Talk:Blackarachnia (Animated)
Ep 9 summary
Needs serious work
New pics and Edits
I'm uploaded some fine pics of the prototype, and made some minor edits... and it may look good on the page, but the edit page is a mess. Somebody, please, fix it! --Hepathos 21:03, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Caption
In response to ItsWalky on 1/8/07, the problem with the caption is that if you don't know what "Goth Talk" is, then you have to read about it to understand the caption, and that kinda kills any momentum the joke might have going for it. Also the fact that she doesn't really even look goth. Just spikey and purple.
- And the problem with the replacement caption is that if you don't know what "Come into my parlor etc" references, then you'd have to read about it to understand the caption! What is the difference? They are both references to things. The previous one was nice enough to provide a link, for those who don't know the reference. I don't see why that should be penalized. --ItsWalky 22:17, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
Added her backstory
So, what do you guys think?
Dynamus Prime 16:24, 16 February 2008 (UTC)Dynamus Prime
- I think you probably ruined the episode for a lot of people, since it aired not a few minutes on the east coast before you threw spoilers everywhere. Please use better judgment in the future. --ItsWalky 19:16, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
- And the fact that you expect kudos for it is more than a little odd. -- SFH 19:51, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
- I think you're a butthole. Is that inappropriate flaming? If so, I redact it, and I think that that kind of behavior might be interpreted as having butthole tendencies. -hx 02:12, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
- "I think you're a butthole"...yeah, that's flaming. -- SFH 21:27, 16 February 2008 (EST)
Beast Mode
I'm guessing what's needed is a cleaner shot of Blackarachnia's beast mode, since we don't know what Elita-1's alt mode was...--Apcog 20:54, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
- Yeah. That's why I put a comma after Elita-1. -- SFH 20:58, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
- I get it now, thanks. My at-a-glance parsing needs work.--Apcog 23:05, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Spoilers
I question the use of bold text for "Elita-1" in the summary, considering it is the line immediately after the spoiler tag. The theory behind the tag is that it will catch a person's attention before they begin reading the following text, and that it will thus be processed first so the person can turn away if they do not wish to be spoiled. But the bold text for that name, I think, has the same attention-capture effect as the spoiler tag. Even though it's only a name, and bolding it might fit with the style guide (hm), I think some discretion might be in order here. --Sntint 04:24, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Quick Toy Question
I'm looking at the Hasbro stock photo and the exposed portion of her face looks rather deeply recessed compared to the rest. Is the helmet removable or did the picture get overly Photoshopped?--MCRG 04:43, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
- Scratch that, ASM pictures cleared it up.--MCRG 04:46, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Yes, She is an Homage
On reflection, do we really need a bit in the Trivia section about how she looks like the previous character of the same name? I mean, that's true for most of the Animated characters. Should we have a trivia point on Ratchet (Animated)'s page about how he looks like the original Ratchet? JW 14:28, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
- Nah,only for characters that are a visual homage to a character they're not named after. Like Bulkhead's Hound-inspired colors.86.87.28.191 17:24, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Opposite Sex
"Blackarachnia acts differently around robots of the 'opposite sex' depending on faction; "
I point out that we have no frickin' clue how she acts around robots of the same sex, since no such meetings have been chronicled. This sentence probably needs rephrasing. JW 14:26, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
Transformation
Do we need a mention of this in trivia? She's hardly the only spinny transformer there. We've seen BB and Prime do it a few times. Ratchet..Bulkhead..Prowl..list goes on.User:GWolfv2
- Yes, but she's the only one that we haven't seen a full transformation for, unlike all the others. -- SFH 20:22, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
- Yeah, so why make a huge rigmerole of it. Why not have one line. "Thus far, we have yet to see BA have anything but a spinning transformation" or such?
