Ironhidensh wrote:I guess it just seems to me that the Megatron in origins doesn't really mesh well with the Megatron we've seen in flashbacks in th ongoing series.
It's a very...incomplete story. On its own it doesn't read terribly well, although it does have value as one of the first looks we had at where Megatron came from.
Subsequent stories have added a lot to Origins, and paint a much more complete picture when read together. The flashbacks in Chaos Theory and MTMTE fill in a lot of the gaps in Megatron's character progression. The single issue of RiD devoted to Soundwave also fills in quite a bit regarding the strength of Megatron's convictions and the details of the Senate's destruction.
The one thing we don't have, which might be most critical to understanding the character, is more detail regarding his transition from reluctant murderer to bloodthirsty gladiator. James Roberts has done a great job showing us why Megatron snapped at C-12 (Whirl's beating, the failed Shadowplay, the loss of Terminus), as well as what drove him to create the Decepticon movement, but we've seen little of what led him to embrace life as a gladiator and eventual warlord. It seems like that was the bulk of the material excised from the original Origins pitch, and no one else has yet sought to tackle that part of Megatron's life.
Bottom line, I think it meshes well with the other material, there is just an awful lot of Megatron's story that is still missing.