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[mdperera]

1. Airachnid is so tiny compared to the other two. Tiny but badass. I loved her baiting Breakdown and then facing off with Dreadwing, though when Breakdown was following the energon trail and found Airachnid on the ground, it was so obviously a trap.

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[taipan_kiryu]

One of the things I loved at first sight from TFP was precisely the way the relationships between Decepticons were being handled. After years of Decepticons stabbing each other’s backs at every corner - with some respectable exceptions - this series was consciously displaying - or at least that’s what I thought - bad guys who were able to be loyal and to have a non-murderous relationship with a fellow ‘Con.

Breakdown and Knock Out are a clear example, but also Breakdown’s casual talking with that miner about his crush on Airachnid left clear that he was not the typical cartoon villain. Also, when he talked to agent Fowler thinking he was a Decepticon, he was actually kind at the end of the conversation.

Dreadwing is another example. He’s honourable, and his loyalty to his brother is remarkable, not to mention to Megatron himself. If the show disregards these things that were thrown at so accurately, I think we will be facing another failed TF series.

Characterization is essential in any fiction. The fact of handling characters that we all know is no excuse to throw their personality traits to the Pit in order to fulfill the expectations of the typical goodness-vs-evilness storyline. It would be such a shame. We had enough of TF nonsense with a vomiting movieverse that did nothing that cracking the fandom.

Oh, that infamous 80’s movie… It went from down to worse the moment Starscream and Megatron died - I could never consider Galvatron as Megatron rebuilt.