Try Not to Lose Your Head: Machinima Transformers Power of the Primes Episode 5 REVIEW

Qwan wrote:Yayy, it's here! I'm always looking forward to your reviews from the moment I watch the episodes, and as usual, you're pretty much on the same wavelength as I am but so much better at expressing it than me

Seriously, what even was with that "parallel lines meet at infinity" stuff. Like I'd honestly be alright if it just meant the vanishing point, which is absolutely a thing, but no it's something about "these lines aren't actually quite parallel" or some such absurd contrivance, fantastic.

Bronzewolf wrote:Anyway, speaking of the Dinobots, they just happen to run into Rodimus and Overlord, because everybody's in this damn swamp apparently.

Bronzewolf wrote:Rodimus killing Sludge also brings some questions, some of which might have even been intentional: Surely Rodimus can't be THAT strong. I understand that this show is trying to establish him as unstoppable force to really be reckoned with, but at the same time even Unicron couldn't have made him this strong and unstoppable.

Bronzewolf wrote:Now, I'm not even going to attempt to explain the next minute and a half, but just know it is some of the wierdest, worst psuedo science I have ever heard in any form of media. Something about parallel lines that somehow meet, and infinity, and the center of the center (?????) and stuff like that.

Sabrblade wrote: The point at infinity is actually a real-world math term in protective geometry. When one is viewing two parallel lines running towards the horizon, perspective creates the illusion of the two lines converging together at a single point far off in the distance (e.g. - the point at infinity), when they really aren't and it's instead just a trick of the eye.

kurthy wrote:

Sabrblade wrote: The point at infinity is actually a real-world math term in projective geometry. When one is viewing two parallel lines running towards the horizon, perspective creates the illusion of the two lines converging together at a single point far off in the distance (e.g. - the point at infinity), when they really aren't and it's instead just a trick of the eye.

Gotta teach your autocorrect the term projective. I get very disappointed when autocorrect corrects real words to a different word.

Sabrblade wrote:

Bronzewolf wrote:Now, I'm not even going to attempt to explain the next minute and a half, but just know it is some of the wierdest, worst psuedo science I have ever heard in any form of media. Something about parallel lines that somehow meet, and infinity, and the center of the center (?????) and stuff like that.

The point at infinity is actually a real-world math term in projective geometry. When one is viewing two parallel lines running towards the horizon, perspective creates the illusion of the two lines converging together at a single point far off in the distance (e.g. - the point at infinity), when they really aren't and it's instead just a trick of the eye.

o.supreme wrote:I believe just being piloted by the humans, Megatorn could have easily won, but as his own being, Overlord would be a tough match for Megatron.

Bronzewolf wrote:

Galactic Prime wrote:

Skritz wrote:

Galactic Prime wrote:This entire show has been a colossal failure from beginning to end, and that includes Combiner Wars and Titan's Return.

Even the crap that was Beast Machines, RiD 2000, and the Unicron Trilogy are bitter than this garbage. It literally has ZERO redeeming qualities. None.

The animation is crap, the story is crap, the voice acting is terrible, the dialogue is atrocious.

Don't even dare compare Beast Machine to this mess: sure it was a stupid, preachy and nonsensical show. Sure it ruined the character of just about every Beast Wars survivor safe maybe Cheetor and sure the design were atrociously weird but at least, dear **** Primus, it at least tried to be something.

You're right, I should have compared it to the filth that was Beast Wars

Intentionally flaming comments won't be tolerated. Thank you.

Coptur wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Coptur wrote:Choking in transformers has always been a thing.

They aren't just robots they are living beings.

...Who can also survive in the oxygen-less vacuum of space.

That's right they can but they don't breath and don't require oxygen

you saying that makes me laugh about the 2007 movie.

Megatron can fly through the cold of space but freezes in antartica (& people using fire extinguishers)

Galactic Prime wrote:

Bronzewolf wrote:

Galactic Prime wrote:

Skritz wrote:

Galactic Prime wrote:This entire show has been a colossal failure from beginning to end, and that includes Combiner Wars and Titan's Return.

Even the crap that was Beast Machines, RiD 2000, and the Unicron Trilogy are bitter than this garbage. It literally has ZERO redeeming qualities. None.

The animation is crap, the story is crap, the voice acting is terrible, the dialogue is atrocious.

Don't even dare compare Beast Machine to this mess: sure it was a stupid, preachy and nonsensical show. Sure it ruined the character of just about every Beast Wars survivor safe maybe Cheetor and sure the design were atrociously weird but at least, dear **** Primus, it at least tried to be something.

You're right, I should have compared it to the filth that was Beast Wars

Intentionally flaming comments won't be tolerated. Thank you.

I'm sorry I didn't realize stating a fact was intentionally flaming, my apologizes

Flashwave wrote:

Coptur wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Coptur wrote:Choking in transformers has always been a thing.

They aren't just robots they are living beings.

...Who can also survive in the oxygen-less vacuum of space.

That's right they can but they don't breath and don't require oxygen

you saying that makes me laugh about the 2007 movie.

Megatron can fly through the cold of space but freezes in antartica (& people using fire extinguishers)

The problem with the Antarctic and Fire Extinguishers isn’t cold, it’s Moisture. Water is not a nice thing to machines.

Galactic Prime wrote:

Bronzewolf wrote:

Galactic Prime wrote:

Skritz wrote:

Galactic Prime wrote:This entire show has been a colossal failure from beginning to end, and that includes Combiner Wars and Titan's Return.

Even the crap that was Beast Machines, RiD 2000, and the Unicron Trilogy are bitter than this garbage. It literally has ZERO redeeming qualities. None.

The animation is crap, the story is crap, the voice acting is terrible, the dialogue is atrocious.

Don't even dare compare Beast Machine to this mess: sure it was a stupid, preachy and nonsensical show. Sure it ruined the character of just about every Beast Wars survivor safe maybe Cheetor and sure the design were atrociously weird but at least, dear **** Primus, it at least tried to be something.

You're right, I should have compared it to the filth that was Beast Wars

Intentionally flaming comments won't be tolerated. Thank you.

I'm sorry I didn't realize stating a fact was intentionally flaming, my apologizes

Galactic Prime wrote:

Flashwave wrote:

Coptur wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

Coptur wrote:Choking in transformers has always been a thing.

They aren't just robots they are living beings.

...Who can also survive in the oxygen-less vacuum of space.

That's right they can but they don't breath and don't require oxygen

you saying that makes me laugh about the 2007 movie.

Megatron can fly through the cold of space but freezes in antartica (& people using fire extinguishers)

The problem with the Antarctic and Fire Extinguishers isn’t cold, it’s Moisture. Water is not a nice thing to machines.

True and it's also been proven that space isn't so much cold as it is a lack of heat.

Whifflefire wrote:I always assumed that any instance of 'choking' was actually attempted decapitation. And somebody mentioned earlier that clenching the neck would also restrict nutrient (energon) flow as well as sensory information from the brain module. Transformers can inhabit atmosphere-less conditions of space because they are solid. Presumably, their 'veins' are insulated to prevent the liquid energon from boiling (Space is not cold, the vacuum effect separates molecules so much temperature is not really possible in space as we think of it). Damage to the neck, a relatively small joint, may cause exposure of the energon to the vacuum. I would imagine there is an automatic repair response to this in a cybertronian's body, but there could still be energon lost. Due to the neck's proximity to the head, the boiling energon would dissipate through the mouth, eliciting a 'coughing' response.
Even though they don't need to breathe, a transformer still has a mouth for consumption and communication, functions that are closely tied to vital organs, and probably the only natural access point to one's inner components (why a head usually does not convert itself, but is stored away in alternate mode). There would have to be filters to clear out foreign material. Water has been depicted on Cybertron in several continuities, or at the very least would have had come into cybertronian contact before, so it is likely that it would be adapted for. (Why Perceptor can be drowned is because the act was too quick for his systems to react, and in a panic he was unable to activate them because the liquid had already entered his veins, and energy was being diverted to removing it via ejection - his coughing after he resurfaced.)
As for a 'bot being able to withstand the pressure of seven or so miles worth of water pressure to reach the bottom of the Laurentian Abyss, Transformers' metal (Is "Transformium" a recognized term?) is much denser and stronger than most (all?) metals on Earth.

Plausible?