#Bay Shockwave my beloved

[cripspy]

Tee K.O. The Shockwave edition. With @gregemann and @paratenseco

#maccadam #shockwave #tee k.o. #Bay Shockwave my beloved #Transformers

[copperbora]

Honey bunches of Pit, yes!! Starscream looking absolutely fantastic in his crown with Shockwave and Soundwave in the background. You can almost hear Starscream demanding what the Pit ol' Buckethelm is doing back.

The Transformers: One Movie

I've been somewhat out of the loop due to limited energy levels for anything remotely social, but last Friday my brother Kevin had me take a closer look at the trailer for the new animated Transformers: One movie. On Twitter all I had seen of it was an animated .GIF of its title sequence which I shrugged off thinking that it was yet another Bay-like live action film (the only Transformers live action film that has earned my love is Bumblebee.)

This was my initial hyperactive fangirly reaction to the longer version of the trailer shared on Transformers 2005 which I wrote in reply to my brother Kevin, which is basically comprised of me squealing excitedly in capslock:

I am over the moon that this movie is all about Cybertron, and that just like in Earthspark we're going to see a kinder take on Megatron! (And yay Optimus as Orion Pax and the eternal badassery that is Elita-1.)

As usual, I'm bored to tears of seeing Bumblebee as a protagonist at this point and was disgruntled that he was acting like our beloved Rodimus, but my brother's spot on in what he replied, that unfortunately Bumblebee's just a fixture at this point. (He also admitted to Bumblebee fatigue.)

I'm not into certain aspects of the movie's design but I wasn't into Transformers: Prime initially either and now I'm utterly addicted to Transformers and write long winded fanfictions about it thanks to TFP having been my gateway drug. I'm extremely excited to see this film, and as for my disappointment over not seeing Starscream in the initial cut of the trailer that I watched, well, today I ran across this version!

And not only do we get a very droolworthy shot of our beloved screechy flyboy wearing his crown in this trailer, there's also this very brief shot of Skywarp being awesome!

I still have no idea who this green dude is (I might be derping from lack of sleep since I spent most of last night writing the climax and part of the denoumont of my fic Rise Up,) but maybe he's just a rando? Anyway, I'm super stoked, and I can't wait to watch this movie in theatres and support Transformers animation!

(The best way to tell the uncaring rich that we want more interesting Transformers movies like this one which don't follow the same rote script of Cybertronians arriving on Earth is by watching the films legally to support their creators!)

Looking over the trailer again, I have to say I actually like the faces now! And the style! I'm absolutely thriled to see Cybertron finally portrayed as a vibrant, beautiful world, complete with mechanimals!

#transformers #transformers one #maccadam #transformers one reaction #starscream #skywarp #megatron #optimus prime #orion pax #elita 1 #seekers

[jesuis-melodrama]

TV Show Proposals

Just in case a TV show executive is scrolling through Tumblr searching for their next big hit, here are some proposals from a humble yet rabid media consumer.

More Than Meets the Eye

What do you know about Transformers? That this 1980s cartoon TV series started off as a ploy to sell toys, but impacted their audience so much children were walking out of movie theatres crying when Hasbro literally executed their first line of products in order to introduce the second?

The beginning of Transformers were conceived in the same faith multiple other 1980s cartoon were made – as product advertisement to sell children toys. My Little Pony, Carebears, He-Man, G.I. Joe – they appealed to the violent and action-oriented or cutesy and fashion-oriented subnature of young children, so they could in turn badger their parent to splurge money on figures of their favourite character and any future accessories at the local toy mart.

The fan reception to the Transformers film (1986) allowed studio executives to realise Transformers had something more to it than advertising potential. And fastforward thirty years later when Micheal Bay took the reins to produce the multimillion live-action series, firmly cemented Transformers in its place in American pop-culture.

Although Transformers was always political – the entire Autobot vs Deception concept was based off the Cold War tension at the time of writing the original series – over the years this mostly negligible baseline has been heightened, especially in IDW comic's publishing. From apartheid society, right to self-autonomy, and state-mandated divide of class based on function, certain part of Transformers lore has become 'realistic' enough to be uncomfortable. Even when the characters are giant mecha-alien robots, there is an undeniable human element beneath all the armour.

I am not proposing a TV show of all of IDW's comics, just the More Than Meets the Eye and Lost Light series.

I acknowledge, foremost, that there are already serious issues with only animating this singular storyline alone. IDW, after all, has a near two-decade long history, and animating a stand-alone chapter that happens in the middle of the series is not going to help any new fans or consumers. Additionally, many beloved Transformers legacy characters are not going to appear in the narrative at all, bringing up the question of More Than Meets the Eye's marketability. Inspiring-Prime Rodimus will be leading a 200-bot ship of famously C and D-list characters (many who has since reached fandom fame for the roles they played in MTMTE and Lost Light); and when Bumblebee, Starscream, and Shockwave does come into play, finally, their position in the plot will be extraordinarily confusing unless the reader already knows the comics backstory.

Either way, I think that if some studio executive want to take a risk, they should do so anyway. More Than Meets the Eye was the first Transformers comic I actually read, when I knew absolutely nothing about the IDW lore and was only basing all my knowledge on the Bayverse films, and even though I didn't know who most of the characters are, it took barely five issues to get attached. I found myself intrigued by the witty writing, clever characters, gorgeous art, and the ever-desirable camaraderie that formed between this unlikely found-family group of bots.

More Than Meets The Eye was honestly magical to read, I genuinely believe my life and life philosophy had become better after consuming those 54 issues.

Other issues in producing a More Than Meets the Eye TV show relates to the lack of human characters, as human characters has become a prime template for the human audience to project themselves upon, and More Than Meets the Eye is also notoriously un-child-friendly. From characters such as Overlord to Tarn, or Megatron himself. Torture, murder, concentration camps, cannibalism – the comics illustrate the worst of what a galaxy-wide war between a hard-scrabbling general and a genocidal warlord could produce, and it does not shy away from the details.

More Than Meets the Eye is also a story of redemption. Multiple characters throughout the series – literal war criminals, self-deprecating, suicidal, cruel in the way that those who have given up are cruel – learn to give a damn, to realise how to live for a better tomorrow.

And the two defining titans of the entire franchise meet some of the best writing that has ever been given to them. They don't appear until the second half of the story or they don't appear much at all, but don't let their scarcity convince you of the quality of their characterisation. The writers of More Than Meets The Eye love every character, those who were destined to fade into obscurity and those who were never meant to be in the limelight, and it shows. IDW's Megatron isn't a true villain in the way that Optimus Prime couldn't live up to his untouchable hero image, but this does not mean that Megatron hasn't willingly and gleefully committed evil and Optimus hasn't done the best and the most righteous a leader in his position in the middle of a robot holocaust could've.

Making a More Than Meets The Eye TV show is risky. One hundred percent. It's in the middle of a series that a reader need background knowledge for, it has no human characters, its robot characters aren't exactly winning any popularity contests, and it cannot be marketed towards a general audience.

But More Than Meets the Eye has won two Comics Alliance award for good reason, and it has certainly convinced this Transformers-curious reader with no prior knowledge to become a lifelong fan of the entire franchise.

And I am not the one who sees the potential in a TV series. To any executive who has somehow read till the end of this post, check out these fantastic animations by passionate fans and artists:

魏威安's animated summary of the entire IDW comic history, just to give you an idea of the scope you're dealing with here.

Spooky Unicornus's heartwarming Christmas-themed short, with some fantastic lighting and movement.

The Alexicon's mock trailer.

This disconcerting comics-accurate short by OMUSUNDA featuring some brilliant voice-acting by a Scottish Skids –

– and a compilation of Ultra Magnus featuring his Animated voice from the same artist.

The Arcane-fication of Overwatch

I am not a gamer. I don't own any console systems, my iMac is pretty but cannot run computer games, and my favourite game is actually this mobile app called Bullet Echo, which I will proudly announce I am quite good at. Shout out to my main hero, Mirage.

But I have watched literally every single one of Overwatch's animated cinematic shots. And I am fascinated. The storytelling, the animation, the characters and their designs. I love all their accents, the little nods to their culture, and overall, the camaraderie between Overwatch members, although their interactions are brief.

I'm getting the slowly coagulating imagery of a truly fascination techno-dystopian world, a classic tale of a future gone wrong and heroes that rose up to the challenge.

I have heard and read some criticism about Overwatch's lore, that it's simplistic and is weak, lacking in any kind of depth. If this is true, I will claim ignorance to the fact that I have not played a single game. As an animation-enthuasist, I have simply watched the cinematic shorts over and over again, and is enchanted by the short bursts of story I've seen there.

I've never played League of Legends either, and I can bet most of those who watched Arcane never did as well. But Arcane was enjoyable for both hardcore gamers and first-time fans anyway. It had something for the general unfamiliar audience while throwing out some service to those that followed the franchise for a long time. And the trick to maintaining this balance is simple: good writing, writers that care.

So – Arcane-ficiation of Overwatch. Am I going to play Overwatch one day? Unlikely. But would I sit down and watch a TV series about it? Definitely. Comments on Overwatch's cinematic shorts always snarkly points out that the movies are better than the game and the producers should realise where to throw in their funds. I won't cast my own judgement upon these opinions as I, once again, have not played a single game. But I hope some Blizzard executives are warming up to the idea. After all, video game-based TV series has been gaining traction over the past few years. Just look at Arcane, or The Witcher, or The Last of Us. Dungeons and Dragons even managed a big feature blockbuster, with a pretty star-studded cast.

A brief list of my favourite Overwatch shorts, judged by not ranked on story, animation, and voice-acting.

Percy Jackson

An animated Percy Jackson series.

I know there's a live-action series of Percy Jackson coming out next year, and so far, it seems pretty hopeful. The actors are age accurate, the set design looks amazing, and Rick Riordian himself approves of the series.

Thing is, I grew up reading Percy Jackson and was violently passionate about the series once, back when the live-action movies were the ire of the fandom and the fanart, especially those of Viria's, were so popular they were considered canon. Canon enough that the official Percy Jackson wiki page actually eventually hired Viria to make their official character art.

There was even this petition to make an animated series with Viria's art that I remember signing a couple years ago.

Nowadays, artists likes velinxi��has also become fandom staples in defining the stylised appearances of the characters, especially regarding the likeness of the Big Three.

This is one TV show that I'm not too invested about – as animated series with Overwatch and More Than Meets the Eye could be considered inevitable to the franchise at this point while Percy Jackson is significantly more popular and enjoy more medias, blockbusters alongside comics books, a musical, and the upcoming DisneyPlus+ TV series.

Just saying, fans manifested Viris's art being canon enough that the prophecy has been fulfilled. And if 50 000 fans signed a petition to make Viria's art an animated TV show – who knows?

Hamiltion

This is the long shot, I know. Hamilton is probably the most successful musical of this generation, and for good reason. I personally has never seen so much passion, clever lyricism, historical significance, and art stuffed within two hours.

My knowledge of musicals is that usually maybe about 40-70% of the show is sung while the rest is acted. Not for Hamilton, the actors truly push their physicality and vocal cords to the limit by turning it up to 200 percent for the entire performance. Renée Elise Goldsberry sang and rapped and delivered a masterful rendition of emotion during Satisfied (one of my favourite songs, ever) alone. No other musical has come close to Hamilton's set design and sophisication in my humble opinion, and I bet it will be a very long time before another musical that is released will come close.

Here, I am not only proposing the possibility of a TV show, but also a movie. There are many loose-ends in Hamilton that Lin-Manuel Miranda mentioned could not be covered in the play due to time constraints, such as the question as to what happened to Peggy.

A TV show could give the producers plenty of time to expand on fan-favourite moments, such as the Winter Ball or the battlefield scenes along with typing up loose ends. More time could also introduce more songs, and embellish the visual design further with on-site landscape, although the question of whether or not this will elevate the musical's appeal is debatable as Hamilton's single room, rotating dais set has become synonymous with the show and an archetypal of ingenious on-stage set design. Again, like with Percy Jackson, not too fussed about the possibility of Hamilton making it onto the big screen. But just throwing the idea there.

#transformers #more than meets the eye #lost light #blizzard #overwatch #percy jackson #hamilton #tv shows

[transfluids-moved]

Hi!! I would want to get into transformers but don't know where to start... Do you have any tips for that? It's okay to ignore this if you are busy or smth btw, have a good day!

hey you!! i can definitely help, i’ve had to introduce a Lot of my friends to it fjsjfjkdfkf

also this got long!! sorry but i’m very excited about robots

the problem with getting into tf is that there are a lot of convergent timelines tht are considered more or less equally canon in different shows/comics/etc! tfp has a different explanation for how the cybertronian civil war began than mtmte does, for example. and there’s a lot of these continuities. i’ve actually written a bit about how each timeline’s handling of optimus prime slowly put him into a position of privilege and power in canon, and how that changes the optics on how audiences view him over the decades!

but for getting introduced to transformers from the ground up, i’d suggest watching transformers prime first - there’s three seasons (the last one’s very short) and the animation is pretty wonky for a while, but it introduces the autobot and decepticon factions in pretty universally accepted ways - autobots are typically presented as a smaller faction of soldiers fighting for the “good side” that have been placed in hiding across the universe by the tyranny of the technologically and more militant decepticons in most tf media, for example. tfp also gives you some great insight into the idea of primes as a political and theological position, and how the cybertronian war started, specifically the origins of optimus prime and some of my favorite characterization of megatron and optimus’ relationship pre-war. you could watch the bumblebee movie, too! it’s not as encompassing of what transformers is actually about (big robots, intergalactic millennia-spanning wars, trauma, and political rebellion/authoritarianism/marxism/theology), but it’s cute and shows some of the war from the perspective of one of the most widely beloved (and extremely over marketed) characters in the franchise

after tfp, and, y’know, looking up things you still don’t really get on tfwiki, you can go for transformers animated (again, wonky animation, Insane levels of storytelling and worldbuilding from a unique point of view for a kids show), try beast wars (the gimmick is they’re all animals and for some reason my mutuals all adore it), watch the bay movies if you’re bored and wanna have a bad time, or jump into some comics! if you wanna read mtmte, my favorite adaptation of transformers ever, i’d suggest reading the death of optimus prime mini-comic first (readcomics actually has death of prime attached to the top of their list of mtmte issues for easy reading i believe), skimming through the dark cybertron event in the middle (it’s some bullshit, shockwave is a bitch, that’s it) and also reading james roberts’ two part comic that explains the political tension and social justice movement that formed the start of the war called chaos theory! chaos theory is insanely good and you can’t go wrong reading it, either before or after mtmte. and don’t forget, mtmte becomes lost light after issue ~57 so there’s around 80 total issues of that continuity to read! after that i’d highly recommend the wreckers trilogy (start with last stand of the wreckers) by nick roche, it offers a lot of super cool perspectives on how the war created immoral situations and characters and how it imparted trauma on a cultural level onto cybertronians - also, ironfist is in it and i love him to Death.

remember to: stay away from anything written by simon furman or m scott unless you want to be psychologically and emotionally dunked on by The Bullshit, read some of the spotlight one-shot comics if you find yourself super interested in a character / want to learn more about someone’s origins, don’t really take anything super seriously because this is a fandom that tends to do that (me included) for a franchise about literal childrens cartoons, and please for the love of god use tfwiki. there’s so much transformers lore out there and tfwiki is the funniest and most adeptly descriptive fandom wikipedia i’ve ever come across - they even have timelines for canon nonsense in case you get confused on continuities or how certain events relate (like the rung-curly straw incident that sparked a civil war!!)

#feel free to comment if u guys have suggestions too btw!!! #this is just how i got my roommates into it + one of them even made a p popular sideblog as a result #so the track records high ig djsjcjdcmdks #also anon if u have any questions as u get Into It come dm me!! id love to help :D #mtmte #tfp #maccadam #transformers #asks #emerson.txt

[thedarklordmegatron]

I finally saw Bumblebee!!!

Warnings for spoilers below the ‘read more’ line and screaming ahoy!

Okay, so I just had to get this out. IT WAS AMAZING. 

I’ve grown up with Transformers, as a child, I had very few friends so the TV became my constant companion. I was introduced to the ‘Transformers’ series via Bay’s 2007 film and never looked back. Since then I’ve seen every series and film since the original G1 series, I’ve read every comic bar the occasional unobtainable issue, and own far too much merch. Other fandoms come and go but this is one I know I’ll never let go of.

Bay’s films were good, far from perfect, but hardly the worst things to ever come out of the Transformers franchise *Cough* BeastMachines *Cough* They revived my beloved franchise and gave us so much more! Obviously, I was narked as the series continued to murder some of my favourite characters, Que, I love you my mech, but no. 

This film though? HOLY SHIT THIS FILM. I loved it. I spent 2 hours after coming out of the cinema squealing to my brother, who was kind enough to take me, about how great it was. SPOILERS BELOW

First off, those G1 designs!!! G1 DESIGNS AND CHARACTERS. OPTIMUS PRIME. BUMBLEBEE. ARCEE. WHEELJACK. RATCHET IN HIS NON-GLOWY FORM. BRAWN. SOUNDWAVE. MOTHERFUCKING SHOCKWAVE. This is how they SHOULD have been in the first place!! This is what the OG fans wanted! You don’t need to change their designs to appeal to a crowd, the G1 designs are outdated aye but they are so iconic that it’s almost criminal to change them up.

That whole 2-minute sequence at the beginning proves that Cybertron based film could easily work! You don’t need humans to make a good film. That being said, to be fair to Travis Knight, what he did with the earth sequences was incredible. He didn’t ignore the Cybertronians in favour of the squishies, he gave them personalities, he made them important and gave them their voices.

Charlie was a well-rounded character, she wasn’t there to be a sex object, she was a powerful young woman in her own right and I actually really enjoyed her as an individual character. Burns was both amusing and suitably douchey. YOUNG SIMMONS, that is all. And OPTIMUS PRIME AT THE END. I was squealing in my seat when I saw that truck, because of the G1 design! I thought it was going to be a nice little G1 reference, but NOPE! IT WAS OUR PRIME IN ALL HIS GLORY and I died. 

I just??? No words can properly express just how much I loved this film. None. It was an absolutely incredible addition to the franchise and I cannot wait to see what Knight does with it in the future. (Also Allspark Pictures? YES HASBRO)

#transformers #transformers bumblebee #bumblebee #bumblebee 2018 #I LOVED IT SO MUCH #I WOULD SELL MY SOUL TO ENSURE THIS MAN STAYS ON AS DIRECTOR FOR ALL THE OTHER FILMS #My one true fandom #bumblebee spoilers

[britesparc]

Weekend Top Ten #359

Top Ten Future Transformers Spin-Offs

So I finally went to see Bumblebee, the delightful, charming, and utterly loveable Transformers spin-off/prequel from Travis Knight. It’s a great little film, on a much smaller scale than the other films in the series, offering some beautifully retro Amblin vibes whilst telling a more compelling and characterful story full of warmth, heart, and genuinely good performances. And as a great big Transformers fan (is there no Transformers equivalent of Trekkie or Browncoat I can adopt?) I got a huge thrill from the recreation of war-torn Cybertron, straight from the iconography of the classic ‘80s cartoon series. I spent the first ten minutes just cooing and bubbling, going “Look! Wheeljack! And Arcee! And Ratchet! And Soundwave! And Shockwave! And Ravage!” and so on.

Anyway, I think the film is all kinds of great, and captures the spirit of the brand and the stories much better (in my opinion) than the Michael Bay ones do. But if one spin-off could succeed where the “mainline” films failed, could that trick be repeated? And this got me thinking: what other stories and characters are ripe for the big-screen treatment? Where else can Transformers go cinematically, without doing any kind of real follow-up to The Last Knight?

Here, then, are ten suggestions. Rather than proposing any kind of reboot or reimagining of the property, I've tried to find stories that could exist within the loose canon of the movies (which, to be fair, is a fairly shifting proposition anyway, with several movies contradicting one another in large and small ways). So, inspired by my love of the original characters, and often by stories I’ve read in the meantime, and with the potentially large caveat that I’ve still not seen The Last Knight and therefore might actually be retreading story grooves already worn, here are ten suggestions for possible future Transformers spin-off movies.

Megatron: Dawn of the Decepticons: drawing heavily from both IDW’s Megatron: Origin and More Than Meets the Eye, this will be a biopic, essentially, of tyrannical baddie Big Megs. Although I know there’s a strong influence from The Fallen in Cinemegatron’s backstory, I don’t see how we can’t square this with the portrayal developed primarily by James Roberts. Megatron is a miner, struggling under a brutal regime on an off-world energon mine, who has the strength and smarts to lift himself and his co-workers out of bondage. But will he remain true to his principles or follow the advice of a mysterious old ‘bot (who turns out to be The Fallen)? Basically the tragic tale of a charismatic working-class leader breaking bad and becoming a monster. Could feature an Optimus Prime cameo – maybe as Orion Pax?

Last Stand of the Wreckers: a moderately-straight adaptation of the Nick Roche/James Roberts classic, one of the most beloved Transformers series of all time. Instead of Bumblebee’s delightful whimsy and Megatron’s tragic drama, this is a straight-up war movie. Obviously it’d have to be tweaked from the comic: no more Garrus-9 or Decepticon Purge. Perhaps tweak the last third to be a bit more like Rogue One or Seven Samurai; the Autobots decide to stay, and die, for a cause. I’d put some more mainstream ‘bots on the team, from the original cartoon and movie. Perhaps it could, like Bumblebee, even be set on Earth in the past, and end up being a story covered up by both the Autobots and Sector 7? That way you’d make it cheaper by having more humans and a little less CG. But the basic gist – an Autobot black ops squad is sent on a mission that goes very badly wrong and most if not all of them die whilst trying to work out what it means to be an Autobot in the midst of this war – should remain the same.

Windblade : whilst I don’t necessarily think the movieverse should adopt the “Thirteen Colonies” storyline from the comics – and I definitely don’t think they should adopt the “all the girls left” sausage-fest fudge that was required after Arcee was declared the “only” female Transformer, especially as Arcee herself and newcomer Shatter both feature in Bumblebee – I do  like the idea of Windblade as some kind of ambassador or diplomat, travelling the universe. Perhaps she left Cybertron before the war really escalated (with besties Chromia and Nautica too, natch) to pursue peace elsewhere? Part flashback to pre-war Cybertron, part  return-to-Earth narrative, it would be a great opportunity to focus on the often-sidelined female Transformers and  have a positive feminist message. I’d have them team up with a now-adult Charlie and her estranged daughter... Verity Carlo. The baddies should be combiners, to go with the “Combiner Hunters” toy set.

Beast Wars: at the risk of causing controversy, I wouldn’t make this a straight adaptation of the popular cartoon. Not unless they want to meddle in far-flung futures or alternate timelines (although, er, see below...). Rather, I’d introduce the concept of “Beast Modes” that mimic organic creatures perfectly (like the “pretender” Decepticon in Revenge of the Fallen that looks like a sexy human girl, because of course she does). So my pitch is this: a lonely Autobot scientist, on a research ship that has more-or-less escaped the war (let’s make him Perceptor, for kicks) has developed this “beast mode” technology that hides Transformers in organic shells. His ship is attacked by Decepticons, but he rockets his subjects into space where they follow Prime’s signal and eventually land on Earth, befriending a young boy (younger than Sam or Charlie; let’s say about 12). But Decepticon hunters (I’d go for Carnivac, Snarler and Catilla – who later has a change of heart – all of whom have inorganic beast modes) follow. So it would share similar tropes with Bumblebee and the first Transformers, but with three or four cute animals instead of robots. This would skew young, perhaps even younger than Bumblebee.

Rodimus Prime: I know Hot Rod is in The Last Knight, but from what I hear he isn’t really representative of the character of Hot Rod/Rodimus from across other aspects of Transformers fiction. Regardless, this film isn’t about him: it’s about Rodimus Prime. Set in the future, it tells a Next Generation-style story of a human/Autobot alliance. Very much a sci-fi space opera, it would feature Rodimus going on a quest to discover the roots of a mysterious force that is attacking human colonies, and its apart links to an ancient Transformer legend. But is he abandoning Earth at its darkest hour to go on a wild goose chase through space? Rodimus must battle his own self-doubt as a leader, as well as a growing number of humans and Transformers who question the alliance. It would have a similar tone to your average Star Wars movie.

Wreck-Gar: Transformers films often have funny moments, but you’d never call any of them a comedy. Wreck-Gar is a comedy, Deadpool-style (but without the filth). A severely-damaged Transformer who crashes to Earth no memory and manages to rebuild himself in a junkyard, Wreck-Gar is a crazy, pop-culture-spouting dervish who just trashes every room he’s in, even though he’s not malicious or a bad guy. Indeed, he is chased by a trio of Decepticons (Swindle, Brawl, and Vortex) who are cruel and unusual (and Swindle wants recompense for a deal gone wrong). An all-out wacky comedy is something not often attempted by big-budget action movies; I’d even go whole hog and get Ward and Miller on board to shepherd the humour to the screen.

Starscream: we’re always focusing on the good guys! Well, here you go: a story about a bot who’s born to be bad. Starscream would be set in the past (naturally, since he’s dead now) and follows Megatron’s least-reliable lieutenant as he heads to Earth to look for Megatron during the time when he was in stasis underneath the Hoover Dam. I can’t remember the chronology, but maybe this could even be set in the late 70s/early 80s, with Starscream  assuming a jet form more like his classic toy (and in that colour scheme, too). He’d be conniving, plotting, scheming, and essentially coming across like a giant metal version of Loki. Perhaps he’s playing a number of human “allies” off against one another, as well as some big Decepticons (Thunderwing? Tarn? Who haven’t we seen yet?) and even a troupe of Autobots he double-crosses. It could be darkly comic and incredible fun.

Hearts of Steel: Wild West Transformers! I mean, what’s not to love? Adapted from the IDW comic series (which was supposed to be out-of-continuity, but was so popular that writer John Barber retroactively incorporated it into the main Transformers timeline), this would need a bit of manipulation to change characters around (I don’t think Bumblebee should be in it, but given the often-contradictory nature of the movie timeline, I don’t see why we couldn’t bring back characters like Jazz, Ironhide, or maybe even Optimus himself). A rollicking steampunk adventure that hopefully would capture the freewheeling outback sci-fi tone of Back to the Future Part III, and hopefully not come across like another Wild Wild West.

Cybertron: I suppose this is a sort-of sequel to Megatron (see above). Set during the war, it’s a men-on-a-mission movie starring a young Optimus Prime (perhaps he could still be Orion Pax at this point). I don’t think we should worry too much about mythologies and intricacies of Transformer society the way James Roberts depicted it, but all the same they could do a lot worse than adapting his Shadowplay storyline, where Orion lead a team of misfit Autobots in an illegal heist to save the world. That kid of behind-enemy-lines vibe could give us a great Cybertronian war movie without wallowing in the grimdark explodey nature of Transformer combat. But especially if this was the movie where Orion earned his stripes and officially became Optimus, that might be nice. Like Megatron, of course, this would end up being an entirely CG affair.

Bumblebee 2: Energon Boogaloo? Look, the ending of the film – without wanting to give away spoilers – could be seen as neatly segueing into the 2007 Transformers film. One could imagine no additional adventurous meetings between Bumblebee and Charlie.  But on the other hand, let’s not rule it out. Perhaps Bumblebee has been on Earth, dicking around, since 1987, and during that time he got up to more mischief with his first best human friend. Some covert Decepticon invasion requires him to break cover, or he needs some kind of human contact to spy for him, and oh look he goes back to Charlie. I’d skip forward a little bit, to around ‘91 or ‘92, slap a bit of early grunge on the soundtrack. See what happens. Just bring back Travis Knight.

So there we are. My ideas for ten possible Transformers spin-off movies. I didn’t really intend for this to turn into ten pitches with little mini-synopses; it was really meant to just be a quick fun game of “stories or characters who’d make a cool movie” but then I thought about it too hard, as I tend to do where Transformers is concerned. Hey, look, some of these films could even tie together! Megatron and Cybertron especially, but you could scatter seeds of stories or references among the lot. Anyway. Wishful thinking. But hopefully a film like one of these will roll out before too long (see what I did there?).

#top ten #transformers #bumblebee #movies #comics #toys #hasbro

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Bid Farewell to Pop Queen: Faye Wong (2006)

She was born and grew up in Beijing, but her career started in Hong Kong. She first shot to fame with the stage name of Shirley Wong, but later changed back to her real name of Faye Wong. She is the real Queen of Chinese Pop.

Faye Wong is one of the few singers favored by both male and female pop fans, as well as one of my personal favorites. Maybe you’ll think that we base our shows on gossip, since today’s feature on Faye Wong comes after reports that she quit singing at the end 2005. However, I think we can easily forget this piece of news and instead simply focus on her music.

After starting with this most recent performance, I hope that you can come to understand the drastic changes in Faye Wong’s singing style. Originally born in Beijing, she lived there until the age of 18. Since then, Faye Wong’s memory has maintained a close connection with this city, especially its culture and spirit, which are quite different from Hong Kong. The latter was the city to which the teenage Wong moved with her parents back in 1987. As she recalls, her first days in this strange new city were gloomy and blue, especially after being separated from her old friends in Beijing.

In order to get through these lonely times, Faye Wong chose the path of singing, which had in fact been an ambition for her ever since childhood. To the surprise of many, this fledgling singer took bronze in her very first singing contest; thereafter she was soon spotted by a record company, who gave her a contract and a name, Shirley Wong. Others preferred to call her the Hong Kong Teresa Teng, in reference to this already hugely successful Taiwan singer.

That was an early work from Faye Wong, as adapted from a song by Teresa Teng.

Having got herself a contract, Wong thought that she could now make whatever music she chose, but a commercialized Hong Kong quickly dampened her dream. Wishing to rest and leave this unsuitable environment, Faye Wong flew to America for further study, an experience which helped her to discover her individuality. One year later, she returned to Hong Kong to complete the album which her contract demanded, with plans to return to America for further study.

However, everything changed with the release of this new album, entitled “Coming Home.” On this collection of tunes, Faye Wong performed an adaptation of the popular Japanese composition, “A Vulnerable Woman;” this new version proceeded to sweep through Hong Kong and all Chinese-speaking areas. After a false start, Faye Wong had now really taken off.

She was born and grew up in Beijing, but her career started in Hong Kong. She first shot to fame with the stage name of Shirley Wong, but later changed back to her real name of Faye Wong. She is the real Queen of Chinese Pop.

Despite the huge success of this song, Wong herself hardly felt the resonation of applause. Instead, she saw this as simply an isolated hit typical within the fickle world of Hong Kong pop.

Fortunately Faye Wong soon began to receive spiritual support from the emerging rock bands of Beijing, including Black Panther. Then in 1994, six years after her first encounter with Black Panther, Faye Wong finally revealed her relationship with the rock band’s lead singer, Dou Wei. From this point on, Faye Wong began to attempt some changes in her singing style. The song we’ll hear next is “Persistence,” the first work to include her own creative touches, with lyrics that express her persistent love towards Dou Wei.

Dou Wei brought Faye Wong not only love for her life but also soul for her music, with his rich knowledge of European and American music. They exploited their combined musical qualities to the full with our next song. It’s another cover, this time of the song Cold War by Tori Amos, but it’s another cover which sent shockwaves around the circumference of the whole Chinese pop circle.

After this song, Faye Wong began to co-operate more with musicians from the Chinese mainland, including Zhang Yadong, Cao Jun and Bai Fanglin. Despite working with others, she also continued to develop her own individuality. On the album “Imagine Things,” she performs works from celestial sounding bands like “The Cranberries” and “Cocteau Twins,” comfortably tackling this completely different musical style. After that, she released another album entitled “Cater to Myself,” on which she bravely exclaimed “I don’t want to cater to the market. I just want to cater to myself.”

In 1996, Faye Wong totally abandoned the mainstream market of love songs and released a new album, “Impetuous.” If a cover of Tori Amos caused shockwaves, this new album could be compared to a bomb lobbed among the traditional aesthetics of the Chinese pop circle. It was therefore no surprise when in October14, 1996, Faye Wong followed film star Gong Li to become only the second Chinese artist on the cover of Time magazine.

In January, 1997, Faye Wong gave birth to a baby girl and prepared herself for a comeback. In fact, despite her one year’s complete withdrawal from the spotlight, she had not been forgotten by her fans. She also had some new material with “If You’re Happy, I’m Happy,” a tune specially created for her newly-born daughter.

At this point, Faye Wong seemed to be the happiest woman in the world, with a constantly smiling face for media and the public. She’d established her career, she had a good husband and she had a beloved daughter. Then in 1998, her new album “Sing and Travel” brought her career to its musical peak, with an accompanying concert tour throughout the country.

However, nothing seems to last forever, especially in the world of entertainment. Just after Faye Wong had been hailed as the “happiest woman in the world” by media, so in 1999 her marriage with Dou Wei came to an abrupt end. Following this sensational split, the name of Dou Wei was completely struck out from the artistic output of Faye Wong. However, you can still read her feelings for him in the lyrics of the following song: “Look at the moonlight of that time. How could it turn into sunshine almost overnight?”

She was born and grew up in Beijing, but her career started in Hong Kong. She first shot to fame with the stage name of Shirley Wong, but later changed back to her real name of Faye Wong. She is the real Queen of Chinese Pop.

Today, although we can never again see the influence of Dou Wei in Faye Wong’s music, we can still detect something of the past through her cooperation with another mainland musician, Zhang Yadong. He’s been making music with Faye Wong for years, and together with lyricist Lin Xi, the three have been hailed as a golden trio. Every one of her new albums would continue to sweep through music charts across the country, and win innumerous awards at the end of the year. As a bonus, the album “Eyes on Me” even sold well in the difficult Japanese market. However, since the album “Fables,” Faye Wong’s musical style has gradually become more standardized. Faye Wong is no longer the alternative singer who dared to do everything differently. Instead she a pillar stone of Chinese pop music, although she has no grand wishes and simply wants to be an ordinary person. Maybe this explains why the singer wishes to quit her career, enabling her to be a good mother and a good wife after getting married for the second time.

Hot Songs by Faye Wong:

“Impetuous” is taken from the album of the same name, as co-produced by Faye Wong and Dou Wei.

“To Love” is the title track from Faye Wong’s last album, which was released at the end of 2003.

Cold War is Faye Wong’s versions of a Tori Amos song.

“A Vulnerable Woman” is a song that greatly expanded Faye Wong’s popularity among Chinese pop fans.

“Promise” is one of the combined efforts of Faye Wong and Dou Wei.

“I Love the Stranger Only” seems to well express this singer’s attitude toward life and love, with her frankness and straightforwardness. “What I love is purer than the color of your face and more innocent than a pet. When all that I need is a kiss, please, just give me a kiss.”

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#2006

[anonymous-human]

My birthday is next month and I may be too busy to be on Tumblr because of college, so I will ask this question much more sooner. What would the TFP Decepticons and Predacons do for their beloved fleshling's birthday?

(Oh, well… happy early birthday? X3)

Megatron

It’s going to be a very fucking special-ass day for you.

He’d make Starscream, Knockout and Soundwave go out and get things for a traditional birthday, (YES they stole a cake FOR YOU).

Your vehicon friends all wish you a happy birthday, and they whisper Megatron’s going all out for you, even threatening to kill anyone who fucks with you or talks shit.

At the end, he says, if you will, he’s your present. ;)

Starscream (I’ve placed this when Megatron was offline)

Like Megatron, Screamer wants you to have some actual fun on your special day, but unlike Megatron, he goes out and gets the stuff himself.

And it actually is pretty fun, he lets the whole ship take a day off and relax and it’s actually pretty fun

It ends off with him asking nervously if this is what you wanted?

when you hug him and say yes, he flushes, and you end if off with some b-day cuddles~!

Soundwave

He get’s Lazerbeak to go find a specific thing you’d like, and maybe a cake.

He gives it you the day of your b-day and he’s super sweet about all of it.

BDKO

First off, (guessing they have holomatters), they get movie tickets at a movie they thought you’d like and go during the day. They’d go to ta drive-in theater, but those are during the night, well. You’ll see.

When they get back, they’ve to throw a tiny surprise birthday party in the med-bay and they invited your vehicon friends and maybe Starscream. (Megs could care less.)

They get you something and hugs all around.

And it ends up being a college party. Kinda? they steal beer and aged wine if you’re into that, And they get Energex for everyone else, and you all do ‘beer’ pong and whatever else they could find on the internet that looked fun.

And it’s really cute, for a makeshift party.

All three of you wake up naked on the berth with horrid hangovers.

Dreadwing and Predaking have similar ideas.

When he knows, he plan s.

On the day he transforms and opens up his cockpit.

“Get in.”

And he goes flying.

After a while, he brings you to a really pretty spot on the top of a mountain to show a really pretty view. (idk, what do YOU think would be cool it see.)

“Happy birthday, y/n.” he’d smile.

Shockwave

Despite finding it illogical to celebrate, he still does something.

He ends up making you a rather useful gadget to you in the future, and that’s pretty much it,

but just knowing he did try should be good enough for you.

Skylynx

He’d celebrate by relaxing with you. 

How about some Netflix and pizza/icecream/(whatever)? 

or finding an abandoned beach and sun tanning.

whatever floats ur goat, my dudes. 

Darksteel

(guessing he has a holomatter, like BDKO, he bring you to a theater for some shitty romantic comedy. And he wasn’t that bad, he was acting as human as he could, and he tried to hold back his laughter for the end.

Then he ends up getting some sort of cybertronian styled necklace that was small enough for you.

Over all, he tried to impress and be a good boyfriend (or conjux, whatever floats your goat!) :)

#megatron #starscream #soundwave #shockwave #dreadwing #Predaking #knockout stunningly stuns #breakdown #skylynx #darksteel #transformers #tfp #tf #Transformers Prime #TRANSFORMERS HEADCANONS #i'm-anonymous