Rhona W

Across Broken Skies [Ace Combat inspired RP]

Le sigh. Okay. Anyone else want to drop out? Or make a post...

GEARS - Mecha Sci-fi with Anthro characters. RP in a detailed, story-driven world.

Shouldn't be a huge issue, we don't move massively fast anyway, so you ought not to miss too much. I'm going to be away effectively until Monday too, so I won't be advancing the plot.

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Just as an FYI, there is an Autobot already called Skydive, he's one of the Aerialbots. Did you mean the same guy, or someone else?

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The first reply to Treadbolts' message made his head ring a little. Whoever it was, they were LOUD, and apparently had no internal volume control. Adjusting the volume, he was about to reply, when a second message - at a much more civilized level - came back.
"Chassis, Recon Alpha Two - this is Treadbolt. Glad to hear someone else survived the uh, impact. I think there's others too. I'm making my way to the bridge. See you there".
Switching frequency, he transmitted again to whomever it was that had the lack of volume control.
"This is Treadbolt. I'm heading to the bridge, as is the only other survivor I got in touch with. If you want to meet us there, we'll work out where the heck we are, and what the situation is".
The bulky soldier picked his way through the corridors and by-ways of the wrecked ship, pausing on occasion to take note of those who had - alas - perished or forced offline from damage. Eventually, he found himself outside the bridge doors. With a heave, he managed to force and coax the doors apart enough to slide his considerable bulk and frame through, and found himself on the bridge.

Part buried and with wreckage and debris hanging, the once hi-tech centre had seen better days. With a sigh, he picked past the broken shapes of more robots, and experimentally tested a few controls - with no positive response.
"Slag," he muttered, before turning to await the others' arrival.

Across Broken Skies [Ace Combat inspired RP]

I love how everyone is saying that they can't understand how the 'UNWO can reach so far into UN territory', When Egypt and Libya are UNWO countries, and are literally on the other side of the Mediterranean from France, Spain and Italy - the same countries where a large number of the aircraft involved in strikes against Libya last year flew from.

Geography, guys ¬.¬

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Parser said
My issue with Bayformers is that it makes the mistake many of the cartoons made: It doesn't center things on giant robots beating the shit out of other giant robots, but instead focuses on some asshole nobody cares about (Sam Witwicky). Having some token human puttering around really detracts from the action; I'd rather that screentime be spent on either introducing additional Autobots and Decepticons, or developing the ones already there.Just putting that out there.

There's a long-held assumption in cinematic and TV circles that audiences need a character who is a 'point of reference', or someone they can 'identify' with. This is why there's often a kid character if the show is aimed at younger viewers, or a human cast member from a 'normal' background so they can ask the questions the audience (according to the studio execs, anyway) are thinking, and the protagonists can explain things to them - and the audience.
This is why you get the human characters in transformers all the time - they're there to 'be the audience'. Even though most of the audience wishes they weren't there in the first place when you ask them.

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Jerkchicken said
Also I find your complaint about a franchise made to sell toys( especially one from the 80's where they were really unsubtle) being shallow in the movies amusing.

Whatever it was made for in the first place or not, does not detract from my reasons for disliking it - I'm not obliged to like the movies if they don't fit what I've enjoyed about the franchise in the past. Whether that amuses you or not is up to you. You don't have to like Transformers for the same reasons as me.

If you want a more 'legitimate' reason for my dislike of them, I think they're just shitty in their pacing, writing, character, dialogue and consistency. But that's secondary to the fact that I don't like them because they don't have what I like in them.

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Kalamadea said
Samus is my favorite heroine ever. She's just completely badass when you disregard her characterization in Other M. That's my only complaint about Other M; how it made Samus like a rookie all over again on her second to last mission, relying on Adam to determine when her tools should be brought online. If she were characterized properly, Adam would have no authority over her.

Wasn't it also horrendously sexist, considering that the original point in the NES game was that 'the badass character is a woman all along', and making her dependent on some boringly normal man kind of took away a bit of her cred as a powerful female.
That said, Japan is hardly the most progressive country in it's approach to female characters >.<

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Kalamadea said
I must be one of the few Transformers fans who sees no huge problems with the Transformers films. They're not perfect, but I don't think they're horrible.Then again, I'm not picky about any franchise. As long as it's entertaining, I have no problems with it.Also, thanks. I should have the sheet up either today or tomorrow.

My main problem with them is that I grew up reading the Marvel transformers comics and several subsequent stories that have followed on from them.
The comics really got into some detail and depth of the characters of both factions, as well as their human friends and allies, and made them into characters with a lot of depth and scope. They also took the story of 'good robots fight bad robots. They also turn into stuff'. And gave it a whole mythology and background that spun out into more of an epic (in the literary sense) tale of ancient forces of primeval creation and destruction that affect more than just themselves.

Michael Bay's movies gave us swinging robot testicles and racist sub-compact sports cars. Oh, and farting robots.

I understand that the movies are targeted toward a more casual audience, but even a casual audience don't need to be treated like idiots, and those movies are - to my opinion - idiotic. They're eye-candy, plain and simple, and as a fan of Transformers, I don't find that they really answer what I want from a Transformers story - non-human characters with developed personality, and stories that have more than robots punching each other while some tediously conventionally 'hot' woman pouts at the camera and THINGS EXPLODE.

But then maybe I want too much out of my movies, since they keep cranking them out and they keep making money.

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Kalamadea said
Well, my character will be more of a martial artist than a straight-up brawler like Krieg. He'd be fast and nimble instead of using brute strength.I also imagine Shockwave will take up the mantle of Decepticon leadership if Megatron never recovers. To be honest, I think Shockwave as Decepticon leader is a bit scarier since he's known to be far more sadistic than Megatron.

It wouldn't be the first time Shockwave has tried to take control. He's been through various periods of being the Decepticon leader in the comics, both Marvel and otherwise. One of the best comic covers of all time has to do with his attempt at taking over.