Ethan’s showing Joyce some Beast Wars. Trying to hook someone on to Transformers with original G1 episodes is not a bright idea. I swear, the last girl I showed “Bad Spark” to I ended up marrying.
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Ethan’s showing Joyce some Beast Wars. Trying to hook someone on to Transformers with original G1 episodes is not a bright idea. I swear, the last girl I showed “Bad Spark” to I ended up marrying.
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No woman can resist Beast Wars. The power of Dinobot compels them!
So that’s what they’re watching. I guess that’s about right since I think this Ethan is too young to have watched the original series.
Too young for Transformers? NEVER!
i don’t know how valid that is. i grew up watching universal’s monster movies as a kid. movies that were about 50 years older than i am. G1 may not have been on the air during ethan’s childhood, but episodes have been available on VHS and DVD throughout his life. i don’t think it would be unusual for him to seek out more transformers at blockbuster at some point.
If he had access to video recordings then I could see that, but back in my day once Transformers was off the air it was off the air. There was no Hub or any other channel to show repeats and the only videos you could rent were the pilot episodes and a few other best episode compilations. It’s possible a sibling or some other relations or family friend gave them to Ethan and he was hooked. Or maybe he got interested when they reintroduced the series back in the early 90s with CGI cutaways added. It reawakened my nostalgia as well as made me realize just how bad the animation and plots were.
According to Willis, Ethan has seen the original series on Netflix but wasn’t raised on it. As the timescale slides what series Ethan first saw will change.
Transformers G1 has been on dvd for a while now.
The millions of years thing also bothered me.
i know right? Time and Transformers tend to butt heads as far as backstories go.
At least they weren’t organic, the radioactive atoms found in normal living cells would have damaged them beyond repair if they were cytogenetically frozen.
cytogenetically = cryogenics
The G1 guys weren’t frozen for 4 million years, they were just knocked unconscious.
It was a pretty good nap.
I thought it because the impact of the crash damaged them severely.
and they just kinda walked it off.
Well, Teletraan 1 did repair all of them.
Teletraan is one SLOW computer then.
Well, Teletraan was being hacked sometime in caveman times.
What with? Stone axes?
Blackarachnia hacked Teletraan 1 IIRC.
Teletron-1 is damaged. SOMEHOW the explosion triggers something and it begins repairing?
I often wonder if it’s safe to assume the Maximals fixed the arc enough so that when the volcano would erupt everything would activate…
Yeah it’d be a retcon so what? It’s the only thing that makes any real sense but then again trying to make sense of gen 1 takes all the fun out of gen 1…
I think that counts as a coma at least.
Man, I always thought they just passed out after a night of drinking.
Drinking… what, exactly? Energon? I wonder just what kind of biochemical properties energon has. IIRC it’s always been something between caffeine, some sort of energy drink, and radioactive plasma.
It didn’t bother me as much as the fact that the Maximals have been trampling in the Ark.
Could be worse, they could poop.
Well, Optimus did get head blown off by Pred Megatron which pretty much ensuring that Cybertron would be digested by Unicron and they did some modification to the Ark when the Maximals used it as base like the boxing glove booby trap for instance.
HEH! I forgot about that problem with Megatron’s plan!
“I know! I’ll kill Optimus Prime and make it so the Decepticons win! That’ll show ’em!”
Oh hai Unicron! Herp de derp! Whar is Matrix? Herp!
Eh, Megatron would have 4 million years to figure out another way to funnel Primus’ essence into his evil brother. The Matrix of Leadership itself is just a doorway to a dimension where that essence is contained.
But if we’re following the time travel conventions that wiping out Optimus wipes out the Maximals, shouldn’t Megs disappear as well seeing if Unicron eats Cybertron, most of the Decepticons would be wiped out as well leaving only Galvatron, Cyclonus and his armada, Scourge and the Sweeps and whatever Cybertronian not on Cybertron?
The story presented the idea that getting rid of the Autobots would make the Maximals not happen. But since Megatron was winning the war for the Decepticons, leaving them alive, the Predacons could still possibly happen. And apparently they would, since Megatron didn’t start fading like the Maximals did.
i always thought that since transformers last so long, their concept of time is different from ours. a million years to them might be like a decade to us. that thundercats episode “song of the petalars” had the same concept.
Good observation ryan. But I’m not sure they do, only because they deal with so many short lived life forms. They have more of an Elven concept. Disregarding the short sections like months or even years, but they understand the concepts there shorter lived allies live in.
transformers is the most controvertial tv show ever.
Well, in Canada, the thing was called “Beasties” instead of “Beast Wars”. But that was more because the station, YTV, didn’t want to air anything with the word “war” in the title. A minor scandal, though.
I wonder why they didn’t go with like “Beast Bots” Or “Beast-Formers” or even “Mechimals”
Wait until she DOES see some G1 and picks up the gay vibe between Megatron and Starscream.
Gay vibes? I see as more of a spousal abuse type of relationship.
Megatron and Starscream are tsundere for each other.
I always got more of an extreme sexual tension.
well at least the abuse is mutual.
does that make it better, right?
I can’t handle this. First a friend of mine ruins my childhood by pointing out that the mom in “I’ll Love You Forever” is a creepy, psycho, breaking & entering stalker. Now I’m being told that Starscream and Megatron are gay for each other. Next, I’ll find out that the Power Rangers were racist or something.
WHY CAN’T YOU PEOPLE LEAVE MY MEMORIES ALONE!?
Q: WHY CAN’T YOU PEOPLE LEAVE MY MEMORIES ALONE!?
A: COS THAT’S HOW THE INTERNET ROLLS THAT’S WHY!
gay transformers ruins your childhood? Doesn’t seem too bad t’ me
Gay transformers didn’t ruin my childhood, Michael Bay did. (Sorry for those who are fans of the movies)
Michael Bay didn’t ruin my childhood, Father time did.
Hey, my childhood was Batman:TAS. Yeah.
My childhood was ruined by StalkerMom, not gay Transformers. But, that being said, I’m not happy about the mental image of two robots doing the nasty that I’ve got going on right now.
Mine was ruined by Hollywood. DAMN YOU FOX FOR RUINING MY CHILDHOOD!
Everyone knows that when it comes to ruining childhoods, no one comes close to George Lucas.
Seeing someone draw Robotnik being gay/mechasexual for Scratch ruind my childhood, and AoStH wasn’t even apart of my childhood…
But then again thats cause it reminds me of the things people do with XJ9…
“Next, I’ll find out that the Power Rangers were racist or something.”
You mean you didn’t notice which uniforms Zordon put Zack and Trini in?
(Yes, I know, coincidence.)
Trust a Time Lord to actually get the joke.
(sort of)
Trust a Time Lord to get any old joke.
Or busts out laughing when someone uses a word that becomes sexual innuendo in about 600 years.
i always found that hilarious
Personally I didn’t notice till it was pointed out when I was watching Linkara’s History of Power Rangers.
The best coincidence is how they started focusing on Tommy’s Native American heritage in Zeo when he was the Red Ranger…
Look, at least you didn’t get that subtext AFTER you saw TF porno (it exists and was very popular in Fanfic form back in the late 90s…)
Oy.
On the one hand…
On the other hand, why did you watch a TF porno?
Maybe its like when you stumble on those medical documentaries mid surgery. You wanna look away but for some ungodly reason you can’t bring yourself to move a muscle.
G1? Wait until she sees Knock Out in Prime!
Why wait? Tracks in G1 seems to be the type.
Oh Doc if she’s not picking up on Ethan, I doubt she’ll pick up on them…
I think we have firmly established that Joyce cannot or will not pick up on gay vibes.
I’m enjoying Joyce’s face in the second panel, and I do not know why.
Joyce is not prepared for Pokemon.
But the Vatican says pokemon is okay!
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,620818,00.html
Though I suppose since Joyce isn’t Catholic that doesn’t mean anything.
Unfortunately, they still consider Harry Potter and Yoga satanic. Oh well!
Ya beat me to the punch. Ahm gonna be very dissappointed if she’s not introduced to Pokemon eventually.
She’ll have to be! They’re all 90/00s kids now. It’s Pokemon, Power Rangers, and Toonami from this point on for these guys. Right?
I bet Walky would be psyched that Toonami is back on Adult Swim. Then Mike will have to mock him for being excited about glorified commercial bumpers…
“Ethan’s showing Joyce some Beast Wars”
Ethan is a prince among men and the best character in the whole strip.
Its funny. I wanted to watch Beast Wars with my boyfriend I showed him Bad Spark first because the first season kind of drags and I needed some time to figure out what episodes we could skip from it. He liked that episode a lot and was able to look over things like the name scene and those cheesy title drop lines from season 1.
Bad Spark was a pretty good episode though I prefer Code of Honor and The Low Road.
Hey, I just noticed that Ethan’s clothes is quite similar to the Shortpacked! uniform.
I was about to say, “Oh come on, Joyce, even the Church accepts Evolution as fact”, but then I remembered that that was a different branch of Christianity than Joyce is in… :<
I wish I could find a girl who interested in giant robots.
Hello. I am a girl. I am interested in giant robots of many varieties. My favourites happen to be the MadCat from Mechwarrior/Battletech, and any one of the several Variable Fighters from the Macross serieses. I once fangirled all over Amanda Tapping.
You’ve found one. Fat lot of good it’ll do you, but you’ve found one.
Wish there’s people like you where I’m from.
BTW, how much do you know about Super Robots?
Battletech? I remember playing that back in the 90s, I even used to own the 2750, 3025, 3050 and 3055 tech manuals.
My favourites were the Marauder IIC, Highlander and Locust.
Ain’t gonna lie. Women that know their BattleTech are hot.
The main reason I stopped playing it was because just about everyone I used to play with got into Magic: The Gathering and that is one EXPENSIVE habit to take up or it was expensive for me back at that time.
nothin quite like the fun of a good old fashioned Highlander Burial
(for those not in the know, the Highlander mech tips the scales at 90 tons, which is only 10 tons off the maximum size they get to. it is also equipped with Jump Jets, & a common tactic used by smaller faster mechs was to Jump & land on top of other mechs, since it would focus a lot of damage at fairly sensitive components. People got a bit dismayed when someone performed the maneuver with a mech large enough to literally pummel another so far into the ground that it required excavation to recover the scrap.)
I’m into mecha anime – Macross, Gundam (real Gundum, old gundam, Wing, not-so-much) Zone of Enders, and such.
We exist, we can just be hard to pinpoint because we look just like other girls.
i was excited when this storyline started out b/c i have netflix and transformers: beast wars just got added to it and i thought that was a pretty good sign (if only barely relevant)
Oh Joyce, you so precious.
Beast Wars was always my favorite Transformers series, which seems weird I guess to others.
You don’t know Willis, he loves that amazing stuff! So I’ve heard…
I personally think the first season drags quite a bit but the second and third season are amazing. Of course it’s understandable that the first season drags a bit. Most first seasons do.
I’m not sure if Beast Wars or Animated is my favorite personally. It fluctuates based on my mood.
Yeah even though I didn’t get to see Animate in its entirety, and I’m not Transformers buff, I really enjoyed it!
The last series before Animated (or two? the one(s) where the bots were in CG and I remember at one point the All Spark was spread into these mini Transformer guys) was such a let down, it felt really bland and cheesy.
Unfortunatley my memory of Beast Wars is fuzzy at best (I can only remember optmus Prime incarnated as a Gorilla (Hey WIllis, is that why Monkey Master is a primate?) and someone else as a cheetah) cause I’m only 19, but I enjoyed Animated, and… the Micheal Bay movies. *Ducks down in case of gunfire or thrown bricks*
The “Yeah” at the beginning was @ “I’m not sure if Beast Wars or Animated is my favorite personally.”
I also haven’t watched much of the Original series, as it was aired before my time. But I grew up watching Beast Wars in the morning before Elementary school.
I think that fills in any holes in comment, I’m a bit tired so yeah.
The “CG with Mini Transformers” series was called Cybertron and was a kinda sequel to Transformers Energon and Armada. Though, your description confused me because the Allspark was not very prevalent in TF lore except in some G1 episodes and the movies. Which reminds me. *cocks shotgun* DIE BAY LOVER!
I’m disappointed by recent Joyce strips. One of the things that attracts me to DoA and its predecessors is that even thought Willis has nothing at all in common with Joyce, his portrayal of the character has generally been sympathetic and deft. In the past month or so, this hasn’t been the case. Here she seems a parody of herself. I hope it’s just a temporary problem.
She seems consistent to me – this is the girl who packs dozens of Chick Tracts around with her. No matter how sympathetically or deftly he’s been portraying her she’s been the same Jesus freak this entire time. (And the same person who can’t identify non-viable dating options.) The only difference in the past few strips is that she’s not being stalked by a rapist or getting into any fights, and so there’s no drama to distract from the fact that she was raised marinating in unstirred religion.
Joyce has always been a little cartoonish–this is the same girl whose mom told her Power Rangers promotes Eastern religion and who admits herself that she’s “not accustomed to diversity.” Sometimes the the exaggeration is funny, and other times I find it unrealistic and annoying. This is probably one of Joyce’s least grating Fundie Moments, but I can see how the cumulative effect might be a turnoff.
*head sinks*
My mother warned me about things promoting Eastern religion.
I’m… I’m going to go hide over here.
Well, I’m kinda in the same boat. My parents made me return Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past because of all the sorcery, and I couldn’t wear my Cloud Strife t-shirt to school because my mom thought it was “too militant.”
I was in 9th grade then. I guess I’m a little cartoonish myself.
I’m pretty sure that a disturbingly large percentage of humanity is “cartoonish”. It’s hard for us on the outside to imagine, but…yeah.
Wow. I thought I was joking, but apparently I called it!
Irony: talking about how an intellectual property might be needlessly controversial by bringing up the controversy in another intellecutal property.
Ethan STILL looks like a creeper to me
Good thing Ethan didn’t introduce Joyce to Transformers Prime or she be freaking out that she is a spawn of Satan.
No wonder Red Alert said we humans were similar to Mini-cons.
Oddly enough, the last woman that I showed Bad Spark to (and yes, it was just “that” episode, so she could get an idea of why I liked Beast Wars) I married as well!
Always start with “Bad Spark.” You can back up earlier than that later if you want to, but always start with “Bad Spark.”