Henry921 wrote:Anyway, I wasn't aware the guys at High Moon had a Binder of Revelation. Which interview did they mention that in?
Some of the FOC interviews with Matt Tieger has him talking about when High Moon first came to Hasbro about doing a Transformers game (WFC) and that when they did, Tieger said that Hasbro was in the process of putting together "the bible" for Transformers that everything new would be drawing reference from, and that it was from this that the games were put together.
This video is one such example, in which he even refers to it as a "binder".
Henry921 wrote:Moving on to points of contention: the ambiguity of Starscream's fate is a pretty big offender, especially if we need to go through the trouble of coming up with the explanation ourselves. Even if sufficient time had passed for the Decepticons to recover and re-arrest Starscream before they left, why would they bother? Megatron had already dismissed him as "not worth the time", and even if they had gone back to get him, both Megatron and Onslaught would've been inclined to execute him instead of imprison him, as Megatron was already shown attempting in game.
With Starscream, there's always the "You get one. More. Chance." write-in to keep his use in motion since, well, he's Starscream. It feels to me like the makers got so caught up in the "DUDEGRIMLOCKSPACETREXGAMEPLAYZOMG!" that comes after Screamer gets knocked out that they simply forgot about Starscream.
Not to mention that Starsceam was knocked out in Shockwave's lab. That's not exactly a place one could stay in unnoticed for very long. Shockwave could have easily spotted his unconscious body via a surveillance feed and had his body sent to Megatron via CybEx First Class delivery.
As to why he'd be kept alive, think about it. What greater humiliation for Screamer to suffer than to be forced back into Megatron's services, denying him the freedom that comes with death.
Henry921 wrote:When Grimlock flees the exploding station, we fade to white as everything blows up, and then cut to something being transported through the space bridge itself. What significance does this serve, if it's just debris or one of the fleeing Decepticon generics? I agree it's ambiguous, but it seems like a back door to send Grimlock to Earth with the others.
Yet, all future plans for the character after the game have still stuck on Cybertron.
When I first saw that sequence in the game, my initial reaction was think that it might have been
Shockwave who got sent through. Grimlock never came to mind in that scene. But since Shockwave going through didn't make sense, I took it as a surge of power launching from the damaged generator through the beam up to the portal, destabilizing it as a result. I mean, when a machine goes critical, all that excess output has to go somewhere.
Henry921 wrote:As for the space bridge not arriving on Earth immediately as a result of space bridge instability, well... okay, it's not like fiction about space bridges is ever completely consistent, but why would both Optimus and Shockwave not be aware of Earth and its supply of natural energon in the Prime cartoon when Shockwave specifically targets Earth as his destination in FOC?
Now that is a continuity error that's the fault of different writers having different creative visions.
Although, the energon on Earth in Prime isn't natural (save for the Dark Energon). They're deposits that were hidden on the planet long ago when they started hiding their energon deposits on other worlds for both safekeeping and so the stuff would be readily available on those other worlds should it be needed.
Henry921 wrote:And if the Bots and Cons ended up in some other sector of space, how did they have sufficient energy to go on whatever other adventures they had in mind when both factions were essentially running on empty by the end of FOC? There's a lot that needs to be filled in.
Well, the Ark didn't have to go that far when it reached its first destination.
As for the Nemesis, don't forget that it used to be an energon storage space station, so of the two ships, its the one more likely to be better prepared for long-distance travel. And *(from what we've seen thus far) it did arrive on the same places that the Ark did, so it too didn't have that far to go.
Henry921 wrote:I accept that maybe there's a reasonable explanation for my doubts, but thus far, I don't feel the cartoon or the novels have provided one. It requires too much explanation from the fans to fill in, rather than the creators, hence my personal canon regarding it as a splinter timeline.
Simply put, it's because Hasbro's got a different definition of "continuity" than the fans do. But,
this timeline shows how things fit in the grand scheme of things.
Though, there
is also another way to view all this: "Yo dawg, none of this stuff is canon, man! Only the Binder of Revelation is the real deal and nuthin' else, dude!"
