Current Ramblings
Friday, October 22, 2004
Can't Talk, Playing Pokemon...
Yeah, um, so I've been meaning to post for a while now, but, well, Pokemon. I had a three day weekend last weekend and, after hunkering down Thursday night to beat the Elite Four, I spent fully half the next three days visiting islands and breeding and making Togepi happy and trading myself an Absol (I Heart Absol) from Sapphire and building a team comprised entirely of Eevee and all its evolutions. I decided to name all the Eevees after the symmetrical combiners from GaoGaiGar: Flareon and Vaporeon are Enryu and Hyoryu, Jolteon and Eevee are Rairyu and Fuuryu, and Umbreon and Espeon are Anryu and Kouryu. I was even lucky enough to get a female Eevee for Umbreon, but sadly Espeon will just have to be a queen.
So what pulls me away from the Unown ruins and brings me back here? I have to comment on Galaxy Force/Cybertron, of course! Those who keep up with the TF news sites have seen all this, but I will provide links for outsiders. ;) (See, I warned you guys this blog got geeky. And for those who don't keep up but do want to see all of this and not just the bits I wanna comment on, they're all posted on the front page of the Allspark.) To start with, Mini-Cons. MINI-FREAKING-CONS, in your face! Yeah, I know, Aaron said it at OTFCC, but that didn't keep me from running around the apartment squealing over them and their tiny misunderstood oppressed cuteness. And it sounds like they'll actually be involved in some way instead of just ferrying Kicker around and being called "his bike". Also, Vector Prime, who not only comes with a Mini-Con that I really, really want to be Over-Run but is also absolutely beautiful. I just can't think of any other word for him. He's beautiful. The silver and gold and translucent blue, the cape made from the panels of his ship mode, the detail. And I love toys that you can just look at and know the character. I really hope the story's good, but at least some of the toys so far have some real character. And there are Mini-Cons.
Also, comics: I would just like to thank Simon Furman for giving us the first new Nightbeat stuff in...gosh, I guess it's right on about 10 years now. (I'M SO OLD.) I felt the tinglings of it, but I think I'm gonna have to sit down with some peace and quiet and reread War Within: Age of Wrath #2 again to fully let that old enthusiasm that Nightbeat represents for me take root. Some people think of Transformers circa 1984 as the "simpler times", I'm happy with 1989.
Though on the subject of comics and 1984, does anybody else think Dreamwave's second TF/Joe crossover's tagline should be, "We Bring Nothing To the Table"? I suppose "All the animated style and flavor of the classic cartoons..." is close enough. Why don't they just have Pat Lee redraw the original Marvel crossover with added bad cursing and gratuitous urination? (No, I will never forgive the urination.) With his storytelling "skills" he could easily stretch that four issues into a 12-issue maxi-series. I'd like to just skip it entirely, but I might fall prey to Jazz being on that wrap-around cover. I'm really not minding him at all in the G1 ongoing.
Okay, that's all off my chest. Maybe next time I'll tabulate approximately how many hours out of my life I have cumulatively spent playing Pokemon.
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