Mr William Morgan Sheppard who Transformers fans should better remember as Captain Archibald Witwicky in the Transformers 2007 live action film, passed away on Sunday, January 06th in Santa Monica at age of 86.
Besides finding Megatron for the Transformers Movieverse, Mr. Sheppard was known for his many appearances across the Star Trek series and films. Additionally, he was well-known for his work as Blank Reg in the Babylon 5 series, and many other appearances in series like Dr. Who and more over his long-time career. You can read the full article about him via TV Guide.com.
We offer our heartfelt condolences to his family and friends.
ca12nag3
Great job on turning a topic like this into a scatfest. I don't think anyone here meant to be disrespectful or in any way rude. And only those that are offended should act offended tbh.
electronic456
Even if you're calling out someone for an unintended offence, I'd withdraw of calling someone a mental person. That's uncalled for especially if you don't know who the person is in real life.
Do you genuinely think he disrespects the dead? Or are you trying to get back at him for liking AOE?
I think you're making this a bit of a Pewdiepie situation.
Galvatross
There was no reason to act as if anything anyone in this thread did was shameful. Nobody insulted the memory of the deceased here, so I did not think such a confrontational post toward me was warranted whatsoever. I don't need to apologize to anyone. Like my post, dislike it, or be indifferent, but I don't need to be told "Shame on you," over a Shrek post that didn't personally insult anyone. "Shame on you," is extremely hyperbolic, as if I've done this absolutely awful thing when I haven't.
Furthermore, the point I was trying to make was that it's easy to act as if someone is doing something disrespectful, but you don't know the context in which that person came from. Our personal experiences shape how we view life and death, and there's nothing wrong with giving other people some honest background information, because in actuality I'm actually very respectful toward those who have passed. As opposed to deaths from weapons of war, I tend to have a more relaxed and light-hearted attitude toward natural deaths, which are merely a part of the natural cycle of life. To me, Shrek is a very positive thing, so by putting a light-hearted spin on things, I'd say I'm actually honoring those who have passed. Just like other people in other parts of globe honor their dead in ways I may not get, but that are respectful to them. You see what I mean?
Also, I didn't give you "TMI." If I did, I'd be breaking board rules.
I'm not entitled. I'm free.
Saying that a point is pointless is not the same as attacking someone. I said that I didn't appreciate their comment. Like if other members find a post from someone odd, then there's nothing wrong with that. I find plenty of responses to life and death in many cultures odd. But I would never attack a member here for reacting to death or tragedy differently than I would, whether it was more cheerful or mournful or humorous UNLESS it was saying that such a tragedy should happen. You see what I mean? It's one thing to have a sense of humor or be light-hearted toward misfortune and death and the afterlife, because sometimes having a sense of humor toward the misfortunes of the world is the best thing we can do. It's quite another to actively wish death and damnation and what not, and that's something nobody here was doing, neither myself nor any of the "No sacrifice, no victory," comments. Hence none of the comments here, neither from myself or others, were anything approaching "shameful."
Hold on here for a second. The one who straight up suggested that I seek professional help was you. So if you're going to play that game, then you only have yourself to blame for starting down that road here.
Keep in mind, I never said you were definitely any of those things, but some of your posts seriously make me wonder, because you often misrepresent or misunderstand what myself and some others say it seems. You can disagree. That's fine. Just don't twist our words to make arguments against imaginary points of view.
Autobot Burnout
Dude, as far as I can tell, you made a shrek pun, somebody called you out for it, and then you respond by launching into some mini-rant about how you're justified in making shrek puns because you've somehow experienced a lot involving death.
Like…we don't need the TMI edition defense. It was a joke, all you had to say was you didn't regard death in the same way as the other guy and that was it. Instead, you list off some terrible real life experiences as if you need to defend sticking 'Shrek' into a phrase like you're somehow entitled to making stale Shrek jokes in threads about dead people.
So what you're saying is, it was a misunderstanding because your stance on the matter is different than his, but instead of simply clarifying the difference, you go full bore and attack him by going on about how 'pointless' his post is, and then throwing up how you've experienced so much involving death and apparently man's inhumanity to man or whatever as justification for your stance, when you didn't need to clarify that at all to begin with.
Plus, if you were dropping lines like 'get shrekt' in-person at a funeral, I think you would garner much the same response as you did earlier.
This is not normally how you've reacted in the past, even when I'm dropping some truly blue language accusations at AoE which is usually how we interact. I mean, here you are passive-agressively suggesting that I have a mental disorder because I expressed confusion as to why anybody would need to bring up their exposure to horrible things to defend a possibly-seen-as-insensitive remark – you've never crossed that line in the innumerable arguments we've had over AoE.
Galvatross
Congratulations on saying absolutely nothing of substance and having no idea what you're talking about, as usually is the case for you. I don't know if you're just a dishonest person who intentionally twists what other fans say, or if you genuinely have some sort of learning disability or challenge with reading comprehension or what. If one of the latter is the case, then there's no shame in that case.
The point is, I've been around death. I can and do respect the dead, and I don't think having a more light-hearted approach towards death is being disrespectful, especially when members are saying "No Sacrifice, no victory." What I said wasn't that different. Those members weren't mocking his death by making posts based on quotes from a Transformers movie, and neither was I. There's no need to bring "shame" into such a conversation to begin with. Go back in this thread, and you'll see the one being confrontational was not me.
Autobot Burnout
What I even reading here.
I mean, using the death of family in genocides to defend your right to make shitty tired shrek puns just because somebody called you out on it on the internet?
Like, what the actual fuck?
Not gonna lie…I think you might need professional help if you are feeling this confrontational over somebody saying something bad about fucking Shrek on the internet, where Shrek has been dead for over a decade.
Bahamut Prime
RIP, Mr Sheppard. No Sacrifice, No Victory!
Galvatross
Wow. What a pointless thing to say. There's nothing wrong with what I posted. I can understand if I insulted the guy or something along those lines, but nope.
So no apologies, and take it easy. Get Shrekt!
When I pass on, I wouldn't mind people joking at my funeral. Even death has its own sense of humor, nor do I think the dead get mad about the living having a sense of humor.
So I hope Morgan Sheppard is kicking butt in the afterlife and not giving a damn about all of the pointless arguments in the fandom. Rest in peace.
And for the record, I have family members who died in genocides. I have been in cities that were in ruins because of recent wars, with buildings filled with holes from bombs and bullets. I have buried the dead. I get disgusted with the way people treat each other with their wars, genocides, murder, thievery, lies, etc. I get disgusted with how humans treat the other species we share this planet with, and by the extinctions humans have caused through malice, greed, or negligence. I also recognize that death and destruction are merely natural parts of life in this realm, regardless of one's personal beliefs. So with that said, I really don't appreciate being told, "Shame on you," over such a thing as being light-hearted. Like Yoda said, "Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force."
Septimus-Prime
No Sacrifice, no victory!
Reask
… That was him?! I loved that episode. That was the episode that convinced me to keep watching Star Trek.
robotmel
RIP.
I loved this guy as Blank Reg in the Max Headroom series, still do! Peace be with you Reg!
Max Tower
I think you need to edit the description text a little bit (the babylon 5 reference is incorrect) W. Morgan Shepard was G'Kar's Uncle who gets ambushed by the Shadow Vessels and he was also the (1st) Soulhunter we see in Babylon 5.
He also featured in lots of other Sci Fi shows including Star Trek The Next Generation and it was Max Headroom where he played Blank Reg :
TFXProtector
That's really in poor taste. This is a thread delivering news and to honor the man. You could at least take that part serious for once and not turn it into a Shrek joke. I'm extremely disappointed in you, right now. Please be better than that in threads like this. Shame on you.
Try and be like this guy below:
fishpop
\"No Sacrifice, No Victory!\"
ObakaChanTachi
RIP
BIGGUY007
As Optimus Prime once said: Do not grieve. Soon… I will be one with the Matrix.
RIP Mr. William Morgan Sheppard.
Spether
I loved that episode where he took over Data's body!
fallen_revenge
“No sacrifice, no victory.” Rest well.
TFXProtector
Man, oh man. 2019 is off to a wicked start. =\
Geez. Less than a full week (we're down to the last few hours) and the count has risen. Ugh.
Thank you for entertaining us, sir. Rest well.
CleverNamePendingatron
Damn, you’re right. I knew that and made the mistake anyway. My bad. My brain mustn’t be working today.
In my defence, they did both play the same character in Doctor Who.