Mindmaster wrote:Optimus Payne wrote:I'm sorry but I have to disagree with most of these posters. I am really tired of writers writing Transformers like they were ordinary people and not highly advanced transforming aliens. I mean, hangin' out in the bar getting drunk? Then getting in a bar fight with cadets? Cadets for what? They're friggin' robots! It's lazy writing in my opinion. And what's with Megatron? He has morals now? No. Me no likey. He should be a rat bastard. Some of you probably thinks this adds layers to his character but to me it's contrived and unoriginal. Darth Vader anyone? It would be much more interesting to me if he was always an a-hole and just decided he was better than everyone else. Kinda like my neighbor. I like the art though. And the story seems to be getting wider in scope which is a welcome change. I just wish they'd stop writing the dialogue and settings as if they are just big, mechanical humans, especially on their home planet!
So what your saying is that regardless of the faction, the Transformers are mindless machines that have been programmed for a specific job? Oi, you're gonna have to watch every single series all over again...
Please. Isn't that what this issue is saying, that they were programmed for a specific function? I mean how can super-advanced machines (and yes, they are still machines regardless of sentience or not) still have apartheid? Of all the things sentient robots could be doing pre-war, hanging out in a diner getting drunk and getting into bar-fights is not all that original.
And by the way I have been watching and collecting G1 from the beginning, and while each bot has their own distinct human-like personality, their CULTURE has always been different than ours. IDW just seems to be making Cybertron and interchangeable city on Earth (with a very western world feel at that).
If you want a more compelling look at what a technologically superior race of robots might look like then you have the Matrix trilogy
Plus my comments about characterization are still valid.