Yes ME! lol

 

It begins...

 

HERE WE GOOOOOOOOOOO!@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

This is the late start. It was supposed to start at 1

 

Whatever happened to leaks  

 

Of course I have to leave the house now. And when I get back I have to get ready to go to work. Oh well, at least I'll have something to look forward to when I get back.

 

Let's all enjoy this and have fun!

 

You'll be wanting to check a computer badly when you are at work.

 

I bet they're not gonna do live coverage because the servers crashed constantly every time they did in the past.

 

RFC is on Twitter.

 

LET'S GOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

 

Transformers brand is first to be shown.

 

Bring it on! We can't deal with the waiting!

 

Did you read Silverops post?

 

Please do not disappoint.

 

F5 time!!!!

Toy Fair 2017 Transformers Panel Coverage - Transformers News - TFW2005

 

Dragonstone sounds cooler.

 

Indeed, still, the name is not my favourite and i'm concerned he wont get a good set.

 

I wouldn't say "inaccurate" so much as "out-dated". Certainly, you have more recent examples of the fantasy genre becoming more popular, with Harry Potter and Game of Thrones being the big causes... Sadly, I'm not a fan of either (due to limited experience), but I still submit that a sudden wildfire by no means equals enduring popularity! I am fully aware of how Tolkien stories are sooooo popular... to some. Because the fact is that a large majority of the population couldn't care less about Tolkien - by your recount, the LotR trilogy should be the highest grossing movies of ALL TIME. But they're not. Because fantasy is not as ever-popular as you present it. And I understand: you're a fantasy fan. This means you will tend to over-emphasize the popularity and importance of this genre, even against opposing evidence or reasoning. And you have very good evidence, don't get me wrong (you clearly "know" about this stuff better than me). But when you start to dissect and attempt to categorize Sci-fi like that? Well, I disagree on your results... because they're largely opinions, not facts. You gauge the science of a program or story and then assess it a value of fantasy or science? That's a completely arbitrary scale, with no real measurements that have been established or accepted.

Your analogy of SW being a large medieval epic with wizards? That's just ONE INTERPRETATION. Anyone with lightning powers is now a "wizard"? So if Iron Man blasts lightning from his repulsors, we should say he's derived from fantasy fiction?   Your examples are just full of opinions and subjective judgments, and I really wish you remembered to say it was your opinion - insinuating that these are facts is just silly. You can disagree with me, but I submit that similarities are not the same as plagiarism or copying. You can't just say that fantasy came first, so anything remotely similar is derived from fantasy... that's an incredibly limited view of human imagination.

But again, "medieval history" being more popular is hardly evidence of fantasy being so amazing now. Without proper numbers, it's just hyperbole. Meaning, you can say the field picked up 300%, OR you could say 20,000 more students took to it... the former sounding like magic, the latter being a relatively small number when looking at the total of student studies. Ergo, I take all of your evidence with a grain of salt: you're a fan so you're going to skew the numbers, AND those same numbers can be misconstrued in such a way as to overemphasize the growth or popularity of the genre.

Anyway, I clearly don't have your expertise in this matter, so I am not debating on equal grounds here (apologies!). I just want to say this: you cannot call everything fantasy, just because they're similar. If Optimus wields a bloody sword, you cannot say he's a knight! It takes more than that, but fantasy fans like to equate everything like it's simple math. It's not. And sometimes, I think fantasy elements are too distinctive to really blend into the sci-fi that is TFs. Just my opinion. But I never was a fan of TFs fighting dragons. I feel it's like mixing your tea and coffee together because you like both of them. Sure, I get it. But don't mix them. That's kind of gross, imo.