Now I don't know about you (or even who you are, but man you're ugly!), but I've had a problem with all the Newva since the first time I saw pics of the Phantoka. Don't get me wrong, I like the sets, but I really don't like how little resemblance they have to their original forms.

I'm starting to see just how little sense that view makes. I recently named the Toa Metru as my favourite group of Toa, with the Toa Inika coming in third. Yet both these groups of sets are guilty of exactly the same 'crime' the Newva are, the Metru most of all. Who can honestly say the Metru have any resemblance to their Turaga forms? How much do the Inika represent the Matoran they once were on Mata Nui? Any resemblances tend to be forced upon them because people want to find them. I would guess these similarities are purely coincidental. Remember that sets come before story. Chances are, the sets were made before anyone gave them their story identities, in which case how can they bear similarities to their 'former appearances' when the set designers had no idea they were designing those characters?

There was a small smattering of discontent about the Metru's dissimilarity, and a slightly larger one for the Inika, but nothing on the scale of what's hit the Newva. Why? We've known all those characters from 2001, yet it's only the Nuva people make a huge fuss about. I admit I did as well, but thinking about it a bit more logically the view seems to make little sense unless I also have a problem with the other sets.

I mean, even the Mahri bore little real resemblance to their Inika forms. Every single one of them had a different colour scheme, which seems to be one of the primary considerations when searching for a resemblance. To be honest, I can understand it in this instance, given that the set style was more or less the same. It would be hard to create sets in the same style resembling each other without being too similar.

Now in terms of storyline, the Nuva's appearance is the most understandable. Both the Metru and the Inika had their forms changed, essentially shrinking from Toa size to Turaga size and Matoran size to Toa size, respectively. The Nuva on the other hand received completely new armour, masks and weapons and it's the armour that dictates their appearance. Of course they'd look different! Physically, at least for the most part, they are not the same Toa, so why would they look the same?

I'd also like to add that the Nuva's 'transformation' is my favourite one to date. Why? Because technically, it isn't a transformation. They've been re-outfitted with new equipment which for a few years has seemed to me an obvious way to release the same Toa without transforming them and is far simpler than coming up with yet another mutagenic substance conveniently placed for the Toa to fall into or whatever they do to get themselves effected by it.

I could start rambling about half a dozen different ideas right now as an offshoot of my main point, but I'm not going to. I'm going to stop. To summarise my main point: don't eat fish.

And would whatever spell checker that has latched itself onto Firefox please stop giving me the American spellings of words? I am British, not American!