was the movie cut wrong?


they formed devestator and fought simmons and the twins but at the same time, in a diff area, they were in seperate alt modes chasing/searching for sam and mikayla?

 

There are many different Constructicons, and they can combine in differing amounts of numbers. This was confirmed at BotCon.

 

Someone posted something like this in the "I've seen the movie" thread, and it made sense to me... this is my take on it

The "Constructicons" that made up Devastator were just like construction vehicles (maybe with All-Spark energy? Or something) that they used just for the purpose of being Devastator, while the Constructions attacking Sam and Co. were the "real" Constructicons.

And that works for me (now I won't feel so "ripped off" when/if I buy the big Devastator lol)

 

Movie magic! =D

 

wow, thats a cop out and a half

 

So Devastator is just one entity throughout multiple vehicles?

 

With two huge balls.

 

I was kinda hoping he would get more screen time, but he was still pretty hardcore to look at.

 

That wasn't Devastator, that was some joke put on by Michael Bay.

 

and repaints in the G1 show, shoot, any previous TF fiction aren't?

 

That's no excuse, and those repaints are iconic to Transformers.

 

On-screen. The vehicles that we see forming Devastator NEVER show robot-modes. Strictly go appear as vehicles, to limbs.

Rampage (red), Long Haul, Mixmaster etc are all seen battling against the Autobots, never as being combined.

Therefore it seems to indicate that they're two completely different identities, perhaps so that Devastator was just the sum of vehicle-mode only Transformers. Or he himself was just 6/7 seperate vehicles that combined into one large robot (somewhat like how Arcee was originally intended to be)

 

Or maybe they didn't put too much thought into it.

I think I'm right.

 

so G1 can do anything it wants, because it's G1?

 

For some reason, that one sentence seems self-contradictory to me.

 

Wow, you're comparing a low budget toy commercial cartoon to a Hollywood blockbuster. Genius.

 

The existence of Bluestreak, Prowl, and Smokescreen as distinct characters is not wholly an animation error/act of laziness, if that's what you're implying.

 

G1 having clones, repaints, etc is indeed NO EXCUSE. G1 was a low budget cartoon made as quickly as possible. Even so, as hinted at, the "repaints" and such more often than not did have clear identities. But ignoring that - the major thing to consider? The movie is a huge budget mainstream movie. G1 and the movie - two completely different ball parks. In a movie with tons of cash behind it, to be seen by millions of people, you want to make damn sure everything makes sense to the audience. There has to be a coherent flow to everything.

What people don't consider in these cases are the general audience. Do you think the "well, G1 had a bunch of characters that all looked like Starscream, so this is ok too" kind of arguments work for anyone that isn't a big fan of the established ficiton? Hell no.

Random cannon fodder that looks like other characters can be confusing. Confusing = iffy film making. If it wasn't an issue, if it was all loud and clear, this topic wouldn't even exist, now would it? You have to step out of your privileged view point as someone keen on Transformers lore at large. Most seeing this won't fit that profile, and if the movie can't stand on it's own and make sense to someone if it was their first experience with the material, it's taken some bad steps along the way.

 

     

Wow.

 

Yeah, they were much more actually. Different personalities, and actually did things on the show.