True Episode Thirteen Autobot Body Count

Discussion in 'Transformers Earthspark and Cartoon Discussion' started by ISleepNow, Aug 6, 2013.

  1. SPLIT LIP

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    Except, no, Dreadwing was a casualty of Megatron. Casualty doesn't have differnet meanings, it means someone who died.

    Besides, the thread title uses the much broader term of "body count." The question is who has died, not who was killed by the opposite faction. Dreadwing is dead, Dreadwing counts.

    Heh. That's actually kind of funny.
     
  2. Asher Tye

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    But casualty does have a second meaning, to wit, "a person or thing badly affected. Y an event or situation." You are perfectly capable of surviving and still be counted as a casualty. ie. Arcee was a casualty of Airachnid.

    And this does not change the fact that there are also perceptions to certain words. Casualty does not conjure up the image of someone being shot in the back. It conjurs up the image of one falling in battle.

    So too are Tailgate and Seaspray. That they were throwaway characters does not then change that they count too.
     
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    Well if we are talking about actual character deaths then yeah, it kind of does change the fact. If we are to count Seaspray and Tailgate then we might as well count the humans, Impactor, Pyro etc who died as well. None were characters from the main cast, and if we are to count a "Character" death, then we should only count the actual characters of the show.
     
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    Ok, I suppose technically Tailgate and Seaspray (and all those Wreckers, the Autobots on the "plague ship", all the ones implied to have died in the war on Cybertron and that ancient battle on Earth, etc.; funny, no one ever seems to 'count' those) are Autobot casualties. But! NONE of them give the sense of loss you get from Dreadwing or Breakdown dying. That's the point I was getting at. A number of Decepticons were introduced, had their own subplots, and got killed off; that really didn't happen with any of the Autobots.
     
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    A bunchton of good guy casualties isn't necessarily a good thing. One of the reasons the creators cited for why the next show will be a kiddie show is that things in Prime had gotten a bit too dark for the younger kids. They had to created a second product so that those viewers wouldn't get left behind. Personally, I'd prefer a product that caters to both audiences and lasts a good while than two kinds of shows with vastly different tones. I think the new Ninja Turtles show is the perfect example of the way things should be heading.