ZeroWolf wrote:I personally didn't find it that jarring, as to me it's the same as when characters just turned up for no reason in the original cartoon, I mean where did the protectorbots come from? Omega Supreme just appeared and the constructacons just appeared...and then built megatron in the past...
But it's not the same though. See, to me there were many new characters that turned up out of nowhere in IDW that I was ok with. Aileron, Rung, the DJD etc... these were all new characters, but it's largely understood that they came from Cybertron at some previous point in time. Whereas characters form already established other continuities such as BW, RiD, just pop up randomly...it was jarring.
It would be like if in the next DC Cinematic Justice League film that Stephen Amell just showed up as Green Arrow. You know that the TV DC continuity established by Berlanti Prod. (aka Arrowverse) and the Cinematic one are completely separate, but now here he is, with no explanation.