Spoiler: tfp liveblog continues, s1e24 tfw you're too big to fit in the ambulance you're gonna rez unicron... with his own blood. Uh. Suuuuuure, Megs, you keep tellin yourself that. I'm glad someone finally made the unicorn-Unicron joke in canon, thank you miko "fossilized blood" uh Ratchet I don't wanna question Space Science but. are you sure that's how you wanna explain that. thank you human mom for having normal reactions GODDAMMIT RAF'S THE ONLY KID I LIKE YOU CAN'T TAKE HIM OUT OF THE SERIES OPTIMUS GET BACK IN THAT MEDBERTH OR SO HELP ME oh hello cartoon physics, that's not how lightning works okay human mom let robot dad take you both to safety, he's probably got better specs to deal with the weather anyway raf translating for bee like it ain't no thing and no one fussing about bee being hard to understand remains my Favorite Thing "to become one with me" [hetalia snickering in the distance] IS SOUNDWAVE THE ONE DOING A SHENANIGAN IS HE PLEASE LET MY SCIENCE SON BE AWESOME okay it's not soundwave causing it but he apparently got there a lot faster than the bots acceptable UH. I realize there's only so many Old robot face configurations but that dude looked like idw Alpha Trion RELIGION OH BOY COME ON MATRIX-BEARER GIVE US THE DEETS (dark hasbro show us the forbidden lore) ohh ohhhhh I like that design, I like that design a lot, give me more spindly nonsense projections on my robots awwww I know the idw and prime/rescue bots continuities aren't related at all but every reference to the Thirteen makes my little nerd heart warm space robots know more about planetary formation than some government yahoo thank you based milne soundwave in the background like "aight bro you go have fun talking to demons I'm just gonna... chill here" "my lord and master" yeeeeeeeeeesh as if we needed another reminder of how far this megs is from idw yeah, megs, I... don't know how you expected this to work out, man damn what an entrance you tried, OP, gold star this feels like the most annoying boss battle ever. Killed him? Nah bro, you killed the first, time for Wave 2: Golem Boogaloo
SO, a thing just occurred to me about ye olde cybertron and culture and all. So when Sentinel is poking around on Luna I, he has his whole speech thing about how 'ooooh, I hope you're not being GROSS AND SENTIMENTAL, because back in MY day we didn't do """romance""", we had COLLEAGUES and that was it.' And we've got a really, really limited window into the past, but like. We've also heard that having a conjunx is pretty rare. Okay, sure, but then look at how often romance and romantic attraction comes into play in the current plot. Maybe it's kinda uncommon, but it features pretty regularly. But okay, let's give Sentinel some credit. Let's say that in Cybertron's past, it was much less common, and also much less approved of, to pursue romantic attachments. And this is all very very speculative, but just. If Cyclonus lived in that kind of environment, and that's the Cybertron he loved and still mourns, then just think of how overwhelming his emotions must be for a person who grew up with those repressive societal expectations to fall so deeply in love with another bot.
This is very painful and I love you Spoiler: tangent To be fair we don't... really know if it was Sentinel-contemporary Cybertron or Infinitus-contemporary Cybertron; those are two very different time periods! Sentinel's reign was much, much later, during a period of cultural repression (Clampdown, rigid caste systems, functionism, blah blah blah), but... oh no. Ohhhh no don't let me worldbuidling tangent, I started out disagreeing on a pedantic point but now I think I've got more details to supporting this. Nominus's reign wasn't the best, no, but Sentinel's was noted for taking a sharp turn towards militarization. And who else do we know who's also a tad obsessed with battle prowess? Galvatron, one of the only other (known) survivors from the First Civil War! "Brutal militaristic society as 'primitive'" is not my favorite trope, but that two or three of the Thirteen Tribes could take on such ideals is very believable-- especially considering two of the three survivors we see are from the heavily moralistic tribes: Infinitus servant of Nexus, and Galvatron originally serving under Megatronus. (You can't tell me with the myth arc shaping up so beautifully that Megatron 1.0 wasn't also idealistic as hell.) Time passes, culture relaxes a little more-- and then in comes Sentinel Prime, trying to make things Right by enforcing all his old cultural mores on this "softer" Cybertron. Depending on how old Cyclonus actually is-- we don't know when he came into Galvatron's service-- it's possible he's also got the culture-fleas, or else absorbed them from his master commanding officer while they were trapped in the Dead Universe. ...tealdeer: dark Hasbro give me the forbidden lorebook before I write my own entire damn history of Cybertron
okay okay back to tfp, I'm gonna try and finish up s1. Spoiler: 1e25 dammit OP get over your martyr thing with all the trouble he had with the solo, I'm kind of surprised OP lasted as long as he did in the Swarm wave Wave 3: Start! (Also, hot damn, Uni really does know how to make an entrance I'll give him that) for real though this entire finale feels like it was written for a video game, I kinda want that game to exist LEARN TO KITE MOTHERFUCKERS GODDAMN STRAIGHT LINES DON'T HELP YOU ...on the other hand, I'm kind of entertained that the robots all have linear thinking okay so you still gotta take out the head is what I'm getting from this. ohey megs got his fusion cannon! oh my goooooood you two just make the spade official already man OP's hands are pretty. oh damn again with the snazzy entrance Airachnid it's been like a day tops do you remember what happened the last time someone tried to usurp Megs' position? Now is Not The Time, especially with Soundwave right there MISSION PREP: CHOOSE YOUR PARTY! headshots aren't working anymore. Better armor, or do they just have hitpoints? or. a specific Breaking Point? what even is going on here oh my goooooood the animator with a love for robot crotches is back specifically for Megatron's Dramatic Walk towards OP you can't tell me they're not pitch love interests DAMMIT RAF I LIKED YOU Megs just like "what the fuck do I do with children. why is it screaming. shoo, yappy puppy." op this sounds like a baaaaad idea, are you catching megs's crazy? Mission: START! this is the raddest level design oh man Spoiler: 1e26 here we gooooooo the final finale! [megs internal dialogue]: god fucking dammit I already saw this I know I get it you're gonna blow up the planet shut up already fuckin hell IT'S A LITTLE LATE TO RAISE THAT PROTEST ARCEE hot damn I continue to love this scenery YES RATCHET GIVE US THE SWEET PITCH BACKSTORY ...oh jeez more headcanon errors, that is not how I thought Iacon was pronounced Oh. Huh. In this continuity, Megatronus's name was never erased from history. Cool! (Does this mean the FCW never happened in this one?) "something of a mentor" Sure, Ratch, suuure. "Something." ...huh. Were there no Primes between the Thirteen and OP in this universe? Either Megs has a much less sympathetic start in this one, or Ratchet is an unreliable narrator. I'm more inclined to go with option 2. "The last of the Primes." You sound so sure about that, Ratch ...I realize he's big but maybe get the woozy guy away from the edge of the catwalk? are those insecticons making tiny teakettle noises oh my god they're like squid-butterflies they're adorable I want twenty oh my goooooooood they're dancing around each other in perfect Battle Couple slowmo just get pitch-married already goddamn Soundwave says: FUCK YOU AND THE SPIDER YOU RODE IN ON that is the most wonderful adaptation of cassette-carrying oh my gosh they're precious WHAT THE FUCK OPTIMUS I REALIZE THERE'S SOME SENSE IN GIVING SOME RANDO A THING TO PROTECT WHEN THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS BUT WHAT THE FUCK MEGATRON LITERALLY JUST DISOBEYED MIND-CONTROL ORDERS BY SHEER WILLPOWER YOU CAN'T TELL ME HE DOESN'T LOVE OP oh that is some lovely animation [replays half a second of the episode twenty times over just to stare at Unicron's spark] I know I've already made a comment somewhere about how "commanding officer orders a subordinate to kill their kismesis" is probably a really common troll drama trope but It is relevant again that is some really nice voice-layering there, A+ audio team ...I seriously expected him to say "the power of the Matrix compels you" there baaaaaaaaaabies ridiculous pitch babies [teakettle noises] please let this last more than one episode I want lasting effects please please please Megs. Megs no. Bad Megs. (Good plan, Megs :P) [VIBRATES EXCITEDLY FOR S2] help I'm having Emotions
So I'd originally reblogged this poem just for the sake of the poetry, but the more I look at it, the more it gives me Starscream feelings (especially given his super-dramatic name, what a precious edgelord)
god, isn't the op/meg pitch romance so intense in those eps? I know I was rolling around in ridiculous excitement when I watched them, god bless. those two really need to get hatemarried
Tf con was amazing I gave Roche a Rodi since that is his son it seem. Gave Grimlock's voice actor a little Grimlock. Bought lots of cool stuff. Me and @meowtini on the rocks are official amicas and have the necklaces to prove it. Spoiler: Here's some cosplay/con pics
I invite yall to consider: -the idiom "cold-hearted" (unfeeling, uncaring, soulless) -the fact that a lot of the casual discrimination we see towards cold-con mechs being that they're "soulless" or don't have "real sparks" -how beautifully the two above points dovetail into a wonderful understandable hideous alien slur. "Cold-sparked" is both a descriptor and an insult, yaaaay!
/sits up in realization/ Springer and Tarantulus are basically a reverse Jeff and Billy from the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy Fuck
Gueeeeeeeeess who's been thinking about the never-meant-to-be otp! Spoiler: nsfw, I guess? So okay, Whirl/Rotorstorm. Best worst idea that I still ache for. And imagine Whirl, alright. Instructor at the academy, let's go ahead and say that he has some access to his students' medical records. And let's say that because he is super bad at boundaries, he goes looking up Rotorstorm's specs. His personal specs. His interface array specs. And has his spike reconfigured to be a perfect match for Rotorstorm's valve. Because like, they're taking it slow! Definitely slow! Super romantic and not rushing anything, but okay okay, they're going to get married eventually of course, so imagine the first time they're in the berth together and Whirl opens his interface array and BAM, perfect fit, custom mods, it blows Rotorstorm's mind, and it's the most romantic gesture of all time. And that didn't happen. But smash cut to the present (or a few years back from the present), and Whirl still has a spike with custom mods. Because okay. Okay. He screwed that up. Pretty badly. Rotorstorm doesn't ever have to talk to him again, and Whirl doesn't deserve to have Rotorstorm talk to him again. He's not arguing that point. But like................ Rotorstorm is out there, y'know? And. Not like Whirl's expecting anything or thinks anything is going to happen, but. You know. Rotorstorm is still out there. Just if-- Just in case. Whirl isn't the same person he was back then, and if Rotorstorm ever wanted to talk to him again, and if Whirl managed to not be completely awful, and if if if if anything might ever maybe possibly happen-- You know. Just in case.
Spoiler: Transformers: Revolution 001 So it turns out that the only means mankind has to fight against the shapeshifting Dire Wraiths is dogs. Dogs will save the day. I approve.
oh my god guys how did i miss this nightbeat face every other time I read this comic also just in general, this page is amazing. I love Nightbeat so much
Holy shit, I forget how many fantastic writing moments are packed in this series "and that's the story of how the dinobots learned what a metaphor is"
an important bit of worldbuilding, on the other hand: cybertronian vending machines. energon explodes in some continuities, definitely a great substance to let bang around in a vending machine. and are there some poor bastards that have that as an alt, and. ....sudden concerning thoughts about the energon in a person-vending machine. that would be a terrible way to execute someone, set them up like that and just let people pay to dry them out
