Does the American suburbia society, represent Carly and Spike in Dersertion of the Dinobots Part 2?

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  1. trokanmariel33

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    Does the American suburbia society, represent Carly and Spike in Dersertion of the Dinobots Part 2?
     
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    No.

    For the love of god, stop. This isn't even funny anymore. Because this isn't even a real question. And I don't mean that in "this is, in its meaning and attempted metaphorical frame of reference, utter bollocks." I mean "those words, in that order, don't ask a real question that can be analyzed rationally or sensibly. Because you can't have the real world thing "represent" the thing in the fictional work. If this were a legitimate question to be asked it would be the other way around ("do Carly and spike represent this total nonsense?")

    Also that comma does not belong there in any way, shape, or form. And I say this as someone who is exceedingly guilty of overusing commas.

    Honestly I'm beginning to wonder if this is some sort of weird AI experiment where the thing was fed a bunch of Transformers terms and a raft of intro to philosophy essays (that mostly earned C+ or worse grades) just to see if they could spit out gibberish that would spark real discussion or interest among Transformers fans.
     
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    Spike is an everyman, in that in the G1 cartoon every man wears jeans, boots, and a beige jacket.
     
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    And sometimes a hard hat. It seems obvious in hindsight that the Witwicky household didn't have the budget for a lot of different clothes. And what little they did have went to Sparkplug's shockingly fancy suit that he wore that one time he got picked up at the Airport.

    Think about it: What if the reason the post-timeskip Witwickys wear those ostentatious jumpsuit type deals isn't because that's in-universe 2005 fashion (because I don't think we ever see any humans besides the 3 of them after the skip). What if Spike's just grown up without a sense of fashion beyond his jeans and beige shirt look (and the fact that the only inputs he would have for differing viewpoints are nigh-immortal space robots that don't wear clothes) so he went way off the deep end in the other direction, buying the most gaudy, ridiculous clothes he could get his hands on. And Carly went along with it because she's actually an enabler.

    It might also be why we never see Chip post-timeskip. He showed up at the Autobot base those couple of times wearing a sweet blue jacket instead of his normal green one and Spike, in a fit of jealousy, never spoke to him again.

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    The pieces just fit together a little too well, don't you think?

    :p 
     
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    In Dessertion of the Dinobots: Part 2, Spike has basically a bandaid sized communicator, which has range that can reach another planet! I'm fairly certain "American Suburbia" has no technology that can represent that.
     
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    The American suburbia, that I reference, is a technology of the show's subtextual philosophy.
     
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    Aww you were doing well in that other thread. Post more like that!
     
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    The idea, of the American suburbia representing Carly and Spike is from the idea, of generalities representing individualities. The generalities representing individualities dimension, is something that specifically belongs to the G1 cartoon.
     
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    I genuinely used to believe this guy was an AI, but I feel like the technological advances of the last few months have shown us AI chatbots make more sense than this. I don't know if it's an "English isn't their first language" thing, an attempted comedy bit, or an honest-to-god attempt to sound smart by expressing a simple thought using mismatched big words that obliterate the meaning of the question, but I would really love to see what they're like in real life.
     
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    No. :locked2: 
     
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