Someone listen to me spaz and complain and talk a lot.
I would love to chat TFP. Disclaimer: part 3 left me ultimately underwhelmed.
Me, too, honestly. It just sort of… ended.
There was absolutely no additional Megatron/Orion friendship, even on an implied level. It was very disappointing. Ratchet had coolness potential, and there was some Fowler/June that made me smile, but aside from that… no. Where’s Starscream? Where’s the drama? Hello? Anyone?
Check this out, I feel like nellasaur came up with a version of the Orion Pax arc that would’ve really satisfied me:
http://nellasaur.tumblr.com/post/18919901684/metapost-innocent-amnesiac-or-blank-slate-a
Part of what kills me is that I liked the first 2 parts, and then part 3 really spectacularly screws up. I thought the Scraplets and even the Insecticon were being set up as going to massively screw with Vector Sigma so that Orion’s memories weren’t restored, and then we’d have him relearn being a Prime which would be awesome, or Megatron would manage to shoot the Key to Vector Sigma before it reached Orion. It just all…wrapped up way too smoothly, and the ending was like, so sickeningly sweet. But I would’ve been okay if the ‘Bots had just gone ‘screw it’ and hugged Optimus onscreen (they totally did offscreen). And I had thought before, ‘will this erase Orion 2.0’s memories, would that be like essentially killing him?’ but didn’t think they would do that since how would Optimus develop if he doesn’t remember—OH LOOK, THEY HAD OPTIMUS FORGET BEING ORION. DX So, then, did like Orion 2.0 die to bring Optimus back, if his memories are gone of that time? It’s disturbing me, as someone wondered here: http://downbox.tumblr.com/post/19132602849/first-attempt-at-tfp-optimus-so-please-ignore-the:
got me wondering about Prime/Pax and his wacky habit of loosing his memory. As we all noticed the patterna goes like this:
Optimus - collected wisdom of the Primes = Orion (no memorie of being Optimus)
Orion + collected wisdom of the Primes = Optimus (no memorie of being Orion)
Now the question is did he loose his memories the first time he recived the collected wisdom of the Primes? Does Prime have any memories of how the war begun, or is he relying on what his fellow Autobots told him/written sources from the archive?
Did that happen before? If Megatron found that Orion really did forget about him and his own self, no wonder Megatron’s a bit…angry and messed up.
Or was it just the Unicron element that set up this pattern?
I keep wondering if Starscream’s appearance would’ve made part 3 magically better somehow.