Sad to hear of his passing. This show was so awesome and influential, and weird in the best possible way.

Finished my marathon of Supergirl. I liked it a lot so I'm glad they're making more. Benoist gives the best lead performance of any TV superhero. Unfortunately her team isn't as fun to hang out with, too much awkward, some of which was intentionally written in. Not sure I would have gone that route. Also, I…

That 80s stuff was corporate as can be, and yet it didn't feel very corporate compared to Disney's full-scale takeover. Suddenly every show on TV featured Launch Pad McQuack. I enjoyed them but I also had a sense that something had been lost.

The first wave of Transformers, the ones with the metal, were repurposed Japanese toys from the 70s. After those sold out, Hasbro designed all the shitty futuristic plastic ones.

The #1 brand is Kaiser Suze. Criminals have legends about it.

Star Wars I-III had a similar plot and nobody cared.

Gaps were on a smaller scale back then because most media and most culture was shared by everyone. I don't want to oversell that point, the sharing wasn't absolute, but there was a whole lot more.

There was an actual "documentary" that ran on some documentary-type channel as part of the marketing. It was more entertaining than the movie itself turned out to be.

I don't believe her.

She probably thinks these hyper-skinny celebrity characters are empowering for little girls.

The movies should have been exactly like the comics, down to the early 80s Cold War setting. I'd even be happy with a parody version of that. Are we waiting for the boomers to die off before we can criticize them?

I don't think the cartoon wanted to be a realistic military story, which is fine. It had a much higher profile than the comics. Couldn't afford to have kids asking questions about Afghanistan or Central America.

I have fond memories of it too, and that's from watching it maybe 3 years ago. It holds up pretty well.

Optimus, listen to these recordings and tell me if I'm crazy…

None of that was true though. Well, maybe Voltron being lame. I used to believe there was a special edition Snake-Eyes figure whose mask came off. That one liar kid in my class insisted on it.

Names like Leader One and Cy-Kill doomed the GoBots to second place. They also had a submarine named Dive-Dive.

Very Special Episodes were taken Very Seriously.

These were OK, the comics were better. Hard to take it too seriously when all the guns were made into lasers.

Growing Pains did that too.

We'd be the ones shopping for mercenaries because the plutocrats would buy the real army. It wouldn't even be that hard, the officers are more like them than us. And personnel is concentrated in red states.