by G1 Smoketreader » Wed Sep 01, 2010 4:24 am
- Motto: "Continue building from within,attack your designated target,defend everyone."
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I found out last night & this morning from wiki that Hasbro's attitude towards ignoring existing fluff/backstory has been going on since day 1. This, I guess, has kept dead characters alive for each new generation of fans to investigate,and old ones to revisit,so this is good,and Ironically,exactly what I want for my favourite characters.
Many of the rewrites are regurgitating same-old-same-olds,tho. Others have taken irreplaceable things away and left them that way-unreplaced.
Multi-continuities is fine.The time war,tho an unfortunate necessicity of rewriting,works better than fine,but many revisions of Optimus and his latest crew could have been someone else,somewhere else,progressively moving through their own trials of passage/fire to eventually hook up with Optimus and his army group against the various threats to Cybertron.
Choosing which Optimus & gang to rename, I admit, can be a tricky proposition. Animated could have been a safer example, since it's already getting rewritten immediately with Prime.It could have been set as is, on Cybertron/in Cybertronian space or been remolded into the speed planet,junk planet or whatever other place.The story of Animated Optimus could have been the story of Canon Ultra Magnus,Huffer,Trailbreaker,Unicron trilogy Metroplex,Darkmount- anybody.
My personal admiration and connection point towards TFs came from the G1 Tech Specs.To me,these were the most intelligent,realistic communicades I have ever recieved from the TF universe.They stimulated creative thinking and promoted alternate thinking and they are my reason to yell at new writers to LOOK AT G1.I want kids to always have messages like that in their toys.
The cartoon gave me examples of what my toys did before I got my hands on them,but it was an 8o's cartoon,as cool as it was dumb- the Tech Specs were the real nexus: one of the few times an adult explained a toy to a kid in adult terms.Since then,paralell thinking and alternate mode use have been mainstay thinking to me.They become my version of the wonders of technology that I want to share with new people in my world,and do.
I would very much appreciate one timeline in the center of it all for the rest to orbit around, so the tech specs can be allowed to seed and branch out on their own,which I disagree has happened.Tho I understand and therefore accept and observe the seperate continuities,too,I'd prefer many to look at satellite TF groups who are on their own,in the common dilemma.
Override's story, the jungle planet story,the Beast Wars Tfs who crashed on other continents, who may consist of tribes who are neither Maximals nor Predacons.The consequences of Cybertrons' reconnection to the Giant planet. The events on the Junk planet once Wreck-Gar,the chieftain, went off jaunting with the Autobots. Sentinels' herding of the Cybertron elite guard during the war.The great war of Cybertron where the Autobots were betrayed by General Thrust.
Nothing stops these from becoming one continuity consisting of multiple continuites (as opposed to multiple half-
continuities resulting in no continuity). The kids of today are both tribal and parallel thinkers,but pop culturists as well.
I don't see why a 'pop' toyline zooming in on Primes' group shouldn't have linked,but disconnected satellite toy lines all heading forward in the same calendar,EVENTUALLY learning about Optimus and deciding whether they care or not independantly.Unhurried storytelling and temporary alliances leave options open for groups to meet and then part ways again,extending the last chapter into infinity if desired.
Any one bot can be redesigned at any time. Any subgroup can be rethemed at any given point and would need a major event to to it,therefore generating 'cliffhanger episodes' and ratings.Stragglers and die hards to the old ways can always straggle and be picked up at any later point to revive any lost classic.
Further,Primes can finally die,and be replaced by new Primes,as can all other leaders.
"Everyone has a hobby.Even people who say they don't still have one under another name.If we're sick,injured, we still go to it and get down to see how it is.If it needs something, we bring it,make sure the attention is perfect.It exercises our care and protection and gives us back philosophies.It's a living thing to us,and is the most perfect way to teach a young person how to be towards a living thing. It's something that should never be taken away."
-my Wife
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