Interview with Mairghread Scott on IDW Transformers: Till All Are One

RevTibe wrote:Curious about the shot of Chromia removing her "helmet" - if there is a Chromia focus, we might see a resolution to Chromia's vol. 1 crimes, which could put rest to one of my vol. 2 gripes - if there's a line about "yada yada things were too unstable at the time to address it," I could kinda buy it. (My fanfic-y approach would've been for her to be tried in secret on Caminus and returned to duty on "probation" in vol. 2 with her Combiner Hunter deco marking her as criminal - Caminus is a resource poor world, not enough resources to easily replace a skilled worker or hold people in prison, so perhaps after a serious crime you get one probationary chance, then execution).

Seems like Ironhide's getting a bit of focus - always been interested in his recent IDW characterization

Dr Va'al wrote:Yes, that is what I am also expecting/Hoping to see. I still have the feeling that the Chromia arc is nowhere near over, and only having six issues to deal with it, really, is not giving it the chance it deserves. If it's not addressed at all, then yeah.. it'll stand out a little sore.

Dr Va'al wrote:Now that is an interesting character to look at, after the whole 'Pax Cybertronia is no longer a thing' thing. Or is it? What is his role, now? He obviously has a lot to contribute, but everything has changed for him since AHM and his mini series. Where will he go from here?

RevTibe wrote:

Dr Va'al wrote:Yes, that is what I am also expecting/Hoping to see. I still have the feeling that the Chromia arc is nowhere near over, and only having six issues to deal with it, really, is not giving it the chance it deserves. If it's not addressed at all, then yeah.. it'll stand out a little sore.

True, a Chromia subplot would be too much for the already overstuffed vol. 2! I suppose the most I could've asked for would have been a "this isn't over!"-type line from Windblade somewhere.

I'd love to see Chromia's crime leveraged to talk about how Cybertronians value life - I'd imagine millions of years of warfare would leave many Cybes with a blasé reaction to three casualties from a bombing, while the more peaceful colonists would be horrified.

Dr Va'al wrote:Now that is an interesting character to look at, after the whole 'Pax Cybertronia is no longer a thing' thing. Or is it? What is his role, now? He obviously has a lot to contribute, but everything has changed for him since AHM and his mini series. Where will he go from here?

Yeah, there's a lot of vague stuff surrounding the Pax and Gorlam Prime - a lot can be read into Jhiaxus's ramblings about Gorlam Prime and the Pax when LV-117 was being bashed about in time, but part of me hopes that those were purely in reference to Shockwave's Dark Cybertron plan - let's leave time travel in the past (heh). Then there was Combiner Wars' suggestion that the vision was instead sharing headspace with someone/thing else instead of a premonition. My guess is that TAAO will largely deal with Ironhide's character arc; the plotlines tied to his vision sound like a better fit for a post-All Hail Optimus ex-RID arc.

I am surprised/glad that he's been an interesting character despite being killed/revived/mindwiped previously - that's basically the same treatment Energon Demolishor got, which isn't a flattering similarity.

Optimizzy wrote:I do hope this wont feel as rushed as the last one.

1984forever wrote:Scott says the last thing she wants people to remember is that Windblade turns into a jet. So what I got from this is that it will be a political talking heads book as shown in the preview. There will also be few Transformations because there will be very little action. Characters from many KOntinuities will show up for nostalgia purposes, but nothing will be done with them because the book will focus relentlessly on the same cast from Windblade. The average Transformers fan can't just jump into TAAO without reading years worth of IDW history, so they're going to try to attract the Archie comic and romance novel crowd.

Okay, got it.

Prowl4 wrote:I'd appreciate if this hack mairghread scott left transformers. Awful writer.

Randomhero wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:I'd appreciate if this hack mairghread scott left transformers. Awful writer.

I don't think that'needs to be called for. Personally I'm not a fan of her writing. I'm gonna say something and I'm going to apologize if any one is offended but personally I feel she's only the writer because she's a woman and she wrote two episodes of Prime and IDW thinks that's enough to give her a shot. Yes she wrote beast hunters but I didn't really enjoy that series. I'm sorry I don't mean to sound terrible like that but she came on the the main comics at a time of "hey everyone! Look female transformers! We're gonna have a comic with a female transformer as the main character in it, it's going to be written by a woman and drawn by a woman too!" It felt really forced and in my opinion the execution wasn't very good. Anymore it just feels like she's writing this because she's a woman who has a small history with the brand.

Again I apologize, I don't like saying something like that but it's a vibe I get off. I've said before I didn't enjoy the first two Windblade comics she wrote but I am happy to give till all are one a chance.

Prowl4 wrote:

Randomhero wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:I'd appreciate if this hack mairghread scott left transformers. Awful writer.

I don't think that'needs to be called for. Personally I'm not a fan of her writing. I'm gonna say something and I'm going to apologize if any one is offended but personally I feel she's only the writer because she's a woman and she wrote two episodes of Prime and IDW thinks that's enough to give her a shot. Yes she wrote beast hunters but I didn't really enjoy that series. I'm sorry I don't mean to sound terrible like that but she came on the the main comics at a time of "hey everyone! Look female transformers! We're gonna have a comic with a female transformer as the main character in it, it's going to be written by a woman and drawn by a woman too!" It felt really forced and in my opinion the execution wasn't very good. Anymore it just feels like she's writing this because she's a woman who has a small history with the brand.

Again I apologize, I don't like saying something like that but it's a vibe I get off. I've said before I didn't enjoy the first two Windblade comics she wrote but I am happy to give till all are one a chance.

She is there because she's a woman and she's pushing her agenda through the material which is uttered revolting in my opinion. She needs to go as her work is terrible.

RevTibe wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:

Randomhero wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:I'd appreciate if this hack mairghread scott left transformers. Awful writer.

I don't think that'needs to be called for. Personally I'm not a fan of her writing. I'm gonna say something and I'm going to apologize if any one is offended but personally I feel she's only the writer because she's a woman and she wrote two episodes of Prime and IDW thinks that's enough to give her a shot. Yes she wrote beast hunters but I didn't really enjoy that series. I'm sorry I don't mean to sound terrible like that but she came on the the main comics at a time of "hey everyone! Look female transformers! We're gonna have a comic with a female transformer as the main character in it, it's going to be written by a woman and drawn by a woman too!" It felt really forced and in my opinion the execution wasn't very good. Anymore it just feels like she's writing this because she's a woman who has a small history with the brand.

Again I apologize, I don't like saying something like that but it's a vibe I get off. I've said before I didn't enjoy the first two Windblade comics she wrote but I am happy to give till all are one a chance.

She is there because she's a woman and she's pushing her agenda through the material which is uttered revolting in my opinion. She needs to go as her work is terrible.

From comics to politics, when a woman is employed in an area with a male majority, you see this... odd core of people who talk of them being unqualified, only being there because of gender - stranger still, it's vanishingly rare, if not non-existent, for this group to question the qualifications of any men working in that area.

...really makes you wonder about this "she's only hired because she's a woman!" crowd.

Prowl4 wrote:

RevTibe wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:

Randomhero wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:I'd appreciate if this hack mairghread scott left transformers. Awful writer.

I don't think that'needs to be called for. Personally I'm not a fan of her writing. I'm gonna say something and I'm going to apologize if any one is offended but personally I feel she's only the writer because she's a woman and she wrote two episodes of Prime and IDW thinks that's enough to give her a shot. Yes she wrote beast hunters but I didn't really enjoy that series. I'm sorry I don't mean to sound terrible like that but she came on the the main comics at a time of "hey everyone! Look female transformers! We're gonna have a comic with a female transformer as the main character in it, it's going to be written by a woman and drawn by a woman too!" It felt really forced and in my opinion the execution wasn't very good. Anymore it just feels like she's writing this because she's a woman who has a small history with the brand.

Again I apologize, I don't like saying something like that but it's a vibe I get off. I've said before I didn't enjoy the first two Windblade comics she wrote but I am happy to give till all are one a chance.

She is there because she's a woman and she's pushing her agenda through the material which is uttered revolting in my opinion. She needs to go as her work is terrible.

From comics to politics, when a woman is employed in an area with a male majority, you see this... odd core of people who talk of them being unqualified, only being there because of gender - stranger still, it's vanishingly rare, if not non-existent, for this group to question the qualifications of any men working in that area.

...really makes you wonder about this "she's only hired because she's a woman!" crowd.

When a woman is criticised you see this, weirdos jumping to the defense of the woman based on her gender. People in glass houses.

RevTibe wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:

RevTibe wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:

Randomhero wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:I'd appreciate if this hack mairghread scott left transformers. Awful writer.

I don't think that'needs to be called for. Personally I'm not a fan of her writing. I'm gonna say something and I'm going to apologize if any one is offended but personally I feel she's only the writer because she's a woman and she wrote two episodes of Prime and IDW thinks that's enough to give her a shot. Yes she wrote beast hunters but I didn't really enjoy that series. I'm sorry I don't mean to sound terrible like that but she came on the the main comics at a time of "hey everyone! Look female transformers! We're gonna have a comic with a female transformer as the main character in it, it's going to be written by a woman and drawn by a woman too!" It felt really forced and in my opinion the execution wasn't very good. Anymore it just feels like she's writing this because she's a woman who has a small history with the brand.

Again I apologize, I don't like saying something like that but it's a vibe I get off. I've said before I didn't enjoy the first two Windblade comics she wrote but I am happy to give till all are one a chance.

She is there because she's a woman and she's pushing her agenda through the material which is uttered revolting in my opinion. She needs to go as her work is terrible.

From comics to politics, when a woman is employed in an area with a male majority, you see this... odd core of people who talk of them being unqualified, only being there because of gender - stranger still, it's vanishingly rare, if not non-existent, for this group to question the qualifications of any men working in that area.

...really makes you wonder about this "she's only hired because she's a woman!" crowd.

When a woman is criticised you see this, weirdos jumping to the defense of the woman based on her gender. People in glass houses.

Prowl4 wrote:

RevTibe wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:

RevTibe wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:

Randomhero wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:I'd appreciate if this hack mairghread scott left transformers. Awful writer.

I don't think that'needs to be called for. Personally I'm not a fan of her writing. I'm gonna say something and I'm going to apologize if any one is offended but personally I feel she's only the writer because she's a woman and she wrote two episodes of Prime and IDW thinks that's enough to give her a shot. Yes she wrote beast hunters but I didn't really enjoy that series. I'm sorry I don't mean to sound terrible like that but she came on the the main comics at a time of "hey everyone! Look female transformers! We're gonna have a comic with a female transformer as the main character in it, it's going to be written by a woman and drawn by a woman too!" It felt really forced and in my opinion the execution wasn't very good. Anymore it just feels like she's writing this because she's a woman who has a small history with the brand.

Again I apologize, I don't like saying something like that but it's a vibe I get off. I've said before I didn't enjoy the first two Windblade comics she wrote but I am happy to give till all are one a chance.

She is there because she's a woman and she's pushing her agenda through the material which is uttered revolting in my opinion. She needs to go as her work is terrible.

From comics to politics, when a woman is employed in an area with a male majority, you see this... odd core of people who talk of them being unqualified, only being there because of gender - stranger still, it's vanishingly rare, if not non-existent, for this group to question the qualifications of any men working in that area.

...really makes you wonder about this "she's only hired because she's a woman!" crowd.

When a woman is criticised you see this, weirdos jumping to the defense of the woman based on her gender. People in glass houses.

Hey man, I'm just speaking in defense of an author whose work I enjoy. I'm happy talking about Windblade and Scott in terms of the merits of the work, you folks are the ones dragging gender into it.

Is the author a woman? Is the main character she uses female?

Prowl4 wrote:

Randomhero wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:I'd appreciate if this hack mairghread scott left transformers. Awful writer.

I don't think that'needs to be called for. Personally I'm not a fan of her writing. I'm gonna say something and I'm going to apologize if any one is offended but personally I feel she's only the writer because she's a woman and she wrote two episodes of Prime and IDW thinks that's enough to give her a shot. Yes she wrote beast hunters but I didn't really enjoy that series. I'm sorry I don't mean to sound terrible like that but she came on the the main comics at a time of "hey everyone! Look female transformers! We're gonna have a comic with a female transformer as the main character in it, it's going to be written by a woman and drawn by a woman too!" It felt really forced and in my opinion the execution wasn't very good. Anymore it just feels like she's writing this because she's a woman who has a small history with the brand.

Again I apologize, I don't like saying something like that but it's a vibe I get off. I've said before I didn't enjoy the first two Windblade comics she wrote but I am happy to give till all are one a chance.

She is there because she's a woman and she's pushing her agenda through the material which is uttered revolting in my opinion. She needs to go as her work is terrible.

RevTibe wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:

RevTibe wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:

RevTibe wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:

Randomhero wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:I'd appreciate if this hack mairghread scott left transformers. Awful writer.

I don't think that'needs to be called for. Personally I'm not a fan of her writing. I'm gonna say something and I'm going to apologize if any one is offended but personally I feel she's only the writer because she's a woman and she wrote two episodes of Prime and IDW thinks that's enough to give her a shot. Yes she wrote beast hunters but I didn't really enjoy that series. I'm sorry I don't mean to sound terrible like that but she came on the the main comics at a time of "hey everyone! Look female transformers! We're gonna have a comic with a female transformer as the main character in it, it's going to be written by a woman and drawn by a woman too!" It felt really forced and in my opinion the execution wasn't very good. Anymore it just feels like she's writing this because she's a woman who has a small history with the brand.

Again I apologize, I don't like saying something like that but it's a vibe I get off. I've said before I didn't enjoy the first two Windblade comics she wrote but I am happy to give till all are one a chance.

She is there because she's a woman and she's pushing her agenda through the material which is uttered revolting in my opinion. She needs to go as her work is terrible.

From comics to politics, when a woman is employed in an area with a male majority, you see this... odd core of people who talk of them being unqualified, only being there because of gender - stranger still, it's vanishingly rare, if not non-existent, for this group to question the qualifications of any men working in that area.

...really makes you wonder about this "she's only hired because she's a woman!" crowd.

When a woman is criticised you see this, weirdos jumping to the defense of the woman based on her gender. People in glass houses.

Hey man, I'm just speaking in defense of an author whose work I enjoy. I'm happy talking about Windblade and Scott in terms of the merits of the work, you folks are the ones dragging gender into it.

Is the author a woman? Is the main character she uses female?

Dang, you're right. Sorry man, I forgot that I'm not allowed to defend an author whose work I enjoy if they happen to be a woman or write a female protagonist. Thanks for reminding me.

Randomhero wrote:Windlbade: starscream planned the bombing that killed innocents we have to take him down.
Chromia: I did. I killed them.
Windblade: -groan- alright I guess just don't do it again.

RevTibe wrote:

Randomhero wrote:Windlbade: starscream planned the bombing that killed innocents we have to take him down.
Chromia: I did. I killed them.
Windblade: -groan- alright I guess just don't do it again.

Yeah, no hint of greater consequences for Chromia's crime is a flaw - you quoted me talking about that flaw on the previous page of this thread. I'm not sure what your point is? Are you trying to say that since there is at least one flaw in something I like, I cannot defend its overall quality?

Randomhero wrote:

RevTibe wrote:

Randomhero wrote:Windlbade: starscream planned the bombing that killed innocents we have to take him down.
Chromia: I did. I killed them.
Windblade: -groan- alright I guess just don't do it again.

Yeah, no hint of greater consequences for Chromia's crime is a flaw - you quoted me talking about that flaw on the previous page of this thread. I'm not sure what your point is? Are you trying to say that since there is at least one flaw in something I like, I cannot defend its overall quality?

My point is that I can't say Scott is a good writer when the entire plot of that comic is trying to find proof that starscream is behind a terrorist attack only for the protagonist's best friend to be the culprit and do nothing about it but tell her to not do it again. That's not good writing.

RevTibe wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:

RevTibe wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:

RevTibe wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:

Randomhero wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:I'd appreciate if this hack mairghread scott left transformers. Awful writer.

I don't think that'needs to be called for. Perstonally I'm not a fan of her writing. I'm gonna say something and I'm going to apologize if any one is offended but personally I feel she's only the writer because she's a woman and she wrote two episodes of Prime and IDW thinks that's enough to give her a shot. Yes she wrote beast hunters but I didn't really enjoy that series. I'm sorry I don't mean to sound terrible like that but she came on the the main comics at a time of "hey everyone! Look female transformers! We're gonna have a comic with a female transformer as the main character in it, it's going to be written by a woman and drawn by a woman too!" It felt really forced and in my opinion the execution wasn't very good. Anymore it just feels like she's writing this because she's a woman who has a small history with the brand.

Again I apologize, I don't like saying something like that but it's a vibe I get off. I've said before I didn't enjoy the first two Windblade comics she wrote but I am happy to give till all are one a chance.

She is there because she's a woman and she's pushing her agenda through the material which is uttered revolting in my opinion. She needs to go as her work is terrible.

From comics to politics, when a woman is employed in an area with a male majority, you see this... odd core of people who talk of them being unqualified, only being there because of gender - stranger still, it's vanishingly rare, if not non-existent, for this group to question the qualifications of any men working in that area.

...really makes you wonder about this "she's only hired because she's a woman!" crowd.

When a woman is criticised you see this, weirdos jumping to the defense of the woman based on her gender. People in glass houses.

Hey man, I'm just speaking in defense of an author whose work I enjoy. I'm happy talking about Windblade and Scott in terms of the merits of the work, you folks are the ones dragging gender into it.

Is the author a woman? Is the main character she uses female?

Dang, you're right. Sorry man, I forgot that I'm not allowed to defend an author whose work I enjoy if they happen to be a woman or write a female protagonist. Thanks for reminding me.

Prowl4 wrote:Her work is dreadful it's primarily about how the rules do not apply to fembots she showcased this in idw and rid. The idw and rid stuff she writes is extremely fembot heavy.

Idw has inserted fembots that face no real consequences such as death. In fairness to Michael bay he killed the fembots in rotf but comics and tv series won't.

Roberts stuff was good but it's completely disturbing with the homosexual material.

Dr Va'al wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:Her work is dreadful it's primarily about how the rules do not apply to fembots she showcased this in idw and rid. The idw and rid stuff she writes is extremely fembot heavy.

Idw has inserted fembots that face no real consequences such as death. In fairness to Michael bay he killted the fembots in rotf but comics and tv series won't.

Roberts stuff was good but it's completely disturbing with the homosexual material.

You're starting to border into behaviour I am not a fan of.
Disagreement, even visceral - if you really must - is fine. Labelling homosexuality, gender issues, social commentary as 'disturbing' or 'making you sick' is not.

Prowl4 wrote:Grow up, I can have an opinion.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I am of the party of "as long as the story works and the writing is good, I'll enjoy it and go with it." What we have here in the current ongoings is a great example of world building and actually attempting to create a transformers universe that is more than war. Transformers doesn't always need to be about war.

Prowl4 wrote:

Dr Va'al wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:Roberts stuff was good but it's completely disturbing with the homosexual material.

You're starting to border into behaviour I am not a fan of.
Disagreement, even visceral - if you really must - is fine. Labelling homosexuality, gender issues, social commentary as 'disturbing' or 'making you sick' is not.

Grow up, I can have an opinion.

RevTibe wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I am of the party of "as long as the story works and the writing is good, I'll enjoy it and go with it." What we have here in the current ongoings is a great example of world building and actually attempting to create a transformers universe that is more than war. Transformers doesn't always need to be about war.

Agreed - for me, one of the biggest draws of the Transformers franchise is having a big bag of colourful characters (figuratively and literally!) interacting in entertaining ways, so for me, a post-war setting strengthens my favorite part of Transformers. Silly little things like Blurr giving Swindle a friendly noogie, or Ravage and Bluestreak having a good chinwag. Post-war setting strengthens my favorite part of Transformers.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:The post war stuff has given plenty of opportunity to really show who these bots and cons are. at times, the lines really blurr. Blurr's and Swerve's are great settings for that, and the fact that this book is mainly centered on Cybertron and it's colonies excites me, since we get to see all that post war stuff, and people who have never known war, and so many different continuities being brought in. I look forward to more beast wars stuff.

Dr Va'al wrote:Psst. I also have an agenda. It's why I infiltrated Seibertron in the first place.

Once I am ruler of everything, there will be no new comics. Only comics adaptations of Das Kapital. With robots.

Optimizzy wrote:

Dr Va'al wrote:Psst. I also have an agenda. It's why I infiltrated Seibertron in the first place.

Once I am ruler of everything, there will be no new comics. Only comics adaptations of Das Kapital. With robots.

Lol. Vaal you crazy man. You crazy.

Burn wrote:

Prowl4 wrote:Grow up, I can have an opinion.

You can have an opinion, but you need to be respectful. Not everyone will agree with you, telling people to "grow up" is blatantly disrespectful.

Have a warning.

Dr Va'al wrote:Am I..? We already had Orion Pax quoting Tony Benn...

Madeus Prime wrote:*Sniffs* Ahh smell that air! Angry fanboys, burning prejudice, latent sexism, and just a hint of "get over yourselves, they are comics, enjoy them if you want, hate them if you want, just don't pull real life issues you have into it"

Dr Va'al wrote:This is a good example of how to disagree with or criticise a writer.

http://chrismcfeely.tumblr.com/post/144 ... ive-seen-a

1984forever wrote:

Dr Va'al wrote:This is a good example of how to disagree with or criticise a writer.

http://chrismcfeely.tumblr.com/post/144 ... ive-seen-a

I think the article was horrible. Mcfeely beat around the bush.

RevTibe wrote:

1984forever wrote:

Dr Va'al wrote:This is a good example of how to disagree with or criticise a writer.

http://chrismcfeely.tumblr.com/post/144 ... ive-seen-a

I think the article was horrible. Mcfeely beat around the bush.

How so? The first paragraph was a list of the positives and negatives he finds in her writing, the second paragraph gave a brief overview of his thoughts on two major camps of critique of her writing. Cutting anything from it would have denied the reader useful information.

1984forever wrote:

RevTibe wrote:

1984forever wrote:

Dr Va'al wrote:This is a good example of how to disagree with or criticise a writer.

http://chrismcfeely.tumblr.com/post/144 ... ive-seen-a

I think the article was horrible. Mcfeely beat around the bush.

How so? The first paragraph was a list of the positives and negatives he finds in her writing, the second paragraph gave a brief overview of his thoughts on two major camps of critique of her writing. Cutting anything from it would have denied the reader useful information.

His criticism didn't go deep enough.

The problem at IDW is their attempts to make Transformers more human. We have stuff like Chromia and Prowl being terrorists because IDW wants to get rid of labels like heroic and evil and show the shades in between so people can relate to them more. Well, I can't relate to terrorists.

Nearly everyone is evil in IDW. The whole reason they have for starting the war is stupid. Ending it only led to more foolishness. The war ended so Autobot Blurr can give Combaticon Swindle a noogie and Starscream could rule Cybertron with a fist made of tin foil.

Wow. Great stuff

RevTibe wrote:

1984forever wrote:

RevTibe wrote:

1984forever wrote:

Dr Va'al wrote:This is a good example of how to disagree with or criticise a writer.

http://chrismcfeely.tumblr.com/post/144 ... ive-seen-a

I think the article was horrible. Mcfeely beat around the bush.

How so? The first paragraph was a list of the positives and negatives he finds in her writing, the second paragraph gave a brief overview of his thoughts on two major camps of critique of her writing. Cutting anything from it would have denied the reader useful information.

His criticism didn't go deep enough.

The problem at IDW is their attempts to make Transformers more human. We have stuff like Chromia and Prowl being terrorists because IDW wants to get rid of labels like heroic and evil and show the shades in between so people can relate to them more. Well, I can't relate to terrorists.

Nearly everyone is evil in IDW. The whole reason they have for starting the war is stupid. Ending it only led to more foolishness. The war ended so Autobot Blurr can give Combaticon Swindle a noogie and Starscream could rule Cybertron with a fist made of tin foil.

Wow. Great stuff

Transformers have been super-humanized from day 1. Jazz, Blaster's radio-DJ voice shtick, Autobots all having a big snowball fight etc, all that kitschy 80s stuff.

Not sure how Nautica's a terrorist? Maybe you meant Chromia, but a mix up like that isn't exactly inspiring faith in your evaluation of the characters. Most of the Autobots are still fairly positive characters, and many Decepticons now have a nicer side to them too!

Prowl's definitely a darker character than previous depictions, what with his Machiavellian approach. It's fine if you can't find certain villain archetypes engaging, but that may be your own limitation, rather than the work's (and hey, the G1 'cons were pretty terrorist-esque, bombing Earth and Cybertron buildings, taking hostages etc).

I'm not sure how IDW's start of the war is stupid - the revolt of an oppressed caste taking a more destructive turn as its leader becomes increasingly tyrannical is much more interesting than "Autobots are born nice, Decepticons are born mean, they have a war!"

1984forever wrote:

RevTibe wrote:

1984forever wrote:

RevTibe wrote:

1984forever wrote:

Dr Va'al wrote:This is a good example of how to disagree with or criticise a writer.

http://chrismcfeely.tumblr.com/post/144 ... ive-seen-a

I think the article was horrible. Mcfeely beat around the bush.

How so? The first paragraph was a list of the positives and negatives he finds in her writing, the second paragraph gave a brief overview of his thoughts on two major camps of critique of her writing. Cutting anything from it would have denied the reader useful information.

His criticism didn't go deep enough.

The problem at IDW is their attempts to make Transformers more human. We have stuff like Chromia and Prowl being terrorists because IDW wants to get rid of labels like heroic and evil and show the shades in between so people can relate to them more. Well, I can't relate to terrorists.

Nearly everyone is evil in IDW. The whole reason they have for starting the war is stupid. Ending it only led to more foolishness. The war ended so Autobot Blurr can give Combaticon Swindle a noogie and Starscream could rule Cybertron with a fist made of tin foil.

Wow. Great stuff

Transformers have been super-humanized from day 1. Jazz, Blaster's radio-DJ voice shtick, Autobots all having a big snowball fight etc, all that kitschy 80s stuff.

Not sure how Nautica's a terrorist? Maybe you meant Chromia, but a mix up like that isn't exactly inspiring faith in your evaluation of the characters. Most of the Autobots are still fairly positive characters, and many Decepticons now have a nicer side to them too!

Prowl's definitely a darker character than previous depictions, what with his Machiavellian approach. It's fine if you can't find certain villain archetypes engaging, but that may be your own limitation, rather than the work's (and hey, the G1 'cons were pretty terrorist-esque, bombing Earth and Cybertron buildings, taking hostages etc).

I'm not sure how IDW's start of the war is stupid - the revolt of an oppressed caste taking a more destructive turn as its leader becomes increasingly tyrannical is much more interesting than "Autobots are born nice, Decepticons are born mean, they have a war!"

1) I never said Nautica.

2)Real Transformers are built.

3) Fighting over Energon and the territories that can provide it is a good reason to start a war. Trashing the planet because you want to do aerial photography but you're not qualified because you have a drill on your alt mode is stupid!