Steven Melching Interview

Discussion in 'Transformers Earthspark and Cartoon Discussion' started by ErbFan28, Oct 5, 2012.

  1. TFW10

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    "Doesn't end well" doesn't mean someone will die (hopefully no one does) it could mean something else.

    The Autobot base is found, the Decepticons lay siege, and steal the artifacts.

    Or Airachnid escapes.
     
  2. Transformed

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    :eek:  Would jump at the opportunity if it ever happened:)  ...but doubtful:( 

    I know right? I figure they change ever so often to keep things fresh, like the many gimmicks and new looks we often see come and go, but I fail to see why it is important to start from scratch all over again. Doing so means that have to redo origin tales all over again--and isn't this what got Hasbro in the origin mess in the first place? If they told a leaner story from the get go, they wouldn't have had to lock things down some 25 years later:lol 

    A change in setting, an occasional new threat, changing of allegiances (Autobot and Decepticon), periodic new recruits, mixed with a modicum of gains/losses for both would make the story interesting for a long time to come. I can't see how something that has worked so well for Star Trek couldn't work here.

    I know people get tired of characters now and again--it's happening now with Arcee and Miko--but that doesn't mean one needs to end a show and start over again, with the same characters taking lead again!:lol 

    I don't see why the end of the third or fourth season be the end of this current arc and the next season the beginning of the next act in the story? An occasional cameo or name drop here and there would suffice in keeping the two stories together. Best of all, you could bring them back together at the end of that story arc for a showdown like we haven't seen since the '86 animated movie.

    With a good amount of mixing up and alternating casts here and there, I don't see how this could fail. But before this could ever work, Hasbro needs do something with Megatron and the Decepticons. Aside from wanting to rule our world, I don't know why Megatron is here or what he's doing. Why does he and the Decepticons have to be so random?

    Why did the Cybertronians that preceded Optimus and Megatron wage war on our world, and why do they keep coming back. The universe is such a reach environment with millions of oppertunities, so why do they keep coming to the same little pebble in space? Why don't they ever go to our galaxy's other planets, like the ones rich in gasses and other materials?

    I'm not a fan of good versus evil--please stop playing the Decepticons as thugs Hasbro. A clear vision for both Autobots and Decepticons would make future tales so much easier to tell.

    Sounds a bit extreme there. I'm pretty sure the "change in setting" is referring to the Autobots losing their secret base. It's pretty obvious now that they're going to lose it--I originally thought Soundwave was going to figure out that the Autobots were piggybacking their systems and was going to find the Autobots base by tracing the signal back to the source.

    While I do think the Autobots are going to lose relics, I don't see the Decepticons getting them. Airachnid is Primed to get them first and to be on her way. With the Decepticon forces fast approaching, I doubt she'll linger after collecting her booty.

    I wonder if the Decepticons will ever find the location of the humans. It seems Megatron is more interested in using the information they have to triangulate the location of the Autobots' base. Once the Autobots are gone, he's going to enslave/kill humanity anyway, so why waste time hunting down humans when he can actual do something worthwhile?

    Does seem a bit extreme, no?

    The loses of one's home and possessions sounds like one's darkest hour to me, not to mention not ending well for the Autobots. With no safe haven, the Autobots will be exposed and very vulnerable.

    I figure Wheeljack, however, will come in during the last episode to save many of them from utter defeat. The question is, though, will he survive giving Team Prime a reprieve?

    Just curious, how do you guys see the Autobots base going down? I originally thought it would be bombarded out of existence, but with the Dark Star Saber in Megatron's possession, there really isn't a need for him to get off his ship. Do you think Megatron will get down and dirty and do it all himself or attack from afar, a safe distance away?
     
  3. Cyber-Scream

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    Or Magnus can be a temporary substitute until Smokescreen becomes a Prime.

    But yeah, I highly doubt that'll ever happen because even if they did kill Optimus they would probably find some cheap way to revive him an episode later.
     
  4. OptimussSTAR

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    I have a feeling the base will be blown up after, and one of the humans will be in it either Fowler or one of the kids, that would make the Autobots look really bad and they would end up being on the run.
     
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    In a children's show? Really?
     
  6. OptimussSTAR

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    Transformers prime is not just a children's show, and they have done some things in the show already I found questionable for a as you described as a children's show as far as that goes. Killing off main characters is traumatizing to small children but yet they keep doing it, it seems to me the writers do it for shock value, with little regard to the younger fans of characters. I saw when happened with my nephews and nieces when Optimus Prime died in all the things including bayverse and it looks like it will happen again, so please do not tell me about it being a children's show, if that were the case they wouldn't be death in the show period. They will end up with the same problems as they have been in with the G1 movie.
     
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    The TV-Y7 rating says otherwise.

    As those behind the show grew up watching the original show themselves, they want to make something that they themselves would watch, so they've thrown in things to appeal to their older audience, but first and foremost, they have to appeal to children, as it is a children's show designed to sell children's toys.
     
  8. VAwitch

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    Well, TF Prime, when it does end, will make my 63 y/o mom sad. She & I enjoy the fact that my parents, myself & my 10 y/o son all make an effort to sit down every other week to watch it live, and when my son returns from his dad-weekends, we watch it while eating Monday night dinner before 'their' shows are on.

    Seriously, between the Bay-movies eye candy (and seeing the story potential), TFA & TF: Prime, my parents finally get why this franchise still jazzes me almost 30 years later.
     
  9. Autovolt 127

    Autovolt 127 Get In The Titan, Prime!

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    The writers have said when they kill a character they kill a character. In other words optimus would cheat death or never die in the first place.
     
  10. ErbFan28

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    I think Smokescreen is the major character death. I think he could sacrifice himself to save Cybertron or something along those lines
     
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    They have to Kill Robo-god. It takes twenty minutes to complete the cycle back into Cyber-heaven giving team Prime roughly the length of one episode to get back to their bodies and back to Earth before Megatron manages to take over the Internet.
     
  12. moreprimeland

    moreprimeland Optimus told me to do it!

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    ^^^^ :lol 

    Megs will have to fight Starscream and his laughing cyber monkey.
     
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    I love fan-theories like these. Makes me want to make this a set of photos and post them on the Inspirational thread.
     
  14. Prime Jetscream

    Prime Jetscream HE PULLS THE STRINGS AND HE MAKES THEM RING

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    WHAT

    I thought they confirmed a Season 4!??!
     
  15. Leonis Prime

    Leonis Prime Ai-Megumi's Man

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    i think that TFP will do what Justice League did when it became JLU.

    They add list of new autobots and have most episodes following these and only a few on the original group.
     
  16. HoneyPrime

    HoneyPrime ♥♥ Smokescreen ♥♥

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    :lolol