Going To Hell...Who's Coming With Me?

...that I would expect from a robotic race that has been at war for millennia.

The computer analyzes everything I see, overlays my field of vision with tactical symbols over every friend or foe in the vicinity, and then transmits the data to the rest of the squad. Whatever I see, the rest of my squad can see as their computers integrate the feed coming in from mine. If one of us spots a new threat, their tactical computer automatically sends the new data to the other squad computers through the encrypted wireless network, and the entire squad is aware of the threat within a few milliseconds.

Kloos, Marko (2013-03-14). Terms of Enlistment (Kindle Locations 759-762). Frostbite Publishing. Kindle Edition.


Our suits have a brand-new polychromatic camouflage system. It’s an array of tiny electro-optical projectors , designed to blend us in with any terrain. It won’t turn us invisible, but it works well enough that you have to be pretty close to a trooper in polychrome camo to spot them. We don’t know if the Lankies see the way humans do— we don’t even know if they can “see” at all— but the few times where troopers in bug suits have turned on their PC camo to hide from nearby Lankies, nobody has gotten killed.

Kloos, Marko (2014-01-28). Lines of Departure (Frontlines) (p. 23). 47North. Kindle Edition.

Instead, canon gives us an entire fleet of seekers bombing the wrong building because someone painted a new number on the front. *sobs* The closest we have to polychromatic camo is Bumblebee reversing his colors and magically becoming UNRECOGNIZABLE (to everyone but the 7 year old target audience). These are giant alien war robots! Let's give them some credit, here.

...like physically altering people by force and against their will.

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Mostly, I wonder if tumblr fandom would be as uncritically "awww yis, Megatron is an awesome badass leader" if instead of curing alcoholism he was enforcing celibacy. "No more impure thoughts for you! *smack*"

Edit: *sobs* This is the most recent not on this particular photoset: "Aaaall of this. In the brief glimpses we’ve seen of Megatron on the Lost Light so far, he’s already looking like a far better captain than Rodimus ever was. Then again, Megatron is a seasoned leader— whereas Rodimus is still very naive and inexperienced in many ways."

Tumblr fandom...and possibly other parts of fandom, IDK...genuinely sees this as GOOD LEADERSHIP on Megatron's part. I can't even.

Edit: Found a spoilery review of the issue in question. Still not feeling the "Megatron is a great leader" vibe.

I mean, the thought, "I should take some programming classes, maybe some introductory engineering, so I can write giant transforming space robots with greater verisimilitude"...that's perfectly normal, right?

I'm not even saying I won't enjoy it. I'm just saying that every trailer I see for Beast Hunters makes my DNW meter rise a little higher.

Luckily, I have coconut rum and I know how to use it.