To fully understand the following, read bonesiii's full post on It's Not Me, It's You
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And now for a professional review:
Hurrah bonesiii! Quite a delightful essay if I do say so myself. A long and possibly taxing read, but one still ultimatly worth it. It leaves the reader with a sense of sorrow, and injustice, mainly because so few people will be reading this now that the forum has been abandoned. Jolly good thing you put most of that on your blog then. I found myself come to agreement to many of the points, points which I don't believe I can ever make again with a clear concience now that I know my words can never be said with the same eliquence and clarity as you just said them, and to try and make one of those points would just be injustice to the author I have certainly had a new insight with some of you points, and tried your excersice. However, it just reconfirmed that I infact dislike high-tech styled societies in the way Bionicle presented it because I was in fact so young that my taste was completely molded by early Bionicle.
This all ties in wonderfully into the age discussion, because it would appear I disliked future years because of the ones past. This is probably happening with new fans, who I know realize must dislike change more than us older folk. If Bionicle changes, they may dislike it because their set of likes were determined possibly exclusively by the thing that is being changed, which means almost no change can be good change. Now obviously this isn't entirely true, or no one would have liked the Rahkshi. But there is some wisdom to be gained here, I know that all my unexplainable quirkes in taste have derived from Bionicle. I LOVE flash animation to no end, and especially ones that harken to the MNOLG and Bohrak animations. Why do I love it? No good reason, except that the original animations produced by Bionicle gave me such imense joy that I now associate all flash animations with that. Most of my other loves have similar origins. Interesting how this world works, no?