Follow-Up to Movie Review: On the Subject of Tentacles and Robots

Posted by katsuko on July 10th, 2009 filed in Fandom, Giant Robots, Written Word

Click here to see the original movie review post.

Honestly, I’m a very odd woman. I consider myself to be perfectly normal, but other people who think themselves normal give me strange looks when I start talking about Transformers in any way. One part is likely because – holy shit! – I’m an adult woman who enjoys something that was and in many ways still remains thought of only in conjunction with men and boys, while the other part is probably because I sometimes babble on as if I honestly think I can call up Optimus Prime on the phone and have a chat with the guy.

Although admit it, that would be fucking awesome.

To get back on track, I’m an unusual woman. In my life I’ve probably perused just about every variety of animation that there is, including Japanese hentai. And by that, I think you may know where I’m going with this.

At what point did tentacle porn infect my giant alien robots?!

Seriously, I can not have been the only one sitting in a theater, watching the scene shift to outer space and see what looks like Soundwave – one of my all-time favourites, mind you – humping a satellite.

Go on and giggle, if you must. I’ll wait.

Back now? Okay.

In all honesty, I could feel my jaw drop open and I just barely kept from asking, out loud, from my seat in front of a small child viewing the movie with his parents, when Soundwave got a guest-shot in a La Blue Girl movie. I’m still snickering over those things, even two weeks later. Hell, in my writing/fandom journal I actually wrote a short fic featuring those tentacles and another robot (er, yeah, I’ve been a life-long SW/SS girl. I think my mother may still be convinced that at age 6 I thought Starscream was a girl, just so I could avoid telling her that either way they seemed to work as a couple in my head!)

The only thing that bothers me regarding this whole line of thought is: was he still humping that thing the entire movie?!

That’s stamina, y’all.

Now I have a new nickname for Sounds: Tentacle Beast from Beyond the Stars.