Annette left Nightwish? Well, damn. I feel like their latest album they figured out how to actually write music for a woman that wasn't stuck doing just operatic styles. I mean, I like Dark Passion Play well enough, but Imaginaerum was a pretty solid album (though for me, it started to lose steam after Arabesque).
Ah well. It'll be interesting to see where she goes next.
Also: I still have yet to see the sequels to the Bay Transformers movie. I know it's a bit ridiculous to hold the old show to such a standard, but even watching the 80's movie with all of the cheesy Autobot scenes and dialogue, man, they just did stuff better then. The fight between Optimus and Megatron, and one of my favorite scenes, when Megatron and Unicron meet. It's like the difference between a conceited villain (Megatron) versus a confident villain (Unicron), and it is written so friggin' well for what is essentially a commercial for Hasbro's all new toy line-up.
Ever count how many major characters they kill, though? I did one time in College. I started to rewatch Gen 1 for the first time in years, then watched the movie. I think it was like two dozen major characters from the series were killed off, some of them brutally.
I mean, Ironhide.
Ironhide, man.
