ZeroWolf wrote:I'm still conflicted on how it will end. You let Unicron win then you leave with a bad taste, especially after 13 years (a year for each prime) but Unicron gets blown up by macguffin/friendship power/whatever then you question why we need a reboot. Most reboots I've read have happen as a result of the ending and with that in mind all I can think of is something akin to transformers cybertron where the destruction of Unicron creates the new universe via temporal shifts.
I feel like Unicron will lose, but at an incredibly steep price. Either Earth or Cybertron won't survive.
I could imagine them destroying Earth, but then doing an epilogue where we see humanity decades or centuries later spreading across the galaxy alongside Cybertronians and thriving, perhaps even becoming partly Cybertronian themselves (IDW has set up multiple plot threads for that), or colonizing a defeated Unicron.
I could imagine them deciding to go with a super flashy finish and actually have Cybertron transform into Primus and fight it out with Unicron in Earth's Solar System, ultimately sacrificing himself (and Cybertron), but saving humanity.
I gave my forecast for how it will play out several pages ago, but while I want original story-telling, there's a reason some cliches are so successful. I honestly think it'd be a bit disappointing if Unicron is a floating force of nature, and not a demonic entity with a dry sense of humor. I think it'd be a bit disappointing if he doesn't have some heralds to banter and quip with the heroes. I even think it'd be a bit disappointing if they didn't have him cherry-picking deceased or nearly dead Cybertronians and reformatting them, because one-off redesigns like that are fun.
Likewise, having a MacGuffin (e.g., Matrix) that requires collecting a bunch of Mini-MacGuffins (e.g., Primal Relics) makes for a simplistic story-line, but if the procedure for assembling the magic weapon that kills Unicron is easy to explain, that gives them more space for character interaction and development, and I'm fine with that.
Of course, if they really wanted to screw with everyone, they could come back to the old idea of Unicron being a multiversal singularity, and force the IDW characters - good and bad - to defend themselves from an army of cameos pulled from 30+ years of Transformers. It sounds ridiculous, and would probably tick some people off, but I'd love to see movie Cyclonus vs. Lost Light Cyclonus, and movie Galvatron trying relentlessly to murder Rodimus, and being frustrated that IDW Rodimus isn't fighting him the 'right' way. I could see pitting Hook, Line, and Sinker from G1 Marvel against the Solstar Knights and the Dire Wraiths, and sending the Four Horsemen from Armada up against the Windblade and the TAAO line up. War Within Bludgeon vs. IDW Bludgeon. Bring in Shockaract, Sideways, Nemesis Prime, etc. - and then finally pit Optimus Prime against Megatronus/The Fallen.
Actually, that last part seems really likely to actually happen, and I'm actually going to lay down imaginary money that says Pyra Magna gets killed by The Fallen. It'll either be because her declining respect for the Primes causes her to do something stupid, or it'll be because seeing Optimus step up and really be a
Prime will inspire her to jump in and sacrifice herself to save him. Either way, she's going to end up dying at the hands of the same guy who killed her goddess.
there's plenty of fodder for a crack team, all they had to do is infiltrate, lay a bomb and thats it really. Unicron will be destroyed but at what cost? I think it's going to be a universe shattering kaboom. Though having characters from this continuity pop up at some point in the next is a good idea, a bit like dark beast ending up in the 616 marvel universe or when miles morales came over
as I say I forgot about it, and the first one sticks more in my mind (and is the one that furman himself talks about in transformers: the ultimate guide)
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