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G1 transformers biology was still in development through Beast Wars (and arguably IDW). I'll agree that there were plot reasons why characters died in the movie, but we can explain this in-universe; the Decepticons have better/fully charged weapons... and less reason to take prisoners. On...

To be fair, Megatron did survive a dunk in lava and millions of years of stasis lock in the Ark. Space isn't going to kill him. Where he drifts is an empirical matter, but given there were witnesses, I suspect an enterprising Shockwave or whomever could go pick him up given enough time.

From an in-cannon perspective, how would the G1 canon have differed had Unicron not shown up in The Transformers: The Movie (1986)? There are, I think, two big features worth exploring - (1) the change of leadership and (2) the Autobot Moon Bases. Let's start with the latter. We don't know...

Furman's Infiltration did away with all of that and it worked. The question you need to ask yourself is who knows what when. MTMTE is a kid's cartoon and it told you everything. Infiltration is a comic book set in a new universe and did something different; so the POV characters were human...

Who's got time for character and world building? Narration is overrated. And they needed the time to remind everyone of Vietnam. Because of all the conflicts in human history to juxtapose with a war between two facts of aliens based on a children's toy line, Vietnam was one of the options...

I read this earlier in the week. It really reminded me of IDW's Beast Wars ongoing... practically everything is the same, and what's different isn't interesting. I also get the impression the writers really assume that you've watched MTMTE, so they don't need to explain what Transformers are...

I was never a fan of IDW's dystopian pre-war past. Inexplicably they set things up so overtly wrong that Megatron was completely justified in rebelling against their unjust leaders, and Optimus was inexplicably unjustified for not assassinating the assorted Autobot Hitlers that he served under...

Please do. I've been distracted, but I'll try to play catchup. The music analogy is interesting, but I'm inclined to think unhelpful. As I noted earlier, I'm predisposed to think "sex" and "gender" pick out the same concepts. Much like we say "water" is H2O, I'm inclined to say "gender"...

I didn't mean to spoil it, but it's hard to discuss this movie without discussing that very amateur moral distinction. Sanchez seems to have just "had enough" of his evil boss, so he commits suicide or something. At times the script felt like it was written by A.I., and you can certainly see...

Oh, and I forgot the bit where his family make fun of his tiny penis. Because, you know, it's a DC movie. TM2-Megs, you compare this to the MCU, but Tony Stark flying halfway around the world to "get back" at some terrorists is probably one of the weaker moments of the film. It really plays...

I saw this today. Some of it was good; some of it felt like it was written by (bad) AI, but mostly it felt like no one bothered to think about what the movie was trying to tell us. The big problem comes with Jamie's decision not to kill. At one point in the film, the suit goes to kill a...

It kind of felt like an abrupt sprint to a finale. Superman "trying to do too much" and "hearing everything" are two unique and interesting concepts a "new" Superman would have to deal with. And, frankly, they're things you'd want him to come to some sort of conclusion on. No cartoon...

Ugh... I think I just put my finger on two problems that have been bugging me with regards to their jobs. First, let's be honest, there's no reason these people are interns. Lois Lane is the kind of crazy that would write a news blog, and Jimmy is already a youtube conspiracy theorist. I know...

Just watched episode 7... it felt like something of a cheat. + Their Mitzelplik works. It's very anime, but given how generic and boring the actual human villains were with anime inspiration, this at least stands out and is fun. - But apparently he's not "of this world," which doesn't work...

Thank you for the follow up! I understand this is a common way in which people who draw a distinction between gender and sex talk, but I don't think it makes sense. I think you're going for a form of gender subjectivism, but I think this common way of talking about gender subjectivism is...

I. Thank you for the reply and the clarifications. My background is in analytic philosophy, so if you'll indulge me, I'd like to follow up on a few of your points. First, of course you're right "has pronouns" is technically incorrect, but was (I thought) a good way of drawing attention to the...

What are your thoughts on the idea that (some, obviously) transformers use alt-mode selection as a form of self-expression or self-determination? I can think of 3 notable examples: First, in Beast Wars, it's implied the original crews chose (compatible?) alt local alt modes for their power...

The ice in both stories doesn't behave like normal ice. In Hamster and Gretel it's a plotpoint. In MAWS its not. In H&G, Gretel think the ice is normal and tries to interact it as a super powered being would interact with normal ice, but it's not normal ice, which frustrates our hero...

Well.... I can't believe I'm saying this, but Hamster and Gretel did a better ice villain than this latest Superman episode. Both shows feature the villain freezing people, and the hero stopping it "instantly." H&G's villain notes that the frozen people are quantum entangled with the source...

I watched the first two episodes last night on MAX and... I have thoughts. First, why is this on Adult Swim? This seems like a perfectly average "young adult" cartoon; maybe skewing a bit older than Superman The Animated Series, but not by much. Second, given the title I was expecting more of...