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Excellent thread, glad you returned to finish it! The original cartoon movie/third series of the G1 cartoon had some interesting parallels to what we see in these later movies. In the 1984 movie, which is set in the far-flung space-year of 2005, we're introduced to two new mechanical races. The first are the Quintessons, who are basically, evil capitalist aliens. They have plotlines revolving around being arms dealers and taking advantage of weaker civilisations to make spacemunny. They rely on drones to do their bidding, happily causing civilian casualties, and are great fans of extraordinary renditions, followed by putting on show trials both for their own entertainment and to torture and punish their enemies for any perceived slight. They probably invented waterboarding! There was a couple of episodes that revolved around a journal that gave away all of their dirty secrets (e.g. industrialising customer planets and then taking all their wealth to solve the pollution). This saw them interact with the second of the new mechanical races, the Junkions. The Junkions were mostly nameless, but lived on a trash/slum planetoid, where seemingly all they did was mindlessly consume media. drat Junkie poors! But beneath that they were actually resourceful, hard workers and ready to commit their warriors to a good cause. The Junkions got ahold of the Quintesson journal then managed to broadcast the Quintessons' shady goings-on to the galaxy. The cartoons were made in a different age though, despite being 22 minute commericals. The USSR was still around when they were made, and it was quite amusing to see the Soviets still existing in the writers' take on 2006. Yet in those episodes it's the imperial capitalists that get made out to be the bad guys (overtly!), rather than the commie Junkions. Of course, the big difference between the past future episodes of Transformers and the new movies is that if these guys had made it into the new movies, then the roles would probably have been reversed. The space capitalist Quintessons' role would be taken by the good guys, valiantly increasing the tech of backwards planets, while the Junkions would be sitting around getting high watching their massive tellies (paid for by their benefits/welfare from the taxpayer!) most of the time, and probably teaming up with Wikileaks. Marmaduke! fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Oct 9, 2013 |
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Movie was about as bad as Fallen, it gets some points for not being as long as I was fearing. Also some guy fell asleep and started snoring really loudly through a big chunk of the film. His buddy was too kind (to him) and didn't wake him up! Also why is Cybertron so green, and why did TRF model their tech after Star Wars? Marmaduke! fucked around with this message at 10:38 on Jun 27, 2017 |
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The movies do tend to end with Optimus Prime sending out calls for other Transformers to come to earth so that explains that at least.
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