Listen. Okay? I’m gonna go on a rant. I thought that gif was faked or edited so it wasn’t actually that shippy? But I watched the episode and HOLY CRAP, there is so much tension in that ONE SCENE?? And that ridiculous, suggestive eyebrow-raise– Wheeljack does that right after saying “I recalibrated your engines, you should expect a 10% increase in vector thrust”. (Or something like that.) That stupid suggestive winky-esque thing after that stupidly innuendo-like comment? And Magnus’ reaction? GAHH.
Conclusion? Wheeljack was definitely attracted to UM before the whole “let’s get over our differences” thing, and he decided that the best thing to do was fix his ship, walk up to him covered in lubricants, and make a blunt flirty comment at his by-the-book commander.
I haven’t really thought about it until now, but I really wanna thank transformers: prime for not doing a Christmas episode.
as a Jewish person, there is just something really nice about a show not shoving that holiday down my throat.
it’s really not a happy day for Jews & shows who don’t have these episodes are so rare I can’t help but celebrate them a little…
(yes, I do know there was kind of a Christmas short on youtube but it wasn’t really part of the show & I didn’t have to see it to continue watching the series)
“There was a time, back on Cybertron, in the twilight hours of the golden age, when Optimus and Megatron were not sworn enemies. do you recall when I mentioned that Optimus wasn’t always a prime? well, he wasn’t always Optimus either.he was once a clerk, in the iacon’s hall of records, named Orion Pax.“
the show itself never explain whether that’s a low or high position, but his close relation to alpha trion, the importance of the archives & the information he has access to suggest that it’s probably the latter and it’s definitely higher class than his original job as a dock worker
– so while g1 had both Megatron and Optimus come from about the same low level of society, showing that a person choices are what makes them who they are rather than their upbringing – we get a lowly gladiator who obviously becomes the bad guy and an intellectual from high class – who became the good guy. "but as he learned more about Cybertron’s past he grew increasingly concerned about the present corruption in high places and inequality among the masses.”
Ratchet is being almost disturbingly vague here – corruption & inequalitydon’t really tell us much about the situation at hand – is it just that some people had to work harder to support themselves? or were there actual people starving to death in the streets just because they were created a certain way? what?
The Roman names make it quite likely that Cybertron is based on the Roman empire so it’s pretty clear Ratchet is probably referring to slavery, so we are off to a great start..(at least it’s probably not ethnic cleansings like in the idw comics…)
I want to believe the reason Ratchet doesn’t go into detail or sound very concerned about it is that he talks to children and not because he doesn’t care about the mechs who suffered at the hands of the council.
sadly the fact that he refers to the time as “the twilight hours of the golden age” basically implying that the years of “corruption & inequality” were still part of a golden age that only ended with Megatron’s rising suggests that’s probably not the case…
I just want to add that despite how much I might rant about the backstory – I love Ratchet as a character- he is one of my favorite Autobots in any continuity he is in.
that doesn’t mean he is perfect. he is very (understandably) biased and makes for a really unreliable narrator in this case.
plus the writer didn’t really seem to think this story through…
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