by moldavite » Sat Apr 26, 2008 5:10 am
In the first three episodes, Optimus asks Sari how little humans come into existence. Sari them apparently whispers how which shocks Prime.
A lot of people, including myself, have taken this to mean that TFs don't reproduce like humans. That they are made in factories or in some other way instead.
But I just got to thinking about something. What if the writers of this series put this in there to throw us a curveball, only to shock us later on?
Transformers animated does have female TFs for some reason. Who knows why. One of those female TFs was Prime's friend who accompanied him and Sentinal on a mission to an off-limits "organic" planet.
Well what did Prime find on that planet? A race of Spiders who reproduce not babies or children, but self-sufficient miniatures of themselves which hatch from eggs.
Well, these spiders may have been the first and only organic lifeforms Prime ever saw before his stay on Earth. He did see them hatch from eggs and did not even know what the eggs were.
Maybe TFs do reproduce like humans. Maybe that's why there's male and female TFs.
But perhaps Prime might have thought that humans, being organic, had to resemble those spiders more so than Autobots in their reproduction and life cycle. Maybe he thought that humans, like those spiders, laid eggs and their babies hatched from them as miniature versions of themselves who were not really children.
Maybe when Sari told him something to the contrary, his shock came not from the fact that humans reproduced so differently from Transformers. Maybe his shock is from the fact that a completely alien and ORGANIC species reproduces in a manner so similar to his own kind!
Prime does mention that the Allspark is the source of life for a TF. Maybe what he meant is the source of a TF's spark which is their lifeforce.
Maybe the Allspark creates the spark, but the TFs create TF bodies in a manner similar to how humans create new life. The fetus grows inside the female while the Allspark puts a spark inside of it to give it a soul and personality or something.
