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Originally Posted by Iacon
Huh... so Wheeljack's recast as a Drift-esque Wrecker, completely jettisoning the engineer/inventor persona. In some ways, he's closer to a homage to Energon Downshift than G1 Wheeljack. Still pretty awesome, all things considered, though I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that this would have been a *perfect* role for Springer to play.
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Ya, I was taken back too that he's not the engineer/inventor persona for this incarnation. And as you said, they could of substituted "Jackie" for any number of true warrior type bots like Springer and not have to revise the character. I'm still glad my 2nd fav Autobot behind Prime made a appearance and lived to talk about it.
And dude, he has a mouth and his ears didn't blink when he talked! WTF?!?!!?
A pet peeve I'm starting to have is the whole "battle mask" thing. Of course it's fine for Prime to have it becuz that is where it originated with Primal, but god, that doesn't mean EVERYONE has to have one!
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Originally Posted by Iacon
Alright already with giving a pair of katanas to every "teh awesome" character that comes down the turnpike! It's still *just* novel enough to have been cool in this case, but they are really pushing it.
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Again, I was taken back by it too. It's still awesome, but the "cool" factor of it dies a bit with every Samurai-esque or Ninja-espue type bot that shows up.
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Originally Posted by Iacon
It's more the bait-and-switch of introducing characters that don't join the core cast.
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I think this episode should of been called "bait and switch." I was fully expecting the format of this episode to follow the previous one and for Wheeljack to die:
- Wheeljack gets captured: Was expecting him to die like Cliffjumper or heroically sacrifices himself by the end of the episode.
- Prime "taking a drive": Was expecting that to be the artificial drama created like in the last episode with Prime and Arcee trapped in the arctic. I was thinking Prime would be attacked and in desperate need of a space bridge exit, while everyone at base would be preoccupied with fighting Makeshift and the console gets damaged in the crossfire, forcing Ratchet to do emergency repairs while shots are being fired all around him.
I thought it was going to be like past episodes where the show focuses on the events happening at the base and also on events happening outside that may or may not tie back to what's happening at the base.
- Miko giving away the location of the base: Was (and still) expecting her to somehow end up getting everyone killed, BUT in this case, it is not her fault because she doesn't know he's a spy. But it follows her pattern of putting everyone in danger because of her actions, one way or another, as it did in past episodes.
- The two Wheeljacks: I thought this was going to be nod to the G1 episode "A Prime Problem." And Bulkhead has to, like earlier, figure out who the real Wheeljack is and maybe they double team and send the fake packing his bags.
I'm happy that none of that happened and it was like the writers were aware of the cliches and tropes they were using again and again and turned the table on us.
Yes, I'm being super harsh on the show and not giving any credit to Orci and Kurtzman. I don't think they are very good writers (to be fair I've never seen Alias or much of Fringe), but that is a different discussion....
