Transformers: Earthspark is a new cartoon television series aimed at two-to-11 year-olds. It focuses on a new generation of Transformers – for those familiar with the franchise, this new generation are bots born on Earth after the Autobot-Decepticon war, along with their human families. However, it has sparked outrage after it introduced a character called Nightshade, a non-binary robot.
The new series came out a few months ago, but for some reason there’s only been a meltdown about it on Twitter this week so I decided to review the episode for myself.
The opening scene begins with a fight between Bumblebee, who is an original character in the old franchise, and one of the other robots, who must have been a new addition as I didn’t recognise him. This was a great start and it is what any fan of the franchise would expect to see. A great start, perhaps, but it was all downhill from there.
It switches to a scene where we meet some more characters: Stevie and Robbie in a skateboard park, with Robbie’s two robot sisters. When did the transformers have any sort of relationship with the humans? Even Stevie is confused about the relationship: he says to Robbie: “Your transformers are not like what I have read about”, at which point Robbie replies: “They are not my transformers… they are my family.” Robbie looked upset and annoyed with his friend for suggesting that his robot sisters in any sense belonged to him. (Slavery metaphor alert.)
Later, we meet more characters – Sam and Nightshade, a human and a robot respectively. Sam seems scared of Nightshade, even though the robot has just rescued her, and holds a bag over her face with stickers on the front saying “she/they”. Nightshade speaks first by complimenting her bag, which is followed by: “My pronouns are they/them.” Sam perks up at this point and responds: “Thanks. I’m ‘she/they’… I’m sorry for how I reacted. It’s just sometimes the world can be a scary place. It’s hard to know who’s dangerous or not.” Sam then reassures Nightshade she’s no longer frightened of him now that she knows his pronouns are ‘they/them’: “I know I’m safe when I’m with my friends or other non-binary people.”
So, if a predator or a thief comes up to you in the middle of the street, all you need to say is that you are non-binary and they will immediately become your friend? Odd lesson to be teaching children. Nightshade doesn’t understand what non-binary means and Sam apologises for “assuming”, before patiently explaining what it is. A lightbulb appears: Nighshade realises ‘they’ is non-binary!
After this scene, we see another fight between Bumblebee and someone else; however, the fights are not that serious.They go on for a few seconds, then fade out. It seems like all the programme makers care about is imparting various woke messages, with the fights thrown in to keep the unenlightened child interested before bombarding them with propaganda.
The episode ends with Robbie and his robot ‘sisters’ having a conversation about his non-binary robot friend, whom he urges them to accept.
It’s hard to know where to begin with this nonsense. Why is this messaging, designed to reinforce woke dogma about sex and gender, considered suitable for children as young as two? Won’t it just confuse them? Or lead to them becoming confused about their own supposedly gendered souls? As Ron DeSantis says, who’s just passed a law banning the teaching of gender identity ideology in Florida’s schools, can’t we just let kids be kids? Also, since when do robots have a gender?
I’m 14 and I felt uncomfortable watching this, so God knows how it will make younger children feel. I’m so glad I missed out on being exposed to these confusing messages when I was a pre-teen. I used to watch Peppa Pig, but even that has become a vehicle for progressive propaganda: it has introduced its first same-sex couple — two lesbian polar bears — following years of calls for more LGBTQ+ characters on the show by woke activists.
I feel sorry for the younger generation. They need to be able to grow up normally without worrying about any of this nonsense, just like I did.
I used to love Transformers, but now it’s been ruined, like so many other children’s television programmes. Let’s hope Earthspark is a colossal failure and goes the same way as Bud Light.
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Excellent piece. A 14 year old who can write and critique this well gives me hope for the future.
Yes he certainly writes well. Just hope he’s not the only one. They seem to be working very hard not to educate or educate in the wrong areas.
“I feel sorry for the younger generation.”
Well this provided a chuckle.
I obviously understand that. But it should also provide some food for thought: In absolute terms, age is meaningless. When I was 12, I didn’t differentiate between people who were 18, people who were 48 or people who were 84. They were all grown-ups to me, existing in some mysterious sphere completely outside of my understanding. OTOH, at the age of 12, I felt quite old and experienced compared to toddlers, 5 year olds or even first graders.
On their own, old and young don’t really mean anyhing; You’ll always be young for people who are significantly older than you and always be old for people who are significantly younger than you.
Wow, quite the mansplanation there. I’m sure our hux is way better off for it though…
If this has enabled him (or anyone) to understand why 14 year old people refer entirely unironicallly (and appropriately) to a younger generation, that would be an improvement. Society can decidedly do with less age-based prejudices about people of all ages. An aquaintaince of mine is 80-and-something and to him, I’m a somewhat overly energetic and refreshlingly naive young man, me approaching 51 (October this year) notwithstanding. I also received a CD via Parcelforce a couple of days ago and the conversation with the driver ended with a fairly “Ok, then good bye, young man!” from the drivers whom a very much suspected to be much closer to my age than he would have believed.
A part of the woke nonsense which receivers rather less attention than it deserves due to everybody having swallowed it hook, line and sinker is terrorizing people with horror stories about aging. This goes to the point that people I know who are in the second half of their thirties already consider themselves terribly aged and beset by loads of age-induced problems (something their doctors even sometimes tell them —- “At your age, what do you expect!”). Attempts to argue against this might not always succeed (or rather, succeed only very rarely) because people love to cling to propaganda lies they’ve really internalized. But they’re always worthwhile.
Socken oben, Chef!
Booo Mogs…
Thanks very much Mogs.
Stop me if I’m wrong, but aren’t robots non-binary by definition? Or does this robot have a dysmorphia that makes it imagine it’s a transexual human being rather than a machine? The public should be told!
The Transformers were all masculine in behaviour in Generation One (as it came to be known.) The makers introduced the female Arcee for Transformers: The Movie in 1985. Back then, the target audience was boys and we didn’t want girly stuff annoying us.
Nowadays, a product that’s primarily marketed at boys or men is considered evil. It’s still ok to market things primarily at girls and women though, because they’re ‘oppressed’ by straight white men!!!
In years to come, we’ll look at entertainment from this era the same way we look at Nazi and Soviet Propaganda. At least with a little judicious re-editing and revoicing all the PC rubbish can be removed from cartoons in years to come. I’ve got all four G1 Transformers on DVD. I still need to grab Transformers: The Movie though! That film was a big deal for us UK kids in 1986!
The good thing is when you’re a kid and have a sibling of the opposite sex. Me and my brother used to love nothing better then getting all of the Transformers, Star Wars figures, He-Man figures, Barbies, Sindy and My Little Ponies for a good old mass-integrated shindig. I don’t recall anyone being discriminated against or marginalized in the toy department anyway. It’s been a while since I visited the Barbie section of the toy store actually. I dread to think what I’d find nowadays. If Ken is pregnant I’ll be making a formal complaint!
I think there is a trans Ken now. Barf!
When I was a child I used to go over to a friends house and we’d have our Transformers, He-Mans and so on battle my friend’s sister’s doll. It was one of those gigantic – vaguely disturbing, uncanny valley – fat baby dolls. We used to pretend it was the Mekon!!
..yes Dom..but we don’t get women I even recognise..we don’t get kind, intelligent, committed, brave and nurturing….we get obnoxious, sexualised, one of the lads … useless mother, family destroying types….
Have a look at the really popular LOL (lil outrageous little) dolls….and compare with what now appears to be a ‘time of innocence’ Sindy!! It’s just as propagandised and vile a message to girls and women…
Something the author missed:
It’s just sometimes the world can be a scary place. It’s hard to know who’s dangerous or not […] I know I’m safe when I’m with my friends or other non-binary people.
with the obvious implication that people, especially including the audience, children aged 2 – 11, are generally not safe in this world if they’re among people who don’t identify as transgender-somethings. That all weird-sex people are always nice to all other people is an unproven assertion I’m not the least bit willing to believe in. And this kind of seriously exaggerated paranoia marketing is certainly not appropriate for children’s entertainment which is not supposed to be about scaring childrend by telling them lies about the world (eg, that encountering dangerous people would be the common case and not the very uncommon one).
This (not age-appropriate) is also evident in the topic of pronouns itself. When I was in school, pronouns (and other grammatical word classes) were something we learned about (early) in secondary school. Obviously, there were some adults involved here who just threw stuff they were concerned about, like weird-sex-appropriate grammar, at children without of the least bit of concern if these are actually already capable of understanding what that is. Or, taking a more suspicious stance, throwing it at children because they don’t yet understand anything about it, in order to indoctrinate them with the proper viewpoint early enough that they won’t question it later.
I hate to upset any youthful impressions readers might have retained, but robots are inanimate objects in which gender is an irrelevancy. Encouraging kids to believe in it is like cultivating a belief in fairies (or that Labour will be good for the country!)
That’s probably about the point of it: As gender is purely a social construct with no links to biology whatsoever and as (biological) sex must be treated as irrelvant or non-existant factor, there’s no reason why robots (or toasters) shouldn’t have one. They’re even purer in this respect than us mudbloods with living bodies as theirs have no properties not intentionally designed into them by their makers and no properties which can’t be changed in arbitrary ways by redesiging and reintegrating their bodies. Dehumanisation is an important part of trans-ideology.
I predict the author will go far in life and his name will be recorded on the side of the ledger where those who have made a positive contribution are listed
I’m all out of robot-related links, and I’m pretty gutted it’s all quiet on the nanobot front, so an off-territory dump it is;
”The number of people in the UK diagnosed with a heart rhythm condition that puts them at increased risk of having a stroke has topped 1.5 million for the first time.
The latest figure means one in 45 people in the UK are now confirmed to have the condition – but the charity fears a further 270,000 people remain undiagnosed and unaware.
The BHF said the reason for the sharp rise was likely to be a result of better recognition and diagnosis of the condition.
But it said further research was still needed to find new ways of identifying people at risk earlier.
Professor Sir Nilesh Samani, medical director at the BHF, said: “These figures show a quite astonishing rise in the number of people diagnosed with atrial fibrillation.”
https://news.sky.com/story/astonishing-rise-in-britons-with-an-irregular-heartbeat-these-are-the-main-warning-signs-12883566
A good post Mogs. Thanks.
The BHF is a thoroughly disreputable organisation which has supported officialdom throughout the Scamdemic including masks and injections but they don’t want to mention those.
Somewhat related, also reg.FSU:
https://www.takimag.com/article/open-letter-from-a-closed-mind/
“That 800 intellectuals could be found to protest against the publication of the book illustrates an alarming development in our society; namely, that the greatest enemies of freedom of thought and expression are to be found among the very people one might have hoped were fiercest in defense of it.”
Quote from the letter:
“Gender-critical” feminism is not a scholarly field, but a coordinated political intervention, unsubstantiated by peer-reviewed research in the field of gender, sexuality, queer, and trans studies, that promotes itself by the deliberate sowing of “controversy” without being held accountable for the very real and dangerous consequences of these discourses for entire demographics of human beings.
Coordinate political intervention means gender, sexuality, queer, and trans studies
exist solely because rich people pour money into it via shady NGOs. Therefore, we claim that everybody who opposes us must be as corrupt as we are. That an opinon which is fundamentally critical of gender, sexuality, queer, and trans studies has never been supported by social ‘scientists’ compiling statistics about gender, sexuality, queer, and trans stuff with the intent to fool others into believing that such issues actually exists outside of their respective minds is unsurprising. And then, of course, the intent of anybody who doesn’t share theses opinions must be all-out genocide of mankind, no less. Everything mentioned which must be mentioned.
It’s always structured in this way.
The last decadent waltz before we tilt headlong into fascism Mk2 with added bio digital surveillance.
Thank goodness I’m not required to watch such drivel! Thank you for actually watching the whole thing to save us all the trouble. I think I might well have had transformer meltdown!
Great piece by Mr Watson but effing hell, the level of malevolently subversive propaganda exhibited by this show is terrifying. Mr Watson is able to see through this garbage, but how many young impressionable minds simply don’t have – and aren’t encouraged to develop – the necessary critical thinking skills to do so? The future is frightening.
I’ve been thinking about this..and quite frankly I don’t know where to start..I don’t even think I’m qualified to have an opinion as it seems so utterly bonkers, corrupt, immoral..(pick a word) that I’m not sure I’ll say anything sensible..
What is also staggering is that there will have been hundreds of people associated with this project, from the lowliest gopher, to writers, artists, actors, editors, producers etc..etc…what the hell were they thinking…?
We are living in gnatzi land and all we can do is resist….?
My oldest grandson is 13 and he is what I like to call a free thinker with great bullshit detectors. If his writing was better then he’d write a piece like this!