ZONE!

[Benn]

You forgot the rabbit?

[Shockprowl]

I wish I could forget the rabbit...



Blue', I... I just don't have anything to say about it! It was fairly aweful without the filtering effect of nostalgia! Full of characters I'm not familiar with and have no connection to!


I JUST DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT IT!

[blueshift]

Feb 23, 2019 13:02:17 GMT Shockprowl said:

I wish I could forget the rabbit...



Blue', I... I just don't have anything to say about it! It was fairly aweful without the filtering effect of nostalgia! Full of characters I'm not familiar with and have no connection to!


I JUST DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT IT!

But what about when they sliced predaking in half and you saw his robot brain

[Shockprowl]

Errm, a bit too violent for what I look for in a Transformer cartoon. I'm a sensitive chap, really. As I say, with nostalgia goggles on, it might have been fun, it was action-packed at least, I just didn't really know who folks were and what was going on...

[blueshift]

Feb 23, 2019 13:10:00 GMT Shockprowl said:

Errm, a bit too violent for what I look for in a Transformer cartoon. I'm a sensitive chap, really. As I say, with nostalgia goggles on, it might have been fun, it was action-packed at least, I just didn't really know who folks were and what was going on...

Don't worry, no-one does

[Shockprowl]

You're production is such high quality! No one would want read my confused thoughts on something I'm not qualified to comment on.

[blueshift]

but but but ZONE BUNNY

[Shockprowl]

I... I disliked the Zone Bunny. I'm sorry. I found it quite annoying and distracting. I bear the creature no I'll will though, I assure you.

I also found it annoying how many of the Micromasters talked in squeaky baby voices. Like they were children instead of just reduced sized Transformers.

[blueshift]

Feb 23, 2019 16:40:53 GMT Shockprowl said:

I... I disliked the Zone Bunny. I'm sorry. I found it quite annoying and distracting. I bear the creature no I'll will though, I assure you.

I also found it annoying how many of the Micromasters talked in squeaky baby voices. Like they were children instead of just reduced sized Transformers.

Oh yes, the personality of every single Japanese Micromaster is 'adorable and childlike'

[The Doctor]

Feb 23, 2019 16:40:53 GMT Shockprowl said:

I... I disliked the Zone Bunny. I'm sorry. I found it quite annoying and distracting. I bear the creature no I'll will though, I assure you.

I also found it annoying how many of the Micromasters talked in squeaky baby voices. Like they were children instead of just reduced sized Transformers.

SHOCKPROWL ZONE IS BRILLIANT WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU.

-Ralph

[blueshift]

Feb 23, 2019 18:26:23 GMT The Doctor said:

Feb 23, 2019 16:40:53 GMT Shockprowl said:

I... I disliked the Zone Bunny. I'm sorry. I found it quite annoying and distracting. I bear the creature no I'll will though, I assure you.

I also found it annoying how many of the Micromasters talked in squeaky baby voices. Like they were children instead of just reduced sized Transformers.

SHOCKPROWL ZONE IS BRILLIANT WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU.

-Ralph

I feel like he must watch it on repeat until he likes it

[The Doctor]

Anyone know if the DVD extra is online anywhere? All fans must endure watching someone transform Micromasters...slowly.

-Ralph

[blueshift]

Shockers was going to write about Zone for the zine but this experience seems to have scarred him. How can we salvage this?

[Pinwig]

I have an idea but it might be too outlandish to work.

[blueshift]

Feb 23, 2019 18:49:45 GMT Pinwig said:

I have an idea but it might be too outlandish to work.

Nine times out of ten, million-to-one shots succeed

[Shockprowl]

Feb 23, 2019 18:26:23 GMT The Doctor said:

Feb 23, 2019 16:40:53 GMT Shockprowl said:

I... I disliked the Zone Bunny. I'm sorry. I found it quite annoying and distracting. I bear the creature no I'll will though, I assure you.

I also found it annoying how many of the Micromasters talked in squeaky baby voices. Like they were children instead of just reduced sized Transformers.

SHOCKPROWL ZONE IS BRILLIANT WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU.

-Ralph

No nostalgia goggles...

[Shockprowl]

Feb 23, 2019 18:47:32 GMT blueshift said:

Shockers was going to write about Zone for the zine but this experience seems to have scarred him. How can we salvage this?

I don't draw, I don't really write stories...



I can sing, but that's the wrong medium...

[blueshift]

Feb 23, 2019 18:56:57 GMT Shockprowl said:

Feb 23, 2019 18:47:32 GMT blueshift said:

Shockers was going to write about Zone for the zine but this experience seems to have scarred him. How can we salvage this?

I don't draw, I don't really write stories...



I can sing, but that's the wrong medium...

It's ok, pinwig will save you

[Andy Turnbull]

M has the DVD of it, I am sure he would be able to assist by ripping the contents using Handbrake...

[blueshift]

Come on pinwig, I'm on the edge of my seat!

[Shockprowl]

I'm so scared right now...



Look, if it doesn't involve the sung word, or, you know, emergency prehospital medicine, or an impressive knowledge of chess history but an unfortunate lack of playing ability, or a mediocre understanding of early modern and modern euorpean geopolitcal history, or a high enthusiasm of astronomy/astrophysics, or passionate obession with The Transformers of '84/'85 focussing mainly on the character of PROWL, then I don't know what I can offer!

[Benn]

How could Zone have been made better by having Prowl in it?

[Pinwig]

Sorry, I was busy counting up and down from ten.

You know DWM's Time Team? Do it like that. Fix up a Skype chat or Google hangout or whatever you young people do, synchronise watches, watch Zone together, record the output and use it to write an article. I think reading the dialogue of Blue trying to explain Zone to Shockers could be the funniest thing ever. Do it with more people maybe. I've seen Zone once but I know nothing about it so I'd be as clueless as Shockprowl. We know Shockers is the shy retiring type so it wouldn't even need video, just an audio recording like a podcast to use to write the article.

An idiot's guide to zone. We ask the stupid questions so you can pretend you didn't need to.

[Shockprowl]

An Idiot's guide to Zone...


Very interesting...


Not sure I have the tech for synchronised audio whatever he saids, but I could watch Zone again (yeay) and write questions down as I watch it, which Blueshift then has to answer and explain...

[Pinwig]

That would be less interactive, it's about the dialogue really. Skype has recording built in apparently. I don't even have a camera on this PC (actually, my tablet probably does). Blue could start a Skype call, do the recording, all you'd need to do is accept the call (Skype is built in to windows now isn't it?), play the zone video when he said and then chip in comments.

If talking was an issue, you could probably do it by text if you are a fast enough typer. Use a realtime text chat app instead of the forum because it would be quicker. Then it would just be a typed conversation that could be edited and brushed up.

[blueshift]

Discord is what the cool kids are using now, pinwig

[Pinwig]

I am not a cool kid like you, Blue. I am a slightly warm middle-aged man these days.

Oh wow, right, so that's voice and/or text in a browser? Even simpler! Shockers, all you have to do is open a web browser and type to Blue. Easy! This would work.

[The Doctor]

But this would prove that Shockers exists...

-Ralph

[The Doctor]

[Pinwig]

Feb 24, 2019 9:40:33 GMT The Doctor said:

But this would prove that Shockers exists...

-Ralph

Voice chat maybe, but not if it was by text chat. It'd be just like this but quicker.