You realize that something from the newest episode of your canon (the external mechanism Arcee uses to initiate stasis in Ratchet) gives you a neat solution to a problem you’d written yourself into in a fanfic (differentiating between medical stasis and complete cognitive override).
Thank you, TFP. :3 Your writers still can’t structure a technically satisfying narrative to save their lives, but the past two eps have at least given me many delicious things to chew over in terms of Cybertronian anatomy and medicine.
Indeed.I also found “Operation Bumblebee” more narratively satisifying than canon’s “Orion Pax.” At least it didn’t tick me off in a bad way.
Oh yeah, it was definitely more satisfying! I actually have no complaints about the first part, and really only one major criticism of the second. The way they set up three separate possibilities for ‘Bee to get his T-cog back (reclaiming it from MECH, getting Ratchet’s, and using the Forge to build a new one), eliminated all three of them (his original cog got ‘destroyed’, he refused Ratchet’s donation, and the Decepticons claimed the Forge), and then just had Ratchet repair his “ruined” T-cog anyway felt really cheap.
That last bit did get mixed feelings from me, but I’m kinda glad it just really boils down to one thing. I guess the only foreshadowing we got that Ratchet would be able to fix it was his frustration and guilt over his own perceived failure to fix Bumblebee earlier, hinting that later he would be able to make up for that later. But more of an explicit hint of that would’ve been nice. It seemed kinda random in the end. And yet I really did like how Ratchet seemed so happy. Though it would be nice, as someone pointed out on lj tf-prime, if they let long-term effects of Bad Things happening to the Good Guys occur more. Like, they have Cliffjumper’s death, the whole loss of Cybertron—but more would be interesting. Like that person said, Breakdown gets to continue being one-eyed.
(On a totally biased note, I was hoping that Starscream would for once fully screw someone over again, MECH in this case, but that did not happen and like everyone’s exepectations were met with Starscream screwing himself over. But I can’t say its execution was really flawed—it was executed rather well, and I’m eager to find out happens next.)