Current Ramblings
Wednesday, October 22, 2003
I want to sleep.
I hate sinus headache medicine. All that stuff that says "Non-Drowsy" is a total lie. I've used Tylenol Sinus Daytime Formula as sleeping pills before. I think at this point I'm mostly blogging to keep myself awake.
I really like the G1 episode "Dark Awakening". It seems to be a big topic of discussion on ATT right now, probably because it's on the most recently-released Rhino DVD set. I need to pick up that set, but since it's the week just before I get paid, I'm broke. That tends to happen. We get paid every other week, and one of my co-workers asked on an off week whether it was payday or not. Justin and I instantly replied that it wasn't; if you ever wanna know if it's payday, ask the people who spend way too much money on shit like video games and are therefore always broke. So as I was saying, I really love that episode. It's one of the few episodes that I still remembered clearly after the show had been off the air a few years. (Hey, when I was 8 I didn't quite have the memory for that stuff I do now.) I always, always thought Prime was the greatest thing ever, and it was wrenching to see him like that - brought back to life, used as a puppet to hurt his own troops, and then torn apart in the end. And when it first aired you didn't get that "Prime is okay, kids! Tune in next week for Beast Wars Second!" bullshit. He was DEAD, having sacrificed himself to save his own Autobots. Maybe it's like Walky said way back in one of his comic collections about "Titanic" being when he realized it was interesting to hurt your characters in order to get an emotional response from your readers. I think "Dark Awakening" did that for me a decade earlier. I don't fault Marv Wolfman or anybody else involved for bringing him back and negating some of that. If you believe the urban legends, it was public opinion that made the decision. I would go so far as to say there wasn't much choice, because kids really weren't ready for that. I fully admit I was a morbid, depressive little child, and where I was facinated by the angst I felt at watching all that and having Prime die in the first place, I'm sure it probably legitimately upset some kids.
I was going to write another paragraph about something, but I don't remember what it was now. Damn medicine. Maybe it was my pants.
Oh, I remember. I guess it's still on the subject. All this fuss over Anniversary Prime and his removable mouthplate has inspired me. At first I thought it was kinda scary and wanted to keep the thing on, but now I realize what I'd really love to do is customize an Extreme Battle Damage Prime. A Dremel tool, an airbrush, and a bunch of random wires and I could do a seriously neat custom. I could melt half his mouthplate, maybe have one of his arms torn off with wires hanging out of the stump, a couple big torso gashes, maybe even one through his chest that would show the Matrix inside. Not a dead Prime, an Ass-Kicked-But-Still-Fighting Prime. It's a pity it'd run me $75 just for an extra toy to do it to, but if I got some spare cash I'd definitely give it a shot. I really wanna do this now.
Snippet of #wiigii! goodness for today:
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