An interesting rant...
This was posted by the guy who writes 8-bit theatre (nuklearpower.com), one of the webcomics I am hooked on (note the other is twolumps.net). At any rate, I found this 'editorial' particularly amusing today and as such have illegally reproduced it here...and yes, I do own the G1 DVD collection. I don't think I've ever actually WATCHED them all, but I do own them. I'm also thinking Bush's energy policy is a lot like Megatrons! :-)
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So, I was watching the first season of Transformers a couple weeks ago. We're talking old school G1 action here.
Now, I'm not one of those mental degenerates who can only find the joy in something by pointing out how smart they think they are with phrases like, "You can't hear lasers in space." Especially because you can't hear lasers period, the passage of light tends to be fairly silent, but shut up anyway. Do you know why you can hear lasers in space? Because they sound cool, shut up.
But, man, Transformers. I have no problem buying the big lie: you want a show about giant shape changing alien robots? Hit me. But you want me to believe that the solution to their homeworld's energy crisis is to use a teleportation/wormhole device to teleport fossil fuels across the universe? Really? I mean, really? It's idiotic even without the Autobots gumming up the works every episode.
The Matrix had this problem too. Not the Autobots, energy. I was on board for a fun and/or stupid reality bending kung fu-a-thon, but when you tell me, in the same sentence, that human bodies were used as a form of energy in addition to fusion, y'lost me. We're talking about the energy output of a thermonuclear device versus a guy in a coma. ARGH, The Matrix writers, just ARGH. While we're on the subject, your second and third movies? ARRRRRRRRGH!
Seen in this light, is it any wonder Starscream was always trying to take the reins of leadership? Megatron's energy policy asks us to expend more energy than our civilization is able to produce so he can get a few barrels of oil. I mean, come on. This is like if one of the candidates told you that the entirety of his energy policy was to move all gas stations to Pluto. In this new light, I think we can all see Starscream's point.
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So, I was watching the first season of Transformers a couple weeks ago. We're talking old school G1 action here.
Now, I'm not one of those mental degenerates who can only find the joy in something by pointing out how smart they think they are with phrases like, "You can't hear lasers in space." Especially because you can't hear lasers period, the passage of light tends to be fairly silent, but shut up anyway. Do you know why you can hear lasers in space? Because they sound cool, shut up.
But, man, Transformers. I have no problem buying the big lie: you want a show about giant shape changing alien robots? Hit me. But you want me to believe that the solution to their homeworld's energy crisis is to use a teleportation/wormhole device to teleport fossil fuels across the universe? Really? I mean, really? It's idiotic even without the Autobots gumming up the works every episode.
The Matrix had this problem too. Not the Autobots, energy. I was on board for a fun and/or stupid reality bending kung fu-a-thon, but when you tell me, in the same sentence, that human bodies were used as a form of energy in addition to fusion, y'lost me. We're talking about the energy output of a thermonuclear device versus a guy in a coma. ARGH, The Matrix writers, just ARGH. While we're on the subject, your second and third movies? ARRRRRRRRGH!
Seen in this light, is it any wonder Starscream was always trying to take the reins of leadership? Megatron's energy policy asks us to expend more energy than our civilization is able to produce so he can get a few barrels of oil. I mean, come on. This is like if one of the candidates told you that the entirety of his energy policy was to move all gas stations to Pluto. In this new light, I think we can all see Starscream's point.