WTF Primetime - 31 - Grillmada - April 22 2012

It JUST hit me. I was mistaken about the clone being the one that said "That hurt!" after Starscream shot him. It was Starscream hurting from feeling the pain of the clone being shot. I can't believe I didn't realize that earlier. That part is now redeemed to me.

Originally Posted by RandomFactor Swindle stole my money, Minerva stole my heart.

Yeah, it was almost like what Vangelus was talkin' about. We just didn't actually see it happen.

I bet most people caught what actually happened. I was just dumb.

Originally Posted by RandomFactor Swindle stole my money, Minerva stole my heart.

I hope Bulkhead's wrecking ball becomes radioactive from the reactor attack and starts glowing a clear white color. That, or it dies from leukemia and becomes a ghost. And Bulkhead fights people with the ghost of a wrecking ball.

Then Hasbro could be like "Yeah, we heard you guys wanted more show accurate toys. So we wrote the episodes to reflect the toys. Suck on that."

Haha, I figured you guys would do something like this. Not that there was nothing to talk about regarding Grill, but a primetime on it would be... lacking.

Great turn around on the podcasts of late. I don't know whose hard work is behind that, but much appreciated!

That was quick.

I don't remember if the warship has been called the Nemesis in the show, but the staff definitely refereed to it as such in the season 1 commentaries.

Also, I don't think you guys really "get" the Aligned Continuity yet.
WFC, Exodus, Prime, and whatever future endeavors come about are NOT meant to be in the same timeline, but they ARE drawing from the same template.

The wiki puts G1 cartoon, marvel, DW, and IDW Optimus Prime together on the same page but that doesn't mean they're implying they're the exact same guy.

Although, Prime probably gets the most creative freedom because 1. They're the cartoon and 2. They're the furthest in the timeline.

The games also probably get some freedom due to them trying to appeal to mainstream Transformers nostalgia.

You're reading way too much into what we said. We wondered why the wiki named their ship Trypticon. That's it. Yes, it's entirely due to the way the wiki organizes their pages. But I thought it was silly. Has nothing to do with us "not getting" continuity.

Originally Posted by RandomFactor Swindle stole my money, Minerva stole my heart.

Lolz yea, i got confused at that part

The way i explain it is that in both of their other appearances, the Insecticons did kick ass, but they were in their robot mode. Maybe their insect mode they are more vulnerable or something. Because in their other appearances they seemed to favor their robot mode a lot. it seems to me that if you had an equally strong beast mode, you would use it just as much. Like maybe they wanted to take out as many as they could before they got places, because unless im mistaken most or all of them that died were in bug-mode. I also got the impression that they included them in orion pax to set up their threat more, since they were taken out so easily.

The only way I could explain away the Insecticons nerfed weakness in this episode is that however Airrachnid was controlling them, it must have been similar to that of the Vehicon Generals in Beast Machines. The more you have to control, the harder it is to do more complicated tasks. When she was controlling just the one, she could concentrate all her power on him. But having to split her control over say 100, just keeping them under her control probably taxed her abilities to their limit.