Author: duh magnet

I feel the need……THE NEED FOR FRIENDSPEED

Is it just me, or is anyone particularly creeped out that the author of this vid went through all the Rarity footage to find the correct lip motions and expressions to sync with Jeremy Clarkson’s lines? Because not even in my most epic nightmares would Rarity speak with the voice of that old coot Jezza. But now, reality has duly delivered and the link will never be gone from my brain, gawds. Folks, this is what the Dark Side of Bronyism leads to, don’t say I didn’t warn you.

A Toast to the Greatest Overbite in Rock

defiant against the night

Google did a Google Logo tribute on the anniversary of Freddie Mercury’s birthday, which was a very nice touch, but I wasn’t aware that Brian May did a post on the Google blog to mark the occasion as well.

Here’s Time chiming in, and Queen will be streaming the Wembley concert for two straight days via Youtube.

On a personal level, Queen will always be one of my favorite bands, and I regard Freddie Mercury as one of the most distinctive…if not THE most distinctive rock voice of our era (AH! AH!), and with his passing Queen effectively ceased to exist as a functional group. Even non-fans will find it quite difficult to argue against the impact Queen’s performances had on the Live Aid concert in particular and Wembley in general as an iconic rock concert venue. Here’s a happy 65th, and may memories never die.

Thundercats S01E07 – Stuff Should Always Come With A Manual

(This should be spoiler free.)

It's effin' Mon*Star

Hey, hey, look who decided to drop in.

Beyond that amusing cameo (let’s be honest, as bad as Silverhawks was, it had its own trippy charm, so a crossover show could be intriguing), it’s really hard to say anything without spoiling the episode, so I shall emphasize that the show is going from strength to strength now with each week. Besides the excrement that was episode 3, and the rather cliche and trite Song the Petalars that followed, the show is doing a very credible job ramping up the plot threads and action without abrupt shifts once a certain new member of the cast joined our furry crew. The animation is a cut above the usual standards of shows aimed at the US domestic market, and it certainly is better than what Avatar delivered in its first season. Studio 4°C is handling the animation, following up from their work with Transformers Animated, but with a visibly larger available budget, so everything looks optimistic and my early worries have pretty much evaporated. It’s still a children’s show, which means the violence has been toned down from the premiere (regrettably, because who doesn’t want an alternative English Guin Saga?), but I worked around that with Avatar and I’ll work around it with Thundercats.

On a curious note, some fans will note the similarities Legacy has with a certain episode in Avatar’s third season, involving both a greybeard and a flashback as well. There are significant differences, but it’s still pretty striking. Ah well, there’s only so many ways you can spin a monomyth, after all.