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raisedbymoogles) wrote2015-06-05 05:06 pm
raisedbymoogles) wrote2015-06-05 05:06 pm
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Q&A for Transformers Fans, Day 2 - probably best that I'm getting this one out of the way early.
Stay Away From This!: Which series is your least favorite?
Asldkfjasfj. Cutting this because I’m going to rant about my friends’ favorite series and it’s gonna get ugly.
Once upon a time I thought Beast Machines was the worst thing to happen to Transformers. Now I kind of look back with fondness. Yeah, it was pretty awful in parts and the Maximals’ character arcs in Beast Wars were erased for no good reason, but the visual style was pretty awesome and the Vehicons were the most entertaining mooks in a long while. It’s tolerable if you pretend that the Maximals are completely different guys from the Beast Wars crew.
Yet even when my BM-hate was at its peak, it was never as passionate as my current raging hate-on for IDW.
The first ‘fuck you’ moment was Arcee. Y’all remember Arcee’s big entrance, right? The bit that sat every female fan down and told them “not only do we not care that you’re reading and supporting us, we think you’re monstrous freaks”? (And I’m not even going to get into how insulting that shit was to trans* folks. Someone who’s actually trans can handle that.) I dunno what they were expecting when they gave Arcee’s Spotlight to Furman, lol. So now we’re stuck with this berserker bot who shares a name and an appearance with G1 Arcee but not much else, and maybe she’s really interesting in subsequent issues with other writers *cough*, but I was honestly so soured by it that I never picked up another IDW comic.
And every time I thought I should maybe give it another chance, the hits kept coming. They’d take one of my favorites and either make something fucking horrible happen to them or make them do something horrible. Sometimes both. Spike - Prowl - everyone around Prowl who apparently didn’t notice he wasn’t himself - Rodimus Prime. TAPDANCING PRIMUS, Rodimus Prime. Do you have any idea how annoying it is to go looking for my favorite character, the one who makes me feel comforted and not-alone at my worst moments, and find someone who acts EXACTLY like the shitheads who sexually harrassed me in high school? And find that he is somehow far more popular and beloved among my fellow fans than my sweet, snarky, low-self-esteem baby ever was? People have been hating on G1 Roddy for years because, oh horrors, he has emotions and expresses them as though he were not a MASCULINE MANLY MECHROBOT, but THIS douchebag gets all the panties thrown at him. I feel like Belle watching the whole town worship Gaston.
No. I feel like I did in high school, watching the whole world fall at the feet of my harassers. I just - ashes. Ashes, ashes, I’m done.
(Look, objectively Bayverse is worse than IDW quality-wise, without bringing quite as many compelling ideas/characters to the franchise. I will admit - through clenched teeth - that some parts of IDW are pretty cool. I like some of the lore - sparkeaters and point-one-percenters and Megatron being a huge influence on Optimus’s political beliefs and all. I like Chromia and Windblade and Mistress of Flame. It’s just that I tend to fish out the bits I like and plug them into G1 fic/RP rather than have to ignore all the stuff I hate in order to play with them.)
Asldkfjasfj. Cutting this because I’m going to rant about my friends’ favorite series and it’s gonna get ugly.
Once upon a time I thought Beast Machines was the worst thing to happen to Transformers. Now I kind of look back with fondness. Yeah, it was pretty awful in parts and the Maximals’ character arcs in Beast Wars were erased for no good reason, but the visual style was pretty awesome and the Vehicons were the most entertaining mooks in a long while. It’s tolerable if you pretend that the Maximals are completely different guys from the Beast Wars crew.
Yet even when my BM-hate was at its peak, it was never as passionate as my current raging hate-on for IDW.
The first ‘fuck you’ moment was Arcee. Y’all remember Arcee’s big entrance, right? The bit that sat every female fan down and told them “not only do we not care that you’re reading and supporting us, we think you’re monstrous freaks”? (And I’m not even going to get into how insulting that shit was to trans* folks. Someone who’s actually trans can handle that.) I dunno what they were expecting when they gave Arcee’s Spotlight to Furman, lol. So now we’re stuck with this berserker bot who shares a name and an appearance with G1 Arcee but not much else, and maybe she’s really interesting in subsequent issues with other writers *cough*, but I was honestly so soured by it that I never picked up another IDW comic.
And every time I thought I should maybe give it another chance, the hits kept coming. They’d take one of my favorites and either make something fucking horrible happen to them or make them do something horrible. Sometimes both. Spike - Prowl - everyone around Prowl who apparently didn’t notice he wasn’t himself - Rodimus Prime. TAPDANCING PRIMUS, Rodimus Prime. Do you have any idea how annoying it is to go looking for my favorite character, the one who makes me feel comforted and not-alone at my worst moments, and find someone who acts EXACTLY like the shitheads who sexually harrassed me in high school? And find that he is somehow far more popular and beloved among my fellow fans than my sweet, snarky, low-self-esteem baby ever was? People have been hating on G1 Roddy for years because, oh horrors, he has emotions and expresses them as though he were not a MASCULINE MANLY MECHROBOT, but THIS douchebag gets all the panties thrown at him. I feel like Belle watching the whole town worship Gaston.
No. I feel like I did in high school, watching the whole world fall at the feet of my harassers. I just - ashes. Ashes, ashes, I’m done.
(Look, objectively Bayverse is worse than IDW quality-wise, without bringing quite as many compelling ideas/characters to the franchise. I will admit - through clenched teeth - that some parts of IDW are pretty cool. I like some of the lore - sparkeaters and point-one-percenters and Megatron being a huge influence on Optimus’s political beliefs and all. I like Chromia and Windblade and Mistress of Flame. It’s just that I tend to fish out the bits I like and plug them into G1 fic/RP rather than have to ignore all the stuff I hate in order to play with them.)
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I prefer G1 Rodimus to IDW Rodimus; if IDW Rodimus is supposed to be going through a character development and maturation arc, I wish he'd get on with it already!
Bayverse is the only iteration of Transformers to just leave me cold. I don't care about any of the characters except maybe Michaela and the NEST guys, and they dumped her from the movies. They were fun to watch for the shiny and the explosions, but I'm not invested in any of the robots. I have no interest in reading or writing Bayverse fiction. That says something, when I have enjoyed ficcing or reading fic in every other incarnation of TF.
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