Hiatus officially breaks tomorrow, but with Saturday Night Showcase errors, and Chris McFeely dropping this long compilation of Transformers lore preparing for the release of Transformers One, the first animated Transformers theatrical movie in years (more if you don’t live in Japan), I thought I’d post it for all of you.
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Personally, the original origin is still my favorite. Orion Pax’s job pre-war makes more sense given his traditional alternate mode, and it just sounds like a better lead to being Cybertron’s greatest warrior and leader than being a data desk clerk. I also have problems with Furman’s take on Optimus in general. Also PLEASE STOP KILLING OPTIMUS PRIME!!!!!! It’s been (literally) done to death, and should go away along with Bumblebee losing his voice. I don’t mind the stoic take, but a bit of the fun from the original making a return wouldn’t make me sad.
As for Megatron, I have issues with pretty much every version of Mister “Peace Through Tyranny”. Sometimes his origin is tied to the “Autobots are actually not good guys” thing I hate so much, and sometimes it just falls short. The Marvel Comics origin comes closest but I know how I’d give Megatron a great origin that makes sense to his character. It ties to what would be my attempt to reconcile the Primus and Quintesson origins into one origin that partly builds on the idea of being living robots. Someday I hope to tell you that story, but other projects are currently more important. I don’t mind Megatron no longer being a gun, even though that’s what I grew up with. In addition to the current toy gun safety laws, that seem to get tighter with every new big news shooting event, someone like Megatron needing someone else to fire him doesn’t work. I’d accept a cannon, but as a front line commander, a tank frankly makes a lot more sense.
I’m still not sold on Transformers One, as I went over in my review of the teaser. I’m not won on the humor, and maybe I am too interested in my own origin ideas, but Bumblebee turned out to be a better movie than I expected. Maybe someday it will be a Finally Watched. At the very least it looks better than the live-action movies.
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