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I hate 2017
8 years ago
General
I know this is pretty early to rant about this, but I just can’t help but feel 2017 was just an absolute train wreck of disappointment. In my perspective of course. One of my most hyped games of all time is cancelled, movies that turned my favourite heroes into villains, losing most of my work in progress stories and writing, etc.
I don’t know if I should talk about Scalebound in this, since I already bitched and moaned about it in the past. If you want to read about it, just have a look back on some of my journals or whatever and you’ll see what I mean. When Scalebound was cancelled at the VERY BEGINNING of this year, I thought that would be just enough punishment for me. But oh boy was I wrong.
One time when I was playing DOOM on my PC, I had to restart it while the game was apparently saving, which meant I got a corrupted save file and I had to do EVERYTHING ALL OVER AGAIN. AND IT HAPPENED AGAIN LATER ON! Oh and the 6.66 update that came on? Well, I idiotically decided to restart of multiplayer progression, which meant I have to reach up to max level to get the armour pieces and colours, etc for my Marine, FOR THE FOURTH TIME.
Then came around my birthday when I felt so miserable and enraged about what was going on at the time, so much that I ranted to all the people on my friends list for not comforting me after the next hour or so after posting this journal (https://jakeburner.deviantart.com/journal/I-have-entered-a-state-661815210) and I logged out of deviantart in rage for about a day.
https://jakeburner.deviantart.com/j.....orry-661864010
E3 was just...disappointing as hell. There was barely anything for me to be interested or excited about. There were some games that I’m very keen on, but they were announced before E3, such as Need for Speed Payback, The Crew 2 and Quake Champions. E3 had barely ANYTHING for me to be excited about. Forza Motorsport 7 was just...meh, for me. Agents of Mayhem seems cool I guess, since it was made by the same people who made Saints Row, and I was honestly interested in Crackdown 3 after I saw the E3 trailer, but now it’s been delayed to 2018.
*GROAN*
Now onto the movies. The movies were actually pretty good in my opinion! I enjoyed The Fate of the Furious and Transformers The Last Knight.
...
Yes. That’s it. Those were all the movies in 2017 that I enjoyed, let alone watched.
The one thing I didn’t like was how they turned the main heroes into villains, practically bringing them into a situation where they were blackmailed or brainwashed. In Fate of the Furious, it was the best case scenario, where it turned out-
*SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN’T WATCHED FATE OF THE FURIOUS YET*
Dom had orchestrated a way around Cipher’s plans, and even got Deckard Shaw back together with his brother Owen to save Dom and Elena’s baby. Unfortunately the same can’t be said about Elena...
*SPOILERS FOR TRANSFORMERS THE LAST KNIGHT*
Transformers The Last Knight was different. Optimus Prime has been brainwashed by Quintessa and nearly killed Bumblebee, until Bumblebee miraculously got his voice back, which made Optimus bring back to his senses.
*OK SPOILERS ARE DONE*
In some case, the movies were the LEAST bad thing to come out of 2017.
I don’t even have to talk about school, since we all know what school would be like, but at the end of it all, I managed to find a way to not go to Term 4 for the end of year exams, as I am going to Art School next year, meaning I currently now have 3 or 4 months of vacation.
So after all that, it seemed like my bad luck was gonna turn around, right?
Well...
Let’s talk about Skylanders Academy season 2. I never watched the show itself, since it’s on Netflix, so I just mainly read the synopsises on the web to find out what happened.
When Cynder was announced to be in season 2, I had my hopes up, but they slowly diminished when Eric Rogers, the writer of the show, posted this on his Twitter: https://twitter.com/EricRogersLA/st.....78718698135552
Yeah...over time, I slowly got over it, due to the fact this is basically a kids show, let alone that the show takes place in a universe of it’s own, and not in the games, and that no one is probably gonna understand the romance.
When season 2 came out...well...
The one thing I did like was Cynder’s new backstory, of her being the daughter of Malefor, which explains her dark powers. The one thing I didn’t like about Cynder in The Legend of Spyro was her incredibly dark and disturbing backstory.
She was transformed into a full grown monster at such a young age, and afterwards, she took a lot of blame even though she was like 10-13 years old, it’s honestly a very bleak and disturbing thought because, Malefor turned a very young child, not long after being born, into this perversion of a dragoness which would do his bidding without a second thought.
So technically, Cynder was a child soldier and perhaps a potential breeder for Malefor. That’s honestly a little disgusting for a Spyro game.
I much prefer Cynder being this mysterious dragon who somehow learned dark magic, rather than being a mind controlled slave for Malefor.
The one thing I hated in season 2 was the finale.
**SPOILERS**
Basically what happens is that Eon, who turns out to be Kaos’ father, was revealed to have banished the purple dragons to another dimension, after they were corrupted and controlled by Strykore, who is essentially a dark and evil twin of Eon. Cynder gets captured by Malefor, and Spyro gets corrupted by darkness and turns into Dark Spyro, essentially becoming evil...or maybe some sort of anti hero. Like I said I never watched the show, I just read what I find through the web.
**SPOILERS OVER**
The cliffhanger ending in the finale left SO MUCH hanging, it just annoying. It felt like it was only a part 1 of a 2 part or 3 part episode. It crammed in so much shock value, that it felt like Eric Rogers was simply teasing us. And now we have to wait another 12 MONTHS for the next season.
After reading on what had happened, I can’t help but feel like that Skylanders Academy is slowly becoming a rewrite of The Legend of Spyro. Like, this is the second season right? They introduced Cynder and Malefor and Spyro turns into Dark Spyro by the end of the season, both it and The Eternal Night end in a bittersweet cliffhanger ending, which means we have to wait another year for the next part of the story, which I BET is going to be all resolved only in the first or second episode of Season 3.
One more thing about the finale is that it felt a bit out of place for a show like Skylanders. The dark and bittersweet cliffhanger ending just didn’t fit the overall light hearted tone of the show
The thing that annoys me the most about this is that it’s literally the only official semblance of Spyro related media of this year. No Skylanders game this year, no announcement of a Spyro remaster or reboot to this point, just twelve episodes that end with some bullshit cliffhanger finale, leaving us the wait for the next year to find out what happens next.
I just hope to GOD next year will be so much better than this year, cause I just don’t know if I can stand another moment of this year.
I don’t know if I should talk about Scalebound in this, since I already bitched and moaned about it in the past. If you want to read about it, just have a look back on some of my journals or whatever and you’ll see what I mean. When Scalebound was cancelled at the VERY BEGINNING of this year, I thought that would be just enough punishment for me. But oh boy was I wrong.
One time when I was playing DOOM on my PC, I had to restart it while the game was apparently saving, which meant I got a corrupted save file and I had to do EVERYTHING ALL OVER AGAIN. AND IT HAPPENED AGAIN LATER ON! Oh and the 6.66 update that came on? Well, I idiotically decided to restart of multiplayer progression, which meant I have to reach up to max level to get the armour pieces and colours, etc for my Marine, FOR THE FOURTH TIME.
Then came around my birthday when I felt so miserable and enraged about what was going on at the time, so much that I ranted to all the people on my friends list for not comforting me after the next hour or so after posting this journal (https://jakeburner.deviantart.com/journal/I-have-entered-a-state-661815210) and I logged out of deviantart in rage for about a day.
https://jakeburner.deviantart.com/j.....orry-661864010
E3 was just...disappointing as hell. There was barely anything for me to be interested or excited about. There were some games that I’m very keen on, but they were announced before E3, such as Need for Speed Payback, The Crew 2 and Quake Champions. E3 had barely ANYTHING for me to be excited about. Forza Motorsport 7 was just...meh, for me. Agents of Mayhem seems cool I guess, since it was made by the same people who made Saints Row, and I was honestly interested in Crackdown 3 after I saw the E3 trailer, but now it’s been delayed to 2018.
*GROAN*
Now onto the movies. The movies were actually pretty good in my opinion! I enjoyed The Fate of the Furious and Transformers The Last Knight.
...
Yes. That’s it. Those were all the movies in 2017 that I enjoyed, let alone watched.
The one thing I didn’t like was how they turned the main heroes into villains, practically bringing them into a situation where they were blackmailed or brainwashed. In Fate of the Furious, it was the best case scenario, where it turned out-
*SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN’T WATCHED FATE OF THE FURIOUS YET*
Dom had orchestrated a way around Cipher’s plans, and even got Deckard Shaw back together with his brother Owen to save Dom and Elena’s baby. Unfortunately the same can’t be said about Elena...
*SPOILERS FOR TRANSFORMERS THE LAST KNIGHT*
Transformers The Last Knight was different. Optimus Prime has been brainwashed by Quintessa and nearly killed Bumblebee, until Bumblebee miraculously got his voice back, which made Optimus bring back to his senses.
*OK SPOILERS ARE DONE*
In some case, the movies were the LEAST bad thing to come out of 2017.
I don’t even have to talk about school, since we all know what school would be like, but at the end of it all, I managed to find a way to not go to Term 4 for the end of year exams, as I am going to Art School next year, meaning I currently now have 3 or 4 months of vacation.
So after all that, it seemed like my bad luck was gonna turn around, right?
Well...
Let’s talk about Skylanders Academy season 2. I never watched the show itself, since it’s on Netflix, so I just mainly read the synopsises on the web to find out what happened.
When Cynder was announced to be in season 2, I had my hopes up, but they slowly diminished when Eric Rogers, the writer of the show, posted this on his Twitter: https://twitter.com/EricRogersLA/st.....78718698135552
Yeah...over time, I slowly got over it, due to the fact this is basically a kids show, let alone that the show takes place in a universe of it’s own, and not in the games, and that no one is probably gonna understand the romance.
When season 2 came out...well...
The one thing I did like was Cynder’s new backstory, of her being the daughter of Malefor, which explains her dark powers. The one thing I didn’t like about Cynder in The Legend of Spyro was her incredibly dark and disturbing backstory.
She was transformed into a full grown monster at such a young age, and afterwards, she took a lot of blame even though she was like 10-13 years old, it’s honestly a very bleak and disturbing thought because, Malefor turned a very young child, not long after being born, into this perversion of a dragoness which would do his bidding without a second thought.
So technically, Cynder was a child soldier and perhaps a potential breeder for Malefor. That’s honestly a little disgusting for a Spyro game.
I much prefer Cynder being this mysterious dragon who somehow learned dark magic, rather than being a mind controlled slave for Malefor.
The one thing I hated in season 2 was the finale.
**SPOILERS**
Basically what happens is that Eon, who turns out to be Kaos’ father, was revealed to have banished the purple dragons to another dimension, after they were corrupted and controlled by Strykore, who is essentially a dark and evil twin of Eon. Cynder gets captured by Malefor, and Spyro gets corrupted by darkness and turns into Dark Spyro, essentially becoming evil...or maybe some sort of anti hero. Like I said I never watched the show, I just read what I find through the web.
**SPOILERS OVER**
The cliffhanger ending in the finale left SO MUCH hanging, it just annoying. It felt like it was only a part 1 of a 2 part or 3 part episode. It crammed in so much shock value, that it felt like Eric Rogers was simply teasing us. And now we have to wait another 12 MONTHS for the next season.
After reading on what had happened, I can’t help but feel like that Skylanders Academy is slowly becoming a rewrite of The Legend of Spyro. Like, this is the second season right? They introduced Cynder and Malefor and Spyro turns into Dark Spyro by the end of the season, both it and The Eternal Night end in a bittersweet cliffhanger ending, which means we have to wait another year for the next part of the story, which I BET is going to be all resolved only in the first or second episode of Season 3.
One more thing about the finale is that it felt a bit out of place for a show like Skylanders. The dark and bittersweet cliffhanger ending just didn’t fit the overall light hearted tone of the show
The thing that annoys me the most about this is that it’s literally the only official semblance of Spyro related media of this year. No Skylanders game this year, no announcement of a Spyro remaster or reboot to this point, just twelve episodes that end with some bullshit cliffhanger finale, leaving us the wait for the next year to find out what happens next.
I just hope to GOD next year will be so much better than this year, cause I just don’t know if I can stand another moment of this year.
Vincent-Wullf
~vincent-wullf
It has been a fucking ass of a year hasn’t it? My families in the middle of a financial crisis and schools biting me in the ass hard while I slave over college applications that take 10 hours to fill out each. I know the feel man
Shardthedragon01522
~shardthedragon01522
Dude I concer with you on so many of those bit why did you have to bring up Skylanders? Gad DAMMIT I HATE THE GAME SERIES AND T.V SHOW SO F****NG MUCH UGH! So much rage and hatered to it..... Sorry I really hate the series itself so gaddamn much. And 2017 has not been my best year either man. I mean the only thing I argue with is E3.... mostly cause of a few other games that caught my eyes and made me flip my noodle like a fangirl. Other than that... yeah not my best year either but you know if you want to talk with me im here for ya. Really I am always up for discussing problems and trying to help fix them
