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Caelus wrote:Edit: Also, in response to someone saying the animals weren't named yet, I must remind them that the Maximals and Predacons were from at least the year 2300 (Three centuries after the Great War). Therefore, if their computers had any info about terrestrial life at all, it presumably would have included their common names, as given by humans.
Eradicator wrote:Which brings me to my NEXT and thankfully final question. If they all did have non animal esque names before the Beast Wars, how are the animal esque names in G1 (Bumblebee, Laserbeak, etc.) explained?
Predaprince wrote:I am very thankful to have posters like sto_vo_kor_2000 who is so energetic about improving others' understanding and enjoyment of the TF universe
Stormrider wrote:You often add interesting insights to conversations that makes the fledglings think and challenges even the sharpest minds
T-Macksimus wrote:I consider you and editor to be amongst the most "scholarly" in terms of your knowledge, demeanor and general approach
Saber Prime wrote:Megatron is little questionable. I think he may have had another name before he took that name from the Decepticon leader but he was called Megatron long before the Beast Wars started.
Saber Prime wrote:It's not really a question of "Why wouldn't they know about animals on Cybertron" it's a question of "Why would they introduce themselfs to other characters who allready know who they are"
The only answer to the introduction question is that they had different names originally.
Predaprince wrote:I am very thankful to have posters like sto_vo_kor_2000 who is so energetic about improving others' understanding and enjoyment of the TF universe
Stormrider wrote:You often add interesting insights to conversations that makes the fledglings think and challenges even the sharpest minds
T-Macksimus wrote:I consider you and editor to be amongst the most "scholarly" in terms of your knowledge, demeanor and general approach
sto_vo_kor_2000 wrote:Saber Prime wrote:It's not really a question of "Why wouldn't they know about animals on Cybertron" it's a question of "Why would they introduce themselfs to other characters who allready know who they are"
The only answer to the introduction question is that they had different names originally.
Thats a "in fiction" answer to the question.The real world answer was that they wre not really introduceing themselfs to other characters but to the views.
Eradicator wrote:So how were they reffered to in the Dawn of future' past comic?
Saber Prime wrote:That's only half right. Yeah the characters had to be introduced to the viewers but there are other ways that could have been done.
They say their own names to Transform for one thing so rather than introducing themselfs to eachother the audiance would have figured out who they are from that or from conversation.
Megatron: You're an idiot Waspinator.
Audience member: Oh he's talking to the wasp guy, that must be his name.
They WERE introduceing themselfs to eachother.
Another way it could have been done is that these two crews had suposidly never met before the Beast Wars and Primal's crew was just in the wrong place at the wrong time type of thing so they could have introduced themselfs to the opposing faction at some point rather than to eachother.
Predaprince wrote:I am very thankful to have posters like sto_vo_kor_2000 who is so energetic about improving others' understanding and enjoyment of the TF universe
Stormrider wrote:You often add interesting insights to conversations that makes the fledglings think and challenges even the sharpest minds
T-Macksimus wrote:I consider you and editor to be amongst the most "scholarly" in terms of your knowledge, demeanor and general approach
sto_vo_kor_2000 wrote:the "Real world" reason is not in question.
Saber Prime wrote:First, I just have to ask now, if you knew this why even bring it up in the first place?
Saber Prime wrote:Secondly, just because they're 7 - 12 year olds doesn't mean their stupid.
Saber Prime wrote:They're kids, when it comes to math, english, or whatever yea they don't know much. When it comes to figuring out what someone or something is called, they're not freaking stupid, they can figure it out without slapping a name tag on it.
Saber Prime wrote:I'll use your own example. If Cheetor had not done his introduction and insted the first time we hear his name was...
Optimus Primal: Cheetor, return to base!
It's a dead giveaway who he's talking to. Cheetor just ran off, and the only other Maximals are still at the base. That's so easy to figure out a 4 year old could know who Cheetor was.
In fact not all characters introduced themselfs or were even that obvious. Megatron introduced Scorpinok and the scene went something like this...
Dinobot challenged Megatron for leadership. Megatron basically insulted Dinobot and then says "Isn't that right, Scorpinok?" and Scorpinok blasts him.
With that scene one could assume that Dinobot is Scorpinok because Megatron was talking to him for the majority of the scene. Then they'd be clueless as to who the other guy was.
Except that before Scorpinok came out Dinobot transformed saying "Dinobot, Terrorize!"
Saber Prime wrote:Allso you can look at Transformers Animated. They never did a Beast Wars styal "lets introduce ourselfs to eachother" and that's targeted to 5 year olds. If 5 year olds can figure it out than 7 - 12 can too.
Saber Prime wrote:It's the in story reason, they choose new names when comming to Earth. The real life reason, they needed to introduce their characters to the audience had little to do with influancing the in story reason.
Saber Prime wrote:Simply put, there are just as many ways to introduce a fictional character to a child as there are to introduce a fictional character to an adult. The child doesn't need us to dumb things down for them.
Predaprince wrote:I am very thankful to have posters like sto_vo_kor_2000 who is so energetic about improving others' understanding and enjoyment of the TF universe
Stormrider wrote:You often add interesting insights to conversations that makes the fledglings think and challenges even the sharpest minds
T-Macksimus wrote:I consider you and editor to be amongst the most "scholarly" in terms of your knowledge, demeanor and general approach
Saber Prime wrote:Hasbro themselfs said Animated was targeted at 5 year olds. And I've heard this from several other posters in the topic on this site.
Predaprince wrote:I am very thankful to have posters like sto_vo_kor_2000 who is so energetic about improving others' understanding and enjoyment of the TF universe
Stormrider wrote:You often add interesting insights to conversations that makes the fledglings think and challenges even the sharpest minds
T-Macksimus wrote:I consider you and editor to be amongst the most "scholarly" in terms of your knowledge, demeanor and general approach
sto_vo_kor_2000 wrote:Saber Prime wrote:Hasbro themselfs said Animated was targeted at 5 year olds. And I've heard this from several other posters in the topic on this site.
I've seen plenty of statements from both Hasbro and the Cartoon network on TF Animated but not a single one that states what age group they are targeting.
I just looked trew 3 different statements that I found on Google and there's no info on the target age group.
The closest thing I found was that they said that the toon was marketed twards a younger croud then the Bay movie.
I've seen plenty of poster on this site and other TF foarms say that they think that its marketed at 5 year olds but I have yet to see anything offical making the same claim.
Since you said Hasbro "HAS" made the statement can you direct me twards a link to the info in question?????
I dont doubt that the show may in fact be marketed to 5 year olds......I just doubt the fact that you've seen,read or heard such a statement.
You have a habit of making statements that end up being proven to be mistakes or completly wrong and untrue.
No offence intended.
Saber Prime wrote:Bold statement, in this particular instance there are about 3 or more other people who are wrong, I'm just missinformed.
Saber Prime wrote:Hasbro themselfs said Animated was targeted at 5 year olds.
Saber Prime wrote:Still even if Hasbro never really made a public statement it's probly still true and not just because of the Animation styal either. (allthough that is a small part of it)
Saber Prime wrote:The main human girl in this series is alot younger than most other human children that have been in past TF shows, no doubt because their targeted audience can't relate to the teenage characters that have appeared in past TF show.
Saber Prime wrote:Pluse it's from the same people who make Teen Titans and that series is known to have a younger audience. They haven't done anything different with Transformers Animated than they did with Teen Titans. The target audience is set alot younger but they do through in a few things the older fans will enjoy as well.
Teen Titans has mostly kiddy related plots that are their more goofy episodes. Some other episodes are much more serious and it seems thoughs episodes have allways featured Slade. (I don't watch that much Teen Titans but that's how it appears to me.)
Saber Prime wrote:Transformers seems to be following a simular pattern of the goofy kiddy episodes and a few serious episodes. Allthough the only episodes at this point I take seriously are Thrill of the Hunt, Meltdown, and the Pilot.
[/quote]Saber Prime wrote:Megatron I can't even take seriously as a villain at this point, not after the Dinobots and Nanosec. I can't wait for him to be freed from his "Unacceptible operrational status."
Predaprince wrote:I am very thankful to have posters like sto_vo_kor_2000 who is so energetic about improving others' understanding and enjoyment of the TF universe
Stormrider wrote:You often add interesting insights to conversations that makes the fledglings think and challenges even the sharpest minds
T-Macksimus wrote:I consider you and editor to be amongst the most "scholarly" in terms of your knowledge, demeanor and general approach
sto_vo_kor_2000 wrote:Saber Prime wrote:Hasbro themselfs said Animated was targeted at 5 year olds.
If you cant back that up in a debate then you should re-word your post so that they dont imply a sence of 100% sertainity.
Saber Prime wrote:sto_vo_kor_2000 wrote:If you cant back that up in a debate then you should re-word your post so that they dont imply a sence of 100% sertainity.
Can't help but notice you missquoted me to make your point. You left out the sentence saying where I got my information.
Saber Prime wrote:Hasbro themselfs said Animated was targeted at 5 year olds.
Saber Prime wrote:And I've heard this from several other posters in the topic on this site.
Saber Prime wrote:Hasbro themselfs said Animated was targeted at 5 year olds. And I've heard this from several other posters in the topic on this site.
Saber Prime wrote:If that information is wrong that's not my fault, I was just repeateing what I had been told.
Predaprince wrote:I am very thankful to have posters like sto_vo_kor_2000 who is so energetic about improving others' understanding and enjoyment of the TF universe
Stormrider wrote:You often add interesting insights to conversations that makes the fledglings think and challenges even the sharpest minds
T-Macksimus wrote:I consider you and editor to be amongst the most "scholarly" in terms of your knowledge, demeanor and general approach
It only implys that when you leave out the second part of the quote. The second part of the quote whitch you left out DOES state where the information came from.sto_vo_kor_2000 wrote:This sentence implys that you yourself have come by the information in question because you said that Hasbro said it.
I did, you left that part out, it's quoted right here.If you didnt know yourself if it were true you should have said that you heard that Hasbro said it.
Saber Prime wrote:And I've heard this from several other posters in the topic on this site.
"I have heard from several other posters in the topic on this site that Hasbro is targeting Animated at 5 year olds."
Saber Prime wrote: It only implys that when you leave out the second part of the quote. The second part of the quote whitch you left out DOES state where the information came from.
Saber Prime wrote: I did, you left that part out, it's quoted right here.
Saber Prime wrote:And I've heard this from several other posters in the topic on this site.
1.(used to connect grammatically coordinate words, phrases, or clauses) along or together with; as well as; in addition to;
1] used as a function word to indicate connection or addition especially of items within the same class or type ; used to join sentence elements of the same grammatical rank or function
2] a—used as a function word to express logical modification, consequence, antithesis, or supplementary explanation b—used as a function word to join one finite verb (as go, come, try) to another so that together they are logically equivalent to an infinitive of purpose
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Saber Prime wrote: Your example."I have heard from several other posters in the topic on this site that Hasbro is targeting Animated at 5 year olds."
Is the same as what I wrote, all you did was reverse it so the source came first and turned it into a single sentence.
Saber Prime wrote:
This was my line of thinking while I was wrighting.
I wrote. "Hasbro themselfs said Animated was targeted at 5 year olds." Then knowing you would want to know where I got that information I added. "And I've heard this from several other posters in the topic on this site."
Saber Prime wrote: Now maybe it's just the fact I haven't had a decent night of sleep sence the 4th of January but I don't see how that second statement could be seen as anything but a source.
Saber Prime wrote:Now if you're done, I'm going to go TRY to sleep and I highly doubt I will.
Predaprince wrote:I am very thankful to have posters like sto_vo_kor_2000 who is so energetic about improving others' understanding and enjoyment of the TF universe
Stormrider wrote:You often add interesting insights to conversations that makes the fledglings think and challenges even the sharpest minds
T-Macksimus wrote:I consider you and editor to be amongst the most "scholarly" in terms of your knowledge, demeanor and general approach
It didn't add anything to my source pool. In order for that to be true there would have to actully be another source listed before "and"sto_vo_kor_2000 wrote:"And" did not state where you originaly got your info but added to your source pool.
Saber Prime wrote:It didn't add anything to my source pool. In order for that to be true there would have to actully be another source listed before "and"
Saber Prime wrote:Hasbro themselfs said Animated was targeted at 5 year olds. And I've heard this from several other posters in the topic on this site.
Saber Prime wrote:The statement reads like this "Fact and Source" Not "Fact source and source" There is no other source listed, there for the addition is to the first statement not to another source.
Saber Prime wrote:They are not by any means seperate statements.
Maybe if I had seperated the two into different paragraphs they'd be seperate but I did not.
Saber Prime wrote:You try forming coherent sentences when you've been through what I have.
Predaprince wrote:I am very thankful to have posters like sto_vo_kor_2000 who is so energetic about improving others' understanding and enjoyment of the TF universe
Stormrider wrote:You often add interesting insights to conversations that makes the fledglings think and challenges even the sharpest minds
T-Macksimus wrote:I consider you and editor to be amongst the most "scholarly" in terms of your knowledge, demeanor and general approach
Saber Prime wrote:That's not a source, that's the fact. The source is from other posters sence they said "Hasbro said" Now just drop the subject allready.
Saber Prime wrote:Oh and I wasn't talking about my past. I was just refering to recent events. The past, eventually, you get over it and move on with your life. The reason I haven't been sleeping well is because of a recent tradgity that happened that I'm still haveing nightmares about.
Predaprince wrote:I am very thankful to have posters like sto_vo_kor_2000 who is so energetic about improving others' understanding and enjoyment of the TF universe
Stormrider wrote:You often add interesting insights to conversations that makes the fledglings think and challenges even the sharpest minds
T-Macksimus wrote:I consider you and editor to be amongst the most "scholarly" in terms of your knowledge, demeanor and general approach
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