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I wonder if they do regret the way they've handled this.Best First wrote:Ryall's comment that it 'amuses' him that people are claiming the story got cut short, so ****ing irritating...
Aww. Can't I make one of those topics in General Discussions spouting melodramatically that I am turning my back on fandom forever, never to return?Best First wrote:Dave - can't you just hang around anyway? Please?
Too late.Best First wrote:shall we just start a new site that's a bit broader in its remit?
like, stuff we like?
Originally written by BB Shockwave
I had a hard time accepting Wildman's TFs who had teeth and tongues back then, but I Milne goes the extra mile to make them all look like vampires...
Wanting to think the best of people is faring less well against cynicism now. And I'm curious where any additional sales not represented by Diamond estimates have been to.spiderfrommars wrote:I wonder if they do regret the way they've handled this. [...] I'm as hardcore as TF comic fans get. Never been that fanatical about the toys. I know there are others like me, and I just hope AHM has brought in enough new readers to make up for those old timers that they've lost.
How much difference does it make to the continuity as a whole? There are conceivably ways spotlights and other series could fill in gaps where Megatron: Origin and Revelations were light, but they've already been badly shoehorned in. Anything set after AHM is going to have the same problem.Yaya wrote:More Furman is on the way.
It's a good question. One that IDW hasn't been very clear about.Denyer wrote:How much difference does it make to the continuity as a whole? There are conceivably ways spotlights and other series could fill in gaps where Megatron: Origin and Revelations were light, but they've already been badly shoehorned in. Anything set after AHM is going to have the same problem.Yaya wrote:More Furman is on the way.
This was a problem DW had much earlier on; G1 V1 compromised their continuity as a whole before it'd even really begun.
Hoping to enjoy MD, and will love it if it does fill in gaps, but things are really in damage control mode now and rounding things off rather than continuing existing story arcs.
Hmm, the problem in this instance is that Jack has been prefectly respectful and focussed on his point whereas Ryall lept straight in with personal remarks on this one. He has also misrepresented what most critics are saying then countered that misinterpritation rather than the points that were made, and threatened to ban people who try and point out that he is misrepresenting their arguements, whilst continuing making personal remarks at their expense and at the same time accusing the people he is making personal remarks about of being inflammatory.Yaya wrote:Sigh. Probably get bashed for this, but I think Ryall deserves a little more respect than what he's being given.
I think here, on tranfans, we can let those true feelings fly (which is why I like it here).
But on IDW's board, after them having given us two and a half good years of TF comics, we can at least disagree respectfully when the actual creators are around.
I'll be honest with you. I'm so weary to the posters on that board that I just sort of skim over their posts, even the more eloquent ones like Jack's.Best First wrote:Hmm, the problem in this instance is that Jack has been prefectly respectful and focussed on his point whereas Ryall lept straight in with personal remarks on this one. He has also misrepresented what most critics are saying then countered that misinterpritation rather than the points that were made, and threatened to ban people who try and point out that he is misrepresenting their arguements, whilst continuing making personal remarks at their expense and at the same time accusing the people he is making personal remarks about of being inflammatory.Yaya wrote:Sigh. Probably get bashed for this, but I think Ryall deserves a little more respect than what he's being given.
I think here, on tranfans, we can let those true feelings fly (which is why I like it here).
But on IDW's board, after them having given us two and a half good years of TF comics, we can at least disagree respectfully when the actual creators are around.
Just as bad we get the ridiculous use of nebulous terms like 'mean spirited' which seems to apply only to critcis of AHM, when the fact is that most of the bile comes from a small collection of people who are pro AHM who constantly snipe and moan about and at critics which not only leads to people repeating themselves as they feel they need to defend their opinions and getting wound up and reacting. Yet it is only when these people react that moderating occurs.
Best First wrote:I thought we could just meander between making well thought out points, being needlessly immature, provocative and generalist, then veer into caring about constructive debate and make a few valid points, act civil for a bit, then lower the tone again, then act offended when we get called on it, then dictate what it is and isn't worth debating, reinterpret a few of my own posts through a less offensive lens, then jaunt down whatever other path our seemingly volatile mood took us in.
As big a dick as Prowl tends to be, if anything, he's loyal. Don't see him being the traitor.Hound wrote:anyone have an idea/care who the Autobot traitor is?
My money is on Prowl, Jipped to 2nd in command by Jazz, undermimed by Prime throughout the 'tions.
Like that would stop McCarthy.Yaya wrote:As big a dick as Prowl tends to be, if anything, he's loyal. Don't see him being the traitor.Hound wrote:anyone have an idea/care who the Autobot traitor is?
My money is on Prowl, Jipped to 2nd in command by Jazz, undermimed by Prime throughout the 'tions.
Mirage would be too obvious.
But that would involve using past events and continuity, which is something that hasn't really happened yet.Sunstreaker would actually make the most sense. The guy gets his head fused to a human being, a race he looks upon with great disdain. I think if I were an Autobot, and that happened to me, you better damn well bet I'd be sporting a Decepticon logo after that.
Best First wrote:I thought we could just meander between making well thought out points, being needlessly immature, provocative and generalist, then veer into caring about constructive debate and make a few valid points, act civil for a bit, then lower the tone again, then act offended when we get called on it, then dictate what it is and isn't worth debating, reinterpret a few of my own posts through a less offensive lens, then jaunt down whatever other path our seemingly volatile mood took us in.
How cool would it be if Kup's cigar itself transformed into a diminutive Decepticon spy? Cigarcon.....sweet.sprunkner wrote:It's a technovirus hiding in Kup's cigar.
Or possibly his egg salad.
And then half the fandom cries in open revolt because of the Movielike nature of it all, while the other half falls all over themselves telling IDW how cool and original they are to blend the two.Yaya wrote:How cool would it be if Kup's cigar itself transformed into a diminutive Decepticon spy? Cigarcon.....sweet.sprunkner wrote:It's a technovirus hiding in Kup's cigar.
Or possibly his egg salad.
Best First wrote:I thought we could just meander between making well thought out points, being needlessly immature, provocative and generalist, then veer into caring about constructive debate and make a few valid points, act civil for a bit, then lower the tone again, then act offended when we get called on it, then dictate what it is and isn't worth debating, reinterpret a few of my own posts through a less offensive lens, then jaunt down whatever other path our seemingly volatile mood took us in.
An official traitor this timeImpactor returns 2.0 wrote:hot rod. wouldn't that be a change of events...
