This has to be why I'm not watching the same show as everyone else

[dragovianknight]

Spoilers for Transformers Prime 1x20 behind the cut.



So, on the LJ TFP comm, there is this comment.

And all I could think when I read it was, "I thought our take away message was supposed to be, shoot them in the head first, THEN take off the cuffs."

*facepalm* I'll just go report to Lord Megatron now.

(It was a genuine pleasure watching Screamer play Arcee like a goddamn fiddle, though. Sorry, Arcee.)

Also: Oh, Airachnid, a smart spider knows better than to gun for second in command. 2IC is Megsie's buttmonkey. You need to go have a long talk with Tarantulas.

Edit: My answer to "What was Arcee's big mistake in this episode?" is "Offering to make it a fair fight." Everyone in my headcast except Demona and Xanatos is *facepalming* at me.


I feel like I need an "Everything I need to know about life, I learned from the Evil Overlord's Checklist" icon.

Comments

[recessional]

(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.)

[dragovianknight]

I do understand WHY we can't have the kinds of wholesale slaughter the premise of the series rightfully sets us up for. I just. It gets up my nose when fans are all, "Yes, clearly Optimus and his Reform School for Wayward Decepticons have the right of it, and the characters who are behaving in a productive and practical manner are wrong!" (I...do not actually think Arcee was wrong in anything but wanting to give Starscream a fair fight rather than executing him on the spot. I don't think Bulkhead was wrong not to want to rescue Breakdown. Then again, I'm a little less "what would Jesus do?" and a little more "what would Xena do?")