(Hi, I have had several glasses of wine and am rambly-tipsy, so if I'm making no sense, have compassion on me.)
Heee. Well, I tend to consider that as a hazard of Western animation, which tends to aim at kids as at least a significant chunk of the audience, and we don't teach children ruthless dedication to strategic initiatives in our culture. (They're violent and nasty enough already.)
Reform School for Wayward Decepticons is undoubtedly the deliberate thematic choice of the production team. The war's just a handy source of tension and conflict.
(Kids shows are the one and only area that I will go for the Doylist explanation over the Watsonian, simply because the logic and realism in kids' shows is so. damned. skewed.)
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Date: 2011-07-24 05:23 am (UTC)Heee. Well, I tend to consider that as a hazard of Western animation, which tends to aim at kids as at least a significant chunk of the audience, and we don't teach children ruthless dedication to strategic initiatives in our culture. (They're violent and nasty enough already.)
Reform School for Wayward Decepticons is undoubtedly the deliberate thematic choice of the production team. The war's just a handy source of tension and conflict.
(Kids shows are the one and only area that I will go for the Doylist explanation over the Watsonian, simply because the logic and realism in kids' shows is so. damned. skewed.)