#honestly not even into the show anymore but i adore the charcters

[love-laugh-daydreamarevolt]

*Drops aroace spec Luka couffaine in your lap*

keep him safe for me

[popculturebuffet]

So looking at how much Hasbro has been trying to revitalize animated reboots since 2010, thoughts on modern Hasbro 2010s reboots MLP Friendship is Magic, Pound Puppies 2010, Transformers Prime, Littlest Pet Shop 2012, Equestria Girls, GI Joe Renegades, Transformers Rescue Bots, Transformers Robots in Disguise, Littlest Pet Shop A World of Our Own, Transformers Cyberverse, Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy, Pony Life, Transformers EarthSpark, MLP Tell Your Tale, and MLP Make Your Mark?

Who boy.. settle in folks this is going to be a while. Friendship is Magic: A show I honestly want to go back and finish once the streaming weirdness is cleared up. (It's currently weirdly bisected with the middle missing), as my discomfort with the more extreme side of the fandom (and a manipulative asshole getting into my head, very long story), I dropped it around late season 2. Granted how they intially brought discord back didn't really sell me on returning but I still at least kept tabs on everyone and honestly.. wanted to return at some point I just never did. I watched most of the discord episodes because he's my boy, but that's about it. Still a good show.

Dan Vs: Technically dosen't count.. but i'm throwing it in as the only other show on the hub and because I loved it and need to rewatch it. Dan VS is an awesome little adult sitcom that was weirdly on this hasbro based family network. It was one of the best shows of it's time and had a simple but hilarious premise of a very angry man trying to get revenge on some inconveince he's faced, sometimes justifably sometimes because he's a sad strange little man. With the dream trinity of curtis armstrong (who really shoudl do more va work besides this and american dad) dave foely and paget brester, it really worked and while i'm sad it only got three seasons the fact it did and you can still watch it today (it's on youtube, tubi and the roku channel for free baby!) I highly recommend it.

Pound Puppies: Since I had the hub around the time all this happened, I did see most of these early reboots. Pound Puppies.. is adorable. Not entirely my speed, but still a lot of fun... and not suprising given it was developed by the guys who created recess. Transformers Prime: Another show I need to watch more of. At the time I thought it was okay, but just didn't get into it, but I hear it only got better and better with age. I also think the animation wasn't for me and I still think it's not entirely, but it's not bad by any stretch. LIttlest Pet Shop: I really loved this one at the time and even now a bunch of animals at an animal daycare getting into slice of life shenanigans just hits the spot. I also had ships because of course I did, i ncluding sunil and that one cat. But it was a lot of fun. Russel was my easy faviorite. And even if I didn't really care for blythe as a charcter I respect that they had her wear a new outfit each episode and put care into the deisgns given she IS a designer. Solid show.

Equestria Girls, Rescue Bots, Rescue Bots Academy, Pony Life: Haven't seen any of it

GI Joe Renegades: ANOTHER ONE I regret not watching more of but in this case I was interested I just could never catch it and never thought to you know, dvr it, even more now i've read the truly awesome larry hama comics. Still really good.

Robots In DIsguise: I only saw an episode of this but I liked the premise, It was just clear if you hadn't seen prime, even as a soft reboot this was going to be hard to follow. Which is a shame as it had he, grimlock as a main character. Granted I didn't REALLY like painting him green but still dinosaur man!

A World of Our Own: Say it with me now "I wish i'd seen more of it", though in this case by this point I didn't have satalite tv anymore, so I watched it while babysitting a few times. It was neat though and I wa sintrested.

Cyberverse; About the same with me also forgetting it was on netflix. New Gen MLP: I've seen the movie, which was decent, and me and a friend PLANNED to watch the series, we just haven't yet. It looks good though.

EarthSpark: I REALLY fucking want to watch this one. It has a stacked voice cast a brilliant premise that FINALLY breaks away from autobot decepticon war for the first time since armada (Though Animated at least had a fresh take on it), by showing what comes after, I haven't seen it but I really want to I just keep forgetting.

(Phew) Okay next time maybe don't pack so many shows into one of these.

[zenmasterscentral]

What are your favorite zen master episodes? Both from earlier seasons and five/six

This is a blog run by lots of people, so I invite my partners to answer with their favorites too :) Mine (Nina/jacquelineshyde) would be:

Season 1, episode episode 18: Career Day. I think this is the episode when we start noticing how similar Hyde and Jackie’s deeper wounds are. They both have absent parents and they both seek for advice and attention on more loving parents they know, The Formans. In this case, Red. Who also shows us he is truly a great dad. That small smile Hyde gives Jackie when she goes under the car again is just adorable. I also love seeing Jackie working with cars, I wish this was something that had stayed with the show.

Season 1, episode 19: Prom Night. This is when I started to ship them.Until this episode, Hyde’s characterization was horrible for me. I didn’t like him at all until this episode happened. Because he is shown as a person who cares and respects other people’s struggles and desires. He tries to help Jackie, not because she is his friend or because he likes her, but because he can’t stand her crying and knows it’s the right thing to do. He later makes Kelso go back to her, even knowing his stupid friend may hurt her again, because in that moment is the right thing to do. We get to see a part of Hyde we didn’t until this episode, and I love that Jackie is the first character to bring up this charcterization from Hyde. It tells you a lot, and its curious due to how things go between them later ;) While Jackie, we see her as a real human being here. She is sad, she struggles, she wants to enjoy something like any other teenager and she is going through a hard time. She’s vulnerable but also she is shown as th strong character she is. She walks and dances, and dress up beautiful for her prom even knowing she will be seeing Kelso. The way she compliments Hyde, makes a good observation about herself and asks to mee his mother, tells you she is more than her shallow mask. It’s good to see that.

Season 2, episode : Kelso’s Serenade.I’m still wondering what exactly made Jackie always trust Hyde with her broken heart. She start putting atention to him and wanting to spend time with him, even when Fez may had been the more accurate election since he has been wanting her for a while. But then again, maybe that’s why Hyde was her first option. She knows he’s not gonna see her as an object and it’s not going to sexualize her. The problem is that he can’t barely stand her, even when he sees her in a different light by now. Finally, he decides to give it a try, it’s free food and maybe it can go well. Even when he rejects her later that night, it’s obvious that he cares for her as a friend and that he doesn’t want her to still be hurt.“Anything for you, doll”, he says with a big smile. He knows she needed to be assured she will be fine and that things will be bright one day. And it’s so incredible because he predicted exactly what happened with them. He told her things will eventually be fine, and they were that summer, and he told her she will realize she can do better than Kelso, and she did just like she confirms during season 5/6, and then she would find somebody great, and she found him.By the end of the episode, I died when she says her goodnights to him and kisses him near his lips. This time, he doesn’t reject her and doesn’t move. In fact, he kinda moves his lips to kiss her back, but she kisses the corner of his mouth. The way he acts all cocky in front of both, Kelso and Fez who don’t see Jackie as a person but a prize to win, tells so much. He is on her side.

Season 2, episode 25: Cat Fight Club. Laurie’s shit towards Jackie is ridiculous. She is truly mean and disgusting as she tries her best to make her feel bad all the time, Hyde recognizes this and decides he has had enough. That’s why he decides to teach her his own way of protection, something we have seen him use all the time on the show. His Zen. After telling her that he found her abrassive, it’s fun to see him try so hard to protect her/teach her how to protect herself. As he says “Shine, grasshopper, shine”, I absolutely fell in love with the idea of them being romantic at some point. Meanwhile, I enjoyed the hell out of this episode. Jackie also wins the basement’s respect after kicking Laurie’s ass. Even Eric says she’s his hero. And she enters the circle. It’s a great zen episode, since we got our shipname form it, and also a great Jackie episode.

Season 2, episode 26: Moon Over Point Place. Although I don’t like Jackie’s menners with Hyde, since they are kind of stalkish, I do recognize if she had approached him better, it would had been more obvious that Hyde’s care may not be as platonic anymore. Like any other teenager, she tries to impress the boy she likes. She sees in Hyde an incredible human being and she wants him to see her as somoene beyond Kelso’s ex-girlfriend. It still rubs me the wrong way how he keeps treating her bad after being totally nice to her just the episode before, but it’s also understandable if we take in that it seems like Jackie’s stalking moves had been going for a while. She’s right in something,he doesn’t know her and he doesn’t see they have more in common that he thinks. If he could give her the chance, things would had gone different… maybe.Then, he goes to jail for her. And honestly, how much of a good guy he can be? He’s incredible. And she’s so amazed by it, because damn, no one else would do that for her. No one. 

Season 3, episode 8: Jackie Bags Hyde. What zennie doesn’t like this episode? I love this episode and everything about it. From Hyde refuisng to believe he does has feelings for Jackie, to Jackie realzing what Hyde did to protect her (agaaaaain), to Kitty being the Shipper Mom™, to their first kiss.Seriously, that first kiss is the perfect first kiss. I have never seen a better first kiss in the story of fiction. It’s wonderful. And I’m sure as hell Jackie did felt something, she just was too scared of the intensity of it (and that the writers were bad most times, to be honest), while him? LMAO, it’s obvious he felt everything he thought he was never going to feel for anyone. This episode is a gem. 

I woul like to add that I can’t point out a s4 episode for its zennic aspect, but there’s a lot of Subtext™ on the season, as most of us have noticed and talked about. That said, I’m only going to number the episodes from season 5 to 7 that I like the most when it comes to the couple.

Season 5, episode 9: Black Dog.I remember doing a face when it’s known that Jackie’s dad was thrown into jail. I knew they would do something really bad with her character because I never trusted the writers of the show (lol), but I’m actually happy with the result of the episode. Even though Hyde not knowing what to say to make her feel better is ooc, since we have seen him being supportive of her and her sorrow before (season 1 and 2), one can explain this by saying that now that they are in a relationship, he’s not sure if that means he can keep doing things as if they were only friends. Besides, he cares for her more deeply than he ever though, so being afraid and careful is just normal.He has dealt with this kind of stuff before by his own and it’s in his own way, he learned different than to know how to be nice in situations like this, because no one was nice to him when it happened to him. So he is confused as to what to do or say for Jackie, who is obviously going through a horrible time for her. When he decides to shave, even when he obviously loves his looks and his beard, he is not– being this dude that does what his girlfriend wants, but being someone who loves their couple enough to put his own comfort aside just to make them smile. And it’s worth it! I feel like this was Hyde’s first real I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOU, PLEASE BE HAPPY small detail to Jackie, and I think she recognizes it too.

Season 5, episode 12: Misty Mountain Hop.I yell every time I watch this episode (which is a lot lol). Because in here, we see Jackie moving forward in their relationship. They had been together for months by now and they get into a big time fight in which both have reasons to be mad at the other. She should told him the truth, what she was doing and why, and he had never, ever, do that to her back (going to crash without permision a place that belongs to her family? WHAT THE FUCK? Hyde is kinda out of character in this episode, at least in this part, in my opinion).This time, in a very nice parallel I better see giffed soon (lol), she takes the blame for the founded pot. It was Hyde’s this time, and it was going to cost him his place at The Formans. He will had been homeless and family-less, too. Something to notice is that, by this point, Jackie’s mom had probably already left and she was alone too. Of course she won’t let him lose his home either, no matter how mad at him she may be.After defenidng him, he is amazed. He admits no one has ever done something as nice for him before, which is telling you a lot, because he is always doing this kind of stuff for everyone, for her, and now there’s this girl who loves him so much, she would take any blame for him at any given time. It’s beautiful.

Season 5, episode 14: Babe I’m Gonna Leave You.This episode KILLS ME all the time. But I love it so much, it’s a good episode for Hyde and Jackie as couple and as characters. Because we see them struggle with her mistake, as she also has a lot to think and to take with her new found feelings about her situation and what was there with Kelso for her. It made her close the Kelso chapter of her life, and it let her enjoy openly what she has with Hyde. He’s breaking up with her and he has every right to, he is hurt and she didn’t truly respond in a responsable and honest way at the beginning. But after she realizes it’s ridiculous and that’s anyone else in the world she wants and loves as she does Hyde, she has had enough and speaks him mind in spite the fact that he may not care and not take her back.But, he hears her and he sees her not caring about if he says back his feelings too. He admits he loves her by saying this, and even though she lives for making him admit his feelings for her, for Jackie is more important that he has it clear she loves him, and he sees this. When we see them at the dance, they are so damn happy I just kjdnvirngfoejofgnro. I love this episode, I love it with all my heart. This is actually my favorite HJ episode.

Season 5, episode 19: Bring It On Home.Hyde protectiveness of Jackie is something so constant in the show, even the blasphemy of s8 had it’s bit with it (him helping her that one time they got lost in the woods). He finds out she’s been living alone in her enormous and ridiculous house, that her mother abandoned her and it touches everything inside him.A whole new parallel is thrown between them, once more the absent parents parallel becomes deeper and Hyde, this time, protects Jackie like she did in MMH. He gives her home, a safe place to sleep and his arms to wear. It’s beautiful, and the episoe keeps giving on the matter.He is the one who explains to Donna, Jackie’s suppoed best friend, why Jackie acted as she did and why it’s important for him her to have Donna ask her again to go live with her. Jackie needs her and Hyde can no longer give her a place at the Formans. After this, Jackie gets a safe place and man, I love that he is the one who helps her out, even when she doesn’t knows this.

Season 6, episode 3: The Magic Bus.MAN. Hyde is so willing to let it be known he loves Jackie, like he doesn’t care about being all touchy in front of his friends and admiting to her he has missed her and her ridiculous pet names. It’s a sweet thign to see, because it reminds us about how open Hyde actually is with her and how much he does loves her. This episode also show us that they are free of Kelso (which is a shame in season 7, because they just ruined it), he supports them now and, as shown in the episode before, he even tries to help get them together. This after getting together bliss they are both enjoying is just refreshing to see and I love that.

Season 6, episode 7: Christmas.I have actually seen people not liking this episode and It hurts my soul because I actually think it’s pretty good. I love Hyde pretending he doesn’t care about what she wants just to give up at the end because she is so cute and he is so fucking whipped.When she mentions later that she has learned something new about herself, I think his initial reaction it’s just a joke. I think he is actually proud of her, and he is getting rewarded after this anyway, so really. It’s an ultra win situation for him, lol.The scene at the end, with her doing a cheerleader rutine for him it’s jfbfinwienfir, I love it. I love them being playfull. It’s beautiful.

Season 6, episode 18: Do You Think It’s Alright?Hyde is scared Jackie will pressure him into marriage like she did Kelso during season 4. She’s been known as to want the happy life of a married couple and have a family of her own, and he knows this. He also knows that it’s too soon to talk about these things, they are too young and even when in the time the show set it was normal for couples to get married that young, he is more concient than society and, in this case, than Jackie. A part of her needs to be told it will happen with him, mostly because she knows by now he is The One for her and she wishes he would be more open and allow her to know she is it for him, too. But at the end of the episode, after he tries to shit her up from her biggest wishes and desires, he gives in and understands this is important for her.Like many times after, Jackie gets satisfied with just a little of what she really wants. He thinks her beautiful in a wedding dress, which may mean he would like to see her in front of him like this again, in the future. With this, she’s convinced it will happen. And that’s how that damn story line should had ended.

Season 7, episode 14: Street Fighting Man.I cry every time I see this episode. Mostly because I love the way Hyde is written in it. He is being himself and not the idiot that pushed Jackie to break up with him. If he had been still that asshole, I would have liked her to never go back to him because really, what on Earth was that that happened in ‘Winter’? But in this episode, he just wants to talk to her and for things to go back to normal, or some kind of normal.When he realizes the break up is being horrible to her, he stops being an ass and understands maybe he hurt her too deep, maybe it would be good if they could just be. The scene when he sees her crying always breaks my heart. She looks defeated and so affected, and he just– you can hear the sound of his heart breaking all over again. After, when he offers her a ride, I almost died. A part of me really wanted Jackie to say yes, what could had happened if so? But I’m also happy with the small conversation they have. If writers could had keep this characterization, things would had been pretty different.

Season 7, episode 16: On With The Show.Hyde is willing to talk to Jackie and get her back. He wants them back. But ultimately, she is happy about her own independency for the first time in forever. She has always been someone’s daughter and someone’s best friend, and someone’s girlfriend, and for the first time she’s Jackie, the girl on TV, she’s Jackie, the girl who got a chance. Ultimately, for Hyde, Jackie’s happiness as a person is his goal when it comes to her. And if he is not included in the mix, then so be it. He steps aside, lets her grow by her own, even when this could had been the new start they needed. I love that he put once more her happiness over his, it’s just something else.

Season 7, episode 18: Oh, Baby (We Got a Good Thing Goin’).I actually love this episode when it comes to them, it’s such a good one, and also the last one in which they are in character. They go on some kind of double date with the Formans, a couple we have found millions of parallels with HJ and who many fans (included myself) sees them as the original grumpy guy/happy girl couple in the show, more or less how Hyde and Jackie would grow up to be as a couple. When they arrive, it’s obvious this is a place were any man would go nuts. But Hyde sticks with his girl and enjoys the day with her. For what we see, she doesn’t get crazy over him and doesn’t get demanding either. They are both enjoying the fair and having a good time together with something that he loves and is now sharing with her.In delated dialogue, we find out Hyde actually informed of what he wanted to get for his El Camino at the event, and she repeats it happily, because she’s going to help him get it. In a way, they are more domestic than one may though and realize until we see these small moments.Later, he gets her food and gets it exactly like she likes it without her having to tell him how to. He has put attention to her likings and knows she appreciates if he does these things. Finally, my favorite moment, when Kitty asks him why he wants to spend the day with Jackie, he answer so easily “She’s my chick”.Jackie’s stament, “I’m his chick”, it’s incredible cute and intimate. She is an object and Hyde doesn’t see her that way, they are together and the belonging they have on the other isn’t a toxic or sexist thing, is a bond that makes the other’s their home. And It’s beautiful.

I’m sorry this got so long! Hopefully, my partners will like to speak about their too, lol.