quintesson sleeper agent who was successfully deprogrammed via memory-wipe. (Relevant episodes: Surprise Party, The Killing Jar; yes I am willing to elaborate on my reasoning)

HM. OKAY. Well I just refreshed my memory on those episodes, and. HMMMM. I am giving this 7/10 and this is bait because if you would like to elaborate on your reasoning further you can probably increase that. (I can definitely see where The Killing Jar comes into it, but I would love to hear more.)

[blueikeproductions]

So I’ve been thinking of the EarthSpark children’s books again.

Besides the Guidebook, these two seem to be the only ones out atm that are original stories and not recaps/adaptions of episodes of the cartoon. I personally prefer original stories set roughly during the cartoon’s universe, and to no one’s surprise I’m naturally a big fan of the RiD15 books being all original stories.

However, my nitpick with the EarthSpark books is they’re too short and … safe. There’s no real conflict or if there is one, like Racetrack Recon, it’s resolved instantly…

Now kids books or not, I think most of us want some kind villain for the Autobots to fight, which the RiD books excelled in. My favorites being Scuzzard from above, Liege Maximo starting trouble because he was bored and needed a cheap thrill, and Drift meeting up with his old Decepticon crew. So what can the EarthSpark books do?

Well for starters:

Use Swindle. He’s perfect for low scale conflict, and you can get a lot of mileage out of him starting trouble with a guest star that the Terrans have to stop. Obviously you could experiment with other villains besides him, but still.

Book idea 1: Items have been going missing from Witwicky. The culprits are Swindle and Chop Shop.

Besides trying to make a quick buck, they also seek to steal important GHOST tech to benefit the Decepticons still roaming the Earth. Dot and Optimus have to keep Croft and Schloder distracted so the Terrans can put a stop to Chop Shop’s kleptomania.

Book Idea 2: The Decepticons need energy if they plan to still take over Earth and stick it to Megatron and GHOST. Swindle, seeing an opportunity to make some moolah, gets Octane and RatBat to join him on a fuel syphoning scheme.

I feel like it’d be a Jawbreaker and Grimlock story as a gag on fossil fuel.

Book Idea 3: Revision of Recon where Swindle fixes the race using the RiD15 originated Stunticons. I already talked about this one.

Book Idea 4: Tarantulas runs afoul of an old lab partner, the insane Autobot scientist Flame.

(For a potential toy, I feel Flame would be a hybrid design of these two, taking more from the one on the right for ease of toy design.) Flame, fed up with the humans treatment of Transformers, decides to release a Cyber-Virus bio weapon Tarantulas developed during the Great War, and use it to Cyber Form Earth into something more palatable. Tarantulas needs Nightshade, Wheeljack and Hashtag’s help in a race against the clock to defeat Flame’s mad ambitions. Akin to RiD15 Grimlock with Simacore, Nightshade gets their first arch rival in Flame.

Book Idea 5: Nightshade and Sam team up to take down crime in Philadelphia, playing up a bit of the superhero side to the owl. Playful parody of 60’s Batman, using Animated supervillains like Angry Archer and Nanosec.

The supervillains are part of a larger scheme by the Decepticon Malignus.

Of which Nightshade and Sam need to call in the rest of the “Teen Terrans” and Bumblebee to help deal with.

Book Idea 6: Optimus Prime’s trailer/Combat Deck starts malfunctioning and causing a rampage around town, causing a headache for GHOST and the Autobots.

It’s discovered the jailhouse Decepticons implanted a computer virus into the trailer via Bombshell’s Cerebro Shells to spite the Autobots. Twitch, Robbie and Hashtag have to jack in and defeat the computer virus within, Kremzeek, in a video game showdown while Jawbreaker, Mo, Thrash, Nightshade and Megatron try to contain the Combat Deck on the outside. There’s a fun visual of Roller effortlessly pulling the trailer around town in its rampage.

Book Idea 7: GHOST develop their own Navi program in TORQ III from studying Cybertronian technology and Teletraan 1.

A hybrid of the G1 episode, Marvel UK’s Raiders of the Last Ark, and TFP’s Flying Mind, TORQ finds GHOST inefficient and seeks to apprehend every remaining Decepticon on the planet with his own methods, regardless of the consequences to the Autobots, and humans like the Maltos. Optimus, Elita and Megatron have to stop TORQ and his mind controlled Decepticons from starting a new Machine War.

Book Idea 8: The elusive Mirage, based on the RotB version with his body being closer to RiD01 Mirage, returns and pays a visit to the Malto household to see what all the hubbub is.

Mirage, Robbie and Thrash become fast friends, and team up to put a stop to the latest scheme of Swindle’s. Battletrap, Transit and Scorponok are present as part of further RotB synergy.

[margoshrmargoshing]

FOLKS I FINISHED BEAST WARS (thoughts and spoilers under cut)

1. The timeline is absolutely unique, i love how optimus and megatron aren't even optimus and megatron and how bw relates to g1

2. The graphics will never be an issue to me, it's more than enough for the time period and it's much more than watchable. I'm in love with the slimy cgi and didn't pay much attention to the quality. All i can see is designers and animators having fun

3. I think that the designs gradually got a little fucked up but it's okay

4. I really enjoyed Blackarachnia's character, she was so interesting for me! I'm not aware of the fandom's general opinion on her but she's my special girl now

5. There was like at least 5 times more on-screen gay kissing than straight kissing

6. If you didn't understand how insane i am about dinotrap from my previous posts then now i can say it's my #1 pairing,, i rarely have a fav ship when i watch something because of The Multishipper Curse that makes me think about too much characters together but for bw specifically i have a favourite. Usually I'm a little turned away from dynamics that are built on characters insulting each other but it's a special case, because they definitely share a bond and i can ramble for hours

7. Bw optimus is my 3rd place fav after tfp and tfa respectively (because they're a classic) (even though i know it's not even him) he's very much of a Some Guy who is Hungry And Needs a Nap and i like how he's just. a person. like a leader but he's just a guy come on. probably for the same reasons i love tfa op, i like seeing him get mean and angry and worried and yelling at his team and then understanding that he was wrong. my man

8. The predacons are so chaotic it's insane. The lack of a (main character i mean) Starscream is not noticed because there's not one con trying to take over, not two, not three, but I'm pretty sure everyone in the whole goddamn team has attempted it at least one time during the show.

9. And, with lack of Starscream, Megatron took all the cuntiness for himself. He stands out insanely among other continuities (again it's not him so). That voice? Thanks David Kaye!!! He's doing the whole dramatic hot villain thing that Tumblr loves, with blood baths and everything, and it deserves to be noticed. Megop is the classic tumblr dramatic villain x tired hero stuff you see in like 2016 writing prompts and everything. Megatron is insane here

10. I really enjoyed Dinobot. I cannot say this loud enough but he is my second fav after Rattrap because he's a really interesting and conflicted character. You see him as inherently evil? He does a beautiful gesture of kindness. You see him as good? He fails to disobey his nature. It goes on and on until his last eps. The betrayal? I was sobbing. That scene when he's on his knees with a sword? It fucked me up. The episode ending had me on the FLOOR.

11. I'm conflicted on dinobot 2 because on one hand, i do appreciate how it is shown how actually fucked up megatron and his schemes are. He's insane, and he's obsessed: he doesn't try to make any super soldier or whatever, but specifically wants to bring back dinobot and make him stay. And he fails, because it *is* dinobot deep inside, and that brings him down; his real sense of honor. He won't stay. His sacrifice was insane. But on the other hand, i actually didn't want Dinobot to be actually brought back. Sounds very nice but i think his actual death was really a point to his character that made me love him more. And when i saw Dinobot 2, i was kinda hoping that he would be an empty shell, an attempt, that it would be a plan Megatron put too much hope into, and that it's *not* dinobot, just a copy without a mind. Maybe im just weird sorey

12. Transmutate is gender

13. I love rhinox but it's sad that they didn't make him stand out as a character like the other maximals. He rarely got to be a main character, and even when he got to, he was just the butt of a joke and didn't get to build relationships and resolve personal problems like his teammates did. Or maybe i just wasn't looking at the screen when he did who knows. He's my big weird man

14. I enjoyed Tigatron and his conflict about the conflict so much

15. I'm actually sometimes a little disoriented/lost when watching something so i just straight up didn't notice half the character deaths??? I was just wondering where they went and then went oh.

16. who the Vok are the Vok. I wish they weren't Just Mysterious Aliens but more than that

17. Why did they keep making all of the characters so trans it's not funny im in tears

18. Beast wars was absolutely made for goddamn freaks im sorry. i loved it

19. I think everyone at the studio was gay for megatron. Why else did they animate the scene where he's in the bath wiggling his dinosaur toes

20. WASPINATOR FUCKING HAPPY AT LAST

[general-kalani]

New commission post, this time gifs! Prices can be negotiated but I'm thinking temporarily $5/two gifs.

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This is an ever growing list and if you ask for a specific movie/show/game/etc I'll do my best to get my hands on it.

Options under cut for what can be chosen:

ANCIENT ANIMALS

Dinosaur (2000)

The Land Before Time (1988 movie)

Walking with Monsters

Walking with Dinosaurs

Walking with Beasts

Walking with Cavemen

Walking with Dinosaurs special - Ballad of Big Al

Chased by Dinosaurs (episodes 1 & 2)

Sea Monsters (episodes 1, 2 & 3)

Prehistoric Planet

Planet Dinosaur

Dinosaur Planet

Primeval

Prehistoric Park

MOVIES

The Hunt for Red October

The Mist

Alien Planet

Dog Soldiers

Dragonlance Dragons of Autumn Twilight

The Last Voyage of the Demeter

Wing Commander (1999 movie)

SHOWS

Babylon 5

Battletech Cartoon

Bitten

D&D Cartoon

Stargate SG-1

Transformers: Beast Machines

Transformers: Beast Wars

Transformers G1

Transformers the Movie

Transformers Prime

Voltron Vehicle Force

Vox Machina (season 1 only atm)

ANIME - LEIJIVERSE

Cosmo Warrior Zero

Galaxy Express

Gun Frontier

Harlock Saga - The Ring of the Nibelung

Interstellar 5555

Queen Emeraldas

Queen Millennia (might not be high quality)

Space Pirate Captain Harlock

Space Pirate Captain Herlock: Outside Legend - The Endless Odyssey

SSX Endless Orbit

Arcadia of my Youth

Space Pirate Captain Harlock (2013 movie)

Space Pirate Captain Harlock: Riddle of the Arcadia

ANIME - IRRESPONSIBLE CAPTAIN TYLOR

Irresponsible Captain Tylor TV series

Irresponsible Captain Tylor OVA series

ANIME - LEGEND OF THE GALACTIC HEROES (original series only)

Legend of the Galactic Heroes series

Legend of the Galactic Heroes - Golden Wings

Legend of the Galactic Heroes - My Conquest is the Sea of Stars

Legend of the Galactic Heroes - Overture to a New War

Legend of the Galactic Heroes Gaiden

ANIME - MACROSS

Macross 7

Macross Delta

Macross Frontier

Macross Plus

Macross Zero

Robotech

SDF Macross

ANIME - REVOLUTIONARY GIRL UTENA

Revolutionary Girl Utena tv series

Revolutionary Girl Utena movie

ANIME - SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO/STAR BLAZERS (original series and reboot)

Space Battleship Yamato 2199 (Reboot)

Space Battleship Yamato 2199 - Odyssey of the Celestial Ark

Space Battleship Yamato 2202 (Reboot)

Space Battleship Yamato 2205 (Reboot)

Space Battleship Yamato I (OS)

Space Battleship Yamato II (OS)

Space Battleship Yamato III (OS)

Arrivederci Yamato

Be Forever Yamato

Final Yamato

Space Battleship Yamato (2013 movie)

Uchuu Senkan Yamato (1977 recap movie)

Yamato - The New Voyage

Yamato: Resurrection

GAMES - FAR CRY (only games I own, sorry!)

Far Cry 3 (Can be modded for Jason in Vaas' place)

Far Cry 4 (Can be modded for Sabal and Pagan to switch places)

Far Cry 5 (Can be heavily modded)

Far Cry: New Dawn

Far Cry 6

GAMES - STAR WARS

KOTOR (I and II)

SWTOR

Star Wars: The Force Unleased (I and II)

Star Wars: Rebellion

Star Wars: Republic Commando

Star Wars: Starfighter

Star Wars: Battlefront 2 (Classic)

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order

Star Wars: Jedi Knight series (Dark Forces I and II, Mysteries of the Sith, Jedi Academy, Jedi Outcast)

GAMES - BORDERLANDS

Borderlands (GOTY and GOTY Enhanced)

Borderlands the Pre-Sequel

Borderlands 2

Borderlands 3

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands

GAMES - MISCELLANEOUS

Aliens: Colonial Marines

Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3

Dead Island (Definitive Edition, can be modded to get rid of lens flares and more)

Dead Island Riptide (Definitive Edition)

Generation Zero

Left 4 Dead 2

Iron Harvest

Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion (Can be specific matches, races, etc)

State of Decay (I and II)

Strange Brigade

[paperpepperfrog]

Okay, this is an unusual format for me. I'm used to writing on the table, but I don't think anything terrible will happen... Probably.

I've been thinking for a long time about how G1 Jetfire/Skyfire and Starscream split up and... like, what? Skyfire is almost twice as big as Starscream, why was IT blown to the Earth? It should be stronger and more powerful several times, my stupid brain does not understand.

Therefore, I decided to imagine what would have happened if not Starscream, but Jetfire got to Cybertron unharmed and the consequences of this replacement. Starscream did not study at the military academy. He didn't know Megatron. He didn't know about the Decepticons. He didn't betray anyone.

A scientist full of ambition and hope who has no place in this carnage. Who has missed too much in this life.

Generation 1, Episode 7 of season 1.

Small planes tolerate the cold worse. And falls. Starscream is a small plane.

Megatron doesn't get high coddling the found seeker. Why would he do anything with it at all? Unfreezed, and then let him choose where to go - to the dump of history or under the command of Thundercracker.

Edelweiss 1/???

The pedipulators jerked convulsively. A discharge of current pierced the body. The audio sensors registered something besides static noise. The processor flashed in pain. The frostbitten hull jerked, shedding a crust of ice. Water, water and ice in the systems instantly boiled, threatening to overload the so-broken chassis.

- Ten million volts! Not enough! Fifteen more!

Someone else's voice. Caustic, domineering. Not an acquaintance. Barely focusing on the words, the processor tried to resuscitate the body. Another wave of electricity rebooted the system, which began to work hard.The internal display immediately started working, starting to output old logs and error messages. The last recorded memory file was played with a torn film.

A snow storm in which he got lost and... Was he found?

Oh slug...

Sky...

Of course he's not an idiot. Naive, but not stupid. Of course he came back to save him... They're friends... Even if he dragged the scientist into this mess.

Oh frag, he's no less guilty himself. He flew too low, did not take into account the nature of the weather, but he warned ...Usually he tried to stay close to a more powerful comrade, so that it would be easier to fly, but apparently not this time.

The storm wave blew him to the side, everything spun, he remembered how he screamed in a desperate attempt to resuscitate the failed control, it seems at one painful bright moment he crashed into an ice mass and...

End.

The tape broke. All that was left was the cold, the howl of a blizzard and the mocking white prickly six-pointed stars settled on the optics.

Vector Sigma, how he hates this form now...

— Lord, the processor is showing signs of activity.

Another voice made me perk up. Unfamiliar. Stranger. Mechanized.Who is this?

- One more rank. Twenty million volts!

The optical sensors generated an error while trying to reconnect to the visual channels. With effort, after several attempts, we manage to get a fuzzy picture. The image is full of errors around the edges, but at least you can see something. Ruby optics lit up as another wave of energy pierced the body.The vocalizer creaked with static and glitches in an attempt to squeeze out a word, damn it, how he hates the condensation of water in his throat at this second.

With difficulty, awkwardly, he stood up, groaning dully. Their sensor reluctantly focused on a large dark spot.

- Who... are you?

High. Stately, with carmine eyepieces. Strongly built, noble steel color. The fur looked with noticeable curiosity and irritation. You could even say contempt, and, hey, it's hard to blame him. Perhaps now the pilot looks worse than if he had been thrown under the press a couple of times. At least that's how he feels now. Small and pathetic. How undignified...

- Lord Megatron, leader of the Decepticons. Identify yourself.

...This doesn't look like a rescue team. If he were the worst employee of the quarter, if these bots really are a rescue team. He does not recognize either the equipment or other bots around. A pang of anxiety struck a spark. Where is Skyfire?

His voice wavered.

- Dece... Who? Well... Ugh... I'm... Starscream. Scientist. What...

"Happened? How did it happen that no one knows who found him? Where is his big and friendly, cheerful friend-colleague? Who are they, disassemble their module, Decepti... What are they called? Deceptidrons?"

A billion questions swirled in his optics.

He was not allowed to say a word.

- Enough. Stars...cream, you just woke up, but you should know. There is a war going on. The evil Autobots are attacking our ranks, they have destroyed our home, we are suffering from energy deficiency. But we have spent resources on rescuing you, so it is only fair that you become part of our team. Thundercracker will bring you up to date.

I wonder why Starscream doesn’t believe in these aggressive speeches?

Starscream has not yet been in the hands of the abuser of the entire cybertron and has an idea of pride.

I'm trying my best to drive normality into Scream's smart little head. Because THEY'RE FUCKING RAISING THEIR HAND AT YOU, FLYING SPEAKER. WHERE IS YOUR PRIDE???

I love this Starscream. But not perfect, but quite funny.

[leia-doodles]

An unorganized rant about monster high, generation three,

This is mostly about character powers.

Monster high G1 has never had any solid or concrete lore. The main premise has always been, the fashionable teenage children of the universal monsters. It also includes a lot of superstition type characters, and characters from Greek mythology. From what I remember the parents didn't play a big role in generation ones main content. Maybe Dracula and Cleo's father the mummy. Monster high also established that there's pretty much an alternative universe where things are monster pun variants of the real world. Most characters are presumed to be immortal-ish, or they live very long lives. They don't get into how age works and they expect viewers to suspend their disbelief for alot of things. they use your base knowledge of these famous monsters, but they don't really expand on them that much. The stories are more dramatic and don't involve much much lore building. Since they established the monster world as a parody of the real world, it gives the ghouls more places to go, and they don't have to be tied to actual prominent locations present in the media they reference. (For instance deuce won't need to go to Hesperides or Greece and Frankie doesn't have to the Bavarian alps or something idk, does that make sense?😭 Draculaura doesn't need to visit Transylvania). The movies also showcase alot of different characters and locations. It makes the monster world feel more alive. What also helps is the illusion of other schools. I often see monster high as a public school, and things like the werewolf school, and vampire schools feel like private schools. I think it helps convey monster highs messaging of being unique. Good allegories for anti racism, anti homophobia, anti ablism. Since you see how the outside world looks compared MH.

Monster high Generation 3 is striving to have more lore and world/character building. Characters now have abilities that tie into their origins. Frankie stein has electric powers, and they can exchange their body parts for helpful tools. Clawdeen has super speed, strength, smell, and hearing. Draculaura has hypnosis (it's a vampire trait I believe), transformation into a bat, and she has literal magic spells. Almost every character has a new ability that links to their monster origins. I think this is a cool concept, I'm always down for a more monstrous approach, but for some characters it feels very gimmicky and not realistic for the setting. -lets take cleo- she is a mummy monster, and mummies often get some organs removed when they are getting mummified. Cleo has nearly all of her internal organs removed. And not only that, she keeps them on her 24/7. Typically mummies only have their stomach,lung, and liver taken out. And maybe their intestines. And they're put in jars and held within the tomb. Cleo keeps her organs on her 24/7 because she literally cannot live without them, which in my opinion defeats the purpose of her being an undead mummy. The organs are used as plot devices to cause conflict in some episodes. Oh no Cleos inner ear, conveniently rolls away so she loses balance and trips and falls and almost gets caught by humans!! Oh no Cleos heart needs to be given up for this special necklace! But she will be rendered emotionless 😫😫!! There's never really any advantage to her having all of her organs removed, even though she is proud of it. It's not something that I think adds to her character and I think she would be the same without it. (Maybe if it was a fun fact in the BG they could be cute, but for plot purposes it seems weak). Characters like heath, Abby and Lagoona now have elemental powers. Abby and Heath had them In G1, but it was more of a byproduct of their monster types. Not necessarily something they used super actively. Abby was a yeti first, before she was an ice element. Now I'm G3 I'm willing to argue that she's more of a snow man than she is a yeti. While she lives in the Himalayan mountains, she wears no fur or yeti looking attire. Her outfit consists of snow patterned pants and a snow T-shirt, matching her ice earrings and ice...sandals???? I would understand, shes an ice monster, so she doesn't get that affected by the cold temperatures. Therefore she doesn't need to wear big fur coats... But they don't explain it like that at all. Her mother still sports a white fur look while abby is more purplish. It's a tad nitpicky, but she just doesn't come across as a yeti to me. She's an ice element. Lagoona is the same way. Her looks have already convinced me that she's a sea creature, I don't think she needs to have water bending powers. Deuce also irks me with his powers. If you see his eyeballs, you will turn to stone. So he is supposed to be wearing sunglasses to cover up his eyes, except in this generation, his sunglasses are literally just tinted glasses. If that. You can see his eyes clearly. But they still treat his powers the same. So it's just silly to me but when characters are like "oh no his eyes are showing!!! Put his sunglasses on!!! And he puts them on, and you still see his eyes 😭. I have not the slightest clue as to why they designed them this way.

Since the characters now have fancy special powers, the writers often have to include them into every episode. So the episodes often feel bloated with unnecessary conflicts and shenanigans that don't further the plot in most cases. I feel like it takes away from the actual overarching story they are trying to tell. High stake events like clawdeen figuring out things about her mother, are often drowned out and fall flat because compared to every other episode it's nothing crazy. They just got done surviving an attack from a giant plant monster and the whole school almost being destroyed or something, clawdeen learning information about her mother is often pushed to the side. This made it hard to believe how serious her mothers disappearance was. This phenomenon happens with every character. One episode draculaura is freely using magic the next it's super high stakes about her being expelled, just to have the episode after that feature magic again with no remorse 😭. With the constant shenanigans, magic is the least of the schools worries at this point. They also have midterms, which is something to hone in on certain characters powers and abilities, but there’s no build up to midterms. It just happens one episode. I wish we got to see the characters struggle throughout the season, maybe clawdeen especially. If they have to have her human form, let her transformation be unstable for a few episodes, maybe the moon tailsmen doesn’t really enhance her powers unless used correctly, so she has to actually learn and adapt to these new werewolf powers. Instead she’s just the BEST werewolf and there’s no doubt she will win any battle. Her human form isn’t something that puts her at a disadvantage at all.

I believe Frankie is probably the most conveniently used character during the whole season. Frankie is pretty much cogsworth from fallout. They have just the right tool for the right time. I used to think Frankie having different people in their head was cool, but the more it’s used the more I’m like “doesn’t Frankie get tired of this?” Every episode Frankie is going to electric shock themselves or their friends, they’re going to need to tear themselves apart to save someone, they’re going to literally break apart at other points. It looks like it would get exhausting. If I remember correctly, G1 Frankie only really lost her hands and maybe a leg on specific occasions, but it wasn’t something she did willingly often. Sometimes she would remove her hands to help others. Also I don’t remember her having many electric shock moments, not ones that she wanted to happen anyways. You could make a shallow argument that in G1 her hands falling off and electricity issues were more of a (disability), where in G3 it’s an asset to Frankie’s character, one that I just can’t suspend my disbelief to be like “yeah they totally aren’t bothered by this 24/7”. In my opinion it would make more sense if Frankie was just a robot in this generation. They hardly feel like a franken monster anymore.

Draculaura and her infamous witch powers…it just feels like a strange writing decision in my opinion. I think they couldn’t think of some vampire powers, so she matches with everyone else, so they made her a witch so she can do spells. And I’ll assume they made it forbidden for maybe a sense of taboo, but it just doesn’t make sense at all. She practically does witchcraft out in the open multiple times, and no one ever cares. And her spells are never anything that I think are too spectacular, casual levitating spell when needed, convenient teleporting spell. It doesn’t add to her character at all. Maybe I have G1 brain rot, but I liked her forbidden romance in G1. It was simple and cute. And her character was such a sweetheart and a cutie pie. She doesn’t need enhanced vampire powers because her actual personality speaks for itself. In G3 draculaura is defined by everything around her, but what’s her actual personality without those things?

Overall I kind of miss the casual approach to the characters abilities in G1. I like the idea of them in G3, but the execution just doesn’t land in my opinion. The constant fight scenes drag the episodes, paired with the rushed heavy handed messaging and you have very little character development.

[citadelofmythoughts]

Well, I get why Jem's early animation was so terrible now. It started life as a series of like 7 minute episodes stuck between three other series in a show called Super Week (or Super Saturday/Sunday) as a pilot.

So the first five episodes of the full series were from those initial minisodes.

While I'm not going to say all of it's later animation was great, it also never hit the lows of some of G1 Transformers.

[heckyeahponyscans]

Thoughts on MLP Make Your Mark, Ch. 4 Episode 7

Man, what a great episode! So much happens in this, the finale for Chapter 4.

Summary: Misty has finally kidnapped Sparky for Opaline, but regret it when Opaline traps Sparky in a bubble cage hundreds of feet above the ground and casually says that she will let him drop after she drains all his dragon magic into the Dragonstone.

Misty runs to gets the Mane 5, who go along, although Zipp is suspicious. At the evil castle Opaline immediately spots and traps the Mane 5 in an anti-magic bubble, congratulating Misty for her supposed subterfuge and urging her upstairs to watch Sparky's demise.

The Mane 5 are angry, heartbroken, and betrayed . . . Misty feels guilty, and also anxious as Sparky continues to be drained. But she can't rescue him on her own. While Opaline is distracted, Misty pops the anti-magic bubble and frees the Mane 5. Magic swirls around Misty and she finally gains her cutie mark!

Misty pretends the Mane 5 have tricked and captured her, distracting Opaline while Hitch and Zipp run up to rescue Sparky. Meanwhile Sunny, Izzy, and Pipp challenge Opaline. Opaline is powered up via the Dragonstone, but Sunny also transforms into an alicorn to protect her friends. Throwing an anti-magic bubble around Opaline, Sunny escapes with her friends. Misty stays behind, hiding her cutie mark from Opaline and pretending to still be on her side.

Back in Maretime Bay, Misty arrives and apologizes for lying to the other ponies. They forgive her and welcome her as a true friend.

--

Observations and random thoughts . . . As always, I want to remain spoiler-free so any questions I pose are purely theoretical! I watch one episode per week.

They crammed SO MUCH into a half hour episode, and it's amazing

Hitch has a trundle bed disguised as filing cabinets at the police station. Maybe to spare the expense of CGI-ing up a room for him? #giveHitcharoom

In the movie they mentioned that Hitch has paid off his mortgage, so maybe at some point he bought the station to prevent it from being bulldozed or something.

I liked how the pegasi gesticulate with their wings when they hear Sparky is missing. Reminds me of Starscream in Transformers Prime.

Also, really good expressions in this episode. From Hitch looking anxious to Misty looking guilty to Opaline looking deranged.

So one moment I really liked was when Opaline--while cooing over Sparky--says "I must admit, Misty, I didn't think you had it in you." And Misty says in a flat tone, "Oh. I guess I did, though." and the viewer is left to decide whether it's because Opaline just lowkey expressed doubt in Misty or whether it's because Misty knows in her heart of hearts that being a pony capable of kidnapping is a bad thing.

Another new room!

The blue box with the keyholes reminds me a bit of the chest that came with G1 Dream Castle. Speaking of that playset, it had a repeated design element of a flower (as seen as on the top of the box); it's fun to think Opaline's castle, which has a tree growing through it, took some inspiration from Dream Castle. It also has similar colors, pink (mostly) with blue roofs on the turrets.

Opaline's castle looks mystical from far away, but up close it has this rough-hewn look, which is really interesting since most MLP castles tend to be very polished.

Look at all that mortar. This castle didn't spring up by magic, it was built by a hundred underpaid peasants.

More talk about Sparky being drawn to the magic tree in Maretime Bay, I swear that thing is going to grow new Elements of Harmony at some point

I liked this part with Opaline testing Misty / spying on her reactions. Opaline is usually too full of herself to notice what Misty's up to, but between Misty's reaction to Sparky and the Mane 5, she must suspect something is up.

Watching this episode, I found myself wishing that Twilight Sparkle had gainedalicorn powders in the Magical Girl way that Sunny did, where most of the time she was still normal. It's would have given her more to explore and figure out, and there could have been circumstances where she couldn't transform due to evil magic or self-doubt or whatever. Instead, due to the way MLP FIM had characterized the existing alicorns, it was this weird thing where Twilight Sparkle was forced into being a politician: a job she had never expressed interest in.

Loved Misty getting her cutie mark! What a great scene, it reminded me of Cinderella getting her gown and Sunny becoming an alicorn at the end of the G5 movie. I wonder if all ponies have this much pomp when they get a cutie mark.

"Ugh, that Misty. That pony will be the end of me." FORESHADOWING?

Leave Spider-Man alone! Youze mess with one of us, youze mess with all of us!

The fight between Opaline and alicorn-Sunny was great, I know if I saw that as a kid I'd be excited by the action and the visuals.

So this was a random thought I had, mostly based on their color schemes: what if Sunny ultimately becomes responsible for the sun (like Celestia) and Opaline becomes responsible for the moon--you know, after a redemption arc where she learns not to be toxic. (I don't think this will actually happen, because the moon doesn't fit with Opaline's fire theme, but I gotta write it down so I look like a genius if it actually happens.)

Sunny and her friends just leaving Opaline initially surprised me, but on watching the episode again, it make sense . . . they had to get Sparky to safety and Sunny was never besting Opaline offensively; she was just holding her off.

Speaking of which, an anti-magic bubble totally severed Sunny from her magical abilities, but when Opaline is trapped in a similar bubble it taker her all of 30 seconds to bust free. Opaline is supercharged.

I was surprised but intrigued at Misty staying with Opaline as a double-agent

More dragons???

[drowning-in-moonlight-and-ink]

Day 17/100 days of productivity

School starts tomorrow

☁️3-09-2024☁️

🌙 - Mental/Physical Health

- Morning and Nightly meditation

- 7 hours of sleep

- 4.5k steps

⭐ - Studying

- Studied for my G1

- Worked on chem problems

🪐 - Miscellaneous

- Worked on my cross-stitch project

- Embroidering a hoodie for my qpp

📖 - Current book

- Need to find a new book

🎧 - Current Episode

- Critical Role c2e14

[grimxark]

Ok. Part 3 earthspark was so incredibly disappointing. I feel so sad about it because it’s such a promising show.

I kind of ranted abt this to my friend for like an hour as soon as we finished watching but here’s some of my criticism which I may add on to. Or not

Warning for Earthspark s1 p3 spoilers and overall negativity. So sorry!

1. The writing of this part was sooo terrible. So many plotholes so much drama and so much cringe dialogue. I want to give it slack for being a children’s show but! There’s so much here that’s just senseless. I can excuse cringe dialogue but some of it is back to back to back. Like holy shit

2. Hate what they did to Karen. She was this malevolent evil that was being hinted and teased since part 1 and she amounted to literally nothing. She had no motives other than being racist, none that we know of. Maybe her parents died idfc but there are no real motives that she ever makes outright known. And she was being hinted to being this final boss type. Her death had no impact. It felt like a “oh look this is a child’s show turned dark”. Her death promised everything and it delivered nothing.

3. The last 3? Episodes where Twitch take charge feel apocalyptic and it was nice. Twitch and her older sister curse. The last one standing. The one bearing the weight of the family, having all that responsibility because wether you want it or not she is the older sister of the group. She watches everyone she loves simply disappear. She goes through so much trouble and so many plans and then thrash dies protecting her (which doesn’t make sense?? ill go onto this later). So, after she goes through all that trouble, the humans wake up and fix everything in the blink of an eye. and it undoes all this effort and character thrown into Twitch because she isnt the one who finds a way to fix it. it makes the last 3 episodes totally meaningless.

4. how would Thrash's body protect her from the blast. they were closest, and none of the others were protected the same way despite being in close proximity. why did the terrans even get affected by the blast? theyre not energon based. its like, the main plot of the show.

5. mandroid coming in and being like "interesting! for you ive been gone for a day, but under my calculations ive been gone… a year." was funny as hell. why a year?? why not one hundred. or at least fifty. as a lone human he would NOT have been able to convince the sharkticons in a year. and against the quintessons? and all those bodily changes? its so funny how stupidly underwhelming that time is.

6. Robbie's death was stupid. he does a green lantern oath and power up then still loses against megatron (bc its megatron) and then dies and gets revived. theres no shock, you know hell come back. i hoped everyone going "somethings wrong" meant we were going to get a "he died and came back wrong" ordeal but i guess i was expecting too much. also wasnt he dying in one episode. he said "its getting worse" and then he was fine

7. this entire part feels sooo odd to me with the inconsistencies, i wonder if the writers strike has anything to do with it. it almost feels so random. like on the same episode where robbie dies— why were they like "is that the real megatron?" while being scared as if they dont know megatron as a good guy. why would you be scared its the real megatron.

8. final fight felt so rushed. this whole part felt rushed. i wonder if there were budget cuts or if they used their whole budget on the first half of the season.

9. ill say it. maybe you don’t agree with me but. So much of it feels like fanservice. The starscream episode… why would Hashtag be the one to relate to Screamer? Mind control isn’t quite the same as constant abuse. And the entire episode relied a lot on watchers knowing what that relationship was like. In knowing what Starscream and Megatron are like. If you don’t know anything, it just feels odd. Even as a g1 inspired show, where Starscream and Megatron are awful to each other in damn near equal measures. It was a nice episode, I really enjoyed it, but there should’ve been more build up to that.

10. So many of the deleted scenes provide an extra feeling that was missing from the show. I’m really sad at how much potential this show has and how the entirety of parts 1 and 2 were amazing and built up so much and part 3 was just a huge let down with so many inconsistencies and questions left unanswered right after being brought up.

11.