First attempt at TFP Optimus, so please ignore the stiff pose. Drew this after Orion Pax part 3 ‘cause it 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?
It freaks me out, it’s disturbing, are they seriously implying that, wow….
I thought exactly the same thing, though, seeing how effed up the s2 premiere was, I highly doubt that even occurred to the writers. If it did, they’re likely to just quietly skirt the issue. /am disappoint
I’m seriously beginning to wonder if there was Executive Meddling involved. Like they’re just not allowed to actually do interesting stuff with Optimus/Orion or follow through on implications set up.
I wish/hope they’ll take the angle that even this wears on Optimus, like he himself doesn’t appreciate this gap in his memories and may even try to figure out what happened…that would be neat.
I will forever miss Orion. I’m okay if they made Optimus’ wacky habit of losing his memory a chance to have Orion as a reoccuring guest star. Or through wacky science somehow physically separate the two so we can have both. Or time travel. Suffice to say, I miss Orion, but still want Optimus, especially an Optimus-that-gets-development-too.