If the guy giving the eulogy is Lockstock, it will be a horrible travesty if the deceased isn't interred in two still-smoking cremation barrels.

 

Heh.

 

Is it possible his daring-do is finally daring done?

 

Roberts always sticks the landing. It will either be someone not really dead, a duplicate of the dead, etc etc. He has avoided so many definitive endings and backtracked on deaths that I still expect the final issue to cop out with duplicate crews dying and another not dying just so there never has to be a proper conclusion.

 

The reveal of Tarn would like to have a word with you.

 

And all the Lunabots and Datasticks should have been dead, but when we first see the AVL we still got some.

It's theoretically possible for some CC bots to still be around, they could have gone underground and joined the AVL during the initial deportations.

 

The Functionist Council mentions Functionist Universe Impactor as one of Megatron's allies in that universe who died, and we know he was constructed cold. So there's definite proof that not all of them got deported.

 

So... no more previews before the real thing?

 

There are still two days left. It's time for a complete preview.

 

I agree. Because in fairness for all the mystery surrounding the reveal and who he was the reveal was who?

Oh some random background bot.

Surreeee

 

I'd imagine we will only get one page for all three final issues.

Could be wrong though

 

To get another preview would spoil whoever’s funeral this is.

 

SPOILERS:

It’s the funeral of my current relationship  

 

I am ok with no more previews. I mean..we are ..less than 2 days from the grand finale? I think we all want to arrive there with no more spoilers. ^^

 

I know most people hated the reveal, but I find your choice of words to be highly appropriate. I never thought of it that way before, either. However, Tarn, with his inflated ego, obviously felt like he was a "someone". But when Megatron killed him, he let Tarn know that his life was pointless, that he was indeed a "random background bot".

 

In fact, now that we're at the end of the series and seeing how some of the big mysteries have been abruptly resolved or in some cases dropped, I'd suggest - retroactively - that revealing Roller to be Tarn would have been a disaster. I think the anticipation for most readers for the Tarn reveal wasn't the reveal itself, but the eventual reveal of *how* someone like Roller became someone like Tarn. Given how the book has progressed overall I'm pretty sure we never would've received that answer (beyond an off-hand one or two liner) in the book itself...that would've been a lot more disappointing, I think.

 

I still think it's Ratchet. He was suffering from symptoms related to old age from the very beginning of MTMTE. If it's not him, it's Megatron, panel spoiler be damnwd. Who's to say that wasn't a flashback ? It could have very well been the moment he learned of his condition.

 

I always liked the reveal largely because the “mystery” never had import in the story only in the fandom. The story never truly defined Tarns previous identity as important, just curious.

 

Agreed. I was more concerned about what had happened to Roller than Tarn. So finding out Roller was actually okay was brilliant for me. Tarn being a nobody felt just.

Anyway, whatever your feeling on the Tarn reveal I think we can all agree how fantastic it is that, having saved this fascinating character, James has subsequently used him to full effect in the story.