The Energon Pub

psj333 wrote:This message is for Saberblade.

Okay.

psj333 wrote:I've recently watched Transformers: Prime Crisscross today and I absolutely loved it,

Good! It was awesome!

psj333 wrote:even though I do live in Canada, as I stated earlier.

So?

psj333 wrote:Earlier, you said that Airachnid is your favourite Decepticon, ever since the day you've watched the cartoon itself.

She's my favorite Decepticon of just the Transformers: Prime cartoon. She's not my all-time favorite Decepticon, though.

psj333 wrote:Furthermore, you've also said Airachnid did not have a vehicle mode, only a spider-robot mode, and a pure robot mode.

And I was correct. She did not have a vehicle mode at the time I said that, because she had not scanned one yet.

psj333 wrote:Well, guess what? After seeing Airachnid scanning Agent Fowler's own helicopter as her official vehicle mode, which is based on Airachnid's own namesake, I was right!

You guessed right at what she would turn into, but you insinuated that she already had that helicopter vehicle mode, which she did not have until she scanned it in this latest episode.

I had also said that she did not need one because of the kind of character she was. Well, I was not wrong about this either, since, at the time, we had only seen her in one episode, and that one episode gave no indications that she would have any reason to scan an Earthen Alternate Mode. This episode showed that the circumstances had called for such, but since this episode had not yet aired, I was not incorrect on that either.

And even now, I still don't think she needs her new helicopter form, since she could haveburrowred away to retreat before the smoke cloud cleared. The only reason she got that new form was the real world reason of being able to give her a toy, rather than any legitimate in-fiction reason.

psj333 wrote:But you didn't believe me in the first place.

Because you claimed that she had one at a time during which she did not.

psj333 wrote:Now that you finally do realized that what I've predicted has all come to pass.

Your predictions about her getting a helicopter altmode were correct, yes, but you your claims of her already having it were not.

psj333 wrote:Now that she survived the attack the second time, I was hoping to see her as an action figure when she comes out. Airachnid official beast mode is most likely a spider, that is actually her helicopter mode with the rotor blades extends and unfolds to form spider legs, while the helicopter body itself acts as a trunk.

We won't know anything about what her figure will be like until she gets one (IF she does get a figure, that is. I'm not saying she won't but that we simply do not know if she will or not at this point).

Also, for the umpteenth time, her Beast Mode is a "spider-humanoid hybrid", not simply a "spider".

psj333 wrote:Just because Airachnid is made with spider-like parts and has compound eyes, does that mean she's techno-organic?

We don't know. The subject hasn't been touched upon in the fiction yet. Let's wait and see.

psj333 wrote:Now that's been done, let me ask you another question. Megatron is a Cybertronian jet in Transformers: Prime. Other aircrafts include Starscream, Soundwave, Skyquake, Airachnid (recently confirmed), and Dreadwing, who is scheduled to make his debut in a future episode.

We don't know what Dreadwing turns into yet. We can assume that it's some sort of aircraft, given his name, but we can't say for certain.

psj333 wrote:Now then, Apart from Megatron, do you think that Airachnid is the most frightening aircraft in the world, due her techno-organic-like appearance and her behaviour, such as killing her enemies anytime she wants without feeling truly sorry for what she has done, as compared to Starscream who kills only when life is being threatened? What do you think?

You speak of her as though she were just some flying vehicle instead of a robot that merely turns into one. As for how lethal she is in her altmode, we barely saw her in that form in this episode. We know nothing for certain of her altmode's capabilities. Only time will tell how she chooses to use it.

psj333 wrote:About that techno-organic situation, in case you have missed it, if you go back to where Airachnid did before she killed her victims, she made a snarl, which is something that beast would do and not made by a vehicle.

I can snarl. You (I'm sure) can snarl. Any person can snarl, and that includes Cybertronians (regardless of what they turn into). Snarling is not something that only animals can do.

Stop treating her as if she's nothing more than non-living machine.

psj333 wrote:Does this really means that Airachnid is really a techno-organic and not a fully mechanical Transformer, just like all the rest?

All that her snarling proves is that she wasn't happy. That's it.

And, do you really consider Technorganics to not fully be Transformers? They most certainly are. They're just a different kind of Transformers.

psj333 wrote:And secondly, now that most of us are happy that Airachnid finally got a stealth helicopter as her official alt-mode, is there a chance that we may see her in future episodes more often to further up the storyline a bit, just like in the same way as Breakdown and Knockout did in the first place, and quite possibly get an action figure of Airachnid herself ?

Why would anyone think otherwise? It would be ridiculous if we never saw her again. Even Wheeljack is coming back. The writers said that when they create something for this show, they're gonna keep using it (except for maybe Makeshift, whom they deemed possibly too powerful to bring back, but anything's possible).

RogueDeathangel wrote:This thread could have been done via PMs.

Frankly, I agree.

psj333 wrote:On Crisscross, before Airachnid transformed into her stealth helicopter mode, her spider limbs are still visible, even though after she officially scanned her vehicle mode. Should Airachnid be released as an action figure, will the figure include rotors that can be unfolded to form spider legs, just like the ones shown on TV on the previous day?

Nobody knows at this point.

Autobot Strider wrote:In the case of Makeshift, I can't remember if he even showed his own 'bot mode, or did he just steal Wheeljacks for the whole episode? 'Cause if so, he really didn't take much extra work to create, thus no waste!

Despite being rendered in shadow, Makeshift's is a rather unique model:

Autobot Strider wrote:As for the snarl comment... I don't really want to get involved in what is obviously a two-person conversation,

Oh, don't worry about that. The more the merrier.