I just remembered how I discovered the Transformers franchise.
I was just looking at my old Transformers page and... well:
"About three weeks ago, in late October 2024, I saw a video of someone in an interesting costume. I looked at the comments talking about some guy called Megatron. 'Cool' I thought 'Might as well see if I like Transformers, I didn't like sonic and it would be fun to have something else to interact with' I did consider that I was busy with SH2, but I figured that it probably wouldn't amount to anything."
"Some guy called Megatron"
Look at how that turned out. I mean when I wrote that I just saw Megatron as the kind of flat and not too interesting villain. At that point D-16 was the exception. I hadn't gone deep enough (more like I hadn't gone off the deep end haha...) and I had no clue what was coming.
Also don't ask why I was trying to get into Sonic. It's not necessarily a bad thing to be into, but it's just really not my thing. I guess I was going insane with nothing but Silent Hill 2 in my head.
"I also watched Transformers One after a couple of days. Genuinely such a great movie. D-16 is my favourite. Gotta love decending into violent extremism after having your whole reality shattered."
"Also Brian Tyree Henry had SUCH a great performance. Some of his lines are genuinely chilling. All the little visual details in D-16, and other characters is staggering. I notice new stuff all the time."
I'd say that a lot has happened to and changed in me in the past year, but clearly some things stay the same.
"I heard the name "Starscream" in the first episode, thought I may have misheard it and then thought his voice was very annoying. It did not, however, take him long to win me over. He's a manipulative, backstabbing moron who at the same time comes up with good plans every once in a while."
Starscream was the gateway drug, I'm sure of it... Nah just kidding. Looking back it's increasingly obvious I liked D-16 from the very start, it just took a while to take a greater liking to Megatron's other incarnations.