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[That Bot]

I'm sure there's been a few examples.

Whatever, it's not a huge deal. Knock Out isn't going to stay a wall decoration for long.

[Archanubis]

I'm sure there's been a few examples.

Whatever, it's not a huge deal. Knock Out isn't going to stay a wall decoration for long.

Considering he's up and walking around during the preview at the end of the last episode, the 'cons obviously find a way to extract him from the wall.

[Shadowman]

When has a cartoon followed the laws of physics?

I'm going to take that one step further and ask when has Transformers ever followed the laws of physics? Arcee breaks the law of conservation of mass just by transforming, Alpha Trion has a book that can tell the future, and the core of Earth is an ancient God-like machine and somehow no one ever noticed. If you're going to get hung up on Knock out getting stuck in a wall because of a piece of non-existent technology that already breaks the laws of physics, then it's silly not to get hung up on every other scientific impossibility in the show.

[That Bot]

The more people tell me I shouldn't get hung up on it, the more I'm going to find ways to justify getting hung up on one nonsensical thing in a franchise defined by nonsensical things. Let's move on, shall we? I've already said it doesn't bother me tremendously, it just jumped out at me that the new applications of the phase shifter defy even its own logic.

[Hypershock]

I'm sure there's been a few examples.

Whatever, it's not a huge deal. Knock Out isn't going to stay a wall decoration for long.

Yea, here's what i have to say about that.

I will be the first to admit that i have kind of been an apologist for Prime, i've tried to defend its ups and its downs, but this is the one thing that i disliked so much that it took me out (besides the end of Chimera and Silasdown).

It wasn't so much the whole stuck in the wall thing, that i enjoyed, it was one line by Megatron: "You shall serve as a constant reminder to those who dare fail me" or something like that. Immediately after i was like "oh man, Knockout's gonna be in a wall now? wow thats awesome.....wait, in the preview he was out again. Huh?"

Again, my qualm isn't that he was stuck in the wall, or even if we don't see him get removed, it's that Megatron wanted him to stay in the wall as a constant, as in permanent, reminder to his other followers. And i knew that he'd get removed eventually of course, but for it to happen within the very next episode caused me to think about it on a meta level, which led me to this assumption: either the showrunners outright do not regulate what the freelance writers put in their scripts to make continuity flow, or they are cognizant of the status quo and they just don't care; both of which are huge red flags for me.

With MECH, they've already proved to me that they can develop excellent ideas, but when they don't go along with what they have planned, they will run them to the ground. Now, they're starting to prove that there is a disconnect of some type between the writers that is starting to be a detriment to the show, and i hope they can escape that; im not sure that they can now. I am always prepared to eat a bit of crow on any subject, however it is rare that i have had to do that.

[That Bot]

Yeah, Knock Out being removed from the wall so soon does bug me more than a bit, since Megatron is so unforgiving when it comes to failure among his subordinates.

[PrymeStriker]

Maybe someone other than Megatron releases Knock Out from the wall?

[That Bot]

The thought has crossed my mind, I'll admit. We'll just have to see.

[MasterSoundBlaster]

I can see knockout commanding some vehicons into welding him out of the wall. After laughing at his predicimate.

[Va'al]

I can see knockout commanding some vehicons into welding him out of the wall. After laughing at his predicimate.

Why not Starscream? He would still be looking for allies within the ranks.