Burn wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Well, up until Jazz came along, Cybertron didn't know about the Alchemor's crash-landing, and Bee bridged to Earth illegally and with no way of contacting Cybertron, so Cybertron is both unaware of the Decepticon fugitives on Earth and think's Bee's gone AWOL, so they wouldn't be sending help to someone they put a bounty on.
I'm well aware of all of that.
But surely by now Jazz would have contacted Cybertron, heck, I thought Drift might have as well.
Or you know, a prison ship full of Decepticons missing ... surely THAT would warrant more looking into.
Guess Cybertronian hierarchy has gone down the crapper since Optimus died.
In my head, I've imagined the Alchemor to be something of a roaming prison, and not a big transport, that mostly gets forgotten about until someone gets arrested and they go "Hey, I need a prison. Oh, it's in the benzuli sector." Makes it hard to jailbreak that way, not knowing where it is. The powers that be may not have even known it went missing until someone trie to call up Fixit and didn't get a response. New York probably wouldn't have noticed the Titanic sank until it missed its arrival had they not been told.
But I agree, by now Jazz should have said something to someone, and I think this show is suffering from a confused pacing. We KNOW(?)/Rumored that Prime Autobots are scheduled for S2. And we have a Decepticon running around who distinctively looks like Bulkhead; with no more tweaking than Ultra Magnus got in Prime, it's safe to say I think that we can take that to mean more Autobots ARE coming. Just, not until 30 episodes in. Probably, Bumblebee will get his backup about the time the show is ready to take on whatever Prime's mission is. Someone, Jazz, Bulkhead, Drift, will show up again, mop up in 3 episodes, so the story can move on. It just feels like its taking a long time, and the story is making it clear that episodes are not occuring day-to-day in continuity.