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being a dormant tf fan is so weird. you will hear the first notes to The Touch and suddenly you have every bit of singing talent that John Bush has, ready to howl the lyrics like the lives of billions depend on it, even though you havent even touched a car in 10 years

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man, i just love mtmte/ll. like idk what to say when ppl try and tell me it sucks or the things that make me love it are flawed and a mess, or when ppl try and start discourse abt the “questionable morals” like man its just an action sitcom about aliens on a roadtrip. idk whats not to like abt it, really.

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I've been thinking about Drift non stop for like *checks watch* years and how good of a boy he is, remember that fuckin deleted scene where Ratchet tried to prank him by saying his hands were haunted and Drift just sliced the shits right off??? they're married now

i love that you have branded him a “good boy”, cus in that very deleted scene he pranked Ratchet into thinking he had thrown out the “haunted hands”. Acknowledge that Drift is a trickster himbo or ELSE

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good shipping thoughts. consider; drift and ratchet. ratchet and drift. ratchet, dropping everything he thought he wanted, needed, to go and chase after what was actually missing. the hole in his spark that was only ever filled by a certain hippy dippy overzealous swordsman.

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man mtmte/ll really is over for good huh

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nightbeat going ghost hunting is just so. it feels natural to me. he’s got that morbid curiosity that outweighs his common sense and any fear he might have. he would tell the goatman that he’s on his bridge now. he doesn’t care if anyone finds his dead body with hoof marks all over it, he just wants to know if the goatman is real and if he sees the goatman seconds before the bitch stomps him to death, then he’s satisfied.

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you think ratchet has ever dressed as a sexy nurse for robot halloween

let me one up you and ask if you think Drift did and Ratchet proceeded to tell him how incorrect the outfit was

[freestylish]

About LL: Being French, TF comics are not available in my country so I had to buy them online. Everyone seemed to love it and I decided to give it a go, even if digital is not my cup of tea. I DID NOT REGRET IT. The evolution of the characters really touched me (one example being Cyclonus and Whirl, first enemies, then friends at the end) and everyone had their flaws but also qualities, making them sympathetic, relatable and "human", one may say. It really was a roller coaster of emotions. (1)

Like I sorta understand why some people would be uncomfortable about it, cus it’s, y’know... an uncomfortable topic to talk about whether a man who has been responsible for so much death and destruction, even if it was in the name of good, deserves to live. (It also helps that he is fictional... To some people this seems like a way to excuse horrible things, though thats a discussion i have had many times and I’d rather not have it again lol)

Tbh I think most people look at his redemption arc from the wrong angle. Redemption doesn’t always mean that a character may clean their conscience by reversing their crimes, in fact that’s definitely not what redemption arcs are really about... It’s about the hard and perilous journey of changing yourself for the better, even if what you have done was terrible, because what is done is, unfortunately, done. (A good example of this is Prince Zuko from atla)

Megatron did try and redeem himself, and he did okay imo... He didn’t think so, though, even at the very end of LL, and by then he had probably saved as many lives as he had destroyed, even making his iconic cannon into a med kit.

Furthermore, MTMTE/LL didn’t really focus on politics as much as ExRiD did. It focused more on mental health, character relationships and growth, which is seen in all of the characters, from prominent characters of the main cast like Whirl and Cyclonus, which you mentioned, and some that showed up a bit less like Fort Max, who overcame his horrible PTSD and became friends with Decepticons who he would have not hesitated to tear apart with his bare hands in the start of MTMTE. I find it useless to try and view MTMTE/LL as something political, because it only uses politics as a means to tell the emotional story Jro is telling. Like spice in a dish.

I also like to mention this because I don’t see a lot of people point this out: While Megatron most absolutely definitely was responsible for the war and many trillions of deaths... No one of the survivors of that very war wasn’t a murderer. Even the most wholesome of Autobots have killed, which is pointed out when the crew meets the Necrobot.

It’s weird, really, because Drift goes through a redemption arc as well, but no one really bothers to mention that either... He used to be a notorious Decepticon known for being unreasonably murderous even for Decepticon standards. Yet by the end of LL, he has found himself and after a lot of ups and downs he has found a balance (and a husband)

And that’s just Drift. It’s worth mentioning a lot of prominent characters started out as bad people, like Whirl, Cyclonus and The Scavengers (remember when they made a campfire of an Autobot that was still alive and then shot him dead? Yeah what the fuck james roberts). Rodimus is seen making a game out of murdering enemies with Drift, for godssakes.

In the end is about how much things like this appeal to you and what content you can stomach. I, for one, can’t stand gory live action horror and don’t want to watch it. I suppose in the same way some people can’t stomach Megatron’s redemption arc for their own reasons, and that’s alright. They don’t have to like it, but they definitely aren’t allowed to try and make themselves look morally superior by shitting on people who love Megatron’s redemption arc, and that’s that on that.