I can see both working.

 

Your right on that. Can't believe I used like him though... Went from being a character I liked, to one everyone despises.

 

Its more like WE LOVE to hate him nowadays. Or at least WAS until he set up the whole deal with the council... Seriously EVEN with Ultra Magnus standing as the SOLE cybertronian they actually can stand the others would be killed by them along with Megs. Those guys WERE considering an alliance with the Black Box Consortia. So yeah... He's definitely took after the best from Uncle Prowl.

It sorta makes me wonder why he follows Prowls fanaticism on this so deeply. Recalling that Matrix Affinity BS it makes me wonder if there's more to Ostaros than simply being Springer that the comics will reveal. I mean Springer was already around as an elite guard, which must take a LOT of experience, in the Primacy trilogy when those Flashbacks are set when the war is just getting started. Could it be that perhaps that Getaway has a deeper connection to Prowl similar to Springer through Ostaros parts being used in MTOs?

 

They should all be given a large pat on the back and as much engex as they can drink for liberating the Lost Light from Rodimus's terrible leadership and Megatron co-captaincy!

Well, apart from Getaway, he's just a dick  

 

Chalk me up as someone who doesn't have any particular beef with the mutineers. In the light of #55's opening dialogue, we know that most of the crew basically planned to strand Rodimus, Megatron and their close circle on a far away planet, where Megs would be picked up by the Galactic Council. I can get behind this, as a harebrained scheme. It doesn't endanger anyone's life except Megatron's.

Then you have Mainframe, who took the opportunity to get rid of Whirl at the same time. Again, understandable, as much as I like Whirl.

Then you have Getaway and Atomiser, who are self-righteous, devious and unpleasant. Atomiser in particular strikes me as just a bit of a thug - it's not like the Autobot ranks aren't home to people like that - while Getaway is a dangerous schemer who sees probably sees himself as a bit of an antihero. These two are definitely going to lead the rest into trouble if they're left in charge, but I don't think they deserve much more than being thrown in the brig again.

 

Didn't Roberts confirm in an interview that the first bit of Lost Light will focus on the mutineers on the ship? If that's the case, my guess is there will be a lot of internal conflict on the ship, with some members having serious regrets about the mutiny and going against Getaway and his camp. It'll be a sort of "below decks" story arc that culminates in the counter-mutineers gaining control of the ship to go back for Rodimus and co.

As for Getaway specifically, my guess is he'll hop in a shuttle and escape to parts unknown (if I were him, I'd probably go find Prowl).

 

No, he's gone out of his way to avoid confirming anything along those lines.

 

What he said at TFNation was more along the lines of the series having issues focusing on the mutineers, on Red Alert and Fortress Maximus, on Nickel and Deathsaurus, and the Scavengers, with the idea of starting to bring the disparate threads together so that the series is ready for its final act. So the takeway is: less time spent on just the main cast.

Which sounds great to me.

 

Getaway's words are as empty as the void. I still think most of the crew believes the squad went on an adventure for a few weeks or something. Plus, there are characters in the crew that honestly make little sense they'd purposely band against certain members of the Rod Squad just 'cos they hate Rodimus and Megatron. Guilty by association is unjust, and I doubt correct Autobots are into that.

So, yeah. Probably nothing bad will happen, and hopefully they have better luck at finding the Knights.

Maybe they'll bump into each other while reaching a great revelation?
I dislike the whole killing off characters for shock. This arc better make sense if someone's gonna die.

 

I kind of hope Prowl and Getaway meet again, for some reason I get this vibe that he would some how disapprove of the whole scheme.

This is the first I've heard of more Nickel and Deathsaurus.

That'd be nice.

Deathsaurus needs redemption after he basically ended up as a weak willed spineless wuss during Dying of the Light.

also I kind of intrigued how Season 3 plays out, I'm sure it will end up as a clusterfuck with to many characters but I dunno this seems more interesting now without the DJD.

I could see Thunderclash being told this assuming Thunderclash isn't morally corrupt at all.

 

I think the main problem with hating Rodimus is all those people had a pretty darn good opportunity to fix that (you know, GET OFF THE SHIP) so if that's a main criteria for wanting to get him off the ship they're even less justified. It's like wanting to be on a Project, but you hate your Project Manager so you plot to get him sent off to Alaska so you can become Project Manager in his place.

This won't happen unless it turns out that finding the Knights was actually a Bad Thing.

 

I am hoping Defensor would rise and make short work out of them.

 

I vote they give them all a medal and help to finish off the job. They haven't done anything worse than Megatron has done, and his punishment was to be given partial control over a starship and all the mechs in it, whether they wanted to be ruled by him or not.

So, besides a medal, I guess they should all be given starships and promoted to Captain too.

 

They can't be Captain unless they command their own ship.

 

Absolutely true. The mutineers motives are good, but if they hated what high command did they could just have stayed on Cybertron or started their own quest.

I'm kind of expecting and a little hoping this.

 

Tell that to Megatron. And everyone that put him in charge of a privately-owned ship HE did not own.

If they can requisition privately-owned starships for Megatron's punishment, they can requisition them for other criminals too.

 

I kind of hope we finally get to the knights.

I mean I know it's journey and not the destination, but there has been way too little progress, for every one step, it's like 10 back.

Besides why does the comic have to end when they find them? I know its the original mission of the trip but in reality, it's just an excuse for space adventures.

 

Yeah that's something that still confuses me, basically the lost light expedition was a glorified road trip, not a government sanctioned event. Did they threaten to arrest anyone who objected?
Also why did they have to make Megatron co-captain, couldn't they just have locked him in the brig for the entire quest?

 

Optimus make Megatron captain so he would be visible all the time and be actually redeeming himself.

I think if I were Optimus, Rodimus relapse into having childish acts is something I would expect to happen.

Now, I wonder, if Optimus actually think about Getaway planning to lead a mutiny.

There should be an issue of MTME of Optimus smack talking both Prowl and Getaway for their stupid acts. Heck, at this rate, I would suggest Prowl to be given a static alt mode.

 

It still not clear what the status of the LL or its crew is.
In DC OP assumed it was an Autobot ship but apparently Perceptor was commenting that it wasnt, he was cut off however. Drift bought the ship and gave it to Rodimus as a present, so it is his ship. But are the crew under Autibot command or are they a private enterprise and thus payd by Rodimus and maybe others.