Author: Hosea

I really enjoyed watching Battlestar Galactica. The story is good, scenes were captivating and I was so addicted, after the first two episodes, I went sleepless and chase episodes after episodes.

The drama was more like a war show but added with lot of politics and unromantic romance. I liked everything about the show except a few stupid plots in the show like, the stupid religious voodoo beliefs in the Gods of Kobol and how it would led them to find earth.

Second stupid plot in the show was those love scenes in the first season. Those scenes were more like blue flim foreplays than love scenes.

Thirdly was the screw-up politics on the fleet and soldiers kept breaking the chain of command. Adding these nonsense made the show messy and demonstrate how weak the fleet was. Interestingly the colonies fought among themselves in politics rather than in one heart fighting the Cylon.

Surprisingly, the show did not have much battle scenes in the space, like Vipers versus Cylon spacecrafts dogfight. The whole show was more about politics than wars in space.

Nevertheless, I enjoyed watching the series. So say we all?

You got to watch Initial D with Dolby 5.1. Watching the cars racing with the 5.1 sound and DVD-9 encoding, I felt liked I was watching the live race. The engine sounds were so real when the engines started and the cars drifted.

Watching the series really stirred me up to run my own workshop with my buddy and mod our own cars and rules the streets. Seem like a far away dream, but it was not. For me, just a matter of commitment.

With great disappointment after watching Michael Bay’s Transformer. Ahhh… I should say Michael Bay’s transformable robots… I decided to go to my favourite DVD shop and bought the Transformer G1 cartoon and watched to my heart contented.

Now I felt like I had watched the Transformer, heard the original music “Transformer… more than meets the eyes… robots in disguise…” and felt the authenticity of transformer characters and their robotic behaviours.

I felt good after watching all four seasons, total of 98 episodes.

I watched the Transformer movie four times and I did not get the feel of the origin. This Michael Bay’s Transformer was really a big disappointment for me. So was his movie Pearl Harbour.

The most disappointment of all, there was no original transformer soundtrack in the movie, not at all. Stupid of me to to even expect a techno or remix.

In the movie, the character of the Autobot leader, Optimus Prime greatly differ from the origin. So was the character of Megatron, the Decepticon leader. When the transformers transformed, the transforming sound was also not the same form the origin and that made the transformer so fake, like pirated stuffs.

In the movie, lot of main characters were missing from the beginning especially from the Decepticon. To make it more like the transformer rather than other sci-fi movie, the Decepticon main characters only appeared almost at the end. I find this damn lame.

Another icon of the Transformer was Starscream always trying to lead the Decepticon was missing. The main human characters in the original Transformer was father and son, not boyfriend with sporty Bumble Bee flirting with babe.

When you watched Resident Evil, you could feel the origin of the video game. Mission Impossible kept the theme song and icon stunts from the origin.

When I watch this movie again, I would not consider as a Transformer movie. I would treat it like another robot show fighting to save the world.

My verdict, it was a movie about transformable robots and not Transformers. What a transformers robots in disguise.