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Voltron into turnaround! Could it be the epic case of MASSIVE FAIL finally showing through?

I loves me some Voltron, don't get me wrong. But the minorest of minor details--the proposed plot--has me just a little off-put by the idea of a movie adaptation:

Marks' take is described as a post-apocalyptic tale set in New York City and Mexico, where five survivors of an alien attack band together and end up piloting the five lion-shaped robots that combine and form the massive sword-wielding Voltron that helps battle Earth's invaders.

FUCK YOU, VOLTRON DOES NOT LIVE ON PLANET EARTH. GALAXY GARRISON IS ON EARTH. VOLTRON IS ON PLANET ARUS. FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU.

Sorry. That got a little vehement. Might have something to do with the last bit of anime-to-film news I had--you know, that completely horsehit idea of casting Keanu Reeves as Spike Spiegel in a live-action Cowboy Bebop movie. What? There weren't any bad actors under 40 available!? What's that Anakin kid doing these days? Either one--the little'un or the angsty one. They'd at least be closer to age-appropriate.

Being a Good Sport Doesn't Mean Putting Up With Bullshit

Oh, uh, spoilers for tonight's broadcast, I suppose.

Basically, without saying who or what event, the article above details this absolutely assinine rule in gymnastics whereby an equal score does not a shared-medal make. Horseshit. Two people get the same score? They share a goddamn medal. Scores are tenuous and error-prone by virtue of being determined by subjective, imperfect human judges. To then splice the scores further and take minutest of minutest detail apart to determine a "tie-breaker"? I call BULLSHIT.

I don't care who won. If someone with a goddamned difficult routine messed up and got a low score or someone did great on an easy routine and scored high for it and it was the same as the other person, they both get a goddamned medal. What the fuck is this shit? I feel bad for the one person mentioned who burst into tears at this. That person didn't deserve to be told his/her equally valid, equally top score kept him/her from the lead. Sometimes, there is one champion in the world. A lot of the time, however, there are dual champions. Get the F over yourself, IOC.