Imma be real i zoned out when you stopped talking about Bionicle.

Alright...somehow this is still getting comments after six months, so let me drop a little clarification here. I did not realize how divisive this opinion would be, or how many rabid fans there still were of this twenty year old show. That's not to say I wouldn't have posted this short if I did know. What most commenters here seem not to have realized is that I like the show too - I wouldn't bother voicing my complaints about a show I don't care about. KZbin has auto-blocked several comments for abuse, but I've unblocked all of them, cause I don't believe in censorship, even if the thing being censored is stupid or unproductive. I also genuinely want to hear counter arguments to every point I make on this channel. It's called Rico Talks, not Rico Is Always Right. But please, before you comment, ask yourself if what you're about to say is actually productive or intelligent in any sense of either word. And if you're one of the many Titus Pullo fanboys who have sprung up out of the weeds to hurl insults at this short, ask yourself if I acrually said anything at all negative about the characters, or if i was just pointing out that one farfetched aspect of a multi-storyline series was a little hard to take seriously due to its improbability in an otherwise grounded narrative. inb4 🤓

It's just rage bait..

I think that your take on two fantastic characters is absolute trash.

Hmm, I didn't know that Pullo was a Centurion until your video

why is there rebirth clips

I still don't understand how you've not blown up yet, the quality of your content is near unmatched on this platform right now.

Ah I see Wait can you say it again I lost you after ceasar

As someone who grew up with the 1993 film and therefore, possesses an unbreakable nostalgic attachment… is it bad I would have preferred a sequel to the 1993 disasterpiece over the generic 2023 reboot?

Born in 96, grew up with the very first bionicles

Only bad thing about this show is it’s being cut short. Wonderful series

I was born 2002, had my own first legos by 2004. Bionicles in 2005-2010. Holy. I have had so many dreams about Bionicles returning. I miss them so much. I know I’m young. But even still. It hurts.

NEW VIDEO WHENNNN?????

I don't really miss my legos or hot wheels, not even the pokemon cards. But if there was one thing I could go back and save it would be the DAMN BIONICLES.

No one trusts Hollywood writers nowadays, they’re just not talented enough to adapt it. The 1980’s writers weren’t talented either but the film decided it was going to be style over substance.

I think your hard to take serious smh don't talk the 13th it's a TV show not a documentary buddy boy

I don't like the mixture gens bc I'm fine with Gen Alpha starting in 2010 bc we're a cool generation who grew up with prob the best era, the 2010S!!

I enjoyed the show, and as a matter of fact started to do my own research about the Roman Empire!

They have powerfull gods on their side

L take. The characters make the show, and give history meaning. This isn’t a documentary, it’s a drama. Caesar, Octavian, Pompey, and Antony are all truly larger than life figures. Their interactions with Titus and Lucius make them actual people. Humanizes them, brings them out of myth.

Excellent analysis!!!😊

Dude has a little ove 1000 subs sometimes gets a little over 100 views and makes something over a billion people need to see

Clicks to know why they killed off Mr. Peanut Leaves questioning my humanity and mortality

28:13 yeah about that. Unfortunately no Season 4 😢

My dream usually depicts a new wave of Bionicles in modern day, remakes of old 2001-2003 sets using current building techniques! They’re never as good as the OG sets though, and my dream self always recognizes this and is filled with sadness lol

Shoot and a miss

I love this series. I wish there were more seasons. I do agree with these two being overly involved, however. It’s almost like the Forrest Gump syndrome.

Lighten up Francis.

So a fictional creation plan from a name beefed with another fictional character, crazy!

I found it charming

Cat lady was delicious

03 kid here, so i missed most of it. I remember wanting the Phantokah sets, especially the Makuta Chirox. It wasn’t until I found a bionicle encyclopedia and some of the Metru Nui novels in 2011 that I really fell in love with the series.

Oh my God Douglas Adams its like a mix btw Scott Bakula and Jeff Daniels.

Talking too fast and confusing. Video closed.

How do you follow such historical events and have a connection to them. You ‘create’ fictional’ characters involved in them so you’re personally invested. Like Vikings. Rollo and Ragnar weren’t brothers

I know exactly what you’re saying, I asked myself if they detracted from the history, but then again I loved the characters and the way they were written. In the end it was an HBO show and it needed some comedy and a side story to engage folks that might not be into history like I am.

No one agrees with you. It’s historical fiction buddy.

In regards to the story changing from telling to telling, I've never seen something brought up. Back in the 90s when I went to meet Douglas Adams at a book store promotional tour for "Starship Titanic", someone asked him why it was different form telling to telling. His answer was basically "How boring would that be? You've already heard that story." It seemed that he liked changing it up each time so that there was always something new to learn about the story and the characters. While I am finding out that people didn't take well to the movie because it was not exactly the book, I never had a problem with the changes Adams made in the movie because it just seemed to be part of the way HHGTTG is. I did think you missed some things in the movie however if you never read the book. Likewise, I may have missed something because at the time I saw it I had never listened to the radio show. I may have to watch it again soon.

this video made me bust out the box all my bionicles were stored in all taken apart. Shoutout to that abyssal depths series, the green guy from the villains of those looks so sick

I read all the five books on my podcast TortyTalks - so I thought knew the story. I'm now utterly confused !

Iron man 3 is set in 2013 not 2012

"Should Hitchhiker's Guide be franchised out into a larger universe of overlapping stories written by multiple authors?" Nope, it wasn't written that way, and the original author is no longer with us. Anything written in said universe after Douglas' demise is nothing more than fanfiction to me. However, there's a series of books where a somewhat similar approach is something I'd really love to see: Stephen King's "The Dark Tower". Stop reading here if you haven't finished the series yet, as I'm going to SPOIL THE END, and by extension, the entire series. You've been warned. Still here? OK, here goes: at the end of the series, we learn that this isn't the first time Roland makes the trip. In Groundhog Day fashion, his progress gets reset after finishing his quest "incorrectly", and some alterations are made to aid him in the next cycle. E.g. after this loop, everything is the same as before, except he still has the Horn of Eld. The story ends where it began. And this is a perfect opportunity to hand it over to a new writer who King trusts to, first and foremost, do the story and the themes justice. And second, to appoint another writer to take over after he's finished with the story, who he trusts to also do these same two things. The Dark Tower could be a series passed on from writer to writer, each adding their own personal style and insights, and each linking it to the rest of their own works perhaps.

Haha, that smirk when you said: kept it to one franchise this time, _kind of._ 😂

Tim Rice must have the credit of the hole book and adaptation. Webber is a musical genius but always eclipses Tim.

But no spoilers for the TV series, LP version, the movie or the two stage versions? Well that's OK then :-P

Gay Gary 7

I disagree with you

I enjoyed 'And Another Thing...' but the idea that HHG is only genuine HHG if it's written by DNA himself is exactly the kind of fetishisation that drove DNA away from the series in the first place. There were 18 episodes of 'Dirk Gently' and I don't see many people moaning about whether 16 of them shouldn't exist because they weren't written by DNA himself.

Zaphod was blond in the first two books.

Another great, insightful video. The editing is incredible, all the visuals Rico pulls in to illustrate his essays. Very thought provoking, as usual.