I also like the idea that it’s at least partly TC’s genuine struggle to figure out what humans find hot, like, he’s from a planet where some people are dinosaurs, maybe they’d like that?? Find it exotic??? Maybe???? And it’s partly a joke, but, yes, a joke he gets WAY too into and pretty soon they’re all full of pathos and symbolism and Skywarp is lying on the floor howling as he reads the latest draft.
(The “my boyfriend is a sexy jet plane” was one that TC snuck in to test the waters with humanity/Marissa. ;))
David Kaye is already up there with Cory Burton for me in terms of attractive Megatron voices, so I am absolutely looking forward to that. And I’m intrigued by the idea of him as even more menacing/entrancing than in Beast Wars. Looking forward to this…
an incomplete list of iconique Sam Vimes Moments™:
arresting a dragon
running through the streets of ankh-morpork naked
running through the woods of uberwald naked and fighting off werewolves with his bare fucking hands
telling the ancient personification of darkness and vengeance to fuck off
“Well, Reg, tomorrow the sun will come up again, and I’m pretty sure that whatever happens we won’t have found Freedom, and there won’t be a whole lot of Justice, and I’m damn sure we won’t have found Truth. But it’s just possible that I might get a hard-boiled egg.”
arresting an entire war
the ginger beer trick
reluctantly acquiring yet more titles, being embarassed
responds to being told the watch can’t interfere with the aforementioned war by handing in his badge and raising a militia
just no fucking clue how boats work
That! Is!! Not!!! My!!!! Cow!!!!!
giving up all hope of returning to a future with his wife and child to stay in the past and fight in a revolution he knows he can’t win because failing to try to help people is utterly antithetical to the fundamental state of being Sam Vimes
“when the shouting started she knew Sam was alive and well, because only Sam made people that angry”
if anyone’s setting fire to this city it’s going to be me (ankh-morpork has burned down at least twice already at this point)
arresting fucking Havelock Vetinari
“I’ll teach him to walk! I’m good at teaching people to walk!”
getting annoyed at the idea that the assassins are no longer willing to accept any amount of money to kill him
defusing a riot with a cigar and a mug of cocoa
throwing fucking Havelock Vetinari over his shoulder
all of the international incidents because he’s fundamentally incapable of not being salty to The Man
despite being The Man
telling Vetinari to shut up
Vetinari shutting up when Vimes told him to
stopping all of ankh-morpork’s traffic because reading to his son before bed is infinitely more important
getting obscenely rich, hating all of it except the bubble baths
“Who are you, pray?” “The law, you sons of bitches!”
“How dare you? How dare you! At this time! In this place! They did the job they didn’t have to do, and they died doing it, and you can’t give them anything. Do you understand?”
arresting himself
every single fucking noir and western and cop movie one-liner
having so many near-death experiences that Death calls them “near-Vimes experiences” and brings a book along
fistfight on a ship being hit by a river tidal wave in the middle of a storm
“a watchman is a civilian you inbred streak of piss”
gleefully pointing out to the assassins that he does in fact technically own the place
ordering rebels to take down their barricades and rebuild them properly
So, I just wanted to say a word or two about what to expect from this blog now that More Than Meets The Eye/Lost Light, which has been my main interest in the Transformers fandom for the last five years or so, has wrapped up.
I’ll just start by saying that I have no intention of going anywhere. I love interacting with you folks, and I treasure the friendships I’ve made in this fandom. Plus, just because MTMTE/LL is now complete doesn’t mean it’s not still there for us to dive into and play – and beyond that, there’s a whole thirty-odd-year history of Transformers to enjoy!
I’ll continue to post a mix of Transformers and whatever else takes my fancy, but the TF content won’t be going away any time soon.
Fanfic: Priority at the moment is finishing up commissions. Beyond that, definitely expect more IDW-fic to come (particularly Masquerade).
Comics talk: Feel free to ask me about any of the IDW comics I’ve read and haven’t reviewed (for that matter, feel free to ask me about any of the ones I have reviewed!). I can’t promise I’ll be able to comment on everything, but you’re always welcome to ask!
Stray Thoughts: There will be ONE MORE full-on Stray Thoughts review for IDW when I can write it without crying so much it’s hard to see my computer screen. 😛 Beyond that, though, I’m going to take Stray Thoughts in a slightly different direction, see below.
And this is really what I wanted to mention: The theme of next year’s TF Nation is Beast Machines, in honour of the 20th anniversary. Now, I’ve never properly finished watching Beast Wars, and I’ve never watched Beast Machines at all, so! I’m planning a (re)watch spree, where I watch and review every episode of both series ahead of next TFN. These are probably not going to be full Stray Thoughts reviews – more like shorter snapshots – but I thought it would be fun to relive an awesome and underrated era in TF history, and maybe even introduce a few newer fans to the Beast era (aka “The Reason DC Squeals Every Time Rattrap Appears In IDW”).
I’ll also finally get a chance to watch and chat about Cyberverse, as well as the upcoming Bumblebee movie and whatever comes out of IDW next.
So if you like the Beast era or are curious about it (or you hate it and want to fight me), stay tuned! Tag, as always, will be #stray thoughts.
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