View on Arcee and Airachnid’s “relationship”???
from a viewers standpoint ? i hate it gfjkdlgfj it’s really got no depth and neither of them have any motive for one another other than “ my name is arcee of cybertron……u killed my partners . prepare to die ” . which isn’t an ? invalid reason to want to kill somebody . LIKE I UNDERSTAND . airachnid is a reaaaally awful person to the point she slaughters entire planets for the sake of making them extinct . she’s not good . but airachnid literally has no motive for arcee … like there’s no REAL personal background , there’s no real rationale for them to be archenemies . enemies ? sure . but if arcee was going to get a rival in prime , she at least deserved a good one . airachnid is a good villain . but she was by no means a good nemesis for arcee with the plot the team gave them ……
had the team given them more of a personal background , i could have digged it . if arcee and airachnid had more than a random need to try & kill eachother every 15 episodes , it could have been a good enemy dynamic . but none of it makes sense gfdjkgdlfjg airachnid was just thrown into the show for the sake of being arcee’s ‘ feral mode ’ trigger .
also some of the stuff between their dynamic doesn’t even make sense ?? like how does arcee know so much about airachnid when the only time they’d encountered before earth was during airachnid’s time torturing her ? why is airachnid’s retribution the only thing stood between arcee and her personal vendetta to avenge a single bot ??
tl;dr …… it wasn’t personal enough . it was lacking real motive , real background , deprived of any real sense ……. and it sucks in general . only 2 female bots in the show and naturally they’ve gotta be the ones that constantly despise each other . tfp airachnid is quite literally one of the most dangerous characters on the show , and she’s got her running around in circles and pulling arcee’s hypothetical hair for no reason , and both characters deserved a lot better , especially regarding their dynamic . but ofc their dynamic revolves around the fact that ALL the writing for plots and characters are absolute garbage ….. tfp is entertaining , but very far from well written









