by G1 Smoketreader » Sat Feb 26, 2011 1:10 pm
- Motto: "Continue building from within,attack your designated target,defend everyone."
- Weapon: Double-Barreled, Armor-Piercing Particle Beam Cann...
I was going to start a thread about the wreckers when I got home today, but you beat me to it, so I'll add my thoughts here. It's negative-constructive, but please don't see it as an attack on your post above, because it isn't meant to be in any way, shape or form:
Simply, I've had a feeling all week, (well, a musing, really), that the Dotm wreckers will appear in Prime, but later on in the series because one Wrecker might die in the film which is improper for us to know about right now.
Watching Prime, I see two new wreckers established: one of whom (Prime Wheeljack) is in my view just polished, slightly less sociopathic version of G1 Sunstreaker with Wheeljack make-up, thereby repeating the familiar kill-process (*1) of G1 (and beyond) gems that built up the greater impact of the TF debut back in '84.
My concern is that too many Wreckers will kill off the overall value of the grunts and civilians who became combatants, and I resent this a lot.
Since the debut of TF1, the interpretation of a single TF fans views has come to vary dramatically. My own considerations above, I type up immediately assuming they're dead words, that I'm going to be seen as 'living in G1' and so on and as such they won't matter in 'today'...what I'm trying to say is not that G1 rules, but that the G1 bots weren't all super-commandos, just people who gradually entered the Autobot (or Decep) armies after their cities were destroyed.
Wheeljack, for instance, shouldn't have to break out of Decep custody by using a Swarzennegger leg-choke-and-shoot maneuvre.He should have buzzsaws & laser cutters in his gauntlets, otherwise, don't use Wheeljack, use the Autobot who WOULD leg-strangle-to-death.Don't invent(*2) a stereotypical special ability for someone who has a unique one.
(*1)(That is, movie 'Bee kills off Bluestreak, prowl, Smokescreen et al, Sentinel kills off Inferno,Skids kills off 'the theoretician', Twins kill off Sunstreaker & Sideswipe and now Wrecker Wheeljack kills off the Scientist. My views on this issue are incredibly strong and are becoming more and more unforgiving, especially towards the writers, who are becoming good generic writers but pathetic TF writers in my eyes, but this isn't my thread.).
(*2)Did I say invent? I meant steal.Oh, and the Swords go to Drift.Sincerely: why would a proffessional writer,hired to market a toyline,steal the gimmicks that sell the toys and put them elsewhere? Is there logic in that?
Universal Prime, I'm sorry for posting this here if it bothers you. Maybe I should have PMd you first.I'm not against the Wreckers at all, and I like your list, but my view is that Specops should be of limited numbers compared to Troops and Militia.Give me 50 wreckers-I'll relish it-but give me 150 Autobot Soldiers and 250 Autobot peasants first.
Of course, an all Wreckers spin-off of Prime would rock...
"Everyone has a hobby.Even people who say they don't still have one under another name.If we're sick,injured, we still go to it and get down to see how it is.If it needs something, we bring it,make sure the attention is perfect.It exercises our care and protection and gives us back philosophies.It's a living thing to us,and is the most perfect way to teach a young person how to be towards a living thing. It's something that should never be taken away."
-my Wife
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