Search results

Please do. I've been distracted, but I'll try to play catchup. The music analogy is interesting, but I'm inclined to think unhelpful. As I noted earlier, I'm predisposed to think "sex" and "gender" pick out the same concepts. Much like we say "water" is H2O, I'm inclined to say "gender"...

I didn't mean to spoil it, but it's hard to discuss this movie without discussing that very amateur moral distinction. Sanchez seems to have just "had enough" of his evil boss, so he commits suicide or something. At times the script felt like it was written by A.I., and you can certainly see...

Oh, and I forgot the bit where his family make fun of his tiny penis. Because, you know, it's a DC movie. TM2-Megs, you compare this to the MCU, but Tony Stark flying halfway around the world to "get back" at some terrorists is probably one of the weaker moments of the film. It really plays...

I saw this today. Some of it was good; some of it felt like it was written by (bad) AI, but mostly it felt like no one bothered to think about what the movie was trying to tell us. The big problem comes with Jamie's decision not to kill. At one point in the film, the suit goes to kill a...

It kind of felt like an abrupt sprint to a finale. Superman "trying to do too much" and "hearing everything" are two unique and interesting concepts a "new" Superman would have to deal with. And, frankly, they're things you'd want him to come to some sort of conclusion on. No cartoon...

Ugh... I think I just put my finger on two problems that have been bugging me with regards to their jobs. First, let's be honest, there's no reason these people are interns. Lois Lane is the kind of crazy that would write a news blog, and Jimmy is already a youtube conspiracy theorist. I know...

Just watched episode 7... it felt like something of a cheat. + Their Mitzelplik works. It's very anime, but given how generic and boring the actual human villains were with anime inspiration, this at least stands out and is fun. - But apparently he's not "of this world," which doesn't work...

Thank you for the follow up! I understand this is a common way in which people who draw a distinction between gender and sex talk, but I don't think it makes sense. I think you're going for a form of gender subjectivism, but I think this common way of talking about gender subjectivism is...

I. Thank you for the reply and the clarifications. My background is in analytic philosophy, so if you'll indulge me, I'd like to follow up on a few of your points. First, of course you're right "has pronouns" is technically incorrect, but was (I thought) a good way of drawing attention to the...

What are your thoughts on the idea that (some, obviously) transformers use alt-mode selection as a form of self-expression or self-determination? I can think of 3 notable examples: First, in Beast Wars, it's implied the original crews chose (compatible?) alt local alt modes for their power...

The ice in both stories doesn't behave like normal ice. In Hamster and Gretel it's a plotpoint. In MAWS its not. In H&G, Gretel think the ice is normal and tries to interact it as a super powered being would interact with normal ice, but it's not normal ice, which frustrates our hero...

Well.... I can't believe I'm saying this, but Hamster and Gretel did a better ice villain than this latest Superman episode. Both shows feature the villain freezing people, and the hero stopping it "instantly." H&G's villain notes that the frozen people are quantum entangled with the source...

I watched the first two episodes last night on MAX and... I have thoughts. First, why is this on Adult Swim? This seems like a perfectly average "young adult" cartoon; maybe skewing a bit older than Superman The Animated Series, but not by much. Second, given the title I was expecting more of...

This is where you lost me. Beast Machines breaks the mold in a few ways, but it begins with Megatron having conquered cybertron. He doesn't "want" anything; he has everything he ever wanted. Season 2 of Beast Machines changed this status quo, and it ended with Megatron doing [something], but...

I think Michael Bay's live action transformers was to blame; it came out immediately after an oil crisis of it's own, after all. They were more enamored with the idea that human technology was developed from Cybertronians (... maybe?), but that went nowhere and was always a bad idea (like that...

Good question. I wouldn't mind Titan pricepoint Beast Wars ships; whereas the Ark and Nemesis are in scale with "nanofigures" (ugh), I think you could do an Axalon or Darksyde with an opening bridge that could fit, say, Micromaster-scale versions of the Beast Figures. (They'd be out of scale...

I think maybe the time has come and gone; he'd be great as a Battle Master (~$5) figure, as long as he could be used as a club (or better still, gun) in alt mode. I suppose a fair Core class figure could work, but few places even bother to carry Core class anymore. Maybe if they do a...

The title of the shared universe, "Energon Universe," is kind of an anti-hook for me. I like shared universes, but not when they just hit you over the head with them. I don't like Joe/Cobra being "Let's mine energon," and I don't like Earth having Energon... at least not enough for an arms...

Brown Owlbear sounds cool! Thanks for the heads up! Regarding Pulse, I don't like it as a subscription service. It feels predatory to pay them for the privilege of pre-ordering product at cost. I still order from Pulse, but every time Pulse is sold out and I can get it on Amazon, I get it...