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[04 Oct 2007|11:48am] |
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Sorry it's been so quiet on the me front lately: classes and work and game and officer duties for the ADP have really eaten up my life the past few weeks, and mostly I've been de-stressing by playing Odin Sphere and watching Supernatural season one with ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) nekokoban and zinjadu and coramegan (we're almost done!), which doesn't exactly leave much time for LJ-posting. But I am still here!
So, in a fit of nostaligia, I rented the first DVD of Beast Wars: Transformers. This was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid, one of the few that I can remember tuning in for every single day, religiously, right up there with Gargoyles and Sailor Moon. I remember I got into it at first less because of the robots (I had never even heard of Transformers) and more because they all turned into animals (which is what I was into before I discovered fandom, and in a lot of ways I still am). And I wanted to give it a look again, and see how I felt about it now.
Well... it's very very 90s... a lot of the dialogue sounds cheesy or clunky or both... and the animation has not aged well, to put it nicely. And yet? God help me, I still love this show. I love that it has a plot that's ongoing and everything's not all neatly resolved by the end of each episode; I love that there's ambiguity to a lot of the characters (I was wondering if I'd ♥ Dinobot any less after all these years, and the answer is no); I love that I'm old enough now to properly recognize badtouch when I see it (holy crap, Taratulas, YOU'RE NOT OKAY). This is the first series I ever wrote fic for (in my defense, I was 11) and so it's got a special place in my geeky little heart, crappy animation and all. Need disc two now.
...Also, apparently my favorite character is voiced by Fujiwara Keiji in the Japanese dub of the series I MUST HEAR THIS NOW ZOMFG
/nerdery
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