G1 Smoketreader wrote:I see.
I went back to check TF Wiki on Exodus. I was sure that I had read there that the group who escape on the Ark name themselves 'Generation one' because they are the first TFs who carry on the Cybertronian civilisation away from the umbra of the council of 13. It's not there.Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. Any which way, it isn't now.
On those grounds I apologize wholeheartedly for wasting peoples' time and energy.
Well, there IS
something called "Generation One" in Exodus, but it's ins't a group. Whilst it was being constructed in secret by Alpha Trion, the Ark was given the codename "Project Generation One". But afterwards, it never went by that name again, as it was a tentative alias given the project for its creation.
G1 Smoketreader wrote:*snip of everything after the above quote*
All I can say to this is... well, they aren't going to be retelling the same old story of the 1980s fiction in a modern updated form since they've already gone very much contradicted many of the key aspects of that story.
Most notably, the bit about the Ark and Nemesis launching from Cybertron, crashing to Earth, and waking up the Bots and Cons after 4 millions years of slumber has pretty much been neutered by the events of Exodus, Exiles, and FOC. After the two ships launch from Cybertron (
70 million years ago, rather than 4 million), they go through a
space bridge portal (which did happen in any 1980s version of G1) and partake in a long planet-hopping journey eons before making it to Earth. They'll go to Earth eventually, just not right away.
===============================================================================
This morning, Transformers: Prime made its debut on the CW's Vortexx programming block and, as expected, there were indeed censorship edits done to it.
While watching the episode, "Darkness Rising, Part 1", I only noticed three edits (one of which I expect to happen in every episode):
- The shot of Starscream pulling out his hand from Cliffjumper's chest after impaling him but before he fell over was cut.
- Jack's line, "First rule about robot fight club is you don't talk about robot fight club," was cut.
- Additional commercial break transitional fades were added for more breaks (this one we can expect again).
There might have been more, smaller edits, but these were the ones I caught.
EDIT (April 23, 2013): Here's a revision of the above comparison based on a re-watch of the episodes side-by-side with the uncut versions.
1. After Starscream drives his fingers into Cliffjumper, impaling him, and says, "Anymore questions?!", a shot of Cliffjumper's shocked face that pans down toward Screamer's fingers embedded in Cliff's side, which Starscream pulls out while Energon spills out of Cliff's wound onto the floor, and Cliff's knees hitting the floor before he falls completely over, were all cut out. Now, after Starscream asks "Anymore questions?!" Cliff immediately hits the floor all at once.
2. When Jack is taking an obnoxious customer's order, his line of "So that's two 'we're-not-as-funny-as-we-think-we-are' combos with a side of '
bite me!'", and the guy's response of "Haha--
What'd you say?", were cut.
3. Jack's line of "The first rule of Robot Fight Club is you don't talk about Robot Fight Club," was cut.
4. Jack's line of "What
you need to understand is that I don't want a bunch of crazy talking vehicles following me around trying to get me killed!" had its "trying to get me killed" part muted, ending the sentence instead at "following me around!"
5. The new commercial break played as the Autobots were bringing the kids to the base for the first time, right after Jack asks "And why exactly are we talking
her?" (in regards to Miko), to which Arcee replies "Rules."
5.5. Not an edit, but the Autobot symbol seen on the ground of the Autobots' base was the same Movie-styled one used in this episode's initial Hub airing (as seen in
this image), which was changed to the more traditional styled Autobot logo in reruns and later episodes.