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[samsblades]

get to know your moots tag game ! ✶ answer the questions, then tag six people

favorite color ꕀ green and brown last song ꕀ tú by maye currently reading ꕀ the luminaries by susan dennard currently watching ꕀ the great british baking show currently craving ꕀ massaman curry. like always. and like. alcohol and a couple cigs HAHA. a break too :P coffee or tea ꕀ always tea! i don't like coffee

ty for the tag @saltcxrcle ! tagging: @lelapine @toadspondofwhimsy @outof-spite @h0neyst4rz @hhoneylemon @our-lady-of-venom

[lelapine]

get to know your moots tag game !

✶ answer the questions, then tag six people

favourite colour ꕀ pastels (purple, pink and blue)

last song ꕀ juno by Sabrina Carpenter

currently reading ꕀ Property Protection of a Woman after Her Husband's Death in Roman Law (Majetková ochrana ženy po smrti manžela v římském právu) by Petr Dostalík

currently watching ꕀ the great british baking show

currently craving ꕀ something sweet… probably a watermelon

coffee or tea ꕀ both - but I won’t function without coffee

Thank you so much for the tag @samsblades !

Tagging: @krobus-the-krobro @smiling-girl @hobiespick @angelicjackles @onyx-di-angelo @sorryitsmyfirstdayonearth

[bloodyrevival]

get to know your moots tag game ! ✶ answer the questions, then tag six people

favourite colour ── black, closely followed by red and blue currently reading ── hunting adeline by h.d. carlton last song ── the summoning by sleep token currently watching ── bouncing between the latest season of 9-1-1 (i'm half a season behind) and season 5 of grey's anatomy (first watch) currently craving ── something sweet and savoury, like a pastry maybe coffee or tea ── tea, i don't like the taste of coffee (love the smell though), although i don't drink that much tea either these days so maybe i'm a fake irishman

thank you for the tag @lelapine !!

npt: @rott3nvamp1re @plasticflowersinahistorycemetery @chevroletdean @daylighted @pieandflannel @losers-clvb @chxrrywines @deanspookiebear @wchswift + anybody else that wants to join

[chevroletdean]

get to know your moots tag game ! ✶ answer the questions, then tag six people

favorite color ꕀ (burgundy) red

last song ꕀ call me by blondie

currently reading ꕀ still stuck on jay kristoff's empire of the vampire, and no, i can't recommend it lol

currently watching ꕀ finished season 6 of my spn rewatch yesterday! other than that, watching the x files for the first time

currently craving ꕀ a thunderstorm, honestly. or like lots of rain pouring down for maximum coziness

coffee or tea ꕀ coffee!

tysm for the tag @angelicjackles <3

npt: i've done this one a while ago, but it's still fun and some answers changed soooo @zepskies @supernotnatural2005 @jollyhunter @justwhisperingfantasies @xpurdyglambertx @samanddean76 + anyone else who wants to join in on the fun!

[condors-safety]

get to know your moots tag game!!!

favorite color: blue, green, and red

last song: whipping post (allman brothers band cover) - jason manns and jensen ackles

currently reading: onyx storm (rebecca yarros), supernatural: bone key (keith r.a. decandido)

currently watching: loving my supernatural rewatches :) also watching the boys and invincible

currently craving: a cuddle sesh with my boyfriend while watching spn, and not being sick lol

coffee or tea: coffee. but specifically homemade starbies iced coffee :)

my moots:

@cevans-is-classic @strawlessandbraless @keircat7 @its-a-destiel-thing @whoipretended2b @thehostorganism @deans-abandoment-issues @peoplewatching-notstalker @imdoingbetternow @sam-winchesters-soul16 @kuone-05 @halflingjakab | and anyone who would like to join!

(damn i have so many more moots than i thought)

[keircat7]

Get to know your moots tag game!

Favorite color: Purple! All shades too. I love lavendar, but deep purple is awesome too!

Last song: So, ah, actually listening to music rn lol. (In order of this night) Numb Little Bug — Em Beihold, The Beast — Concrete Blonde, Bloodletting — Concrete Blonde, and Chop Suey — System Of A Down.

Currently Reading: (Fanfic better count) Butterfinger by Snailhair on Ao3.

Currently Watching: ✨Supernatural✨ Oh, also watching those old Perry Mason movies from the 80s & 90s. (Isn't it TRUE that...)

Currently craving: Chocolate. Particularly with caramel. Maybe a Snickers. (I only have one left tho😭)

coffee or tea: Straight up being fr, I have NEVER had coffee. Do enjoy some green tea with honey on occasion though.

Moots: @ghostofpatrickshand @waihtie @def-nor-kaz-brekker @contumacious-arcadia @norseshadows84 (I don't remember if we're moots, actually. Sorry, if not.)

[ghostofpatrickshand]

get to know your moots tag game... :D

favourite colour: blue (specifically the shades on the take this to your grave album cover)

last song: nice now - point north

currently reading: a tempest of tea - hafsa faizal

currently watching: 🔥merlin🔥

currently craving: coffee coz i just woke up and havent had any yet

coffee or tea: c o f f e e!!

i'll tag... @theadventuresofcas @sal3m-trials @galactic-squiddo @salemruinseverything @iwillfightgodandwin :D

[sindrome-de-lazaro]

get to know your moots tag game ♡

clean ver under cut 🫶🏼

favorite color ꕀ RED AND BLACK WOO

last song ꕀ uhh breathe in, breathe out by set it off

currently reading ꕀ every shit poképasta i can find, i might read uhh shitty sonic and mario ones too lmao

currently watching ꕀ gordon ramsay's 24 hours to hell and back

currently craving ꕀ stuffed crust pizza,,,

coffee or tea ꕀ neither

tags uhm,,, @khao00 @amordei-k @dragonboything @epsilonicronecronomicon @blizzardtheartisticfox @sana090

favorite color ꕀ

last song ꕀ

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[tauthaumiel-deactivated20251226]

last song ꕀ Red Wine Supernova by Chappell Roan :3

currently reading ꕀ um dante's inferno ?

currently watching ꕀ some guy doing goofy shit in KSP (kerbal space program)

currently craving ꕀ slow cooked beef tacos

coffee or tea ꕀ monster

tags

@therealaxlrose @artalicsoul @unt1ed-sh0el4ces @jupiterrr33 @juliberryx

[killjoy-swaggot]

Thx for the tag!!

Last song: vampires will never hurt you by my chemical romance

currently reading: Percy Jackson: Greek heroes

Currently watching: Gilmore girls

currently craving: a human heart, a cup of blood, and a dick of my own to jorqk... And chocolate

coffee or tea: COFFEEEEEE 🖤🖤🖤🖤

Npt^^ @fawns-soft-pillows @m1lkywaymikey @dangernoodlefrogdad @beanzbyartificalmeans @miranalvjy @pridefulphantom

[666-11]

thanj yuuo .... ❤️

last song :: All The Angels (Live Demo) · My Chemical Romance

currently reading :: notgingg ..... 💔💔💔

currently watching :: Frerard: The True Story

currently craving :: something salty to eat ...

coffee or tea :: COOOOOOOOFFFFFFEEEEEE !!!!!!!!!!

npt ::::::: @punk-o-ween @m1lkywaymikey @cemetery-ratzz @ceciloolovr @mikey-ways-sparkle-bass ++++ anyone !!!!!!!!

[mikey-ways-sparkle-bass]

ty for the tag <3

favourite colour: teal

last song: emily i'm sorry by boygenius

currently reading: i just finished dying inside by pete wentz so im in between books rn

currently watching: supernatural!!

currently craving: rooibos tea

tea or coffee: i'm a huge tea lover i have it every day

tagging @spraypaintstainonawhitewall @m1lkywaymikey @arachnidsgoth @absolutely-existing @hotel-bella-morte @its-an-inside-joke and anyone else who'd like to!

[stomachaches-frank]

ty for the tag ‼️‼️

Favorite color: uhhh red and black as a combo but if I can only pick one then green :3

Last song: Infatuated by Ricky Jamaraz

Currently reading: a lot of fanfiction. too much fanfiction. but i really want to read sunrise on the reaping

Currently watching: i'm like midway through my 500th rewatch of life on the murder scene but i haven't actually watched any shows with the intent of finishing them in a while

Currently craving: tacos specifically chicken ones with a lot of toppings

Tea or coffee: i hate coffee and am okay with tea so i guess tea ‼️

@playgroundeyes @rebelrobinrules1984 @fabulousk1lljoy @ketchup-is-green @rip-my-heart-out-and-eat-it + open tag :3

[rebelrobinrules1984]

thanks for the tag! favorite color: red (if it counts also black)

last song: millions by Gerard Way

currently reading: nothing at the moment but I’m going to Re-read the umbrella academy before the new one comes out if I get the time. currently watching: nothing. I don’t really watch tv. But the show my family is watching is called cold case It’s kinda interesting.

currently craving: human interactions 🥺 but also nachos and a baked potato.

tea or coffee: SWEET TEA.

@wormxd @highkey-confused @shadyliberty @ineffable-bastard @3cheers4venom and anyone else who wants to join

[ineffable-bastard]

Ahhhh I can play millions on guitar!

Favourite colour: red, black,silver, maybe purple?

Last song: Don't you (forget about me)

Currently reading: A heart full of hatred (the latest skullduggery pleasant)

Currently watching: Good Omens (and I watched Juno the other night)

Currently craving: my boyfriend's hugs I feel kinda shitty tbh

Tea or coffee: tea all the way

@jeahreading @8-rae-rae-8 @tired-smartass @purple-racoon-80 @sykatz @unstableunicornsofasgard and whoever else wants to join

[tired-smartass]

tysm for the tag!

favorite color - green

last song - achilles come down by gang of youths

currently reading - babel by R.F. Kuang

currently watching - young justice

currently craving - chow mein and momo's

coffee or tea - both but only chai not other types of tea

npt:

@whydousernamesevenexist @dayque @stars-and-leather and anyone else who wants to join:)))

[whydousernamesevenexist]

Thank you for the tag <333

Favourite colour: dark green

Last song: Alright by Supergrass

Currently reading: Arthur C. Clarke: 2001: A Space Odyssey

Currently watching: Attack on Titan (season 4 part 1) and Lessons in Chemistry

Currently craving: violence

Coffee or tea: I prefer coffee, sorry @mintbecrazy

No pressure tags:

@starcrossedmoony <333

@mintbecrazy

@moonymoom

@productofaritual

@mudkip-enthusiast18

@ravensncrowsx

@forensic-b1tch-aiden

@losver07

@im-a-mess-of-a-person

@uhhlifeig

@athenalikethegoddess

@berryzxx

@kayylivesinchaos

@motivationequaldead89

@here-am-i-sitting-in-a-tin-can

@silence-between-seconds

@mxed-salad-greens

@suckerforrosekiller

@moonyswarmsweaters

@whysosiriushuh

@insert-clever-username-1133

@marylily-my-beloved

@winterpandafreak

@lesbianlazyhouse

@carrotsinnovember

@n1xxi3

@give-me-a-username-plz

@idk-what-to-put-here-123

@where-is-vivian

@basicallyjustmuggleremuslupin

@obsessedwith15deadwizards

@derangedbookworm

@shamelesswolfstarshipper

@themortalityofundyingstars

@myfavcharacterdidntdrown

@chace-vito

@starving-marauder-lover

@roadkill111

@definitionoffuckup

@sapphos-queer-kid

@regulus-smith

@marauding-almond

@dazzling-witch

@absolutelyflabbergasted

@seekmemystar

@hershey-not-the-chocolate-maybe

@kathryn-maraudersversion

@daddysclownboy

@anything-for-my-moony-1971

[mudkip-enthusiast18]

ty for the tag!!! :D

fav colour: pink!!!

last song: telephone by lady gaga

currently reading: sunrise on the reaping by suzanne collins and as good as dead by holly jackson

currently watching: ONE PIECEEEEEE

currently craving: potato wedges

coffee or tea: I’m not a big fan of either but I drink stuff w coffee in it (99% milk and sugar 1% coffee) so I guess coffee

@/anyone :)

[the-person-that-did-that]

tyy

favorite color ꕀ Sage

last song ꕀ I fucked yr mom - Sorry Mom

currently reading ꕀ Edgar A. Poe complete works

currently watching ꕀ House

currently craving ꕀ A bulimic attack

coffee or tea ꕀ both, either, anything caffinated can be pumped by iv

npt!

@luna---lovegood @stardustwaterfalls @sharkiiv @auntiejohn @gayghostbuster21 @crouching-in-ashes @cool-lesbian-is-here

[stxrrstruckk]

thx for the taggg!!!

favorite color ꕀ green

last song ꕀ social cues by cage the elephant

currently reading ꕀ reckless by lauren roberts

currently watching ꕀ lmao im binging atla again

currently craving ꕀ nothing rn haha

coffee or tea ꕀ tea bc i don’t like coffeee

this is more that 6 tags but: @half-shadowgalra @anxious-introvert22 @spacesharks28 @oopsies-maeve-did-a-thing @seagull9111 @the-eclipse-is-in-me @sun-of-icarus @inlovewithmyhyperfixations @telugu-girl-13 @your-local-depressed-fangirl @linlovesnoodles @bleep-bloop-boo @the-tortured-one @bookworm-fangirl1 @bluebird38 @boldofyoutoassumeicanspell @theorthoslemonsog @gimme-da-sword @skyisasilly @onetiny-inkdropuniverse @ashlynbanner-sbg @elvanadiangelo @hellowstar21 @lu-the-loser @mentally-tori-261 @/opennnn

[your-local-depressed-fangirl]

favorite color ꕀ blackkk

last song ꕀ me and my husband by mitski

currently reading ꕀ if he had been with me

currently watching ꕀ my life crumble before my eyes

currently craving ꕀ a will to live :P

coffee or tea ꕀ tea bc i am biologically like half British mate

To lazy to tag heheh anyone can reblog!

[redwinesupanover]

favourite colour: purple

last song: nothing new by Taylor Swift and Phoebe Bridgers

currently reading: clockwork princess

currently watching: shadow and bone

currently craving: for my period to go away

coffee or tea: tea, just so yummy with biscuits

@too-sapphic-to-function

[too-sapphic-to-function]

Favourite colour: cherry red

Last song: Beat It by Michael Jackson

Currently reading: any billie eilish, reneé rapp, regina george or Leighton murray fanfic i can find

Currently watching: sex lives of college girls

Currently craving: nothing. I just woke up. Too early to eat. (Its 11am)

Coffee or tea: iced tea.

@sillydizzybxtches @urchaot1cvamp1r3 @canagaygirlgetanamen @dumbcrustyassbitch @porcelame

[teoejsgsjdvxjsmbajak-deactivate]

thank u for the tag !!!

favourite colour — purple

last song — so what now (i'm getting so predictable)

currently reading — the great gatsby

currently watching — bluey

currently craving — a few more hours of sleep

coffee or tea — coffee

npt !!!! @beyoursunset @bleachxxbunny @toxinoire @pleaseexcusemylameness @homoerratics @reneeslvt

[toxinoire]

Aww thanks for the tag :)

Favorite color - Purple

Last Song - Nobody Like You by Little Mix

Currently Reading - Apprentice To The Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Currently watching - Sasaki and Miyano

Currently craving - Matcha and/or cookies

Coffee or tea - Depends on my mood really

tagging: @horror-lady00 @purple-scrunchie @frogs00 @scrunchie-87

[horror-lady00]

Thanks for tagging me)

Favorite color - Purple (usually mixed with green)

Last song - Humbug from Stingiest man in town.

Currently reading - Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Currently craving - Lasagna :p

Coffee or tea - Always tea. Not a coffee drinker :p

Tagging: @highlifeboat @shinybastiodon @sillyvisioncorner @girlmachinezeph @genderflu1dwh0r

[shinybastiodon]

Favorite color - Blue~!

Last song - I 2 I from A Goofy Movie

Currently reading - Dudley Datson and The Forever Machine

Currently craving - PIZZA 🍕 🐢

Coffee or tea - Tea, usually sweet tea, but I’ve started to enjoy hot tea on cold days.

Tagging: @monocle-teacup @dynared @thebigboy71 @kitgirl91 @places-people @siriusdigital @fatncheesey @itpeppermint @lightningsocks

[monocle-teacup]

Favorite color - Purple

Last song - Kingslayer by Bring Me the Horizon

Currently reading - Nothing

Currently Watching - Multiple anime including: The Gorilla God's Go To Girl, Apothecary Diaries, Apocalypse Hotel, Doctor Elise

Currently craving - Chips Ahoy Blizzard

Coffee or tea - Neither. Only things I drink are water and milk.

Tagging: @toxxicpill @ch1meraa @vihattu-thethoroughbredofsin @cityzenshark @yayoineko

[vihattu-thethoroughbredofsin]

Haha, I'm going back to the tumblr and go straight to the activities! Let's go!

Favorite color - Dark blue (in my language, blue and dark blue are two different words, so as a child I was very surprised to learn that in English it is one word and therefore the rainbow has 6 colors, not 7)

Last song - Dead by Vacuum

Currently reading - West of Eden by Harry Harrison (An incredible book! A worthy piece of fiction with a well-developed unusual reptilian race and their civilization. And a far-from-ambiguous conflict with the human race)

Currently Watching - Nothing, but I would like to start watching something, some kind of mecha-anime or fiction, preferably about space, but nothing is interesting yet.

Currently craving - VACATION, PLEASE!

Coffee or tea - Tea, I drink it instead of water and probably a liter a day. It's not that good, but drinking a lot of water is hard.

Oh well, I'll tag those who come across in my feed. Tagging: @flammann @overlordraax @dynared @blueikeproductions And that's probably it, huh

[vihattu-thethoroughbredofsin]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Oh, it's a shame that I'm so late for the event this year! But I'll finish this work anyway) Happy SkyStar Week to all!

[vihattu-thethoroughbredofsin]

Skybound Transformers #8 (Spoilers!)

Someone come back!

Well, to our fan's delight, Skyfire has returned to the world of suffering!

This is a very interesting situation. Apparently, the Cybertronians in this comic book series can survive with most of the spark damaged or gone. Or in this case, some kind of core has been preserved, but there is not enough additional energy for the Skyfire to operate with his body or receive information from some sensors, in this case visual. I wonder how much of him is left in principle. He clearly remembers his name and recognizes voices, can conduct a dialogue, has an understanding of the situation and reacts emotionally to his condition. But it's still a question of how much of his personality and memory has been preserved.

The only thing I'm afraid of is that he didn't come back for long. How do these stories usually unfold? Either the Autobots will find a way to bring him back to normal, or he will ask them to end his life so that he stops suffering. Which brings us back to the idea that at some point, they'll use whatever's left of him as material for someone else. Maybe it will be played out as a self-sacrifice of the already doomed for something more useful.

More of the funny details.

Well, the authors decided to play with the old joke that the Autobots saved Skyfire in the cartoon just so that he would be their taxi. Here it is practically discussed directly.

For some reason, the authors are embarrassed to make Skyfire huge, as he was in the cartoon, when he could transport half of the Autobots inside himself. Here they attached some kind of container to him, which is more reminiscent of a Sky Lynx.

[vihattu-thethoroughbredofsin]

Some thoughts about Cybertron in the Transformers One trailer (SPOILERS!)

I was most interested in the shown state of Cybertron in the trailer. Instead of the rather familiar image of a metallic futuristic and technologically advanced planet, the trailer shows a completely different state of the planet's surface. There is some kind of organic life here, and it looks interesting.

Many compare it to Cybertron from the endings of BeastsMachines and Cybertron (Galaxy Force) and the Cyberverse. But I won't agree. In the first case, the idea was that Cybertron, for the sake of balance, should combine its wild distant past and present, creating a techno-organic unity, in the second case it was a symbol of the rebirth of the planet and the return of power to Primus, and in the third it was a rather lazy and crooked way to show the world of Cybertron, which worked incomprehensibly and contradicted itself. At least that's how I understand it. Here, one gets the impression of a completely different idea.

The surface of Cybertron looks to be covered with organic plant life, not techno-organic, and this is interesting, given that most of the ground looks to be made up of metal and crystalline structures.

But most importantly, this vegetation looks somewhat wrong, but in a certain sense. It's like it doesn't belong here.

What I mean by that. Some of the plants look natural, while the rest looks out of line with the rest of the environment and even other vegetation. And this is not about the quality of the graphics, everything is just fine here, and therefore it seems to me that this impression is made intentionally.

Here is an example where plants look organic (first 3), and where they no longer combine with the place of growth (next 3).

And the appearance is strikingly different, as if these plants are not from the same biome, which leads to one thought, but more on that later.

On the other hand, animals, they are obviously completely metallic and mechanical. And, interestingly again, we see only these deer or antelopes, no flocks of birds or insects on the background, some small animals.

All this gives me the impression of a kind of post-apocalyptic world either at the stage of dying or at the initial stage of rebirth. Most of the territory is a wasteland of metal and ground, and the plants seem to be in separate oases. This may hint either that plants are gradually taking over the planet after a cataclysm, or that life is gradually dying on the surface.

We see the ruins of buildings covered with vegetation and the bodies, presumably of the Primes, also overgrown with some kind of plants. But all this does not look peaceful and whole.

At least there is an artificial danger for representatives of the fauna.

And since the Quintessons are definitely involved in the plot, I have two ideas about what's going on.

1. Techno-organic quintessons alter the planet for themselves and create suitable conditions and an ecosystem for themselves on the surface. This explains why the plants look so different, the Quintessons could have imported them from other planets or their native home. This would explain why antelopes resemble our animals so much, they could have been created under the impression of the fauna of other worlds. The ruins of the buildings could belong to transformers, who were enslaved and driven to live and work underground. Or transformers were also created in the image and likeness of someone as a workforce.

2. The planet was originally organic. Quintessons could fly here for resources or in search of a new home and begin to cyberform the planet, gradually killing organic life that remained only on small areas of the surface. At the same time, antelopes can be mutated or cyberformed animals that are gradually exterminated by the shown protection system. The buildings could belong to the alien race that originally lived here. At the same time, transformers can be a workforce created by quintessons.

This is definitely a very interesting and new look at Cybertron and the past of this planet, and it seems to me that the authors of the cartoon clearly decided to show Cybertron like this for a reason, there is an idea behind it.

Well, let's wait to see what happens.

[vihattu-thethoroughbredofsin]

Skybound Transformers #7 (Spoilers!)

The future return of Skyfire?

It's great that Optimus is going to revive Skyfire, and not use his parts or body to build a vehicle, right?

…

Right?..

RIGHT?!

What if…

[vihattu-thethoroughbredofsin]

Finally, people began to admit that Nightshade's design was not as good as everyone thought. I'm not saying that the design is really bad, but it just could have been better, especially looking back at the original image from the production bible (you can see it in this post).

I will not be able to describe the design flaws better than the authors of this post and this reblog said. But I can add that Nightshade's robot mod looks very close to androids than to transformers and stands out even against the background of siblings. Of course, it's impressive how the designers were able to make an owl toy with such an interesting transformation, but even the toy left wings in the robot mode, and the model in the show left only the shape of the head as an interesting detail. And speaking of which.

Such a head would work better with another altmod design, for example, a bat or a gargoyle, because this shape does not resemble an owl or even an eagle owl in any way.

And now imagine how interesting the old design would look with the head of the current design with the gargoyle altmode with Gomora's head, so that the "ears" would play some role, and not just disappear during the transformation.

Gomora from Ultraman. Just imagine how cool it would look!

In short, it was worth leaving the previous design at least in some details, since it worked better than the android's body, which was not particularly diverse in colors, so similar to the male physique that even the Japanese dubbing confirms this, and this says a lot!

[vihattu-thethoroughbredofsin]

EarthSpark: When the script is not your strong suit. Part 3.

Part 1. Part 2. Part 3.

10. The obvious favoritism of the authors towards the Decepticons.

Our beloved favoritism towards the Decepticons. The authors absolutely do not hide who their favorite characters are, and emphasize this through narrative. And it is emphasized by the number of characters, Autobots are shown 6, and Decepticons are shown as many as 17.

For example, the attitude towards Optimus. Optimus is shown as a leader who made a forced compromise. Because of this, Megatron regularly condemns him, almost bluntly saying that Optimus drove the Cybertronians into an almost servile position. In addition, he is obviously disrespected by Croft, but this is understandable. Dot doesn't like Optimus, and in Robbie's nightmares, Optimus is the frightening image. That is, they are trying to show us that Optimus is an incompetent weak-willed leader who is not trusted by one of our main characters and one of the obviously positive characters treats him negatively.

What else did the authors do? During the battle with Skywarp and Novastorm, Optimus did not show himself in any way and almost lost. During the episode "Decoy", he could not object anything intelligible to Megatron and released two cassettes, who had previously intended to harm children, and as a result were involved in underground battles. Great decision, leader! And also, having been in contact with people for much longer, he is shown as not oriented in social interaction with people! Maybe it was worth giving Optimus at least some positive aspects besides the fact that a walking story exposition and an unfunny clown?

Bumblebee. In principle, everything is fine with him, it's just strange that children often treat him disrespectfully, but after all, he is their father's idol, couldn't Alex have increased their respect in any way? This is some kind of gap between the premise and the plot.

Elita-1. There's not much to say about her, we only had one episode where she talked about herself, and it worked for the development of another character.

Arcee and Wheeljack? Appeared on a little more than one episode, and, in general, that's it.

But Grimlock is shown interestingly for such a small timekeeping. But that's for now.

But since the authors love Decepticons, did they show them better? Well…

Let's start with Megatron. Here he is, the authors'favorite. The viewer should sympathize with him, perceive him as the right side and agree. This is one of the transformer characters who are given a sufficient amount of timekeeping, in addition to Terrans. So he was well worked out in the plot?

Let's skip the fact that Megatron was the leader of the Decepticons and, in theory, he should bear most of the responsibility for what happened. Apparently not. But why? Because he's a favorite character, that's why.

Megatron is also a bad leader. How can he be a good leader if none of the Decepticons supported his decision? In addition, Megatron most likely did not try to convince any of them to adapt to new conditions, as we saw from the episode "Decoy", his best solution is to beat up his former supporters.

Yes, he constantly scolds Optimus for allowing the GHOST to capture and imprison Decepticons. But what has Megatron himself done in 15 years to change the situation? Was he arguing with a GHOST? Maybe he was trying to convince his soldiers? Maybe he was trying to change people's minds about the Decepticons? They didn't show it to us and, most likely, he didn't do it.

But he annoyed Optimus with "restraining bolts", which are a variation of handcuffs, these things don't even cause pain. And, since Megatron is so displeased, maybe he would have transported the cassettes himself without these bolts? But no, the dirty work should be thrown at Optimus, while condemning him. Although we saw how simply the cassettes escaped without these bolts. Maybe Megatron suspected this and didn't want any problems for himself?

As a result, the authors wanted to show Megatron to us as a repentant war criminal, but did not show his background with Dot so that the audience would see the reason for his change. The authors wanted to show us a fighter against injustice, but instead they showed a bad ally and a duplicitous leader who abandoned his soldiers.

It would be an interesting plot move if the Terrans, having learned his backstory, would be disappointed in him at some point, because now they just see him as a friend of their mother, not knowing who he really was. Let's hope for this in the future.

The authors wanted to show the rest of the Decepticons more as hostages of the situation, persecuted and suffering from the repression of the GHOST. But is the GHOST's attitude towards the Decepticons really unfair? We are not shown that the Decepticons are trying to integrate into society, or repent in any way for what they have done. After all, since almost every Decepticon is a soldier, then most likely they killed people. Accordingly, people don't really want to see them walking freely. Moreover, some of the Decepticons shown are quite ready to harm people. And, given all these conditions, the GHOST simply puts them in cells, we were not shown any torture, experiments, or humiliation. There was some strange moment with the Skullcruncher, but the authors didn't even explain what was happening. So everything seems fair, control in response to aggression.

Let's take a closer look at those whom we should feel sorry for.

Swindle. Yes, he wants to rescue his brother and all that, but why did they get caught in the first place? In addition, if the authors really wanted to show the Decepticons' dislike of the GHOST, then it was worth doing a scene of an attack on the organization's truck somewhere in the forest, and not in the city, where regular people could suffer. And Swindle was absolutely not against harming Mo, who could not pose any threat to him.

Frenzy and Laserbeak. They were going to hurt Robby and Mo, too. And as a result, they turned out to be associated with criminal underground battles. Was it worth letting them go?

Skywarp and Novastorm. Okay, they were having fun attacking GHOST agents, but with no less fun they blew up the cave where Robby, Mo and Alex were. And if not for the appearance of new Terrans, all three of them would have died there. Are these the kind of characters you want to see walking free?

Breakdown. Should I talk about how it can be dangerous for people to race with a Cybertronian because he doesn't need to be extra careful and he will survive most accidents? Besides, we don't know what exactly he did during the war and how many people he killed. Or how many people could have been injured in the races with his participation. Maybe the GHOST is hunting him justifiably, how do we know?

Tarantulas. Oh, this one came up with a great excuse for himself. Since he is a scientist and not a soldier, it means that he should not be responsible for anything and can walk wherever he wants. But he is not just a scientist, but a scientist who worked for his Decepticon faction, and most likely carried out orders and assignments for inventions used to carry out military conflict. What, still shouldn't be responsible for anything? Well, the laws won't agree with that.

There will be a separate paragraph about Starscream.

Shockwave. It's interesting here, because after the episode "Warzone", many thought that in the future he would be the main villain. He regarded Terrans as some kind of hybrids and treated them with obvious contempt, and besides, he planned the genocide of mankind during the war. But the authors apparently wanted to change something, so they decided to improve the viewer's opinion of the Shockwave. With the help of what techniques in the narrative? Firstly, Mo calls him "Mr. Shockwave", thus showing him some respect (although he was going to blow up all her siblings. A little strange on her part). Then there was the scene where Fluffy Ears licked him. Showing the animal's good attitude towards the character is the easiest way to endear the viewer to him. Why do the authors do this, why? Unclear.

If the authors wanted to show us the unfair treatment towards the Decepticons, they should have made the plot prerequisites for this. To show that at least some of the Decepticons tried to live peacefully and establish relations with humans and Autobots, but met with misunderstanding and aggression due to all the years of military conflict. Or to show that Decepticons are aggressive only to GHOST agents, and not to small children. Or to show that the Decepticons are having a hard time in prison, that something is being done to them there. But none of this was shown to us, and the authors expect the viewer to empathize with the characters without all this. The authors do not understand that forgiveness must be earned, that Decepticons or Cybertronians, in principle, should try to do this, not only people.

11. No, Starscream is not a victim of abuse. Does anyone on this site understand what abuse is?

Every time someone says that Starscream is a "victim of abuse" here, somewhere in the world one psychologist (including me) is writhing by a cringe.

Let's put it this way, abuse or abusive relationships are relationships with a clearly traceable role model of "aggressor"-"victim". The aggressor violates the personal boundaries of the victim, primarily in order to exert psychological pressure and suppression of will, using emotional, physical and other types of violence. And most often, the aggressor combines the types of abuse in order to suppress the will, devalue, destroy self-esteem, form control over the victim and the dependent position of the victim. The methods most often used are: emotional swings, quibbles, manipulations of guilt, blackmail and threats, economic abuse, physical violence. At the same time, abuse is most often committed according to a cyclical scheme: a positive impression — peace — routine — forcing the atmosphere — trigger — the  direct rough form of abuse — excuses and forgiveness. And the cycle starts all over again.

What of this is shown to us in the relationship between Megatron and Starscream? A hint of physical, most likely systematic violence, which led to a kind of PTSD (shown, by the way, is also very bad).

But the fact is that this is not abuse, this is hazing. Hazing in the army. Hazing is one of the varieties of non-statutory relationships, namely an informal hierarchical system maintained through systematic, mainly physical and psychological violence. Hazing is directed towards recruits and is usually carried out by soldiers of earlier conscripts. But there are also frequent cases of hazing among senior army ranks against soldiers of lower ranks.

And now it's more like what's going on between Megatron and Starscream. And there are hints of this at the beginning of the season, when in the episode "Moo-ving In" Megatron recommended Bumblebee to apply and demonstrate strength as a method of education. From which we can draw two conclusions. Firstly, intimidation and physical violence are part of Megatron's leadership style, that is, he led his soldiers through hazing. Secondly, Starscream is apparently not the exclusive victim of such an attitude.

All these facts indicate that this was not an abuse manifested in the direction of Starscream, since its key features, such as cyclicity and coupling with other control methods, are missing.

In addition, the relationship between Starscream and Megatron is shown very poorly in the plot. We do not have a background to their relationship, we cannot say how things really were, because we are not given full-fledged flashbacks or explanations of the situation from both sides.

But the authors pretend that all these prerequisites already exist, that we know the nature of the relationship between Starscream and Megatron. But this is not the case, the viewer does not know anything! We do not know if Megatron showed physical violence to Starscream more often than to others, what were the reasons for this. Maybe he didn't like Starscream, maybe Megatron doesn't know how to control his anger, maybe Starscream betrayed him, and Megatron took revenge in this way, maybe Starscream was a fitting  example for others. We don't have information, how can we fully empathize with a character without knowing anything about the background of his situation? Because the authors told us to empathize with him?

The authors very much expect that the viewer will be oriented towards the relationship between Starscream and Megatron from other media. But here's the problem, every media had its own prerequisites for such a relationship. And, surprise again, in none of the cases was Starscream a victim of abuse. Because abuse is an "aggressor"-"victim" relationship, and the relationship between Megatron and Starscream is an "aggressor"-"aggressor". Let's not forget that Starscream almost always tried to kill Megatron and seize power, and in response Megatron beat him up. It was a scripted device to show the dysfunctional relationships within the team in contrast to the Autobots.

The image of Starscream as a victim of abuse is typical for fanfiction, for many reasons, some fans of this character love this trope. And, apparently, the screenwriter of the episode "What Dwells Within" too, which can be identified by several signs. Firstly, blue optics, a very common technique in fanfiction, usually used for pre-war Starscream, thus showing his innocence before he was influenced by the war and Megatron. Secondly, the obligatory conversation with another character, through which we are shown that Starscream is not bad, he treats others badly because of the trauma usually caused by Megatron.

It would be an interesting plot move if Hashtag made a mistake, transferring her experience to everyone else, and Starscream behaved badly with the rest, not because of the trauma, but because it was his choice to behave like that. But considering that the same screenwriter from the Cyberverse works here, who wanted to make an arch of redemption for Starscream after he wanted to destroy the universe, we are most likely waiting for endless pity for him here. And logic is not waiting for us.

12. The problem of unequal plot development of Terrans.

The problem is not that they develop one after the other in the course of the plot, the problem is that this is not the case. The development of some Terrans is simply skipped and looks very superficial. Some kind of "abandoned children" effect.

Twitch is the only Terran who goes through some kind of arch and encounters most emotional difficulties and changes after that. Everything is fine here.

Thrash — seriously, for the whole season, appearing at the same time as Twitch, what kind of development and what kind of arch did he go through? Have learned not to trust strangers after meeting Swindle? And what else? What distinguishes him at all, except that he is cheerful and chatty? Again for the second season?

Hashtag — her entire development is a strange ability and a occasion when she was under Meridian's control. And this being under control should have had a stronger effect on her in the plot. But all it was needed for in subsequent episodes was to find excuses for Starscream's behavior. Again for the second season?

Jawbreaker is interesting here, because there was development, but... the fans didn't like it. The episode "A Stygi Situation" is when we come across an interesting situation. Jawbreaker still can't find the altmod when everyone has found it, wants to be useful, is kind of jealous to his siblings and doesn't want to be a burden in battle, and he doesn't like the fact that everyone sees only that he is kind, but not other emotions that he may experience. And besides, it is well shown that, let me remind you, the child, receiving power, does not know how to control it, plays around and does not understand Grimlock's reactions well. Because he's a kid and that's what was supposed to happen with all these prerequisites. But the fans are unhappy, because if a character is declared as kind, he has the right to be only kind. Apparently, only villains have the right to be deep and multilateral? It's just funny that even the character expressed a desire not to be a cardboard, and the fandom, on the contrary, votes for a cardboard.

Nightshade — what can I say… I'll call Nightshade "let's skip character development completely". Because, as far as I understand, the authors decided to just give the character as many features as possible, but not develop it. So, Nightshade, apparently, is a genius and an ingenious inventor. And then the problems begin. As far as we understood from all the other Terrans, abilities need to be learned, even basic ones. But is Nightshade a genius right away? To make an invention, it is not enough to be a genius, knowledge is needed. Where does this come from if there are no physicists or inventors in the family, and most likely there is no required literature, and Nightshade does not have the ability to connect to the Internet? It would be much more logical if Nightshade had the makings for this, some kind of craving for invention, which parents would notice and ask autobots, such as Wheeljack, to help develop it and teach Nightshade something. This would be both control and the use of Wheeljack in the plot, and would match what we already know about the functioning of Terrans. But why, really.

And Nightshade is also non-binary. Okay, why? Let me remind you that in a work, any characteristic must serve some purpose, and also be understandable within the story. For example, there is no such phenomenon in my language and culture, I am unfamiliar with it and look at a character without extra knowledge, almost on a par with a child who may not know it either.

We have conditions, Robby and Mo are a boy and a girl, they led to the creation of Twitch and Thrash, which are also conditionally male and female. The viewer thinks that because of their connection, Twitch and Trash are a kind of reflection. Then the Hashtag and Jawbreaker appear, also conditional male and female, confirming the first impression of the process of creating Terrans and the connection with Mo and Robby. But along with them, a non-binary Nightshade appears, breaking the formula. What does it mean? Is the connection with Mo and Robbie gradually decreasing because Nightshade already had a name? Is it just an accident? Is this related to Cybertronians' identity? Is it related to people's identity? Does this show a connection with Cybertronians, humans, or indicates a feature of Terrans? What did the author put into it? Considering that we were shown a conversation with a non-binary person, did this come from humans, do the Cybertronians not have this? Or does everyone have this common feature that does not distinguish Terrans?

There could be two ways. To make the non-binarity of people and Nightshade based on different reasons. Then it was possible to make a connection between Terrans and humans in that they came to the same thing in different ways, and even though they are different, they can understand each other with the help of such intersecting points. Thus, we distinguish Terrans as a different species from humans and cybertronians.

Another solution would be to leave the first option still from the production bible, when Nightshade was planned to define as a Terran, drawing a dividing line with humans and Cybertronians even easier. In addition, the first design option worked for this idea, as it showed a more androgynous appearance. Because in the final version, Nightshade has a male physique and voice, which does not suit the idea of the character in the work, where the visual image and the fitting sound are primarily important, so that there is no dissonance with the idea of the character that the authors want to show us. A work of art is not real life, it is important to observe the laws of the image. For example, because of this dissonance, at some point I completely forgot that Nightshade is non-binary, and I was not the only one who forgot. Yes, I understand that a toy that was decided to be made with such a design, rather than the original one, also has a great influence, but there was already a mismatch of models and toys in the series, so it was possible to change the model in the series. In addition, the toy is already different due to the presence of wings.

But why delve into the work of the world you created, right, the authors? We'll just throw in something, as long as it's special and cool. Sometimes it seems that Nightshade was created simply based on the "fifth is special" trope, without any thought formed behind it.

From all of the above, a question arises. And when did the authors intend to develop all Terrans? Or have they forgotten that modern TV shows are very often canceled? Or did they forget that transformers series almost never got more than three seasons? What did they hope for without even starting to develop some Terrans or skipping the development of others?

13. Changing the gender of the characters is a mistake.

This problem started back in the Cyberverse, but has reached its climax here. So why is this a problem? Everything is simple. The genderswap of famous characters is a sign of incredible laziness and disrespect. I do not know how I should feel joy when looking at characters that no one has tried to work on? If the authors wanted to add female characters so much, and I would be glad to this, they would try and create new ones! Oh, won't the new ones attract an audience? So there are many existing female characters among the transformers! What only the Elita-1 team is worth, it would be a good chance to remind about these characters and develop them. If they wanted to make one of the Soundwave cassettes a female, then they could take the canonical Rosanna and just change her faction! She could have been given the same design as in the series, why not? (Thanks at least for the fact that the female Ravage was cut out). And therefore no, because it is necessary to think about it, it is necessary to try to do it. And so, the viewer will independently think of everything based on the characteristics of these characters in other media, and nothing needs to be invented. How convenient.

And they're also not "cool" enough. But many people really want to associate themselves with cool characters with cool abilities, like Skywarp, right? Someone wants to narcissistically see their mirror in everything they like.

It is precisely because of such trends that we have very few new female characters among transformers in many media. It is because of such desires that almost every female character among toys is a repaint, a retool and a remold. Those who support all this and want more ("Let Jazz be a female!", "What a pity that Starscream is not a female!") only indulge Hasbro's laziness, because of which we do not get any new characters or good new toys, because the viewer wants a girl-Swoop, a girl-Skywarp. And the company will not spend money on characters that the buyer will not pay for. And as a result, like yard dogs, we get only gnawed bones from the table, we are given old worn-out clothes after the boys, unwanted toys that we are allowed to play with. Well done, wonderful support for female viewers, nothing is better than this!

And I will never believe that the company insisted on this, no, it can be seen here that this is the idea of the authors following their narcissistic desires or the same desires of some part of the fandom.

The epilogue was written too late to mean anything.

Looking at all the criticism, you might think that I hate this series, but I don't. If I hated it, I would gloat over all these problems and mistakes of the show. And I'm not happy, I feel disappointed. Because the cartoon has a very interesting idea, they finally wanted to show us something new. And if the cartoon fails, we are unlikely to see such an idea anywhere else, history has shown that if an interesting idea does not pay off, they will forget about it and return to the standard. This has happened many times in the franchise.

But despite the fact that I don't want the series to be prematurely closed, I don't want to turn a blind eye to the problems that the show has. The cartoon is failing.

I understand it's a very comfortable and comforting thought for fans that the show is failing only because of those who don't like Nightshade. But the fandom needs to realize that this is not the case. The fandom needs to realize that the ratings they are fighting so hard for are of the last importance to producers in principle. Yes, many platforms do not take into account reviews with 1 star and 10, by the way, too! Streaming services are looking at views and subscriptions to the service, whether they will merge with another studio, Hasbro is looking at selling toys and whether they have enough money to continue the show. And here, in both cases, Hasbro framed themselves, terribly organizing marketing, communication with the audience, the time and form of the season's release and the toyline.

But that's not even the main thing. The show is framed by its own authors and screenwriters, who pick up ideas and cannot adequately write it. They put the desire to show a particular scene or idea above the logic of the plot. They skip development and don't expand the setting. And this causes the viewer to have a feeling of emptiness, a feeling of falsehood. And the viewer, especially if it is a child, feels this falsehood very well. And the viewer does not forgive this. Because of this, interest is lost, and people do not give high marks to the series, because the series, unfortunately, does not deserve these marks.

And it's sad, because it's clear that people worked on this cartoon with an idea and inspiration, it has good moments, good development of some characters, really cool animation and staging scenes. But it feels like then someone else comes along, inexperienced or with a very superficial worldview of a sheltered child, and just spoils all the good work with unprofessional screenwriting! I do not know how to explain it otherwise.

And you give the cartoon 10 stars out of 10? No one looks at these ratings except the viewers themselves and, possibly, the authors. And by making such ratings, you tell the authors that they are doing well, that they are doing a good job when it is not true. By silencing criticism and problems in this way, we do not give authors honest feedback, we do not give them the opportunity to take another look at their work and improve it.

I do not know what to say, it's just a shame that a good idea can become nothing with such a bad realization. After the series, there is an unpleasant aftertaste, and bitterness and sand on the teeth. I would like to believe that the series will get better. But it's hard to believe.

The conversation is open, you can debate my conclusions, agree or disagree with it, add something. This is an invitation to a discussion, if anyone is interested.

Part 1. Part 2. Part 3.

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EarthSpark: When the script is not your strong suit. Part 2.

Part 1. Part 2. Part 3.

6. The authors do not understand the consequences of war and racism and cannot work qualitatively with these topics.

Now I'm going to be really emotional for certain reasons, but I'm going to try to bring constructive criticism.

The authors absolutely do not understand and cannot adequately show either the consequences of the war conflict or the problems of racism.

Let's start with what the conditions of the world are in the series. As far as we know, at some point in time, the Cybertronians ended up on Earth and continued their war conflict, which lasted an indefinite amount of time and ended about 15 years ago. As far as we know, humans participated in the conflict on the side of the Autobots, the Decepticons fought against humans as well as against the Autobots, which we learned from the episode "Warzone".

We know that it was a protracted conflict with the death of many people and the destruction of human cities. And we also know that the Decepticons planned the genocide of mankind.

And now a logical question arises. Will most people treat Decepticons or Cybertronians generally well after that? If people were not guilty of the conflict, but suffered greatly from it, why should they just forgive Cybertronians? Why shouldn't people be afraid of Cybertronians after all that has happened? 15 years is a very short time for the wounds inflicted by the war to heal in the minds of the population. For many, a loved one may have died or suffered, perhaps killed by one of the Decepticons. So for what reason should people be against Decepticons being caught, especially if they are still dangerous (but more on that later, when we discuss the depiction of racism).

At the same time, the authors in the narrative are trying to impose the idea that people should treat Cybertronians well, and it is wrong to be afraid of them and be offended at them. The authors show this quite straightforwardly, through the image of the GHOST as evil, exposing Croft and Meridian as unambiguous villains, people in the city as cruel savages and Robbie's friend as malevolent from nowhere.

Although a good plot point could have been built on Robbie's friend, when they would have disagreed about how much their families had suffered from the war. For example, Dot lost her leg, but maybe she has a good pension, maybe she was given a good prosthesis. And Robbie's friend's mother could have died in the war, his father or someone else from his relatives could have suffered more, and his family could not receive any compensation. That's where the ambiguity and a deeper look at the consequences of the war conflict could be. Like, "Yes, Robbie, I'm very glad that Megatron is your mom's best friend, but because of him, my mom is gone!". Maybe it's a cliché, maybe it's too straightforward, but it's better than nothing.

What was shown to us in the series itself? One of the victims is Megatron's best friend (Megatron, the main culprit of all that happened), the other victim is a villain, and we don't see anything else and no one in the environment. Megatron tells us about the consequences in the episode " Warzone". And this episode was made so that we felt sorry for Megatron himself. No, there were a couple more goals — to show that the Terrans are not responsible for the mistakes of the Cybertronians (which is the right idea) and to make a reference to the blue flowers from the IDW comics.

So what does this episode tell us through narrative? Yes, the deaths of both Cybertronians and humans are mentioned, and images of the destruction of human cities are shown. But this is all said in passing, the main emphasis is on the fact that the Cybertronians may have lost the Allspark and the space bridge, which is why they cannot return home. Yes, it is tragic. But who is to blame for this? And are the deaths of people less serious consequences?

Against this background, it is very ironic that the names on the memorial are a meaningless set of letters. Yes, it is clear that it would be difficult to encrypt so many names. But this does not negate the irony.

I just don't understand how it was possible to write the topic of the consequences of the war so badly? Everything can be understood, a children's cartoon, a difficult topic. But if the author can't handle such a topic, the authors shouldn't have chosen it in the first place! The history of all world conflicts and any features of the post-war period is now available. Yes, even now there are several major military conflicts in the real world! Right here and right now! And such an attitude to such a difficult topic, which for many people is an everyday reality, feels like a spit in the face, a spit in the soul. And the authors just took this topic and threw it away for another one, thus saying that this topic is not as important as another one.

And this is the topic of racism. I'm not saying that it's less important, but you can't just replace one with the second one almost in the middle of the season!

And the funny thing is, the authors couldn't even handle the topic of racism and present it correctly.

The authors are obviously trying to present to us here an allusion to racism towards migrants and refugees. Unfortunately, such a narrative cannot work with all the prerequisites that we had in the plot.

Let's start with what racism is. To put it simply, this is a biased attitude towards representatives of other races (nationalities or cultures) based on human fear of the unknown / unlike / strangers, supported by a set of ideological views about cardinal physiological, intellectual, moral differences between races, assuming the superiority of one of them. Within the framework of these views, races are considered practically as different biological species. We know perfectly well that this is not the case and all races are equal in their characteristics and capabilities, since we are one biological species. That is why racism is exclusive and works as a definition only within one species.

And racism doesn't work towards Cybertronians in this series, because, surprise, Cybertronians are a different species. Yes, Thrash, transformers are not people, and people are not transformers. There are obvious differences between the two species. And in this case, they are objective, Cybertronians are physically very different from humans, at least by physical strength.

Therefore, people's fear of Cybertronians is justified. Each of them is a war machine, which, if something happens, a human will not be able to stop, will not be able to escape. And the realization of helplessness causes fear. This is the first reason.

Cybertronians fought on Earth, which led to many casualties, and people remember this. This also causes fear, because every Cybertronian on Earth has shown itself to be a killing and destruction machine.

Because of this, the allusion of refugees and migrants cannot be transferred to transformers. Because they are neither one nor the other in the plot. Let me remind you, every Cybertronian on Earth is either a soldier or working for the faction's army, accidentally stuck on Earth. Each of them participated in the conflict, almost every one of them is a soldier. And when we talk about migrants and refugees, we are talking about the peaceful civilian population, to whom prejudices are transferred, caused by one reason or another, but which are not characteristic of these individuals.

So the fear of transformers is justified, almost every one of them participated in a devastating war for the Earth, most likely almost every Decepticon killed people. And people probably remembered who killed their soldiers, what their names were and what they looked like, because, most likely, during the war there were warnings everywhere about who and what to be afraid of. So why should we be surprised again by people who want to catch runaway Decepticons? Especially when there is the following reason.

Cybertronians do not feel guilty and do not do anything to make Earth their home. They brought destruction here, they are stuck on this planet through their own fault. Maybe they helped people rebuild cities? We don't know. Maybe they shared their technology as payment for what they had done? We don't know. Maybe the Decepticons tried to establish relations with people, but their attempt was rejected? WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING! All we were shown was a deliberately GHOST-filmed film about how Cybertronians help build a bridge. According to the narrative, it is clear that transformers usually do not do this. And some of them are still dangerous to society. So why should people accept them with open arms in principle? People also have to provide them with energon at their own expense!

Cybertronians are not migrants, because they did not move to Earth of their own free will. Cybertronians are not migrants because there are no civilians among them. Cybertronians are not migrants, because migrants do not come to destroy the place where they are going to live (or do the authors think otherwise?).

I don't even want to describe how dumb the scene was with the underground transformers fights. Just to remind you that in the real world, this is entertainment for very rich people, for obvious reasons. Because they can provide a very big prize, which is what the fighters are fighting for. Tell me, someone, where did common residents of the city get so much money for a prize energon? Where do they even get it, their own underground production in the basement of an old lady? The series tries to touch on serious topics, and then shows THAT. Or do the authors imagine the life of migrants exactly as survival on the run and in underground arenas? But aren't such ideas already racist?)))

7. People are bad again, and the authors lead to the fact that people are the main villains.

Based on the previous point, we have the trope "people are real monsters" here again. Which, under the conditions shown in the series, does not work. But something tells me that the authors are trying to bring the plot and morality to the fact that it is people who will be wrong, that people actually provoked the poor Decepticons to aggression, and in the end they will definitely realize this and apologize. Most likely, they will even kneel down to fully show their remorse.

And all of this in general gives a very strange message. Basically, everyone who didn't like transformers is shown to be bad people, and two even died a pretty terrible and painful death. And only those who like Cybertronians are shown to be good people.

It feels like the show is trying to send a message — accept transformers or die. And this is some kind of very painful message, because it literally says: "You either forgive these guys who have killed a lot of people, are stuck here and some of them continue to cause harm, or you are a terrible person and die altogether".

8. Meridian.

I would like to say that everything is fine here, and I will say it. Meridian is a really stand-out character, an ambiguous villain with understandable motivation, not just evil because evil. But there are also strange moments in his development.

The strange thing is that the authors never gave him a name. Like, what's the idea? One person suggested an interesting theory (I will not mention the nickname in case a person does not want to be associated with what I am writing here) that the authors wanted to show that anyone who lives with hatred and a desire for revenge can be a Mandroid. This is interesting, but it is unlikely that the authors have put such a deep thought into it. Moreover, he has too many characteristic features and moments of backstory that cannot serve as points of connection with the viewer.

It is also strange that the audience was not clearly shown his background. How exactly did he lose his arm, how was he saved by Arachnamechs, why does he have such an attitude towards Croft, how is he connected with Alex. We don't know anything for sure, if I'm not mistaken, we've never been shown any of his flashbacks. And since he's dead, there's no one to tell his story, so we won't know anything about him anymore.

The prerequisites for a connection with Alex were not developed. In the early episodes, Meridian reacted quite emotionally to Alex, but when they met... nothing? They could have been friends or at least colleagues, it would have added depth to the characters, but this is another case of forgotten premises.

We were hinted that something had happened to him, he himself said that Arachnamechs had changed him in some way so that he would survive, and partly he was also technoorganic (?), but this information did not lead to anything.

No less strange is that the authors decided to go all the way with the idea of "you become what you hate." The problem is that Meridian has never become anything like a transformer. Yes, he replaced his hands at first, but then mutated into something else, but obviously organic or at least technoorganic. His final form is either a technical part, or just a shell that doesn't even transform. So Thrash's phrase in the finale doesn't make sense, because Meridian didn't become what he hates, he became something else. The authors could have changed their original plan and pointed out how much he lost himself, became unrecognizably unlike a human in him because of all this revenge, but they did not.

And, if we return to the argument with Thrash, transformers are really not people, so here the authors confuse the viewer, because the viewer must agree with Thrash. But how can you agree with him if he calls two different species by the same name? Or is it a feature of the English language? I don't understand.

Actually, that's enough. I believe that Meridian was right in principle that he wanted to rid the Earth of the cybertronians, since at that time they had done nothing good to the planet and humans. That's it, I declare the #DrMeridianWasRight movement.

9. What about Croft?

It turned out to be very strange with Croft. We absolutely don't know her motivation, why she doesn't like Cybertronians, what happened in her past to get her to the point of wanting to take over Cybertron. Maybe she lost someone in the war, or was she affected by this war? Does she want revenge or is she just ambitious? No, she's just an evil blonde (or gray-haired) woman.

And the choice of death is strange. This is very cruel for a character who has done almost nothing in front of the viewers. It's okay if she tortured the Decepticons, but they just sit in the cells, and what the GHOST did to the Decepticons during the Hashtag infiltration into the base in the episode "Hashtag: Oops" was not explained at all.

What is the backstory of her and Meridian? Why do they treat each other like that? Again, we don't know anything.

And that would be fine for a simpler show, but this cartoon has already shown that it's going to work out the characters and give them some motivation, but not in her case. Or did the authors think that it was enough for the audience that her name was Karen? I don't know. Someone said that she didn't need motivation because she was just evil and there wasn't always a reason to hate. But this is not the case, and any psychologist will tell you (including me) that there are always reasons for hatred, even subconscious and erratic ones, but they are there. There is no groundless hatred, in this case there may be an erratic reason that we do not know and will probably never know anymore.

Part 1. Part 2. Part 3.

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EarthSpark: When the script is not your strong suit. Part 1.

Part 1. Part 2. Part 3.

I will say in advance that I do not hate this series, but I have a lot of questions and complaints about some plot points. These posts are also an invitation to discussion, but first I recommend reading to the end (if someone is interested, of course).

let's get started. It's going to be a long song.…

1. The unevenness of the narrative, forgotten moments, strange plot twists.

Many people, including me, have already talked about this, there are many moments in the series when events develop too quickly and occur without prior construction and prerequisites. This is especially noticeable in the filler series, which had no consequences for the narrative, despite the fact that events predisposed to this. For example, the episodes "Traditions", "Bear Necessities", "Decoy", "Friends and Family". In the first of these episodes, Alex recognized the signs of his colleague's inventions. Has anyone remembered this and tried to find out where Arachnamechs came from? No.

The mutant bear didn't surprise anyone at all. Why did the GHOST throw waste in the forest at all? There's no point in doing it so openly, and if there was a goal, what was it? We never found out. This is an extremely cheap way to show how much the GHOST is an evil organization that spoils nature. This is a militarized organization, where do they get hazardous waste, in principle, if specifically they are not part of military production and their base is obviously not some kind of factory? If this is waste from scientific research, then again, from where? It was not shown that the GHOST was studying or inventing anything until Meridian returned to them. And even if that's the case, what's the point of Croft throwing away evidence of some dark business of the organization where they can be found by the person whom Croft herself lured here to work? The only thing that helped the whole situation was that Dot and everyone else just forgot about this meeting with the mutant bear and did not start an investigation. And anyway, how long has this been going on? It would be a good move to show at the end of the episode "Traditions" a hint of these mutants, which the locals mistook for cryptids. By the way, is Dot a good ranger if she's not interested in what happened to that bear in the woods?

What about "Prime Time"? Apart from all the oddities, no one tried to figure out what kind of ship it was, is it really in orbit, what happened at all? Where did the Meridian go? Isn't anyone interested? Okay. By the way, it turns out that Robby alone could be enough to create Twitch and Thrash? Why? By what logic does the creation of Terrans work at all?! What's going on in this episode, help!

The entire episode of "Decoy" turned out to be useless because the beginning of the episode " Warzone" was cut out. And how would it be, how did it happen that the creators of the series cut out the plot outcome of another episode? At least they would have said that everything that happened was the work of Soundwave and Ravage.

Or an episode of "Friends and Family"? Did Bumblebee forget about the inscription and the drawing, did the whole family forget to get a supply of this water? Considering that this resource eventually disappeared! What did the Terrans eat after the episode "What Dwells Within"?! And if they had to hide for a long time, wouldn't it be worth having a supply of this water?

I'll just leave it without comment that for a long time the children did not even think about telling how the Terrans were born.

And that's not even the whole list. I do not know how it was possible to overlook such inconsistencies and nonsense.

2. Parents do not receive attention in the plot and because of this they look negligent.

The series, which began and is mainly positioned as focusing on the family, decided very early to sideline the parents, Dot and Alex, reducing their role and significance, but most importantly, the logic of the plot. That is, attentive and caring parents do not try to protect their children from getting into various fights and dangerous situations? I understand that the plot should be happening, but they could have expressed their fears, tried unsuccessfully to stop the children or talk to the Cybertronians about it, at least with Arcee, who instead of looking after the children went with them to fight with Soundwave! Are parents satisfied with such "babysitters"? Fine.

How considerate is Dot as a mother if, knowing that a free-roaming Decepticon has appeared in the area, which has already attacked people in the city, she did not think to call home and warn her family about it? This is "House Rules", and we remember how it could have ended for Mo and Thrash.

How considerate are Dot and Alex if, knowing that one of their children may be constantly connected to the Internet, they don't do anything about it? No attempt to control what exactly the Hashtag can see there? No explanation of the rules of behavior on the Internet and possible dangers? This is a show for kids, it could make a good educational episode or part of it, but so, are they waiting for this to become a problem to solve it next season?

One of your children has built a whole bunker out of materials that came from nowhere and constructs often dangerous inventions. What should parents do about it? Probably nothing, they don't need to ask questions, they don't need to control and supervise the safety of this child and the rest of the children, they don't need to look for a teacher, at least a Wheeljack. Why, because in "Bear Necessities" we were not shown the consequences.

Alex is our historian, but it doesn't affect anything beyond the first episode. Did he discover the similarity of Arachnamechs to his colleague's inventions? No, it's not worth investigating. Any historical information is told by one of the transformers, but not by him, although he could tell both his children and us some historical facts important to the plot. Information about Primes and artifacts? No, he didn't tell it, although he could have started with the basics, and the Cybertronians would have completed it. The battle at the space bridge? No, Megatron told about it. What's the point of making a character a historian if you don't give him the opportunity to use his knowledge?

Besides, Alex, by hints, had some kind of connection with the Meridian. This can be understood from the remarks from both Alex and Meridian, which were supported by the acting of the voice actors. But what did it lead to? How did this fact affect their meeting? How did it help to defeat Meridian? Did this give a backstory to either of them? The answer to all questions is no. Then why was this connection added?

Because of all this, Dot and Alex seem to be very neglectful parents who either don't understand what's going on or don't consider it serious. And this is very strange, because they were not originally written like that, and all these situations could have been solved by a couple of lines in the script, but the authors did not think of it.

3. Dads-2 don't make sense.

Well, the main theme of the series is family. And it seems like it is. And then, starting from the second part of the first season, the authors began to conveniently push the parents to the second and third plan, as mentioned in the paragraph above.

But the family doesn't end only with Malto, because this also applies to Cybertronians, who are mentors for Terrans or, as the fandom prefers to call them, dads-2. And it seems like the idea is clear, the Terrans are a bridge between humanity and the cybertronians, they have a human family and there must be someone who will provide connection with the Cybertronians. In addition, the show should show as many recognizable characters as possible in order to attract viewers familiar with the franchise, this is understandable. So how does the plot handle this?

Twitch and Wheeljack. Okay, he created a drone that she scanned and showed her which set of weapons she had. And after that, he disappeared from the plot, although he had several opportunities to help the Terrans, especially Nightshade. If it's expensive to invite a voice actor and add model to an episode, then authors could at least mention him.

Nightshade and Tarantulas. Okay, Tarantulas didn't teach Nightshade anything, because Nightshade already knows everything, he didn't teach any moral lesson, he was going to hurt Dot and Alex. A great dad-2, but apparently the fandom knows better. Nightshade even acquired an altmod in response to the danger posed by the Tarantulas, and this cannot be called a help, if you replace it with any other threat, nothing will change. Well, yes, an excellent dad-2 of a possible war criminal scientist, but more on that later.

Hashtag and Starscream. This is more of a fandom declaring Starscream the dad-2 for the Hashtag, but still. Everything is simple here, Hashtag serves as a plot justificator for Starscream's behavior, which will be discussed later, and no more.

Jawbreaker and Grimlock. It's not that bad here, and Grimlock has a lot to teach Jawbreaker. But do parents not care about the fact that one of their children will be taught by someone with serious PTSD and a problem with anger control?

And for some reason, the fandom appoints Swindle as the dad-2 for Trash. Should I remind you that Swindle used Trash and Mo and later threatened them, maybe even could have killed them? Is everything okay, a good role model?

In the end, this is another thing that the authors wrote into the plot and did not develop.

4. Terrans lose their features and look just like young cybertronians.

The question arises that we are constantly being pointed out that Terrans are important for the future of transformers, that they are unique in their nature. But how is it shown, what does it mean and what does it affect? They are techno-organic, but what exactly distinguishes them from Cybertronians? Do they drink some kind of unusual water instead of energon and can scan fossilized bones? Seriously, what else? Did they appear in an unusual way? And how do we know how ordinary Cybertronians appear, maybe in the same way, but with the help of another artifact and another water. Why would add a technoorganicity characteristic and not really do anything about it? Everything the Cybertronians teach them works, although we should have expected some differences in their functioning and the work of their bodies.

I don't think the situation will change in the second season, but we'll see.

5. The development of Robby and Mo is not consistent.

Why did such a remark from Mo appear in a conversation with Jawbreaker about the fact that no one takes her seriously because she is a girl? This never happened in the series, no one told her that, on the contrary, she was always on a par with Robby. Besides, her mom is a former soldier, how could there be such conversations in such a family? And everything is simple, it was added at the last moment for the sake of something unclear.

In general, their whole development is strange, the viewer seems to be told that both Robbie and Mo are important for some kind of "prophecy", but is it implied that Mo is more important, especially with his healing powers? What does that even mean? Why was the prophecy introduced? For some reason, the authors completely abandoned Robby's arch that he wants to be a defender of his family and is trying to be a leader? He should have had this arch on a par with Twitch, but Twitch took over the whole role. In addition, the final phrase of the parents in the episode "Prime Time" looks very strange when they say that Mo is special. They have a recently dying son sitting next to them! Which, as the episode showed, is also special on a par with Mo! Why was this phrase only about Mo, if it contradicts the whole morality of the episode?

Part 1. Part 2. Part 3.

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you can delete this if you want. im tired of everyone ignoring hasbro hurting the transformers franchise. they hurting the latest stories thats been coming out. i keep hearing bumblebee being the reason that the franchise is failing but all thats doing is ignoring hasbro being the ones who are really creating the problem.

if anything bumblebee is being treated as a scapegoat with how no one wants to hold hasbro responsible. look at whats happen with the decepticons! they are now receiving the same pandering that bumblebee started off with in the past! the cycle is repeating itself! hasbro is the real problem and people need to stop blaming a fictional character for the company actions!

Hello, anonym! I don't know if you asked the previous question, but let's continue the topic. On the contrary, it seemed to me that people who have been watching the franchise for a long time rightly blame Hasbro for the ongoing failures. It would be foolish to think that the character is to blame for the failures, and not the company, which cannot organize its work properly, normal project financing, quality control, planning, pricing and advertising. I'm afraid there's no way Bumblebee can be responsible for these things.

Regarding the Decepticons, this is not exactly Hasbro's directional decision. These are rather authors working on projects, they condone the Decepticons, especially the «misunderstood noble rebel» Megatron, who is «not so bad and was actually right». Thanks to IDW comics for this, and to all those who started copying this approach to the character. That's more annoying than Bumblebee flashing anywhere. And fans only further support this trend.

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Hey, I saw your post on what the skybound comics did to Jetfire and I feel you. The comics already made it clear it wasn't for me when they killed Bumblebee, but I THOUGHT they would keep Jetfire around after that but no! I didn't read it, cause a friend was kind enough to spoil Bee's death for me but NONE of the Decepticons died in that issue after killing Jetfire?!

That is bull. That is literally bull. And I'm hearing people throwing heeps of praises to this comic series and wishing that this becomes a show. I DON'T. Let comics stay comics and let shows be its own thing for Transformers. Marvel has shown how badly one can mess up a good series when they try mixing that mess together! It ruins the characters AND the plot in the worse way imaginable! No one wins! No one! I know there will be people out there saying differently but this era of shows prove that it will be a high chance of it failing compared to the past!

Hello, anonym! I think you're a fan of Bumblebee, so I sympathize with you, it's very sad when your favorite character is killed in the first issue :(

In fact, the comic series is not so bad, it is clear that it was handled by a person with an idea and inspiration, and he brought a lot of interesting moments. But I don't like the fact that two Autobots were killed in the first issue at once, and the Decepticons are doing well. Once again, the Autobots are at the very bottom and must overcome. Yes, this is the way of the «good guys», but there must be some kind of balance! I think this is because the Decepticons have more fans, and they won't like having one of their favorite characters killed. And so, how many fans does Skyfire have? Not so many, and there are more Bumblebee haters now than fans, there are also few voices of indignation. But maybe the authors themselves love the Decepticons a little more, at least Skywarp is definitely the author's favorite character.

It's interesting with Bumblebee in general, because Hasbro's representatives themselves asked to put this character in the background, because there are a lot of him, and, apparently, approved of his killing. This impression is created from the words of the author, who spoke about this request to shift the focus from Bumblebee to someone else, and about the fact that he was asked to change the number of Ark engines for the final version. It means that there is some degree of control there and all this has been approved.

As for the show, I agree, fandom and Hasbro want it, without understanding the consequences. As if the "Rise of the Beasts" was not an example of this strategy being a failure. Let's hope that comics will not be affected by this trend.

Well, right now I'm just foolishly hoping that Skyfire will be fixed somehow, because it's not fair to just kill him.

By the way, here is the author's channel, he sometimes broadcasts and tells interesting things about the process of creating a comic book, I highly recommend watching it.

Daniel Warren Johnson

Daniel Warren Johnson is a Chicago-based comic book writer, artist and illustrator, with clients including Image, DC, Marvel, Wizards of the

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Skybound Transformers #1 Skyfire's appearance (Spoilers!)

Covers.

Now the main issue.

He's coming!

How smart is he, how does he know what to do?

"Skyfire doesn't know how to choose friends": another episode.

Classic.

No-no-no-no-no, this can't be real!

Ratchet, you're not helping at all, don't get in the way! Fix him up, come on!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA NO, THIS SHOULDN'T BE LIKE THAT!

Why, if the authors started this whole topic with "anyone can die", does this only apply to Autobots?! Not a single Decepticon was killed for balance, is this favoritism again?!

Well, okay, Bumblebee is annoying to everyone, but Skyfire?! He appears at least once every decade, but as a scientist almost never! How could kill him in the first issue, who came up with that?! He provided most of the sales of the first issue of Void Rivals! How is that possible?!

Why should I read these comics now? I'm not interested in it at all now, I've already seen Starscream, Skywarp, Soundwave, Optimus, Ratchet, and Arcee a thousand times. Even the Cliffjumper appeared more often, and who needs him at all?! Do i have to wait 10-20 years again until Skyfire appears properly in at least some media? What kind of life is this, why?!

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Hi, I just want to say that I really enjoyed reading your posts about the writing in Earthspark. IMO it's something that doesn't get talked about enough.

Hello! I'm glad that someone else is interested in my posts! I also think that in addition to the laudatory reviews, it is necessary to pay attention to failed scenario solutions. And in fact, I'm glad that viewers are increasingly noticing mistakes and expressing complaints, this can help the series become better, at least I hope so. Well, the good thing is that people are not afraid to admit that their favorite media is far from perfect, but this does not prevent them from enjoying it.

And if we talk specifically about screenwriting, then I'm really more and more dissatisfied with it, and I'm going to write a big post about these controversial points of the plot (I hope I'll be in time before the end of the year). And I think that in most cases, the strange scenario decisions were not the fault of the producers, but of the authors and screenwriters, since it involves too specific topics and things that cannot be explained by haste and external interference, since a significant part of the plot is based on this.

I understand that I may be wrong in some conclusions, so my posts are also an invitation to dialogue and discussion, because «truth is born in a dispute», at least I believe in it.

P.S. And hello to the fan of Dr. Meridian ;)

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HIM! Skyfire is back!

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I just got through reading your Earthspark posts, and they really made me rethink some things about the show. Not in a bad way! Just helped me notice it's little missteps! Anyway, do you have any thoughts on the last batch of episodes?

Hello to you too, anonymous friend! I'm actually surprised that someone finds my posts and agrees with some of my ideas, it seemed to me that such an opinion is as unpopular as possible. But I'm glad that someone finds something new in this for themselves! In fact, I do not criticize this cartoon out of spite or negative motives, on the contrary, I really like this show, it shows new interesting ideas and has huge potential, and I want it to use its capabilities and only get better. And I hope that in future new seasons it will be so.

But, unfortunately, the final part leaves much to be desired. It is clear that the problems of the previous episodes have continued and intensified here, some of my theories about the writers have been confirmed, as I think. It is clear that they tried to cram too much into the limited timing, and this greatly interfered with the story arc. The focus of the narrative was concentrated on the wrong things, the morality was again crooked in some places, and there is no connection between what the screenwriters want to show us and how they show us in the end. Most of the episodes, because of such a fickle tone, are poorly remembered and have no weight for the story. It is sad.

That is why I am preparing a post listing all my claims, this is a way for me to sort out all my thoughts that are spinning in my head, and, I think, to offer some ideas for reflection to other viewers.

But for now I can only offer my disagreement with some audience criticism. Copied from previous answers, sorry for that ;)

1. About the behavior of the Jawbreaker. Supposedly it is illogical and so on. People say he's out of character. But as if the problem is that he didn't really have a character. He had little screen time, he showed only one behavior model. And here, because of frustration and uncertainty in the choice of altmod, under the pressure of successful siblings, whom he cannot catch up and protect, excluded from their training – of course he is dissatisfied and upset! He wants to be on an equal footing, and not to be a "tender younger brother without an altmod." He literally says himself that he does not want to be considered someone with one character trait, that he wants to be different in different situations, like the rest. And the audience is unhappy that the character literally refuses to be a cardboard? Because if the character is cute, then let it be a cardboard? A very strange opinion. A Jawbreaker behaves logically for, firstly, a child who got what he wanted and wants to try everything, and, secondly, for someone who wants to show himself as capable as the others and get the approval of an elder. Probably, on the contrary, this is the most logical thing that the screenwriters did with his character.

2. Robbie and Mo save everyone at the end. I have a complaint about pianos in the bushes and energon at Terrans, but about this in my big evil post. Here I am against the opinion that Twitch should have saved the situation instead of Robbie and Mo. Firstly, Twitch has already been given the most time in the season, more than other siblings. Secondly, since the scriptwriters chose the way to turn off all transformers, then she had to turn off as well. Thirdly, there is narrative poetry in this ending. The story began with Robbie and Mo, they are the first and main protagonists, they are the chosen ones or something, activated Emberstone at the beginning and with its help, they saved everyone in the end. It is logical that everything should end on them, at least this arch. They activated their siblings, they helped all the transformers with the help of abilities, it's logical if we take the general plot for granted. In addition, the series has already begun to devote less screen time to them, so they had the right to moment of shine.

And I think you can also share some interesting ideas about the final part of the season and the first season in general, it would be interesting to listen!

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hello! you have a nice blog! have you seen part three of earthspark? if you have how did you feel about it?

Hello, my other anonymous friend! Oh, it's been a long time, but it helped me gather my thoughts about what can be said about this part of the season. Disappointing, too hasty, leaves behind a bit of bitterness from missed opportunities. And no, I don't think it turned out terribly and it's impossible to watch, on the contrary, it's a shame that the show can be better, but does not try to do it.

In any case, I plan to tell more about it in one big post with all the claims, and there will be a lot of them. But I think that good shows also need criticism so that they improve, and the authors grow above themselves and develop their skills. You just have to realize that everything has its pros and cons.

But personally, I do not agree with the criticism of several points, you can read about it below. Copied from my previous answer, I hope you don't mind.

1. About the behavior of the Jawbreaker. Supposedly it is illogical and so on. People say he's out of character. But as if the problem is that he didn't really have a character. He had little screen time, he showed only one behavior model. And here, because of frustration and uncertainty in the choice of altmod, under the pressure of successful siblings, whom he cannot catch up and protect, excluded from their training – of course he is dissatisfied and upset! He wants to be on an equal footing, and not to be a "tender younger brother without an altmod." He literally says himself that he does not want to be considered someone with one character trait, that he wants to be different in different situations, like the rest. And the audience is unhappy that the character literally refuses to be a cardboard? Because if the character is cute, then let it be a cardboard? A very strange opinion. A Jawbreaker behaves logically for, firstly, a child who got what he wanted and wants to try everything, and, secondly, for someone who wants to show himself as capable as the others and get the approval of an elder. Probably, on the contrary, this is the most logical thing that the screenwriters did with his character.

2. Robbie and Mo save everyone at the end. I have a complaint about pianos in the bushes and energon at Terrans, but about this in my big evil post. Here I am against the opinion that Twitch should have saved the situation instead of Robbie and Mo. Firstly, Twitch has already been given the most time in the season, more than other siblings. Secondly, since the scriptwriters chose the way to turn off all transformers, then she had to turn off as well. Thirdly, there is narrative poetry in this ending. The story began with Robbie and Mo, they are the first and main protagonists, they are the chosen ones or something, activated Emberstone at the beginning and with its help, they saved everyone in the end. It is logical that everything should end on them, at least this arch. They activated their siblings, they helped all the transformers with the help of abilities, it's logical if we take the general plot for granted. In addition, the series has already begun to devote less screen time to them, so they had the right to moment of shine.

Thank you for asking my opinion, I would like to hear yours too!

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Have you seen the latest episodes of Earthspark? If you have...how you feel about them?

Hello, my unknown friend! I'm sorry that you had to wait so long, I didn't ignore the question, I just needed time to think about my thoughts about the last third of the season and the first season of the series as a whole.

In addition, given that my thoughts are not at all joyful in the end, I didn't want to spoil the mood even more for those who were happy about the new episodes and the end of the season. So I had to take the time and step away from the show a little bit.

But now I think I can give a quick answer. Disappointment? Indifference? No, indifference is definitely not, rather an empty aftertaste. It would seem that so many things happened, but they happened so quickly, and half of them didn't make sense. As if it leaves no emotional trace, only bewilderment and reflection.

Something like that. If in the first part of the season almost all the episodes were remembered and liked, in the second part there were fewer of them, then in this part I personally remember only the episodes with Grimlock and the double finale. The rest are kind of bland and not particularly thought out.

In fact, I am thinking over and writing a big post now with all my claims and criticism, just when it will not prevent others from rejoicing. But such things must be said. It's not for nothing that my blog is called "Concentration of negative energy", right?)))

Here I will list only the criticism from other viewers that I disagree with.

1. About the behavior of the Jawbreaker. Supposedly it is illogical and so on. People say he's out of character. But as if the problem is that he didn't really have a character. He had little screen time, he showed only one behavior model. And here, because of frustration and uncertainty in the choice of altmod, under the pressure of successful siblings, whom he cannot catch up and protect, excluded from their training – of course he is dissatisfied and upset! He wants to be on an equal footing, and not to be a "tender younger brother without an altmod." He literally says himself that he does not want to be considered someone with one character trait, that he wants to be different in different situations, like the rest. And the audience is unhappy that the character literally refuses to be a cardboard? Because if the character is cute, then let it be a cardboard? A very strange opinion. A Jawbreaker behaves logically for, firstly, a child who got what he wanted and wants to try everything, and, secondly, for someone who wants to show himself as capable as the others and get the approval of an elder. Probably, on the contrary, this is the most logical thing that the screenwriters did with his character.

2. Robbie and Mo save everyone at the end. I have a complaint about pianos in the bushes and energon at Terrans, but about this in my big evil post. Here I am against the opinion that Twitch should have saved the situation instead of Robbie and Mo. Firstly, Twitch has already been given the most time in the season, more than other siblings. Secondly, since the scriptwriters chose the way to turn off all transformers, then she had to turn off as well. Thirdly, there is narrative poetry in this ending. The story began with Robbie and Mo, they are the first and main protagonists, they are the chosen ones or something, activated Emberstone at the beginning and with its help, they saved everyone in the end. It is logical that everything should end on them, at least this arch. They activated their siblings, they helped all the transformers with the help of abilities, it's logical if we take the general plot for granted. In addition, the series has already begun to devote less screen time to them, so they had the right to moment of shine.

Somehow, so far. I am surprised that someone is interested in my opinion in principle, it was usually in the category of unpopular ideas, but thank you for your interest.