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Portal song: Cybertron ca. 2005
03-26-2012, 08:10 AM
Lyrics:
These landscapes of beauty
Hold more than meets the eye
Darkness comes early
And the night controls the mind
Look into the future
Gaze into the crystal ball
Release all your sorrows
Let the new beginning dawn
I've been waiting for you
Down by the shoreline
Towards the shadows we walk
Without fear in our hearts
Can you feel the hunger of the chosen one
Growing stronger out on the run chosen one
The snow keeps on falling
Inside a cold and darkened world
And no sight of daylight
Makes this place on earth feel cursed
Get out of your nightmare
Find a reason to go on
Just wait for tomorrow
You'll see a new beginning dawn
I've been searching for you
Over the rainbow
Up from the ashes we rise
Just to face a better day
Can you feel the hunger of the chosen one
Growing stronger out on the run
Can you feel the power of the chosen one
Take you higher, touch the sun
I picture Doug arriving just in time for Laserbeak to have left and miss him, and be loaded onto the special run to Earth still unconscious, after some minimal explanations from his bike's AI... He'd probably just wake up in time to be really confused about the battle for Autobot City, and swept up in things from there. I heard a song that could be his gate out earlier this evening, but can't remember it now...
So, how do you think he'd fare against thirty-foot robots?
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I'm reasonably sure Doug's bike doesn't have an AI. Perhaps you meant Eimi, the Girl in the Laptop?
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That's the one! Though I thought she could be docked to the bike to control it during the inevitable post-portal blackout...
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The bike's had an autopilot since DW II... although I suppose Eimi could fly it if she was able to take the controls. (Drive, maybe not. Fly, maybe. Although who knows what skills she's picked up in a couple of centuries...)
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Well, I'm sure she could find time to play around with flight simulator programs (suitably customized to cover a flying motorcycle)
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Since all I know about Transformers I got from UF, the animated movie, and the first live-action film, I really don't know enough to comment about your scenario for his arrival. Quote:So, how do you think he'd fare against thirty-foot robots?
Why don't you wait until I finish the Evangelion Step for an answer to that? Quote:The bike's had an autopilot since DW II
And it's not really an AI, just an expert system, more or less. Quote:although I suppose Eimi could fly it if she was able to take the controls.
Huh. I never thought of that. I'll have to mention that to Helen and see if we can put a reference to that somewhere in DW13.
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This would be him arriving in the first scene of the (original, animated) movie, being on the shuttle the Decepticons hijack but still unconscious so they ignore him, and coming to after they spring their suprise attack at Autobot City, just in time to bail out before the abandoned shuttle crashes into it, or if he's really good take it over via a hacking song on the controls and save both the shuttle and wherever it was pointed at, and possibly some of the Autobot crew if they were just out but not gone before it crashed.
As for the rest... yeah, if Doug can actually compete versus EVA's 30m mecha I suppose 30ft isn't going to be a problem... How does he feel about colossal planet-devouring machine gods?
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ETA: Major reason both for and against this Stagger: Doug meets the Junkions, is anyone ready for this to happen?
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Quote:How does he feel about colossal planet-devouring machine gods?
If they stay in their neighborhood and not his...
Oh, and I saw the TF animated movie so long ago I pretty much remember nothing but the fact that I saw the TF animated movie.
Oh, and that Leonard Nimoy's voice was in it somewhere.
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Nimoy was Galvatron and Unicron after Orson Welles died with only part of the lines recorded, IIRC. The trouble with Unicron is that, like Galactus, he considers the entirety of the universe to be his own buffet table and would probably include any other universes if he was aware of them, so Doug's neighborhood is by default included.
As for watching the movie... it's probably worthwhile to track down a copy at Blockbuster or something (of the dread pirated media we shall not speak) and do so, there are some genuine funny and dramatic moments in between shooting Bambi's mother and kid sidekicks being annoying. Best of all, there's more time spent on the actual Transformers (you know, the ones the movie is named for) as all three Bay movies combined.
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(note, this is the more recent animated show Wreck-Gar, not TFTMP style)
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