Tag: transformers prime

Starscream is… a great role model???

since I’m studying to become a teacher, we had some extra class about stuff like school safety, what to do in case of earthquake, rockets, terrorists attack etc.

And when we learn what to teach the kids about being what to do if you’re being kidnapped, and I realized something. 

when our teacher said to tell the children to ignore all that they’ve seen their favorite heroes do in tv because that’s really dangerous I realized that tfp Starscream is a perfect role model for what you should do in a situation like that! he got only one thing wrong. 

//and that wasn’t really him. that was a really forced plot convenience as far as I’m concerned.//

I might make a post later detailing exactly how great he was doing, but first I just wanna draw attention to 2 facts:

1. that him acting in the most mature, responsible and safe way is obviously being framed by the show as him being a pathetic coward with no backbone as opposed to the irresponsible, suicidal and borderline insane behavior of our “Heroes”.

2. Agent Fowler. just. WHAT THE HELL. the Autobots are dealing with a familiar enemy whose kind of their size, plus they’re a bravado-filled suicide squad and we have no idea what kind of training (if at all) they had. 

but you??? you are a special agent of the USA,  you were an army ranger behind enemy lines. YOU HAVE TO KNOW BETTER THAN THIS. what are you even doing??? go to the corner and think about what you’ve done!

I just found the best Starscream screenshot.

I mean – the adorable smile, Optimus kicking Dreadwing’s aft in the background. Perfection.

it almost looks like a selfie. Starscream would 10000% take a selfie with his enemies destroying each other in the background

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)

I’ve started re-watching tfp again today, and I found a lot of things I liked, and plenty of things I hate – and didn’t really notice or pay attention to when I first watched it. so expect possible rants about it in the near future…. 

Little insights #1

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)

So I was digging around slightly and found that starscreams name in Ukrainian apparently translates as “dawnscream” which kinda makes him sound like a rooster that really hates mornings and I wanted you to have that mental image because I will not suffer alone

thatslordtoyou:

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I hope you can be pleased that “mental image” progressed into a silly comic that included spending 2 hours alone drawing a close up of Starscream cracking his knuckles in preparation to scream for a side goal of hand anatomy practice.