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who's to say Transformers can't be considered art? or can't be elevated past the "it's just a big long toy commercial" tag? TFs have come a long way since the 1980s my friend. you probably never saw it, but there was a little show in the mid-to-late 90's called "Beast Wars: Transformers". this show single-handedly made TFs a respectable franchise within the scifi world, as a SHOW first and foremost. for a kid's show, it had great characters, thick plots which unravelled over the course of 3 seasons, it had plenty of violence and death. most of it all it heavily incorporated the original TFs show into its own, establishing itself as part of the official TFs canon. trust me there are plenty of reasons to be a TFs fan. personally i was never about the toys, i was always about the show. the original toon was childish looking back on it now, but it set up a great mythology. the movie was great cos it upped the ante. and Beast Wars was a CLASSIC n i defy anyone to refute that claim ("code of hero" and "the agenda" trilogy are enough to argue this point).
there's plenty of reasons why a TFs fan would be a fan. they love the toys, the lore, the mythology, the show, the characters, they love the sense of history that's involved in the story. whatever. okay u said urself, unhealthy obsessions should be about art, "however you might define it". isn't that just it? isn't art subjective? who exactly are you to tell us or anyone else what their unhealthy obsession *should* be about? aren't a lot of the guests on your show from comedy? can you consider their craft an 'art'? some might not.
i think ur about 20 years too late to be arguing this crap. shoulda woulda coulda. this is what it is! lol. you're not going to change anything, trust me. TFs is an institution. it's firmly entrenched in pop culture. has been for decades! specially recently with the resurgence of the popularity of the 80s. and then a TFs MOVIE is announced? first of all, as a longtime fan (and most are), how hyped would u be. second, considering that the filmmakers and producers have 20 years of rich history to draw on, these recent re-designs of characters have been like a knife in the back. TRANSFORMERS has its own take on what 'robots in disguise' should look like. i could understand slight tweakings and re-modelings that wouldn't stray too far from the original concepts, but these new movie designs?? getting past the fact that they're just atrocious in general, they don't represent the characters, or the history of the franchise at all. as a fan/nerd/watever label you want to put on it, wouldn't u be upset??
there is no validity in singling out and painting TFs fans as children who never grew up by pointing out how upset we are over the direction the movie is taking. you can take ANY well-established franchise with a loyal fanbase and make a fucked up movie, it'll get the same response. i mean even moving away from animation and geekdom, these new designs of the TFs characters are like akin to making a feature length film of The Office, and replacing every single character with a new actor. if u can't see it through the nerd's eyes, look at it through that simple view. fan response has been so negative because they couldn't even get the SIMPLE things right, like character designs and colours, none of which bodes well for the rest of the movie at large. and these aren't asinine or nerdy things to ask for, this has been the hallmark of TFs since jump! Optimus and Megatron look a certain way. it's not EVEN about nostalgia at this point, it's about the SIMPLE DETAILS. it's like making a film from a novel, and not staying true to the source. i know this rarely happens anyway, but removing those things which are hallmarks of a character is just a bastardisation of the text. that's why you have these angry fans on the net now calling for Michael Bay's head. it is very easy NOT to fuck up a TFs movie, because you have the source material all around you, and there's so much of it to draw from. what if Nolan didn't use the source material which he utilised for Batman Begins? and tried 'his own vision'? we wouldn't have gotten the film we got.
i think criticising the fans that they should've expected this to happen is fair, it's not like anything gets done right in Hollywood all the time. but criticising a whole fanbase? you're out of your goddamn mind lol. you're basically spitting on 20+ years of history. TFs has existed in comics as well television, with emphasis on story and characters. with what arrogance do you proclaim TFs not be a work of literature? cos it's not high art? lol please. you're also boxing ALL TFs fans into this one category. me? i was BORN in 1984. i barely caught a few episodes of Transformers on TV. i had a few toys. my older brother was more into it than i was, but i was just too young. then in the 90s, "Beast Wars" happened. which got me retroactively into the original series. so it's not just ppl who were teens in the 80s who are fans, there are 80s babies like me who got into the franchise MUCH later on. and with the continued success of TFs in its various incarnations over recent years, it's probably attracted even more of a diverse fanbase. but mark my words, no matter how old the fan, anyone that calls themselves a fan of TFs knows that these new movie designs are FUCKED.UP. simple as that man! we don't wanna see Bionicle: The Movie. we wanna be paying our cash to see fucking TRANSFORMERS! lol.
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