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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I’m afraid facts and arguments aren’t going to change the minds of Net Zero advocates.
What will change their minds is the sense that those who don’t want it are getting angry and might start going for Net Zero zealots in ways they might not like.
They need to feel the need to change position at an emotional level. And we all know fear works best.
Personally I make a point of ensuring that anyone who defends climate change policy perceives my anger and a certain sense of menace that I’m not standing for it.
That’s the sort of emotional response that gets people re-thinking, in my view.
Indeed. Righteous anger coupled with a couple of winters freezing in one’s home and – heaven forbid – being deprived of the internet and one’s dumb-down-the-owner ‘smart’ phone (due to power blackouts) and we will probably see some change in direction. Recent history shows how quickly zealots can change sides – 2 years ago there were millions standing in line for untested poison, now they can’t give it away. Reality bites big.
Yep everyone wants to “save the planet” till the penny eventually drops that the planet is fine and it was never about the planet in the first place.
We see the same tactics used against those who put rational arguments and science up against the loony climate change protagonists.
The loonies are not loony and those with rational arguments and science are the loonies.
All achieved using the same approach to so many other issues that are destroying our social values and structures and done using
useful idiotswhatever activists they can fund to implement this madness.The end justifies the means for those behind all this crap who see the destruction of social values and structures as the ends which justify the means.
DS is invaluable as a source of information and a forum to read what sensible people have to say against this backdrop of madness.
Or “never let a good crisis go to waste”, and parasite governments of both parties are certainly putting the manufactured climate crisis to good use to implement all the progressive policies they have long craved
No facts and reason……Just faith and emotion. Climate activists and those who glue themselves to things decided long ago what is true and there is no budging them. But we need to remember it is government and their phony climate models masquerading as science that brainwashed them all. —–Thos governments can hardly come down hard on their own useful idiots that do all their dirty work for them now can they?
Until the liberal mainstream media, and especially the BBC, do honest reporting over the utter folly of spending trillions on completely worthless and highly dangerous Net Zero madness nothing will change.
I would suggest that everyone complain to the BBC via. their Make A Complaint web portal. Find a climate change article on the BBC website, it’ll almost always state that greenhouse gas emissions are the main cause of climate change, something that we all know is complete rubbish. They always make this dumb statement without any dissenting views allowed. That’s complaint-worthy in itself.
Do you really think complaining to the BBC achieves anything? It is impervious to complaints.
Hopefully one low level individual there might start to think for him/her self and light a spark. A long shot, I know.
At a stroke, we could cut the staggering 0.0016% of the atmosphere that is human-caused CO2 by wiping out most of the world’s population by toxic medical interventions, geoengineering, gmo food and electrosmog. Unless some people have already thought of that.
Just as a matter of interest – have any of the Net Zero zealots ever clarified what’s the target internal winter temperature people are expected to maintain in this brave new world of theirs, or hasn’t that sort of practical reality crossed their tiny minds? I see the WHO, NHS and others currently recommend 18-21C, and building ‘sperts recommend above 16C to stop condensation and mould. Are those numbers likely to drop, I wonder? (My place regularly drops well below those already; wonder if that means I get extra brownie points?!)
Off topic, but who cares..
So.. 2.30 pm tomorrow Andrew Bridgen after 20 refusals and the pressure of constitutants harassing their MPs there will be a debate (1 hr slot) about excess deaths.
Its the first parliamentary debate in the world… You couldn’t make this up in your widest of dreams..
https://youtu.be/uWP6mGiDveI?si=sYVcJHZC-SLCDsYQ
More off topic…. Was all this about provoking Iran..
Brand talking sense… Yet again (don’t believe the narrative about him, it’s an attempted matrix takedown)
https://youtu.be/jWO-mtt4_lU?si=vUDuZ1TDB4O-iFMW
”Advertising signs that con you
Into thinking you’re the one
That can do what’s never been done
That can win what’s never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you,”
This is a momentous nightmare social experiment, the current technology cannot deliver, the current resources are inadequate. As this nonsense progresses and it becomes increasingly obvious that our current population cannot go ‘net-zero’ and live at anything like present living standards, what is going to happen? Are people meekly going to accept immiseration and a degeneration of living standards back to medieval times? If we do go down this route the UK will become a weird basket case like the mad uncle you keep in the attic while the rest of the world gets on with life. This is a recipe for huge social upheaval and turmoil, the end result of which is hard to predict?
Something similar to North Korea, I expect. Only without the abundant luxuries…
‘Saving the planet’ is worth any cost in some eyes. Even if you can’t afford it, and it wouldn’t save the planet anyway, (primarily because it doesn’t need saving from CO2).
Useless people trying to give themselves a sense of destiny.
The NIC should be closed down and sent back to school while we find some adults to carry on the essential work.
The can will need to be continually kicked down the road because what the parasite political class are trying to do is not just impossible, it is unaffordable, but the pain and suffering inflicted will be a severe blow to hard pressed taxpayers suffering the fallout from the malady infecting all of parliament called PSPS (Pretend to Save the Planet Syndrome)