Culture and tech, and the interaction between the two, was always one of my major fascinations with the TFs. The conversation started out mostly about Autobots and car crashes - I think we'd just been watching G1 and noticed how short a brake run Optimus has. I think it's Plague of Insecticons where he's trucking along and hits the brakes and stops dead. Those aren't normal brakes, no ...
Cartoon Optimus was always a bit too flawlessly heroic for me. Besides, I grew up watching the cartoons and reading the comics at the same time, so for me the characterizations are blurred together, quite inseparable. It's easy to see comic Prime's depressive self-loathing in cartoon Prime in Megatron's Master Plan, coming as it does immediately after Microbots, wherein Prime had to stand by helplessly as his men were damn near slaughtered by Megatron, who was drunk.
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Date: 2010-06-08 11:21 am (UTC)Culture and tech, and the interaction between the two, was always one of my major fascinations with the TFs. The conversation started out mostly about Autobots and car crashes - I think we'd just been watching G1 and noticed how short a brake run Optimus has. I think it's Plague of Insecticons where he's trucking along and hits the brakes and stops dead. Those aren't normal brakes, no ...
Cartoon Optimus was always a bit too flawlessly heroic for me. Besides, I grew up watching the cartoons and reading the comics at the same time, so for me the characterizations are blurred together, quite inseparable. It's easy to see comic Prime's depressive self-loathing in cartoon Prime in Megatron's Master Plan, coming as it does immediately after Microbots, wherein Prime had to stand by helplessly as his men were damn near slaughtered by Megatron, who was drunk.
Enjoy! More Landwaster stuff next ... oh boy.