Transformers: The Last Knight - Alien Props and Shots

As someone with a diagnosis myself I routinely try to rise above it actually. There are of course times where I cannot and I wander off to be alone to work through it. I am very limited due to either having a psychotic break, hallucinations, or just a foul temper that forces me into being I wouldn't say, Galvatron nutty, but I do have moments where I feel me being on that level.

Frankly, I do my best work with myself when I'm alone. So, most of the time though I stick to myself and collecting my favorite things. If I'm having a bad day I try to surround myself with positive elements. I know my diagnosis hurts and disables me, and it has for a long time. I used to avoid doing anything about it actually. I was afraid, but I wanted to be the one to have "mind over matter". In fact I used to avoid taking medication because I wanted to rise above it myself with no help of any kind, but just be strength of will. I was unable to and am now on medication and doing therapy weekly for it. It used to disappoint me, but now I've come to see it as a positive.

So, believe me, I have a lot of hatred towards humanity myself because of what all I have lived and what not. The thing you have to remember is to prevent yourself from contributing to it too. You don't want to add to the problem actually, you want to rise above it if you can and if you can't then you'll want to back away. It was taught to me a long time ago that you can still enjoy something even and be critical of it as well as tolerant of other dissenting opinions you don't agree with. There's no need for cohesion in this case for universally hating/liking the Bay films. I mean criticism and being expressive of that is one thing. Forcing everyone to agree with you, something else entirely. Everybody is going to like different aspects of TF I've found. Like, for example, I used to dislike Animated and was unwilling to give it a chance because of the animation style. I remained open, and I felt that I didn't give it enough of a chance with that line of thought. Fan reaction to it was pretty positive for it as well and I just knew I was probably being a cranky old man about it.

Philosophically, it's part of the whole "rise above" aspect I mentioned earlier. Not allowing yourself to continually be a victim of your disability and challenging yourself to not be contributing to the problem. That is assuredly hard to master itself and you may only be only able to half-handle it. The point is, you're the little engine that could in this scenario. You are managing, you are surviving, and putting your best foot forward. That's all that matters.

Sabr does have a point about Rescue Bots. It is good for elevating one's mood. Even RID 2015 is a lot happier as well and will help. I mean I watched the "W.W.O.D?" the other night when I was having a mixed episode of some kind and I actually laughed at it. Usually I'm just all sorts of wacky there. Go watch those and look at cute cat pictures to melt away that yuck feeling.

Apologies Va'al for driving this thread to being off-topic. I felt I had something to offer to hopefully benefit the situation.

On topic: I wonder what those set pictures are trying to show. Like is it part of a temple or whatever? And how long until Bay decides it needs a lot of epic lens flair and epic explosions of some kind in the background?

I think I've deciphered the runes! They say:

"General...Motors...is...toying...with...resurrecting...Pontiac"

Tyrannacon wrote:Sabr does have a point about Rescue Bots. It is good for elevating one's mood.

Not only that, but when compared to the films, it's essentially the exact opposite of the films on the criticism spectrum. Virtually every complaint that people tend to make about the movies is completely turned around by Rescue Bots.

Examples:

• Too many unlikable/stupid/unfunny/incompetent humans in the movies? -- Plenty of likable/smart/funny/competent humans in RB
• Not enough focus on the movie robots as characters? -- an abundance of focus on the RB robots as characters
• Too much unfunny potty humor in the movies? -- tons of legitimately funny clean humor in RB
• Too much incomprehensible chaos in the movie action scenes? -- Crystal clear comprehension in the RB action scenes
• Too many pointless explosions in the movies? -- Just the right amount of meaningful explosions in RB
• Poorly-written movie plots that make little sense? -- Intelligently-written RB plots that are clever and enjoyable
• Too little adherence to continuity across the movies? -- Strong adherence to continuity across RB's episodes
• An overglorification of the military in the movies? -- No military warfare of any kind to be found in RB
• Too much focus on the sexualization of the movie humans? -- RB focuses instead on the distinct and developed personalities of its humans
• Underdeveloped villains in the movies? -- Extremely charismatic and competent villains in RB
• An overall dark and at times disturbingly morbid and mean-spirited tone in the movies? -- An overall good-natured, inspirational, uplifting, hopeful, and at times heartwarming tone in RB

It's the perfect cure for one who's tired of all the misery and arguing that the films cause among the fans.

Thank you for the words guys.


I think I'll take a little break from this site for awhile and see how that helps I'll still read the news but I won't check out comments.


I'll check out Rescue bots since I have Netflix.

Hellscream9999 wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Bumblevivisector wrote:I think I've deciphered the runes! They say:

"General...Motors...is...toying...with...resurrecting...Pontiac"

We never had a Brawl in Bayverse. Not onscreen.

No, no, no, that's Devastator, remember, it said so in the subtitles

The Pontiac Bandit.

Another behind the scenes video:
http://alcdn.static.xiaoka.tv/img/swf/p ... eKQEh_fjdx

I don't know about anyone else, but I think Sqweeks might be one of those old British generals who always go on about "back in the glory days....." and stuff like that.

Emerje wrote:Did we already know there would be a convertible version of Bee? I wonder how that will look in robot mode if he transforms to/from it without reformatting?

Emerje

Could be that his robot mode might look like it normally does from the front, while his back would simply lack the car roof kibble it's had in Bee's previously forms.