G1 Transformers becomes a lot more unsettling to watch when you take into consideration that all the animation errors are canon.
What do you MEAN they’re canon?
You know Unicron? That old son of a gun turned out to be a multiuniversal singularity. Meaning: in all the Transformers universes there was only the one Unicron. The one from armada, the one from G1, the one from Prime. Every single one of them, the same guy existing at the same time in multiple continuities. Same thing for the 13 and Primus.
But then, in Energon, Unicron fucking died. Like, he ended up dead, that shit had never happened before. And Unicron passed from being alive and existing in all universes in tandem, to be dead in one of them. The fabric of reality couldn’t take it and started to collapse on itself (the setting in Cybertron) which manifests as all the errors that occur in all the continuities.
If I remember correctly, it’s called The Unicron Singularity
All the animation errors, all the continuity inconsistencies
Starscream had Thundercracker’s paintjob for a few frames? Unicron Singularity
A dead character appears on a crowd shot? Unicron Singularity
TAAO Airachnid – Just look at this sweet baby evil mnemosurgeon murder child. She’s a mad scientist who has probably murdered hundreds of people to further her research goals and is now in cahoots with Starscream. She can join the ranks of the other bad-wrong mnemosurgeons like Trepan and Overlord.
Kudos for finally giving this girl another goal besides ‘ditch megatron’ or ‘something something insect army something’, that she was stuck with in Transformers Prime. She’s all grown up ❤
I think Airachnid got shafted. She’s like the only one in the chain of command to express any concern for the Deception troops, and she got punished for it, AND Megatron didn’t even have the decency to off her himself. It would have been so cool to watch her be second in command and how she and Megatron would bounce off each other, but she was utterly wasted as a character imo
I agree. When she was trying to make the Decepticons leave Earth to avoid Unicron (before being stopped by Soundwave), the Vehicons seemed alright with it, Knockout seemed alright with it, Breakdown didn’t complain.
As evil, selfish and flawed as she is, Airachnid was relatively polite to other Decepticons while part of the group and I don’t remember her hitting or threatening any Vehicons nor actively plotting against Megatron – despite not wanting to be there in the first place. Compared to Starscream, that should have felt like a big improvement.
This all shows just how dysfunctional Megatron’s army was at that point, he was too eager to kill anyone.
And I think Soundwave maybe felt threatened by Airachnid, since he presented her traitorous behavior to Megatron by quoting a few of her lines to him without much context. It seemed like she was saying “Megatron has fallen! I, Starscream Airachnid, now lead the Decepticons!” instead of her intended “Megatron is either dead or Unicron has him, let’s leave this exploding planet.”
Tasked with a great mission by Primus himself, Windblade has been imbued with heightened senses which give her an almost clairvoyant instinct for finding Decepticons. Her enhanced fighting abilities and power to create powerful blasts of wind make her a formidable foe, though her overconfidence can sometimes lead her to bite off more than she can chew. She likes to give her teammates nicknames, something that’s not always appreciated. (x)
when this guy, this total fucking omnishambles of a guy wipes out half your army BY ACCIDENT and you know you should kill him, you’ve got to kill him, you’ve never in your life had a more valid reason to kill someone but you can’t do it, you just can’t do it, he’s just too fucking cute
Say you’re a bot on the Lost Light and you wanna tell your friend something. Lucky you, you’ve got a lot of options!
Hook up a brain-to-brain cable and share info directly from your brain to theirs
this is a cerebrostream of supercompressed visual data
Meet up in person and talk – in Neo-Cybex, Old
Cybertronian (if your friend is Rewind, Cyclonus or otherwise super
ancient) or Hand (if your friend is Drift, Getaway or otherwise speaks
Hand)
Engrave your message onto your body and stand in front of them (character limit fairly low)
Send info from your brain directly to theirs over the internet (what could possibly go wrong?)
This is called a remote upload, but you’re gonna need to get your friend’s neuro-coordinates first.
Put your information on a datastick. Give it to your friend and have them plug it into their head. Problem solved!
Alternatively, they can take the data stick home and look at your message on the console in their habsuite.
Write them a memo. Send it. (This is basically email)
May seem kinda stodgy unless you’re sending official ship’s business. Rodimus never reads these.
Write them a message and send it. (This is basically texting)
Comm them. (This is basically calling, I think)
now with extra bonus communication method: acquiring paper and writing that shit longhand!
Program a message into one of your datapads and have someone deliver it. (Great option if you’re shy!)
Inter-Autobot Radio
Only gonna work if you and your friends are autobots, though. I think that all autobots within range who are monitoring the frequency will be able to overhear. What is the range? who knows
Subspace Messages – a great option if your friend is on Cybertron whilst you’re in space.
Upside: you get to wear awesome headphones that make you look like you’re a podcaster/professional radio host. Downside: subspace communicator frequently broken, you need their personal hailing frequency.
Just get some paint and write them a friendly note on their door! Note – you may be cited for vandalism.
yeah, a nice, friendly, fun message between pals. Just like the example below.
Assemble a video for your friend, give it to Rewind and ask him to project it for your friend. (you may have to buy Rewind a drink, he’s a busy guy. But if you’re talking history or old cultural shit he’ll probably do it for free)
did I miss a thing? I probably missed a thing.
things I haven’t seen evidence for in mtmte but come up in fics: actual telepathy (that’s only soundwave, right?), empathic field reading, transmitting messages via visual glyphs telepathically
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