Current Ramblings
Saturday, October 04, 2003
I don't understand the US Saint Seiya opening. I'm really not the sort of person to whine and nit-pick over anime dubs, but...I mean, why is it just a montage under Bowling For Soup's cover of "I Ran"? What's WRONG with them? It's not that it's an insult to the original whatever, it just doesn't actually make sense. And why is this guy a woman?
I posted something to the Allspark the other day that I really like, so I think I'll repost it here. It was in a thread about the true leader of the Mini-Cons:
"I, being me, have naturally come up with a big theory regarding these guys and leadership of the Mini-Cons. (I'm also doing bios for both of them for a project, which helps.) I see it as a sort of Optimus/Rodimus thing. Leader-1 was their leader back on Cybertron, and he was really well-respected and everybody thought he was great. And he was great. He was a wise, compassionate leader. Which was why Megatron picked him as his personal pet. Sparkplug is just this guy at first (he wasn't actually a leader on Cybertron, he was shown more as, well, just this guy), but through being around Optimus I see him coming to realize he's sort of a "chosen one" (which I think is why he ended up with Optimus in the first place, because of a sort of subconscious recognition of this by both of them). He's a natural leader and has a great deal of concern and compassion for his fellow Mini-Cons, and he really has a lot of Autobot-leader qualities, but since he was always just this guy, he has a lot of self-doubt. I see him as having a heaping dose of good, old-fashioned, Furman-era Matrix Affinity. And I see Corona Sparkplug as being the full realization of this. Meanwhile, Leader-1 has been so twisted and warped by his time as Megatron's favorite slave that he no longer cares about the other Mini-Cons, only about revenge. He's pretty tragic, really.
This is all just my own fanficking BS, though, so don't take any of it as canon unless you really like it."
I like Mini-Cons. A lot.
posted@7:09 PM by:Trixter: 0 comments