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Iiiiinteresting! I hope it's better than the live action movie--though it would be hard to be worse. Those Google Earth screenwipes, lol!So Hasbro's film label is Allspark Pictures? That's also interesting, as it's a Transformers reference. The Allspark is where Cybertronians' sparks (aka lifeforce or souls) go when they die, like their afterlife.No, Hasbro has never done a cartoon based on the IDW Transformer series, which is too bad because the IDW series is great. I'd love to see an IDW TF cartoon with a vibe like Transformers Animated had, only in space. A character-based fun, zingy space opera.(Actually, I just remembered that there was a web-only series based on IDW, called Combiner Wars. But it was sooo bad that most fans would prefer to forget it, lol. It wasn't put out by Allspark Pictures, so there's hope for Jem to be better.)
So Hasbro's film label is Allspark Pictures? That's also interesting, as it's a Transformers reference. The Allspark is where Cybertronians' sparks (aka lifeforce or souls) go when they die, like their afterlife.
Wow, so many ambivalent emotions if this is true.I was adamantly against a live action movie before we knew it would be a flop. I am generally against a new animated movie too. So long as TO! exists, where is there a need for a new movie?I also dislike the IDW comics for forcing fanfic persuasions into the mainstream canon. I don't like that it's not okay for Kimber and Stormer to have a 'sincere friendship' any more. I don't mind same sex pairings. This one never made sense to me, but in people's fanfic, that's fine. In a mainstream publication, it's not fine. It's forcing a small group of people's fanfic concepts on the whole franchise. I am not a fan of being forcefed other people's fanfiction. A same sex pairing in Jem would have been interesting. But not that one. Not now, and not ever. Sorry for anyone who likes IDW, but if that is the basis, count me out.I don't really want to see Jem in a modern era setting though. She was made by and possible because of the 1980s. I am sort of a hypocrite here because I did write fanfic about the modern era and Jem, but it was a next generation thing with the original characters as older figures.So it depends on what form it might take, but generally I am not in favour. I wish Hasbro would let Jem rest in the past with dignity, instead of dragging her forcibly into a place she doesn't belong. To bring it back down to earth, they can't use all the same voices. Some of them are dead.
Wow, so many ambivalent emotions if this is true.I was adamantly against a live action movie before we knew it would be a flop. I am generally against a new animated movie too. So long as TO! exists, where is there a need for a new movie?If Christy Marx is involved in it, then that would be different. If she isn't, forget it. Unfortunately, with the Jem list now gone, I have no way of asking her...but Christy is the original Jem series writer and creator. If she's not on board, it isn't Jem., End of.I also dislike the IDW comics for forcing fanfic persuasions into the mainstream canon. I don't like that it's not okay for Kimber and Stormer to have a 'sincere friendship' any more. I don't mind same sex pairings. This one never made sense to me, but in people's fanfic, that's fine. In a mainstream publication, it's not fine. It's forcing a small group of people's fanfic concepts on the whole franchise. I am not a fan of being forcefed other people's fanfiction. A same sex pairing in Jem would have been interesting. But not that one. Not now, and not ever. Sorry for anyone who likes IDW, but if that is the basis, count me out.I don't really want to see Jem in a modern era setting though. She was made by and possible because of the 1980s. I am sort of a hypocrite here because I did write fanfic about the modern era and Jem, but it was a next generation thing with the original characters as older figures.So it depends on what form it might take, but generally I am not in favour. I wish Hasbro would let Jem rest in the past with dignity, instead of dragging her forcibly into a place she doesn't belong. To bring it back down to earth, they can't use all the same voices. Some of them are dead.
But why would you object to it? Why not just watch it? Nobody would be strapping you to a chair and taping your eyeballs open after all, right?
It would be stupid to think that, potentially, this wouldn't have the same impact.
Quote from: Galactica on May 19, 2017, 01:46:54 PMBut why would you object to it? Why not just watch it? Nobody would be strapping you to a chair and taping your eyeballs open after all, right? It has nothing to do with whether or not I want to watch it. I don't have to, no. But I didn't watch the Jem movie, either. I still had to sit through three years of hostile backlash between factions over that movie on the one Jem community that I really valued being a member of. A lot of people left and the community is now defunct (not directly for that reason but a lot of people did leave because of the aggression over the live action movie).Unfortunately Jem fans have been so starved of anything valuable in the media sense for so long that some of them have lost all sense of rationality about quality and are willing to accept any crumb of anything tossed their way, even if it's horrible. But there was no community backlash over the IT dolls or the IDW comics. Some people liked them, some not, but it was the modern day live action movie that they went to war over. It would be stupid to think that, potentially, this wouldn't have the same impact.I love Jem. I've been in the online community since 2000 and I met some good friends through it. I don't like to see a community of people who all love the same thing ripped apart by divisive opinions. I don't like it here in pony collecting and I don't like it there, either. But in Jem terms it becomes more polarised because there is so little offered people get desperate.Forgive me for not finding that a "lol" kind of situation.As for the voice artists of original Jem - yeah, some of them have passed away. The singing voice of Rapture was one of them. I think the voice of both Aja and Kimber has also passed away. I know the other main key writer, Roger Slifer, died as a result of a hit and run type accident a few years ago. I am not sure about other voice artists, although I have this feeling that list isn't complete. Jem has suffered various tragedies - but it is a long time since the series was made. We're talking about a show that terminated almost 30 years ago.