I’ve tried to objectively state my grievances with Toei, Bandai, and other production houses and toy companies, quite a number of times, here, and over on The Nut Box. Eventually, I come to feel so incredibly clever and proud of the statements I subsequently arrive upon, that I start to edit those posts, and they invariably descend squarely into raving self-righteousness.
I genuinely felt a rebirth of passion with Transformers. However:
1.) It’s ludicrous to cover Transformers in text, as opposed to video, and it’s ABSOLUTELY INSANE to do it when I refuse to spend money on a new camera.
2.) It’s just too expensive of a hobby, innit? At least I didn’t spend that money on Sentai toys, as I am wont to do, when my manic episodes make their unfortunate appearances. Ergo, thank you, Transformers, for helping me with my schizophrenic bullshit.
3.) I want to believe that the movie is enough, but the weight is real. The weight of a franchise completely wedded to a worthless character, when they created a great one that they never gave a chance. Roddy was already written to be weird and awkward, out of the gate, in Season 3. They chose money, just like Toei. I don’t understand the people in this world.
I'd like to thank Doc for the opportunity to write for these blogs. It could easily be argued that it was more harm than good, for me, but I genuinely had fun, in all of the many myriad moments that I did.
Time for me to change. I've got tons of better things to be doing, and I'm going to prove it to that other part of myself.
