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Those are some pretty interesting ideas about suturing everything. Probably the most intelligent presentation of ideas for the multiverse proposal that I've heard yet. However, if I'm to be honest, I must say that I stopped following any of the multiversial complications, unicron singularities and whatever else a looooong time ago. There's reasons for that.
Everyone has been obsessed with tying all things Transformers-related into one unified whole in some way or another for years. The fandumb has been writing fanfic about it since as long as I can remember and I really don't understand why. I mean, at the end of the day, sure... we could explain why there may be some kind of temporal distortion that allows for Animated Bumblebee to show up in the same timestream as G1 Cyclonus for a tea party, but do I want that? Certainly not! Whereas in the past I would often complain about the fact that Transformers was composed of too many continuities and parallel realities, now the only thing that annoys me is the fact that diligent efforts have been made to make them all relatable to each other somehow.
I didn't really need Hasbro to give me an explanation why The Fallen looks different in Michael Bay's movie than he does in Dreamwave's War Within comics. My understanding of this was because they were two totally different things! There seriously doesn't need to be quantum physics involved, does there?
On top of that, most of this multiverse/singularity stuff was just fanwank ideas tossed about on message boards and newsgroups until the organizers (mostly Glen Hallit, I think?) of Botcon/OTFCC started trying to incorporate those ideas into the convention comics. Because of this, those stories are officially sanctioned by Hasbro, thereby making them canon and meaning I'm forced to accept a bunch of really lame ideas to tie every single facet of Transformerdom together for no reason, all the while being explained to me through the antics of a bunch of boring toy repaints given names of characters that already exist. Do I need that?
I have always chosen to accept that the original G1 toy and comic cannot coexist with each other. I've heard a lot of ideas over the last 26 years about how the origins of Primus and the Quintessons could be reconciled, but why? Within those two separate continuities, MAJOR CHARACTERS are not even depicted the same way. Why should the origins be identical or made to work with each other? Maybe I don't WANT your chocolate in my peanut butter!
The other reason people give is that Beast Wars is a direct continuation of the G1 show. This is completely untrue! I will agree that it exists as an homage to the G1 storyline, but there are elements of both G1 cartoon AND comic that must be taken into account when watching that series. The only level of direct continuity ever achieved within any of the Transformers franchise reboots was between Beast Wars and (like it or not) Beast Machines. (Anyone is free to argue with me on how the characters were misportrayed in BM all they like; I don't think that they were). But even when something cool happens like a spark being corrupted (Rhinox) or a character dying (Primal and Megs), the Botcon comics come 'round and put everything back the way it was so that the fandom is happy again? Homey don't play dat.
The fact is, they've NEVER gotten the Unicron/Primus thing straight. That story has been rewritten and retconned more times than the memories I have of ex girlfriends. First, there was Unicron, just a guy that eats planets. Then there were Lords of Light and all that. Fine... but the changes kept coming. Then there was the Void, then they cut Unicron in half to make Primus (wtf???) and then they added in the Chronarchitect, took out the Lords of Light, added The One and some zodiac spirit animals, and... really? Why? It was fine the first time around. The first Transformer used to be Prima ("The First", btw). Who the hell is Primon (I know who he is, I read that story). A lame-ass repaint is really one of the Original 13? Why do they keep hanging the Original 13 over our heads; who the hell are they already? More repaints????! This is all done in the attempts to tie it all together somehow and the truth is they don't need to be. They're trying too hard. WE'RE trying too hard. This is supposed to be crap for kids! Instead, reading all of the scientific wank about WHY there's 5 million different Optimus Primes in 5 million different dimensions including ones that go backwards into time to nothingness is, frankly, very confusing to the point where it becomes boring to me. I can separate all the facets of the Transformers mythos just fine and I would like to keep them that way.
So to Keep your Animated out of my G1 and I promise not to stick my Laser Rod in your Cyber Planet Keyhole.
Eat shit, dreadlock motherfucker... like smoking a menthol up your anus
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