Oh, transformation scenes in audiovisual content like series and movies have always fascinated me, but sometimes you feel incredibly frustrated when a large number of those scenes are completely unsatisfying, for example...

1- A freakin' *POOF!* Don't get me wrong, something like that is possible in many cartoons or live-action series: a quick smoke and light effect and TADAAA! Spontaneous transformation. The problem, and what infuriates me, is when that method is used with creatures where your mind screams, "No, please wait, I need a damn process! Don't leave me with a simple POOF! Why is the world so cruel?"

2- Ambiguities and "outside our sight" are another thing that tears my soul apart.

Let me see if I understand. Are you trying to tell me it was too much to see Chihiro's parents transform into pigs or to be able to appreciate Haku becoming that beautiful dragon because of his "curse"? (Maybe I'm an idiot, but I never saw anything wrong with it; Haku had more freedom than many in that movie.)

Just seeing shadows during the physical transformation process is more or less understandable and quite artistic, no doubt, but... they're shadows, damn it! I don't want to see a bunch of scared people being covered by the growing shadow of someone transforming into a dragon or any other enormous creature. I want to see the transformation, for God's sake!

And probably what frustrates me the most... the transformations into Cuts that end off-screen. There have been a lot of them throughout my life. They start well, are detailed and intense, and the more you get into it, the more things can happen. The scene abruptly changes, leaving you with questions, or worse, the point of view shifts somewhere else (almost always upwards), you can hear but see nothing. I don't want to see the damn sky or a damn ceiling, come down, please, you can't do this to me!

I wonder if the people who work in the creation of "serious" audiovisual content know that there are people who like this kind of thing. Can you imagine if they exploit it?

If you've had similar experiences, I'd love to hear some of your anecdotes.


Bonus


I loved the first Brother Bear movie; it was one of the best gems I've ever seen. But as time passed and I grew older, I couldn't help but wonder:

Wait a minute, spirits transform things to balance things out. Wouldn't it have made more sense to turn Kenai into a female bear since he killed Koda's mother and should take her place?

In fact, if the movie had incorporated more elements from real-life bears, that situation would have been more than likely to happen. Male bears aren't exactly the best fathers, but it's a children's movie, so whitewashing some things was obvious.