I really love the show “transformers: prime” so I watched it many many times, and that made me realize a lot of small things I didn’t really notice the first time I watched it. I thought I’ll post some of these insights here, by no real order other than the one they came up in my mind…

This one turned out to be a lot longer than I intended tough…

(il)logical

I can’t stop thinking about Shockwave’s plan during the time he was stuck on Cybertron.

Like, we know Shockwave is working by logic alone. The thing is, logic by itself is pretty meaningless, I mean, maybe I think so because the concept “logic” doesn’t exist in my languages. so I tried to figure out what people actually mean when they use it and the best I can come up with is “the best means to an end” – for example, if your goal is to survive – making a plane crash is not logical, but if your goal is preventing said plane from being crashed into a building by a terrorist – it is.

So, if shockwave goal was his own survival or helping the Decepticon cause, then his actions are very illogical – I mean I can see MEGATRON ordering the cloning process, and I can see shockwave obeying (because obeying a try like Megatron is logical if you want to stay alive) but shockwave was abandoned and presumed dead – he had no reason to believe Megatron would ever return to Cybertron after the planet was destroyed. And even if he did – from a survival and military standpoint – making an army of monsters with no way to control them is not the best way to go. Ever.

If he wanted to help the Decepticons – a super weapon with no mind of his own is a much better choice, and for his own survival, a space bridge or means of creating energon would be far better than cloning more mouths to fuel with the energon which I’m still not sure how he had (didn’t everybody leave because there was no more energon on Cybertron? I’m confused…).

So if his goals are to either survive or help the Decepticons win or both – his actions are incredibly illogical.

And since we are led to believe he never does anything he considers illogical – we have to assume his goal was something else entirely.

My point is, I think shockwave created the Predacons because he didn’t want to be all alone anymore…

I’ll just leave that here while I go to cry in the corner….

(sorry if my English isn’t very good – it isn’t my first languages)