Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Looking at that series, after the first three episodes of that show, subsequent episodes use the American style episodic format of 1980's western cartoons, until later episodes in that series eventually ditch the standalone episode format and concentrate instead on a more Japanese style ongoing story arc.
It puts you to sleep when it decides to stop goofing around with meaningless plots and gets on with telling an actual ongoing storyline? Something the G1 cartoon never bothered to do?ScottyP wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Looking at that series, after the first three episodes of that show, subsequent episodes use the American style episodic format of 1980's western cartoons, until later episodes in that series eventually ditch the standalone episode format and concentrate instead on a more Japanese style ongoing story arc.
This may explain why Headmasters absolutely puts me to sleep around episode 20 or so (That's not an exact number, btw). It just starts to drag on way too slowly for my taste, especially after the frenetic pace of change set at the get go.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:It puts you to sleep when it decides to stop goofing around with meaningless plots and gets on with telling an actual ongoing storyline? Something the G1 cartoon never bothered to do?ScottyP wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Looking at that series, after the first three episodes of that show, subsequent episodes use the American style episodic format of 1980's western cartoons, until later episodes in that series eventually ditch the standalone episode format and concentrate instead on a more Japanese style ongoing story arc.
This may explain why Headmasters absolutely puts me to sleep around episode 20 or so (That's not an exact number, btw). It just starts to drag on way too slowly for my taste, especially after the frenetic pace of change set at the get go.
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
Dead Metal wrote:"Teach us your transformation techniques or we'll let them have it!"
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Dead Metal wrote:"Teach us your transformation techniques or we'll let them have it!"
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
False. Hasbro botched the subtitle scripts for the Shout! Factory DVD releases of the JG1 cartoons, rewriting many lines of dialogue into utter nonsense, both in the contexts of the Japanese continuity and in general contexts.Dead Metal wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Dead Metal wrote:"Teach us your transformation techniques or we'll let them have it!"
As much as I love Klaus, it's all on Takara in this instance.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Don't quite get ya since he's virtually owned everyone he's ever fought one-on-one. Any time he's been defeated is no different from when any Decepticons get beaten.Blast Cannon wrote:I liked it when they made Sixshot into a bitch.*
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Don't quite get ya since he's virtually owned everyone he's ever fought one-on-one. Any time he's been defeated is no different from when any Decepticons get beaten.Blast Cannon wrote:I liked it when they made Sixshot into a bitch.*
Dude even scored one of the most critical kills in the series.
Blast Cannon wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Don't quite get ya since he's virtually owned everyone he's ever fought one-on-one. Any time he's been defeated is no different from when any Decepticons get beaten.Blast Cannon wrote:I liked it when they made Sixshot into a bitch.*
Dude even scored one of the most critical kills in the series.
Then he became a bitch and decided to turn into an Autobot in the most bizarre piece of character development since they had Spike father a son.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Honor. He's a ninja who had been fighting with the Cons for so long that he'd forgotten what it meant to fight with honor. It was Daniel who helped him to realize that and eventually turn over a new leaf.Blast Cannon wrote:Sixshot the bitch inexplicably starts protecting Spike's dopey son who, in an ironic turn of events, is also a bitch.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Honor. He's a ninja who had been fighting with the Cons for so long that he'd forgotten what it meant to fight with honor. It was Daniel who helped him to realize that and eventually turn over a new leaf.Blast Cannon wrote:Sixshot the bitch inexplicably starts protecting Spike's dopey son who, in an ironic turn of events, is also a bitch.
At least he (and Chromedome) had some development, unlike 90% of the rest of the cast, including the 1984-1986 cast members.
A powerful and high ranking Six Clan ninja allows everything he has ever thought or believed in to be changed by a bunch of Saturday morning cartoon villains. Yep, but it was long before he met Daniel.Blast Cannon wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Honor. He's a ninja who had been fighting with the Cons for so long that he'd forgotten what it meant to fight with honor. It was Daniel who helped him to realize that and eventually turn over a new leaf.Blast Cannon wrote:Sixshot the bitch inexplicably starts protecting Spike's dopey son who, in an ironic turn of events, is also a bitch.
At least he (and Chromedome) had some development, unlike 90% of the rest of the cast, including the 1984-1986 cast members.
A powerful and high ranking Decepticon ninja allows everything he has ever thought or believed in to be changed by a ten year old boy. Face it, he's a bitch.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:False. Hasbro botched the subtitle scripts for the Shout! Factory DVD releases of the JG1 cartoons, rewriting many lines of dialogue into utter nonsense, both in the contexts of the Japanese continuity and in general contexts.Dead Metal wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Dead Metal wrote:"Teach us your transformation techniques or we'll let them have it!"
As much as I love Klaus, it's all on Takara in this instance.
That above line is but one of many such rewritten lines. The original dialogue had the Decepticon Headmasters threatening to kill their hostages unless the Autobot Headmasters were to surrender their Transtectors to the Cons. Whoever rewrote that line obviously had no idea what they were doing, and all three DVD sets are full of such moronic subtitle changes.
Sabrblade wrote:Honor. He's a ninja who had been fighting with the Cons for so long that he'd forgotten what it meant to fight with honor. It was Daniel who helped him to realize that and eventually turn over a new leaf.Blast Cannon wrote:Sixshot the bitch inexplicably starts protecting Spike's dopey son who, in an ironic turn of events, is also a bitch.
At least he (and Chromedome) had some development, unlike 90% of the rest of the cast, including the 1984-1986 cast members.
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
Well I'll be darned.Dead Metal wrote:Nope, don't have the Shout Factory sets. I have the Metrodome sets, which have been translated by fans and which you previously praised as beeing sooo much better and authentic when Shout released their sets.
Sixshot is just one of many fictional ninjas that are portrayed unrealistically as abiding by honor and respect like Samurai do instead of just being lethal assassins. Just like Batman, the TMNT, Snake Eyes, even the Power Rangers for a couple series.Dead Metal wrote:Ninja don't have honor, they are assassins that kill everyone but their own. If Sixshot was a true Ninja and functioned under Ninja honor, then he actually dishonored himself when he decided to protect one of his enemies and in turn fight his enemies.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Well I'll be darned.Dead Metal wrote:Nope, don't have the Shout Factory sets. I have the Metrodome sets, which have been translated by fans and which you previously praised as beeing sooo much better and authentic when Shout released their sets.
I have to confess that even the Metrodome ones are imperfect. Granted, the Shout! Factory ones are worse, making the Metrodome ones the lesser evil, but Metrodome's subs did flub a lot of translations for The Headmasters (the Metrodome subs for Masterforce and Victory, however, are in good condition).
There's a bit of behind-the-scenes info regarding the Metrodome subs for their JG1 DVD releases. Their subs for The Headmasters were done by a professional translation company who were really unfamiliar with the content of what they were translating, and thus wound up mistranslating some things, an even misspelling things as well. Fan consultant Chris McFeely, who was involved in the Metrodome DVD releases, attempted to fix a lot of these mistakes, but his final revision of the subs sadly didn't make it into the final product, rendering Metrodome's subs of The Headmasters flawed in their own right.
For their releases of Masterforce and Victory, however, they went with a different translation source: Fansubbing group TV-Nihon. They got permission from that group to use their subtitle scripts, which Chris did successfully edit to remove and replace the "Onore kisama-yatsu!" type stuff with appropriate English equivalents, making for a much better quality translation for those two series that what The Headmasters got.
So, then, I retract my previous blaming of Hasbro for that stupid line and re-aim it at the true culprit: The company Metrodome used for that release.
Sabrblade wrote:Sixshot is just one of many fictional ninjas that are portrayed unrealistically as abiding by honor and respect like Samurai do instead of just being lethal assassins. Just like Batman, the TMNT, Snake Eyes, even the Power Rangers for a couple series.Dead Metal wrote:Ninja don't have honor, they are assassins that kill everyone but their own. If Sixshot was a true Ninja and functioned under Ninja honor, then he actually dishonored himself when he decided to protect one of his enemies and in turn fight his enemies.
Sabrblade wrote:After all, true ninjas also don't make "ninja magic clones" of themselves a la the Pokemon attack called "Double Team".
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
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