Why does it always have to be an extreme trade-off? MLP has better writing *and* deeper emotions than TF. So... I'd rather see a higher quality story with emotional depth, is my answer.
That is a fair answer.
But, I was wondering how much weight you would assign to emotional depth.
G1 Season 3 had a few of those sorts of episodes. I liked The Ultimate Weapon, in spite of the poor payoff. Pretty sure I saw First Aid shooting a gun in an episode after that.
That was a pretty solid episode. But, they really should have left out the Rodimus/Galvatron angle.
I will go on record as saying that I believe I hate David Willis more than Dom does. I actually continue to read Shortpacked to this day, just to find fodder to let me hate him more.
And people say that I have issues with the fandom?!?!?!??
Speaking of issues, it is time for Dom to get on the couch!
I generally dislike feelings in fiction. Maybe it is because I am pretty well in touch with my own feelings, (misanthropic as they tend to be). But, I tend to think that fiction has better uses. And, in a more objective sense, I have seen the damage that a focus on feelings has done to education in this country.
At this point, there are college students, even graduates, who can talk all day about how they feel but not much about what they think. Assignments that ask them to objectively consider subject matter (in any number of disciplines) are answered with multiple "I" statements, often at the encouragement of instructors (the same people who should be discouraging that kind of behavior).
It is all about emotion dammit. It is all about what the reader feels, not what the writer has actually written.
For years, we have had the creative misreading (not always relating to humour) about how "the Transformers are ghey 'cuz they is all doods"). And, a fair amount of that was from fans who *wanted* gay robots for.....whatever goddam buggyfuck crazy reason they wanted gay robots for. But, that sort of thinking was ultimately rooted in a misreading....unitl now.
Now, we have a comic that specifically is rewarding that kind of thinking. And, it is rewarding and validating that thinking in a fandom that has trouble parsing back-writes from original content (along with possibly fact and fiction). Now, the "ghey space robots" crowd" has been all around validated. And, it is happening in a book that is literally and metaphorically aimless aside from incorporating all kinds of fannish bits that make TFs more human and easier to identify with, even if the story has no other purpose. And, at least some of the fandom needs this. They fucking need to identify with their damned gay space robots because it is how they feel. And, how they feel is more important than what they might think or understand because they do not fucking think or understand.
Is this really unique to the Transfandom? No. But, dammit, I was hoping that it would be much less prominent.
And, yes, this does make me angry. I have no desire to read comics that play in to and reward a poisonous trend in this country.
Dom
-actually is going to study on a couch in the lounge.
