*achem*

YAY COMIC SCANS

Couple thoughts--

0. It would've been cool if the scene with Mata Nui removing the Ignika had been more played up, sorta mirroring the scene where the body was formed. Him embracing his destiny, etc. Ah well. Overall, it was a very fun comic to read.

1. What part of 7,500+ miles tall do the artists not get? These are not giant robots standing on a landscape. They are the landscape. They are heavenly bodies of their own. Cosmic entities in the phsycial sense. For the Glatorian to be watching safely from the ground would be like watching safely from your backyard as two asteroids collide a few feet above your head. This should look more like a clip out of 2012 than Normandy.

2. Funny to see how ridiculously rushed the story is now that Bionicle is coming to an end.

3. I do have to admit that the face of the Prototype Robot is rather sleek and attractive. It's a pity we won't ever see it in set form.

4. Notice the panel with the Matoran--they are in a small enclosure obviously made of technic pieces. This has been an ongoing theme since 2008's revelation of the MU's true nature--just look at the Matoran scene at the beginning of TLR. Up until 2008, the MU was so huge, you couldn't tell its interior apart from the natural world outside. Now, suddenly, it's like one crammed mecha with Matoran at the controls. There is no sky--there's a ceiling about 20 feet overhead. Hardly grand enough to be considered a "universe."

5. The hatch at Teridax's foot was laughable. First, let's make no joke--Gresh shouldn't have even been able to get within a few miles of Teridax's feet. Teridax's landing should be causing massive worldwide earthquakes. His weight should penetrate Bara Magna's crust--he should be knee-high in magma. Frankly, the planet wouldn't even be able to survive Teridax's landing--it's the equivalent of the Moon crashing into the Earth.

But back to the hatch. Forgetting what's written above, there's no way for the MU residents to simply emerge from the foot. Takanuva, the Rahkshi, and whatever other misfits will be making their way onto the surface of Bara Magna in the next comic would have to travel to the southernmost island, sail to the edge of the dome, and climb up the dome wall. Don't forget, gravity in the MU isn't pulling to the feet; it's pulling to the back. Having Takanuva just wander out like he was getting off a spaceship isn't close to accurate.

I mean, look at the Great Barrier. The Mangaia. Kiddies, it isn't an easy task leaving the Matoran Universe.

6. 2001-2008 is worthless now. Just so you know. The MU residents shouldn't care less about whether the planets are reunited. It doesn't make a difference to them. But for thousands of years, they've been fighting the Makuta guy... for what purpose? To honor Mata Nui? The current storyline would have us believe Mata Nui was an impotent wretch who just happened to be sitting in the control room of the MU. So was it the divine plan all along for Teridax to win and take over the body to reunite the worlds? How does that benefit all the MU residents who died fighting for Mata Nui? How do they benefit from any of this? Has all this bloodsheed been for the sake of the couple dozen Glatorian living on some desert planet we were only introduced to last year?

Heh, one reading this might think I have more emotional stock in this than I do. I have none. It's a toy line, nothing more. But I accept Janus' position: I'm so tired of this current continuity that I've taken to writing my own. Amazingly, it gives purpose to the 01-08 years while preserving much of the recent canon, giving it a whole new significance. It's fun to take those old plots and give them new meaning--after all, isn't imagination the whole point of Lego?

Ah, the lulz of writing out one huge list of what's wrong with everything.

No, but seriously, it was a fun comic to read. I'm looking forward to the conclusion of the storyline. And I do plan on getting the Stars for sheer nostalgic value--they, along with Mata Nui, will be the last sets I ever see myself purchasing.