Entangled Again

Posting twice about Transformers this year, even if it’s an anniversary year for them, was already unusual for me. I have to admit that even the casual awareness I maintain of them can sharpen uneasy thoughts about “light entertainment” now amounting to selling “established properties” to people hooked on them quite early in their lives. If there’s a risk to stretching them too far one way or another, there could be even more of a risk of just getting caught up with “bad faith actors.” Even so, one recent bit of news about Transformers reached not me not through the usual conduits I keep ready to hand but as a piece of “anime news,” and that had me thinking of a bit more than the very familiar characters that help sell the toys and other products.
( A song once listened to )